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2024-06-12T12:07:02Z

Pennyfarthing: Incorrect victory points required to win Catan Cities and Knights. This corrects it

==Objective==
Get resources to buy various buildings and development cards, and try to be the first player to reach 10 points.

==Setup==
* The board consists of hills (brick), forest (lumber), mountains (ore), fields (grain), pasture (wool) and a desert (nothing) at random places.
* Each terrain except the desert has a number of 2-12 on it. The desert starts with the robber on it.
* Each player places 2 settlements and 1 road next to each settlement on the board, then they receive resources for each terrain around the second settlement.

==Gameplay==
'''Rolling for resource production''' (obligatory): On your turn, roll 2 dice and calculate the sum.
* The terrains with that number produce resources for all players who have settlements or cities next to them (if the robber isn't blocking them): 1 resource per settlement and 2 per city.
* If you roll a 7, no one gets any resources and players with 8 resources or more must discard half of them (rounded down). You must move the robber to a new terrain and steal 1 random resource from a player who has a settlement or city next to that terrain.

'''Trading''' (optional): during your turn you can trade resources
*• with all other players (''domestic trade'')
*• with the bank (''maritime trade'') at the standard rate of 4 identical resources for 1 or at a preferential rate of a harbour if you have a settlement next to it.

'''Building''' (optional): finally, you can build roads and settlements, upgrade settlements to cities or purchase a development card by paying the resources needed.
*• '''roads''' must connect to the initial settlements and cost 1 brick + 1 lumber (worth 0 points)
*• '''settlements''' must be connected by roads to existing settlements (except at start) and cost 1 brick + 1 lumber + 1 wool + 1 grain (worth 1 point)
*• '''cities''' replace an existing settlement and cost 3 ore + 2 grain (worth 2 points)
*• '''development cards''' cost 1 ore + 1 wool + 1 grain and include
**• 14 ''knight'' cards that allow to move the robber to another terrain and steal a resource
**• 2 ''road building'' cards allowing extra roads to be built
**• 2 ''year of plenty'' cards providing two free resources of choice
**• 2 ''monopoly'' cards giving all other players that help gathering resources or building road•s
**• 5 ''victory point'' cards

You can '''play a development card''' at any time during your turn, even before rolling the dice, as long as it was bought on a previous turn and is not a victory card.

==Scoring==
*• '''Settlements''': each is worth '''1 victory point'''.
*• '''Cities''': each is worth '''2 victory points''' (1 Point from the settlement + 1).
*• '''Victory point cards''': some ''development cards'' are worth '''1 victory point'''. They are kept hidden until you have sufficent points to win.
*• '''Largest army''': the player who has played the most knight cards at any time (at least 3) gets the ''largest army card'' which is worth '''2 points'''.
*• '''Longest road''': the player with the longest continuous road at any time (at least 5 segments) gets the ''longest road card'' which is worth '''2 points'''.
If there is a tie, the original owner keeps the ''achievement cards''.

==End of game==
If a player has '''10 or more victory points during their turn''' (including victory points cards), they reveal them and the game ends with their victory. For Catan Cities & Knights, a player needs '''13 or more victory points''' to win.

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