How to Play Catan: Cities & Knights
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- The second expansion to Catan has you defending the island against invading barbarians.
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0:00 The Deal
1:28 New Components
7:39 Barbarians Attack!
11:14 Knights
15:28 Metropoles
18:57 Progress Cards
22:58 Endgame
23:26 Variants
24:16 Setup
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The level of organization to fit every detail in such a concise and linear timeline was masterful.
I find it legit fascinating, that in the English versions of Catan, the little figurines are made from wood. In the German versions, they're made from plastic
And that blows my mind too, because here in North America, the higher end wooden toys for toddlers all come from Europe!
@@NightsAroundaTable I don't really know why that change was made for the later German versions either. I mean, originally we had wood figurines aswell, and Germany has a massive supply of wood, so...
I got this game for Christmas, and I tried to read the manual, it was very confusing. But after I watched this video, I fully understand it. Super clear and good job, thank you!
Glad to hear it! It's a fairly simple game with, surprisingly, one of the most needlessly complex rulebooks around!
This is really good. The best explanation I’ve seen so far. Are you going to do videos for the other Catan expansions? Would love to see you explain the other expansions.
Thanks, Jadon! i've got a few other games in the queue to cover, but the Catan folks have been great to work with, and i'll definitely ask them about covering other expansions. Which one are you most interested in seeing? Seafarers?
@@NightsAroundaTable I'm interested in an explanation for Traders & Barbarians. The multiple scenarios are a bit complex and so far I've only gotten the fishes down.
@@oo0O0oo Noted!
@@NightsAroundaTable I second this, would love to see you cover Traders and Barbarians :D
@@Donk3y-K0ng Roger that!
great video. insanely detailed and really informative. love your enthusiasm, eloquence, and obvious passion for games. quality worth hundreds of thousands of views
AKA real catan
Ha!
Amen
@@guidodepietro1017What
This is the best board game tutorial I've ever seen. Usually, they're pretty bad. This was so clear and covered everything, thank you so much!
Thank you, Aaron! Glad i could help.
Phenomenal video. Concise and well laid out. Thank you for your service to game nights!
Fantastic explanation, this was exactly what we needed. Thank you so much! You put so much effort into this video and made learning this complex expansion a breeze.
Glad i could help, Labroidas! Do you own any other Catan expansions?
@@NightsAroundaTable Only seafarers, but it's not nearly as complex. It took me by surprise how much more intricate Cities and Knights is!
It would be nice to get a video for Seafarers too though if you have the time, because i think we might have misunderstood a few things. And also it would be cool if you made a video on what boardgames you would recommend for people only starting to get into the hobby, and are starting a collection :D my family has never played boardgames before and I want to introduce them in our household. I think playing games together really has the potential to strengthen a family.
@@Labroidas Yeah - i think Seafarers only adds shipping routes, campaign maps with flipped-over tiles, and... gold? If i recall correctly?
Awesome explanation, will definitely be referring others to the video for a much more thorough explanation than I can manage!
Thank you so much!
Well done! Great editing and clear explanations. Thank you so much!
Thanks Mya!
Thanks dude! This was the best comprehensive guide I've seen so far!
Thanks, Michael!
Awesome production value and editing. Perfectly done.
Thank you!
Very good in depth explanation of the rules for this expansion. Thanks!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Great explanation wow! We missed some important details and confused a few things from the rule book on our first play through, looking forward to the next one with everything sorted out.
We were the same! It took us a few plays to nail everything. Glad to have helped!
You had an excellent review of the game play rules and we found this much easier to understand then the rules in the game. Thank you for a great job!
Thanks, Tim! i'm surprised Catan is so popular with such an opaque rulebook.
Great explanation 👌 I started play C&K on the phone app, Catan Universe, so I already knew how to play the game for the most part, but I missed a few of the intricacies. Your explanation was clear and concise. Very well done 👏
That's great! Glad i could help. Do you play the Niantic Pokemon GO-style version? (Kinda hard during the pandemic, i know.)
@@NightsAroundaTable Not yet, but I might give it a try sometime soon🙂🙃
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Bought it yesterday, i think it will take a few games to get used to it but after that i think it will be an epic expansion!
Great video, clear explanation and entertaining video edition.
My family played C&K for the first time a few day ago thanks to you!
From your lips to Catan Studio's ears! :)
Thanks for taking the time to produce this instruction video ---- I'm not too sure I can face playing it now though!
Bah! You got this! i believe in you!
I just bought it, can't wait to play! Thank you!
Yeehaw! Hope you enjoy it.
This video was so useful, thank you! It's so well laid out. We've been playing Catan for decades, and I had to listen through your video once to be able to explain the expansion to the rest of the group and then we were able to fully understand and play the expansion! Would have been much harder if I had to digest the rules from the guidebook myself.
So happy to help! i hope you had fun.
Just bought this game, what a wonderful and well-put-together tutorial video. Thanks!
My pleasure, Enriko!
Nice video! I was confused on the "nasty" variant for a minute, but then I realized what you were talking about.
Can the open road go to any intersection that's connected to your stuff when using the diplomat card?
this is a very well put together video. thanks!
My pleasure!
Great explanation, thanks!
Catan Base Game: I am complex to learn.
Cities & Knights: Hold my beer!
To learn this version I told my kids we would sit down and watch two TH-cam video tutorials. I wish we had found this one to begin with! Kudos to the other tutorials for trying, but this is such a superior method to teach. Thank you for all the time you put into it, it was a fantastic video!
Thanks so much, Becky! i hope you had a great time playing the game.
Thanks for this vid! Made things super clear.
Glad i could help!
Great video, very useful.
best explanation! ty please do more catan expansion videos. Others don't hold a flame to your how to play video. ty
Very good video, I don't think I had that much fun listening to rules before
Excellent work !
Thank you so much for making this video my family tried playing a while ago and we didn't know how to play so we are going to try again
So glad i could help! Give it another whirl!
Just bought this, great explanation
It is! Did you grab Seafarers first, or skip straight to this one?
great and precise explanations
I think the last time I played Cities & Knights was in 2009! I think this expansion makes the game hugely more fun. I think Catan is still a great game for people new to the hobby. It definitely worked to get me hooked 😊
i agree! i think the threat of loss makes the game far more interesting. You can lose a city, lose a knight, lose a road... it feels much less like s “done deal” if someone pulls out ahead.
Yea... I’m definitely a huge fan of the base version and have been playing it on and off for the past 7 years.
I was aware of the other versions but didn’t take much interest until I bought the app a year ago and started playing seafarers.
Then, just recently, a friend of mine was explaining cities and knights which led me to watching multiple videos on TH-cam ( obviously including this one. )
Now I’m ready to try it out on the app and start training so I’m ready for real-time play against my friends.
@@josiahstearns9615 Sounds great! Seafarers doesn't change Catan a whole lot, but C&K makes it a whole different ballgame.
@@NightsAroundaTable Yea, that’s what I’ve noticed. The nice thing is that there is something to like about all 3 versions.
Still in the learning stage with C&K. Reminds me of when I first started playing Catan and how I thought there was quite a bit of complexity to it - eventually I became very comfortable with the gameplay and I have no doubt the same will happen with C&K. Your Overview of the game and descriptions were definitely helpful.
It’ll be interesting to see how my wife takes on learning it. Haven’t taught her seafarers yet but that shouldn’t be much of an adjustment compared to C&K. (Although some learn faster than others)
Thanks for creating this video and walking “Catanians” through the gameplay.
Are there any other versions that you would recommend? Or is C&K pretty much the climax of Catan?
Great vid!
Great work thx
Great tutorial!
Thanks, Johnny!
Thank you for this!!
and lmao @ the too many sheep we've all been there
Fantastic tutorial! You're awesome
No - YOU are!
Better than all the other explanations out there
Big Thanks!!
At first i was like this is a long explanation but then it was worth it !! Well explained i have no confusions now
Oh good! Some games just take a while to explain. And i think the video does it faster than the rulebook, to be honest.
Can you do a video one the other explanations? You definitely explain this better than anyone else on YT.
For sure! i’ll be talking to the Catan people in the new year.
Thank you thank you thank you for the detailed explanation! I have the Japanese version and obviously I can't read the instructions. This video is the best on TH-cam in explaining this expansion by far.
So happy i could help!
I’m just happy there are others out there like me...that pronounce it “catan” and not “catahn”
We're on the wrong side of history, friend. But it's nice to have company.
Hi Ryan! Wonderful video! My friends and I have started playing cities and knight and we truly love it. We all have learned how to play from this video. We just had a quick question. What is on your eyelids? We have started to theorize that they could be prosthetics or perhaps benign tumors. Again thank you so much for the video, love ya - The San Diego Catan community
Hey, Brando! Glad i could help. Here's everything you'd ever want to know (and more! And then more after that!)
th-cam.com/video/Py8Dha9AoF4/w-d-xo.html
Well done vid
Wow. Best game tutorial I've ever watched
Thanks, Markus!
Thank you
Exceptional video editing
Thanks, Murray!
Good explanation thanks for this. I have a German version of this and I easily translated the cards without having to look to another source.
i'm glad it transcends language barriers!
What do you have to do to move an active knight ?
Can anyone move the robber in one of the hexes that are protected by an active knight? I'm assuming not.
Im from Brazil and your vídeo was best then all that I find in my country.
Now i can play 😊
i hear board games are very expensive there!
Great video. I want to get the base game and if i get hooked buy the expansion, but i still have a doubt, how do the base game and the expansion work together? Do you have to build two maps?
No - not at all! You use most of your tiles from the base game, and play on the same map. If you'd like to see what comes in the expansion box, check out my unboxing video:
th-cam.com/video/mv401TSHRs8/w-d-xo.html
This helped very much sir. Good day:/
Thanks for the video! Can you put the robber at a tyle with an activeted knight?
You can, but the player who owns the knight, on his turn, can flip the knight to repel the robber.
Thanks so much for the video! I have one question about the barbarian attack though - if a player has to have one of the cities demoted and they have more than one city, do they get to choose which one is sacked?
Yes, that's right (per the official FAQ on Catan.com!)
@@NightsAroundaTable Got it, thanks!
Regarding the rule for upgrading tracks at the 18:04 mark, the 5th edition rule book does not specify this restriction. Does that restriction still apply?
Check page 8 of the 5th ed. rules, at the bottom of the right column:
"You may not purchase any improvements beyond the third level of a given color unless you have a city where you could build a metropolis. If you do not have such a city on the board, you must wait until you have built at least one more city."
Can’t find the answer anywhere so does anyone know if metropolis’s add to the barbarian strength? For example, there are 4 cities on the board with 1 city having a metropolis. Is the barbarian strength 4, for the 4 cities, or 5, for the 4 cities and 1 metropolis? Furthermore, if that city with a metropolis is sacked down to a settlement, is the strength now 4, for the 3 cities and 1 metropolis, or 3, for just the 3 cities?
One other question I have is before the first barbarian attack when a 7 is rolled we instead move the barbarian ship towards Catan along the track. If the black ship is rolled as well as a 7, do we move the black ship 2 steps towards Catan? And after the first attack, do we still move it 2 steps to Catan if the black ship is rolled with a 7?
So if I have multiple activated knights, could I use multiple activated knights? Or I’m only able to use 1 activated per turn?
Could you do one of traders & barbarians? I really enjoyed your explanation and it helped alot
Sure! it’ll be talking to those guys in a bit, and now two ppl have requested T&B.
Lol I just bought this game, right on time!
Perfecto!
Thanks for the video ! I was wondering if, at 12:25, the white player can still build a settlement at the end of its road ?
Yes - the road was interrupted, but the white player can keep building onto it, because that single west-end road has sort of "escaped." If the knight had been in place and the white player had built over to it, the knight would block white's further westward development.
@@NightsAroundaTable Thanks for that answer !!
Hi. Very good video. Thank you.
Can you just tell me is there extension for "cities and knights" for 5,6 players??!!
Thanks! Yes there is. Here's one place you can buy it:
amzn.to/3W6Nijm
Now I can get whooped on catan universe in new and exciting ways.
As the Good Lord intended.
This was very handy, thank you! And you also look like my long lost brother! lol
i see it! Generic bearded dudes with thick eyebrows! High five!
Question: when the barbarian attacks can players activate knights or trade like normal before or do they have to wait for the end of the battle?
Hi, Gina. When you roll the three dice, you have to resolve the event die first before you do anything with the other two dice, or take any further steps on your turn. That means that if the event die is a black ship, and the barbarians make landfall, they attack, and there's nothing you can do to mitigate the attack between rolling that die and suffering its effects! So batten down the hatches while you still can. :)
@NightsAroundaTable - I would love to see you do Seafarers, Traders & Barbarians, and Explorers & Pirates
Thank you!
i have a Seafarers video in the works, but i need to clarify a couple of nitpicky rules with Catan Studio before i proceed.
Damn that's a lot of new things. Sounds much more complicated than the base game. Does this work well with the seafarers expansion?
My memory is very hazy... i think i've only ever combined them once. But yes, it works. Makes the game longer, of course.
See 16:17. We played this expansion of Catan last night and came across a scenario that we were no sure of. One of the players had a robber placed on his 8 and an 8 was rolled. Does he still collect a resource of his choice in this case due to the robber? I'm guessing he does as it states on level 3 that "If you receive NO production on a turn and the roll is not a '7' you may take 1 resource of your choice" Any ideas?
A close reading of the 5th Ed rules reveals that you get the extra resource if “you do not receive any resources or commodities” (except on a 7 roll). Earlier rulebooks may have worded it “if your cities and settlements don’t produce…” in which case you could argue that they DID produce, but the robber took the stuff. But the latest rules are clear: production doesn’t matter. If you didn’t receive anything, you get to take something!
I did watcht he whole thing lol .... I just got in to this game it's great!
Alright! Do you own any other Catan expansions?
@@NightsAroundaTable My friend just thought me how to play "Catan Fisherman" one , but i really like the one you explained . I wish the fishes was still a thing
Thanks a lot! If u remember how I asked for this video it rly worked. Im now happily gonna play with my family tomorrow!
Wishes do come true! :)
One simple query please - I am assuming (and hoping) that the answer is yes; but this expansion of cities and knights can be played with base + 5-6 players expansion also, right?
Actually no! To play Cities & Knights with 5 or 6 players, you need four separate products: Catan, Catan 5-6 Player expansion, Catan: Cities & Knights, and Catan: Cities & Knights 5-6 Player expansion.
@@NightsAroundaTable this is very helpful; thanks :)
What happens if you build a second metropolis but don’t have a second city to build it on top of?
Let’s say for example, I have built a metropolis by reaching the 4th city improvement in the yellow trade city improvements.
I only have one city and it has a metropolis on it.
But now I am the first to reach the 4th city improvement in the green science city improvements which would allow me to build a second metropolis. But I don’t have a second city!
What happens then?
Never mind, the question is answered in the video at 18:04 through 18:25
Something everyone fails to mention. This is an excellent … EXCELLENT … two player game also.
Can you make a video on "Catan: Crop Trust" How to Play?
i hadn’t even heard of it until your comment! i’m planning to get in touch with Catan Studio soon about doing more vids, so we’ll see what’s in store!
Best explanation yet!
Thanks, Christopher!
Does the smith card that allows you to upgrade a knight for free allow you to upgrade a strong knight to a mighty knight?
If you have the blue flipped to the point that you can get them
I can still upgrade past level 3 if i have a city, but i can't obtain metropolis because someone else has it?
For example if my enemy has lvl 5 politcs and Metropolis, i can still upgrade to lvl 3, 4, 5?
Yes - you can keep improving that track. You just won't earn the metropolis for it, so it may be pointless to go beyond level 3 unless you're racing to snag an unclaimed metropolis.
@@NightsAroundaTable or if i want a higher chance of getting a progress cards on that red die when higher numbers are rolled!
Thank you for your super fast reply, wow 😅
@@random_acorn Yes indeed! i knew there was something i was forgetting.
The "can't upgrade" rule is only in the case of not having enough cities on the board.
My family doesn't play with that Robber rule you mentioned, we do the first 2 rounds without the event die or Robber then after that they both come in
For sure. You gotta do what you gotta do to keep your family together.
This man's tear ducts are the size of small almonds
i question your grasp of anatomy. You must have a brain the size of my "tear ducts."
th-cam.com/video/Py8Dha9AoF4/w-d-xo.html
What do ships do?
There aren’t any ships in this version (not counting the barbarian ship). In Catan Seafarers, which breaks Catan into islands, the ships behave nearly identically to roads, except you put them on water instead of on land.
My box didnt have the flippy things, it had the same card as the original catan but with more things on it
Weird? Can you post a picture of it? The flippy things are a crucial element.
@@NightsAroundaTable where could i post a picture? I realized noe that there are different parts that substitute the flippies, they have all 3 colors and you can place colored parts in them, we must have different editions of the expansion
@@janovich. This is fascinating! Throw a pic up on imugr for us?
YES me too!!!
You think it would be possible to play catan with multiple expansions at once? It would be chaotic, but would it be possible? Knights and cities + seafarers?
For sure! In fact, they’ve even released campaign games where the entire point is to combine all your expansions! You can’t even play unless you own them all!
Look:
th-cam.com/video/DcAfGdKZHek/w-d-xo.html
Catan should pay you, this was great
Thanks! They paid Rodney. ;)
Just got this expansion for Christmas, now I have seafarers and cities and knights! It's so cool that I can combine all my expansions to have one epic game with my family! I'm in a stump on if any of the other expansions are worth the money though?
That's definitely down to opinion. The only other one i own is Traders & Barbarians. It works a little differently than the others - it contains a set of modules that you can add to the game (or not) to vary the experience.
I like Explorers and Pirates better than Seafarers
What's a ship in trade spiral book
What’s a what?
@@NightsAroundaTable at 4:50 time, below the road in trade section of spiral
@@Not_Cool_ Oh! i understand. Ships are part of the game's first expansion, Catan: Seafarers.
@@NightsAroundaTable now i have to buy that lol
@@NightsAroundaTable So if your playing Cities and Knights without Catan Safari then it’s worthless right? Or could we play safari with cities and knights??? Ps this was an AMAZING video!! Thank you so much for it!!
Can two player have a metropolis at the same time?
Certainly! There are 3 in the game.
why do you have to remove a number token?
At which point? Timecode?
Can I ask what is on the upper inner parts of your eyelids.
Xanthelasma.
Ryan did a thing. Episode 3: Self-Surgery (Xanthelasma removal with Wartner Pen)
th-cam.com/video/Py8Dha9AoF4/w-d-xo.html
No one does better how to play vidoes ;)
I have a question
If the barbarians attack and they win but the lowest player dont have a city what should we do??
You go to the player with the second weakest knight force, and if that player has no cities you lose, it’s the player with the third weakest knight force, and so on.
Thanks
can i play this extantion with older versions of the game???
Sort of? The hexes are all around the same size, but the cards look different, so other players will be able to tell which cards in your hand are commodities. It'd be way better to find an older copy of the expansion, or update your base game.
@@NightsAroundaTable Thanks!
Can you only pursue one of the tracts like politics, or can you pursue them all?
You can upgrade all three tracks, but like a lot of games, it's possible to spread yourself too thin (or to over-specialize!)
Uh no, in the base game you don't have to finish all your trading to do building. You can also go back and forth..
That was a rule they introduced in (i think?) 5th ed. Prior to that, there was strictly no trading until building was completed. The mix of build and trade was introduced as an “advanced” option for experienced players.
the progress cards in Catan Cities and Knights seem a little too random for me.
They’re definitely powerful, but they can be very... particular? You can get into certain situations where certain cards aren’t at all useful.
@@NightsAroundaTable right. which is why I prefer the base game the most. I haven't played much C&K so maybe I should give it a chance before sticking to the basegame. But when I read comments about how C&K is so much better than the basegame and it's the best expansion pack, I'm like 'wuhhh?' Do you prefer C&K to the basegame? if so, why? just curious.
@@tochiRTA There are a few "problems" C&K addresses. One is the runaway leader issue: once someone pulls ahead in Catan, it's very hard for anyone else to catch up, because everything that's built stays built. C&K introduces roads, knights, and cities that can all be removed from the board, so none of those are a done deal. And i think people probably like the added strategic dimension that knights pose. It's just another thing to think about, in a game where some players don't feel there's enough to think about.