Game of Thrones Catan: Brotherhood of the Watch, Full Rules and Wildlings Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- My Board Game Tutorials have moved to my Board Game Channel on TH-cam: Board Game Braden. I will keep this one on this channel, though, as it has gathered a lot of traction.
• Game of Thrones Catan:...
Link to the 5-6 player expansion video tutorial: • Video
I'm a Catan fanatic. If you want to learn how to play this game, please use this video as a guide. I discuss the rules of the Brotherhood of the Watch as if you already understand the base game of Settlers. One thing I recognize I misspoke about in this video: the Hero Bowen Marsh can only be used on a SINGLE resource one time on a turn - you can't just exchange 4 wheat for 4 of whatever you want (or something similar) - you can only do ONE resource for ONE other ONE time.
1. Differences in the base game:
-You have the wall and the Wildlings
-You have heroes to give you abilities on your turn
-Development cards are a bit more powerful than base game
-Victory points (3/5 for guards, 1 for road, 1 for largest patrol)
-Trade 3 to 1 with the bank resource supply
-Tormund is now the robber, but functions the same
-City is now called a Keep, but functions the same
2. Set up the Game
- Why the game recommends it's setup
- Yes, you can opt to do a variable set up with resource hexes, numbers, and trade routes.
- the rule books suggest to keep the trade routes (harbors) the same location
- place guards for round 3 of set-up phase
- take resources connected to your SECOND settlement placed
- obtain the appropriate starting hero
3. Ending the game
- Getting 10 victory points (longest road, largest patrol, settlements, and keeps, number of guards, development cards)
- 3 breaches (person with most guards win)
- Number of wildlings is 8 or more (most guards win)
- See rule book for tie breaker rules when a tragic victory occurs
4. Using your hero
- Just do what your hero card says, can only use one hero once per turn
- Flip it to use it again later (on another turn), or, exchange it
- only Samwell Tarley can be played out of turn (obtains a resource when you get no production)
- You can't exchange it without playing it... Just be careful not to get stuck with Mance Rayder if you are winning
5. The guards
- Where to place them (lowest number available on wall choice)
- How to rotate them if one gets removed (move down on wall)
- How the victory points work for number of guards
6. The Wildlings - Where they enter
- The clan area, camps and clearings (ice River, cave people, Hornfoot)
- Migrate starting at the hottest fire
- Move from the camps and clan areas into the clearings based on gray dice
- You have to resolve the threat of a WIldling only when they enter a clearing
7. Wildlings - Create new Widlings (Migration)
- 1 per settlement, 2 per keep, 1 per longest road, 1 per largest patrol
- Wildling tokens: clan area and wildling type
- Place on hottest fire when migrating
8. Wildlings - Rush when Overfilled
- 4 occupied camps, bring first two forward (lower number first for clearing), and move everyone else up by two
9. Wildlings - Advance to a Clearing
- Gray dice determine how they advance into a clearing
10. Regular Wildling in Clearing
- Need same amount of guards to regular Wildlings
- Causes Wall Breach if there are more regular wildlings than guards
- Wall breaches block hex numbers and increase allowed Wall Breaches be fore end of game
11. Climber Wildling in Clearing
- Climbers jump the wall automatically, don't remove a guard
- No Wall breach occurs
- Good to remove them from the North when possible
12. Giant Wildling in Clearing
- Removes a guard on the wall (remove Giant as well)
- Causes a Wall Breach if no guards are there to stop a Giant
- Can remove enough guards to stop Regular Wildlings
13. Unique Situations
- 5 Guards with 6 Wildlings - move it down to 4 Guards against 4 Wildlings
- Overlap covered hexes when necessary
- Place Wildlings on first available hex
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Differences from the base game
3:32 Why I like the game
4:56 Game set-up
8:43 Ending the game
9:53 Using your Hero
13:11 The Guards
14:44 Wildlings - Where they Enter
17:48 Wildlings - How they are Created (Migration)
20:37 Wildlings - Rush when Overfilled
22:12 Wildlings - Advance to a Clearing
23:50 Wildlings - REGULAR WILDLING and Wall Breaches
26:30 Wildlings - CLIMBERS
27:51 Wildlings - GIANTS
30:12 Wildlings - Unique Situations
32:38 Conclusion - เกม
The BEST explanation video. This should be included in the Catan official game as a QR code link.
This has been one of the best rules explanations I have ever seen, great job
Thanks!
First video to make sense of this game 😅Thank you for doing the homework for us!!
Thanks for the feedback!
Great job, very helpful. The rules didn't clearly explain the wildlings and we were playing it wrong our first time playing. Now thanks to you we will know what to do the next time we play. Thank you!
Great explanation, thank you! I'm considering getting it and this helped me see how it is.
No worries!
Great explanation of the wildlings, we'd been doing it wrong all along. Keep up the good work!
Fantastic instructional video - thanks!
Great explanation. I'll be ready to play with my family tonight
dude keep up very nice video
Explica muito, irmão, valeu!!!
Can you explain the 5 guard vs 5 Wildling example with a 6th Giant?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something. Sam Tarly holder can get a resource with every roll of the dice if he plays his hero before the person who rolled does? What stops them from dominating the game?
Did I read somewhere in the rule book that any time that any player gets a VP coin, a wildling needs to be drawn? e.g. when a player gets a VP coin for having 3 guards on the wall.
It turns out our group was moving the wildlings wrong, but after watching your video it cleared it up. Thanks.
I'm so happy to hear that! And no, from what I remmebr vp coins for guards does not generate a wildling
How many board game videos have you made? This was very well presented.
Wow thank you! Well this inspires me to make more!
Great job. One remaining question, what happens if you roll a 10, 11 or higher number on the gray die?
Nothing haha... Unless you play the expansion, then something will happen
@@cougarcn cool 😎 thanks. I'll subscribe man, you rock
Should you introduce any wilding when placing your first 2 settlements at the start of the game?
No. Only after nyoy start the game and build settlements and keeps after the initial set up
If you replace a settlement with a keep. Can you play that settlement later on without introducing a new wildling? Or do you always play a new widling whenever a settlement or keep is played?
Always place a wildling even if you replace the settlement :)
For Othell Yarwyk can you move a road and leave a settlement without any roads attached?
Yes you can! Looks weird but yep
Let's say you roll a 6 and the wildling die allowed a breach and a wildling lands on a hex with the number 6 on it. Do you get the resource that the 6 hex produces or do you resolve the breach first before any resources are distributed?
production first, then widlings. see page 6 of smaller rule book on turn overview.
@@cougarcn Thank you.
For the grey die what happens if you don’t role any of the numbers that are by the wall? Would the wildlings still move?
Nope! Unless you were playing the expansion, it's a free pass!
I always started at the back and they advanced…
Youre telling me that right when a wildling is spawned (first of the game), were at risk for a breach if theres no guard?🤣
Yep!
Played it for the first time last night. Had a question - can we play development cards before we roll even if the card doesn't say we can?
Roll first unless it says otherwise. Like, for instance, Benjen Stark can be played before the roll, so can Ygritte. So, if it says you can, you're good.
@@cougarcn Actually, I was looking at the Rules Reference booklet under D for Development Cards and it says they can be played at any time, even before you roll.
@@chazyvr oh I'm sorry... I was thinking of hero cards. I'm sorry... You are correct
does the climber ignores all guards?
even if the clearing is empty and there are 5 guards?
Correct. It just hops over. The climbers a jerk.
Hahaha!
Hi, can i ask what is the role of the Elephant (Wildling)?
It adds, "pressure". It counts as an additional wildling but it cannot actually breach the wall. The video goes into it if you want to scroll to the chapter I talk a bout it.
How do you determine which player is ‘Player 1-4’?
Whoever is going first is player 1, then it is clockwise from there who are 2-4
Can you exchange your hero for anyone you want from the bank?
Yes!
So isn’t part of the board completely safe from wildlings? How is this balanced?
Great question! Once you play for the first time, I wonder if you'll feel the same way. The part of the board thst is protected from the wildlings is small, with the only good number being and 8. Oof you exclusively build only over there toy will most likely lose to poor dice and resource differentiation
Can this be set up for 2 players only?
Unfortunately no, minimum required to play is three.
😊Spouse and I play all the time. Just follow all the rules the same.
You must have played it many times by now. Still like it?
Yes! One of my favorites.
@@cougarcn Cool. May play tonight or next time after I make my friends watch this video. This is the best video on Catan Game of Thrones.
@@chazyvr wow thanks so much for the compliment! The main thing is just making sure you do the wildling right haha
They ain’t not climbing sticks bro haha they are climbing axes 🪓