But I encourage you to experiment and report back results. I believe that the barbell shape and middle was more important to making this interesting than the precise distribution of numbers on either end.
And the robber equalization was even more important. I've been playing a bunch of Settlers of Catan Jr. They solve the trading by having normal "bank" trading and also having a "bazaar". They put one of each resource out and you can trade for any resource in the bazaar once per turn. If the bazaar ever ends up with all of the same resource, you discard those resources and put one of each back out.
Show 7 more comments. Hope you like it! Ted Richardson Ted Richardson 2 2 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. I love that you joined the Board and Card Games community here to share your comprehensive, play tested set of rules for 2 player Settlers.
I hope you stick around and share your expertise for questions on Settlers or other games you play. Add a comment. OghmaOsiris OghmaOsiris 1, 3 3 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges.
Is there a slow-the-leader mechanism? Or do you find in Cities and Knights that the player who takes a substantial lead first usually wins? Actually, when we play, i usually have a huge lead like points but my bf usually catches up fast because of the different ways to get points. So its good for people who plan a few turns ahead and works for people who play turn by turn.
Quentin Quentin 3 3 bronze badges. This is the best 2 player variant for recreating the 4 player experience : — Nick. You set up the game as normal and the play is modified like this: Each player rolls twice per turn.
If the robber is rolled, the player with the lowest number of victory points places the robber. If victory points are tied then whom ever rolled the 7 places the robber. No trading Play to 10 victory points The double roll equalizes the lack of resources by only having 2 people.
Tapan Zee Tapan Zee 3 3 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. We played by these rules couple of times and the double roll make the game very unstable. The huge number of resources allows buying a lot of progress cards, which neutralizes the robber rule by using knights. Also, sometimes a person gets way too many resources when 7 doesn't roll for a while and can change them for anything. Rules: Instead of rolling both dice to see who goes first we both only roll one. Both players now collect up to 9 cards depending on settlement placement and begin the game.
Other options: Something we considered was lengthening the initial longest road requirements to 7 roads. Matthew Mewett Matthew Mewett 51 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Clever idea to start with more settlements and 9 resources with 1 turn robber delay. The worst thing that can happen in 2 player games is 7 gets rolled early and then not for a while, allowing the player who rolled a 7 to easily walz to victory.
By starting with more settlements and a bunch of resources, a roll of 7 is not so devastating on turn 2. Trade opportunities will be twice as common as strict two player play. The normal board setup is appropriately sized for this many positions. The robber can function as normal. Sparr Sparr 1, 11 11 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges.
Have you tested this 2 player method? I've played with 4 people in two teams of two. The trading rule was required to avoid a runaway winner situaiton. In one turn a color can play one development card except victory points. Moreover if a settlement is built by a color it cannot be upgraded to a city in the same turn. At the start of the game the colonies can be placed only on crossroads where 3 roads intersect, so no all ports at the start can be directly used. So, at the start, when the player set the cycle of colors during the turn, the player that will play first will play as first and as third deciding which color is first and which is third , the player that will play as second will do the same, playing as second and as fourth.
The placement of the colonies and so on will follow the original rules for the game with four players. A settlements or roads can be built only if there is a clear conjunction with a previous settlement of the color. Warning if a color reach ten or more points, it becomes inactive, that is: it doesn't collect any new resource but it can play what is remaining.
Even if the other color is an allied color. Because it is like that the color are allied but not willing to let the other color "took prizes just to win the war". So the player should play carefully to not play against himself. Try them in quakelive! For example: a player can place, at the start, cities instead of villages for each 2nd choice of each color. Still getting one resource card for every adjacent hexagon at the very start but, during the game, having since the start a city for each color.
Another alternative can be place a city instead of a village for the 2nd choice of the 2nd managed color of the player this because the 2nd choices for each color normally can use spots that are not so good as the 1st choices, and the 2nd managed color place the 2nd choice before the 1st managed color so more good spots are available.
This to allow a better distribution of the result of the dice, because in some games the dice can show very few "probable" numbers. So if the first subgame sequence is red, blue, white, yellow , then the second subgame sequence will be blue, white, yellow, red or the alternative shift, i mean yellow, red, blue, white , the third subgame will be W, Y, R, B or the accordingly alternative shift and the last subgame will be Y, R, B, W or the accordingly alternative shift.
In every game the fraction of each player is counted and then the sum of every subgame define the best player.
So if in the 1st subgame the player, for now called P1, with R and W makes 17 points remember: the minimum is 15 and the other player, P2, makes 12 points; then in the second subgame P1 always controlling the same colors makes 14 points and P2 again, controlling the same color of the 1st subgame makes 15 points; in the 3rd subgame P1 makes 16 points and P2 makes 14; in the 4th subgame P1 makes 11 points and P2 makes 18 points.
You do not follow this process when you build a city or buy a development card. In those cases, you do nothing for the neutral players. Otherwise, an action costs you 2 trade tokens.
Return spent trade tokens to the supply. You can also download this pdf with all the rules described on this site. Preparation Place the two sets of game pieces not chosen by the players beside the game board. Set-Up Set up the terrain hexes as usual in the white area shown below. The changes are described below. Catan digital is coming to Playstation and Xbox consoles. If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Catan digital is coming to Playstation and Xbox consoles Building settlements on the sofa.
Villainous plays best with players. Is Root good with 2 players? The box states that it can play players and has a minute play time. The nefarious Marquise de Cat has seized the great woodland, intent on harvesting its riches. Ticket to Ride — players Ticket to Ride for players runs on a fairly simple concept: collect train cars and build routes from one destination to another.
Ticket to Ride supports play with up to five people on Xbox Live or four people on the same console, and supports the Xbox Live Vision cam. I played Villainous at 4 players and it was way too long and boring.
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