Time stamps: 0:28 Tip 1: Pick the best numbers - and how to do that 1:11 Tip 2: Pick a strategy 1:48 Tip 3: Take the rarest resources (my personal favorite) 2:23 Tip 4: Resource Gain over Victory Points 2:53 Tips 5: Use logic - keep the game simple 3:15 Tip 6: Table Talk 3:36 Tip 7: Use the Robber effectively 4:05 Tip 8: Don't allow fear to control your decisions 4:32 Tip 9: (Advanced) Don't settle for easy trades 5:08 Bonus tip!
The best part of the game is getting tipsy with my friends, and then the table talks become more intense. "Absolutely do not trade with Jack! He has 8 points and will win off of one more knight." Jack: >:o
ok, maybe should have been "9 tips for beginners..." really basic stuff. some more important tactics are like -blocking 1 player instead of multiple, that way you have far higher chance that the robber will stay there because only one person will be trying to move it, and if someone else rolls 7 they wont block you out of revenge. -dont take longest road too early because its 2 points that will draw a lot of attention (and the robber) to you early in the game, and dont make it part of your strategy. -always secure good wheat flow its the most important resource, and never go into a game without being able to build cities, cities and dev cards are what the games about, people cant take your vp cards or points for building cities away like they can army or road. -small tip to try and do but dont jeopardize your strategy is, if you can, make your second placement on a wood+brick so that you can build a road on your first turn in case you and another player placed intersecting roads to start the game with the same idea of where to go.
Hey Aaron, you're right. This video contains the least advanced tips of my videos. My goal was to make a video with tips that can be applied to every single game, but it turned out that most advanced tips are a bit more situational.
I won my last game by starting on the 11/12 spot. Why? Because they both had ore, and the only other ore was a 3 on the other side of the board. So all I had to do, was to keep putting the robber on that 3, and nobody could get ore (except the player who was smart enough to take one of the other spots on the 11 at the start). My other starting spot was a good double brick and wheat position, from which I could quickly extend to a lumber on a 6. This gave me all I needed. For most of the game, I had no access to wool, but that didn't matter because I soon took the brick port on my 11.
Hi Aleksa! It happens. In every setting there are different values and people respond differently in different situations. My advice is to make it more subtle. Instead of: "You need to rob Blue, because he has the strongest game-plan and a lot of [resource] in hand". You could say: "I think [the resource the other person has] is really valuable right now". People often dislike it when someone makes a decision for them, but with this set-up, you make it look like they came up with it themselves.
Bro! I wish I had found this when I was a beginner. It took me awhile to figure out these tips through gameplay. Great video! The negotiation phrases are a great tip...I’m always too aggressive and it makes people rob me for fun lol. Gonna try being more subtle next time.
Hi Bryant! I'm glad you like the tips. Being subtle can be really difficult, what's important here is that make the other person think it was their own idea, so your table-talk can't back-fire
Treeckosaurus Gaming update: your tip about not being afraid to hold cards has won me the past 2 games. I’ve been playing often and losing for about a month now. Always diversifying numbers and with solid gameplay. I just never considered buying d-cards or trading to stay under 7 cards as abandoning my game plan, but since I’ve been holding more cards I’ve been winning. The robber isn’t as scary as I thought lol Thanks again!!!
I keep forgetting to 'use logic'. Thanks for the game plan. I can finally beat my family into submission in Catan. Truly our brothers' keeper and finder of lost children
Same here. Used to play on purely impuls and emotion. Now that i use logic, my games are getting better. I'm now also able to solve basic math equations.
I'm glad to see my beginner's advice creates some connections. I agree the advice of "use logic" was poorly worded and barely value-adding. In my defense, I just see way too many players Brick-Ore-Sheep strategies or go for army without Ore and Wheat. That's what I wanted to point out. For advanced players, the "use logic" advice is redundant.
Statically speaking, 6 and 8 will be rolled the most. But of course there are exceptions .. and I don't think it wasn't rolled not even a single time, you definitely exaggerating
One tip that help me win Depend on the map If there are 2 of the same resources near thier port of 2-1 You want ro build there Like in your map 2 sheeps near thier port 2-1 Yea 4 and 11 not so good But if it was like 10 and 5 u should really build thier first
It can certainly work. You're talking about a port-strategy! They're very strong, especially against strong players. Against weak players, they tend to get blocked a lot.
Thank you DylLighted :) That is true! I think the most of any videos so far, unless you'd count the time in setting up King of Catan, for the announcement videos, of course.
@L. A. I guess if want to look at it that way you could. I prefer to look from the perspective of building a community together, and he’s my teammate :).
my strat for catan is to start near the harbor of either 2 wheat per any resource or 2 sheeo per any resource (wood and bricks are good for roads.) from there build a house at a monster or a wheat/sheep farm and hopefully have access to wood and brick (ore comes later.) from there speedbuild to get tons of that one resource and build a house at the correct harbor and just cash those resources. From there make tons of houses, get longest road, then buy tons of development cards/make cities (depends on how u wanna do it.) Then u can start trading ppl ore for 3-4 sheep/wheat 🤑
Sounds like a good and fun strategy! It makes me think of a port-strategy, but it might be a bit different. I don't recommend using the same strategy every game though. Experimenting is fun too and not every board is great for the same strategy every time.
Thanks, helpful. The original quote is “the power in any relationship lies with the one who needs it less” (Nicolas Machiavelo). Don’t think the Einstein quote is authentic.
Tip 10: play with the expansion cities and knights (not sure if that is translated correctly) Its way more fun with that. For tip 6, the table talk. We have a rule not to influence the other players by doing that.
@@Treeckosaurus We had some huge fights about players trying to influence others so thats why we banned it. Seafarers is nice aswell but it doesnt expand the base game that much imo. Cities and Knights, combined with seafarers then we're talking ^^
0:35 The stars supposedly represent the number of times they are likely to be rolled out of 36 (6x6). But there's loopholes with this since some rolls are rated higher than they should be. For example, a 2 is just as likely to roll as a 3 from 2 dice: 1,1 and 1,2 are the only combinations. So both are equal in likeliness to get rolled but the 3 and 11 are rated higher. This same thing happens with 4/10 and 5/9.
1+1 is supposed to count as 1/36, while 2+1 also includes 1+2. It's weird, I know. I had some math teachers confirm this before replying. The stars in this video are accurate.
You are more likely to roll a 3 than a 2. Consider two dice, let's say dice A and dice B. To get a 2 both A and B must land on one. That's a 1/36 chance. However to get a 3 you can have A=1,B=2 or A=2,B=1 That is a 2/36 chance.
Of course. The assumption is the table is cursed, but people who look further recognize, it's the dice. Not the physical version of the dice, but what the dice means. Some people pray to the dice gods, but the dice gods reward those who study probability and practice gratitude. Hope this helps. In case the table is indeed cursed, I would buy a new table :)
Hi Timbuds! The official rule is to play with numbers open, so the online games are made this way as well. At home we've played with face down numbers for quite some time. My personal preference is open numbers, what is yours?
We play with #'s face down, and even HEXES face down for at least ONE game of our play date, so everything is random! The last game, in the interest of time, we usually play face up, (because in the totally the hidden games, someone gets stuck with both awful #'s and maybe just one resource, so they can take a LONG time to finish). I put round blue stickers over the backs of my #'s so the letters can't be seen (they were becoming memorized almost as easily as the actual #'s LOL)
I said "low ore boards". I mean that one boards with low ore, ports become the best way to generate ore. Ore is needed for cities and on low ore boards, the one who gets the first city is often the player who wins the game.
I could give you my current opinion on Ore-ports: I think they are the worst ports in the game, because you want to port for ore, instead of porting it away. Because there are only 3 Ore-hexes, there's typically not enough ore to justify taking the ore-port either. I hope that helps!
1+1 is supposed to count as 1/36, while 2+1 also includes 1+2 (so it's 2/36) It's weird, I know. I had some math teachers confirm this before replying. The stars in this video are accurate.
@@Treeckosaurus i realized after 2 weeks that i posted the comment but i forgot to come back and change it. The funny part is i was not doing the mistake when i was counting 2,6,8 and 12 but i was doing it at 4 and 10 idk why XD. Btw thank u for the answer :)
Table talk can be really friendly as well. If you bring it with a smile, it's fine. Of course - I don't know the full situation, but that's my experience.
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Time stamps:
0:28 Tip 1: Pick the best numbers - and how to do that
1:11 Tip 2: Pick a strategy
1:48 Tip 3: Take the rarest resources (my personal favorite)
2:23 Tip 4: Resource Gain over Victory Points
2:53 Tips 5: Use logic - keep the game simple
3:15 Tip 6: Table Talk
3:36 Tip 7: Use the Robber effectively
4:05 Tip 8: Don't allow fear to control your decisions
4:32 Tip 9: (Advanced) Don't settle for easy trades
5:08 Bonus tip!
I dont get tip 3. Why would I pick 4 shit numbers with lamb? They will have cut me off before I have built my first road
@@marcusmouya i think hes saying that it is the least likely for people to get, so demand will be higher for your rare resources.
I find using ports a great way to win the game.
The best part of the game is getting tipsy with my friends, and then the table talks become more intense. "Absolutely do not trade with Jack! He has 8 points and will win off of one more knight." Jack: >:o
Poor Jack :-)
ok, maybe should have been "9 tips for beginners..." really basic stuff. some more important tactics are like
-blocking 1 player instead of multiple, that way you have far higher chance that the robber will stay there because only one person will be trying to move it, and if someone else rolls 7 they wont block you out of revenge.
-dont take longest road too early because its 2 points that will draw a lot of attention (and the robber) to you early in the game, and dont make it part of your strategy.
-always secure good wheat flow its the most important resource, and never go into a game without being able to build cities, cities and dev cards are what the games about, people cant take your vp cards or points for building cities away like they can army or road.
-small tip to try and do but dont jeopardize your strategy is, if you can, make your second placement on a wood+brick so that you can build a road on your first turn in case you and another player placed intersecting roads to start the game with the same idea of where to go.
Hey Aaron, you're right. This video contains the least advanced tips of my videos. My goal was to make a video with tips that can be applied to every single game, but it turned out that most advanced tips are a bit more situational.
Gosh, I never, ever get good weed when I'm playing Catan! Other than that, some good advice here.
Yea, the weed is always rare!
I lost miserably last game
We were going up to 15 points to win and my friend got 19 victory points, and he had about 20 weed/sheep by the end of the game xD
Weed? 😂
You need a better friends...
I won my last game by starting on the 11/12 spot. Why? Because they both had ore, and the only other ore was a 3 on the other side of the board. So all I had to do, was to keep putting the robber on that 3, and nobody could get ore (except the player who was smart enough to take one of the other spots on the 11 at the start). My other starting spot was a good double brick and wheat position, from which I could quickly extend to a lumber on a 6. This gave me all I needed. For most of the game, I had no access to wool, but that didn't matter because I soon took the brick port on my 11.
Interesting strategy! Did you have any ports?
For some reason, whenever i use table talk, my family tells me to stop because it isn’t being fair
Hi Aleksa! It happens. In every setting there are different values and people respond differently in different situations.
My advice is to make it more subtle.
Instead of: "You need to rob Blue, because he has the strongest game-plan and a lot of [resource] in hand".
You could say: "I think [the resource the other person has] is really valuable right now".
People often dislike it when someone makes a decision for them, but with this set-up, you make it look like they came up with it themselves.
Yeah, my friends don't like table talk either.
Bro! I wish I had found this when I was a beginner. It took me awhile to figure out these tips through gameplay. Great video! The negotiation phrases are a great tip...I’m always too aggressive and it makes people rob me for fun lol. Gonna try being more subtle next time.
Hi Bryant! I'm glad you like the tips. Being subtle can be really difficult, what's important here is that make the other person think it was their own idea, so your table-talk can't back-fire
Treeckosaurus Gaming update: your tip about not being afraid to hold cards has won me the past 2 games. I’ve been playing often and losing for about a month now. Always diversifying numbers and with solid gameplay. I just never considered buying d-cards or trading to stay under 7 cards as abandoning my game plan, but since I’ve been holding more cards I’ve been winning. The robber isn’t as scary as I thought lol Thanks again!!!
Awesome! It's usually the feeling that comes with losing those cards people are afraid of.
I just played for the first time 2 days ago. I instantly fell in love with it. I'm going to start playing when I'm free to relax and destress.
Awesome Josh! I hope it can keep giving you relaxation :)
how do u relax during this game lol. we get seriously intense.
@@kierasimpson3945 If I play online it's no pressure but in person... We sometimes hurt feeling lol.
@@kierasimpson3945 yeah i been stressed out lol recently learned it. Trying to "get good" at random outcomes lol
I keep forgetting to 'use logic'. Thanks for the game plan. I can finally beat my family into submission in Catan. Truly our brothers' keeper and finder of lost children
Same here. Used to play on purely impuls and emotion. Now that i use logic, my games are getting better. I'm now also able to solve basic math equations.
I'm glad to see my beginner's advice creates some connections. I agree the advice of "use logic" was poorly worded and barely value-adding. In my defense, I just see way too many players Brick-Ore-Sheep strategies or go for army without Ore and Wheat. That's what I wanted to point out. For advanced players, the "use logic" advice is redundant.
Another pretty important onefor online play: don't lock a player completely out of potentially winning the game, since they get resentful.
Agreed, although sometimes you have to, otherwise you'd lose as well
Depends a bit on the context. If its just a social game, I agree completely.
This reminds me of the time I played this game, banked on the 6, and then ended up playing a game that didn't role a single 6
What part reminded you of that game?
what are the odds?!
@@Treeckosaurus probably the part where you mention 6 is the most common rolled number....
Derp
Statically speaking, 6 and 8 will be rolled the most. But of course there are exceptions .. and I don't think it wasn't rolled not even a single time, you definitely exaggerating
Adnane Alaoui statistically it‘s the 7, practically all the numbers you‘re not sitting on 😁
One tip that help me win
Depend on the map
If there are 2 of the same resources near thier port of 2-1
You want ro build there
Like in your map 2 sheeps near thier port 2-1
Yea 4 and 11 not so good
But if it was like 10 and 5 u should really build thier first
It can certainly work. You're talking about a port-strategy! They're very strong, especially against strong players. Against weak players, they tend to get blocked a lot.
Really good video and information! I could tell you put a lot of time and effort into this one. Keep it up!
Thank you DylLighted :) That is true! I think the most of any videos so far, unless you'd count the time in setting up King of Catan, for the announcement videos, of course.
Hmmm, I am confused. 😯
Isn't an other TH-camr like a Rival for explaning Catan? 🤔😉
@L. A. I guess if want to look at it that way you could. I prefer to look from the perspective of building a community together, and he’s my teammate :).
@@DyLightedCatan Awwwwwww, that's a good spirit 😊
Yeah and I think our way of presenting is different enough, even in the case we were TH-cam rivals
my strat for catan is to start near the harbor of either 2 wheat per any resource or 2 sheeo per any resource (wood and bricks are good for roads.) from there build a house at a monster or a wheat/sheep farm and hopefully have access to wood and brick (ore comes later.) from there speedbuild to get tons of that one resource and build a house at the correct harbor and just cash those resources. From there make tons of houses, get longest road, then buy tons of development cards/make cities (depends on how u wanna do it.) Then u can start trading ppl ore for 3-4 sheep/wheat 🤑
Sounds like a good and fun strategy! It makes me think of a port-strategy, but it might be a bit different. I don't recommend using the same strategy every game though. Experimenting is fun too and not every board is great for the same strategy every time.
Thanks, helpful. The original quote is “the power in any relationship lies with the one who needs it less” (Nicolas Machiavelo). Don’t think the Einstein quote is authentic.
I'm glad it was helpful. I figured I would misquote, haha, thanks!
Tip 10: play with the expansion cities and knights (not sure if that is translated correctly) Its way more fun with that.
For tip 6, the table talk. We have a rule not to influence the other players by doing that.
Cities & Knights is certainly fun, I also really enjoy Seafarers. I can understand why you would ban table talk. Some like it, some don't
@@Treeckosaurus We had some huge fights about players trying to influence others so thats why we banned it.
Seafarers is nice aswell but it doesnt expand the base game that much imo. Cities and Knights, combined with seafarers then we're talking ^^
Thanks ma g! Love this
Awesome!
Now I know why my son in law beats me hands down every time ... hoping I can turn the tables next game!
Good luck Jo!
What tip was the most helpful or were the tips too basic?
I would like a video for "advanced" tips for people who've played a lot of Catan games!
@@ivonnebp
I would also like that!
That can be done! I think this video has a lot more advanced tips than the one you've commented on: th-cam.com/video/b_3AscWIMag/w-d-xo.html
Really great video. Thanks for posting. I like the star rating system strategy!
0:35
The stars supposedly represent the number of times they are likely to be rolled out of 36 (6x6). But there's loopholes with this since some rolls are rated higher than they should be. For example, a 2 is just as likely to roll as a 3 from 2 dice: 1,1 and 1,2 are the only combinations. So both are equal in likeliness to get rolled but the 3 and 11 are rated higher. This same thing happens with 4/10 and 5/9.
1+1 is supposed to count as 1/36, while 2+1 also includes 1+2. It's weird, I know. I had some math teachers confirm this before replying. The stars in this video are accurate.
You are more likely to roll a 3 than a 2.
Consider two dice, let's say dice A and dice B.
To get a 2 both A and B must land on one.
That's a 1/36 chance.
However to get a 3 you can have
A=1,B=2 or A=2,B=1
That is a 2/36 chance.
But how do you deal with the buggy mess that is Catan Universe?
I've seen games made by 12 year olds in Game Maker have less issues.
I play in King of Catan, we use Custom Match, which has way less issues and quitters
Great tips, thanks for the video!
Glad it was helpful!
Cool video, thanks :)
Glad you like it!
Do you have any tips for a cursed table? We can get a full rotation of 2 and eight won’t roll till we block it 3 times
Of course. The assumption is the table is cursed, but people who look further recognize, it's the dice. Not the physical version of the dice, but what the dice means. Some people pray to the dice gods, but the dice gods reward those who study probability and practice gratitude. Hope this helps.
In case the table is indeed cursed, I would buy a new table :)
@@Treeckosaurus thank you that is very good advice :)
Does anyone play with the numbers face down or no
Hi Timbuds! The official rule is to play with numbers open, so the online games are made this way as well. At home we've played with face down numbers for quite some time. My personal preference is open numbers, what is yours?
Treeckosaurus Gaming personally, I like playing with the numbers face down! It adds more suspense
We play with #'s face down, and even HEXES face down for at least ONE game of our play date, so everything is random! The last game, in the interest of time, we usually play face up, (because in the totally the hidden games, someone gets stuck with both awful #'s and maybe just one resource, so they can take a LONG time to finish). I put round blue stickers over the backs of my #'s so the letters can't be seen (they were becoming memorized almost as easily as the actual #'s LOL)
We also play with numbers hidden
This helped me thank you
Awesome!
At the very end of the video when he talks about ports he says “hint, low ore ports.” I don’t know what he means by that. Can anyone explain it?
I said "low ore boards". I mean that one boards with low ore, ports become the best way to generate ore. Ore is needed for cities and on low ore boards, the one who gets the first city is often the player who wins the game.
@@Treeckosaurus you’re a BEAST! Thank you so much for the help.
I got 10 the mosy when i rolled the dice so 10 is a good one too
Sure, why not.
Are you Frisian? thanks for the tips!
Yes, I am! You're welcome Teddy
Thanks, I didn't catch what you said at the end of the ports tip. Did you say to aim for the ore ports??
My opinion is that ore ports are generally the worst
Did you play BTD Battles, Flash Version competitively?
Yep!
@@Treeckosaurus Nice, followed KOTH and saw you there. Now all out on settler, I like it ^^
:D
I think these are tips for first time playing players... all these are common sense in my opinion.
Hey Robert, you're right. It was the goal for this video indeed. My more recent videos have advanced in them.
Hi, how were you able to play 4 players on Catan Universe? I have the free version and we can only play with up to 3 people. Thanksss
Hey! Buy the Base Game for $5
how can I get a development card?
where can you buy catan
GameStop
I recommend to Google it, then click one of the first links
What did you say about ore ports?
I could give you my current opinion on Ore-ports: I think they are the worst ports in the game, because you want to port for ore, instead of porting it away. Because there are only 3 Ore-hexes, there's typically not enough ore to justify taking the ore-port either.
I hope that helps!
Treeckosaurus Gaming Thank you for the reply! Very good point~
I dont get it why 5 and 9 is better then 4 and 10 cause if u do the math the chance is the same?
1+1 is supposed to count as 1/36, while 2+1 also includes 1+2 (so it's 2/36) It's weird, I know. I had some math teachers confirm this before replying. The stars in this video are accurate.
@@Treeckosaurus i realized after 2 weeks that i posted the comment but i forgot to come back and change it. The funny part is i was not doing the mistake when i was counting 2,6,8 and 12 but i was doing it at 4 and 10 idk why XD. Btw thank u for the answer :)
Thx for the advice, I will wipe the floor with my friend's faces this evening!! Wish me luck.
(Fucking hate losing in this game)
Good luck! (Understandable)
Ik hou van het Nederlandse Engels accent
Dank you well!
Final tip "lorb orb borts"
Hahaha lol
Should have sounded like: "low ore boards"
I play with my family and most of them are wayyyyy too nice to use table talk 😂
Table talk can be really friendly as well. If you bring it with a smile, it's fine. Of course - I don't know the full situation, but that's my experience.
These tips are obvious af
Hi. I know they're obvious for more advanced players, the video is meant for players who have trouble with winning
I just started playing so carry your 180 IQ and sorry ass attitude somewhere else
Thanks for the vid buddy
Dude...these tips are not obvious for people who started just playing and don’t seem to be able to win...
@moosetisho - Are you okay? Go out and get some sunlight.
@@DrummerJacob lol what
4:05 fuck that
What is “describe to the channel”
When I did say this? I can imagine trying to say "subscribe to the channel". However, also feel free to describe something to the channel lol
@@Treeckosaurus oh sweet summer child he was making fun of your acdrnt
@@muhilan8540 I know :)
@@Treeckosaurus you are from the Netherlands, I can tell :).
Vanavond speel ik met mijn gezin. Zocht wat tips. Bedankt!
Heel sterk Nederlands accent haha
Toch wel, hè?
Thanks for the tips 😊
U cute
You're welcome :)
voice is not proper
Voice or the audio (mic)? What can I do to improve?
@@Treeckosaurus - could not watch the video - did not understand- perhaps when editing - increase the volume
Here are very simple tips, not valuable(
Sorry to hear that this video wasn't for you
Waste of time
Nop
It's not a video for all levels, and especially when the video was released it was helpful for a lot more players