Buy Starfarers of CatanStarfarers of Catan Product Description:
- ? Players: 3-4
- ? Ages: 12+
- ? Playing Time: 2 hours
- ? Designer: Klaus Teuber
Product Description
Done settling Earth? Want to move on? Than take your Catan to the stars! You have been commissioned to explore the galaxy, build new colonies, and expand commercial ties with the various races of the Galactic Council. This is no easy task. You must build great spaceships to conquer the distances, carry colonists and cargos, combat hostile pirates, and negotiate and trade with aliens. Careful diplomacy, clever trade, a firm stance against pirates, and the bold colonization of distant solar systems will win you the support of aliens and humans alike and make you the Ambassador of the Galactic Council.For 3 - 4 players, ages 12 and up.Contents: Game contains 4 plastic mother ships, 108 mother ship expansion pieces, 38 resource chips, 12 spaceport rings, 12 transporters, 36 colonies, 28 trading outposts, 4 friendship chips, 4 game overview cards, 4 victory point markers, 32 encounter cards, 100 resource cards, 20 friendship cards, illustrated game board, 2 dice, rules and almanac.
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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
Settlers of Catan Meets Flash Gordon
By Joshua Koppel
I have loved Settlers of Catan since I first played it. I was thrilled when I first saw Starfarers (I loved the retro Flash Gordon look).
Unlike the other Settler games, this one actually uses plastic and not wood for many of the pieces/parts. My friends can be quite rowdy late at night but in the years I have had the game, no piece has ever broken.
Play is a little different than in other sets. Its sort of like Seafarers with lots of little islands. Development cards are there (although there are some new resources) and they have been joined by encounter cards where you deal with alien races, traders and pirates. Play lasts a little longer than the original but is comparable to Cities & Knights.
The board is beautiful and rather large (no small contained hex this time). Players ability to move and fight are modified by upgrades to their central ship/die roller/neat thing. There is currently an expansion set for adding up to two more players which I just picked up (so I don't know how it affects play yet).
All in all, this is a really fun addition to the Settlers world of games (I have eight of them so far). If you liked the original and wanted a bit more of a challenge, this is a great addition to your game closet.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent! But with flaws...
By Skye Goshorn
Our family of four, parents plus 10yr old girl and 12yr old boy had a blast with this game. Lucky for us we were able to spend a couple of hours to figure out how this game works before we actually played a "real" game where the winner meant something. Our major complaint was one of the plastic motherships broke upon our first application of the booster pieces. The motherships are too brittle and I suggest a different design because it set a negative note until we remedied the problem by placing a rubber band around the mother ship and applying the boosters under the rubber band so we wouldn't break any more ships. With that resolved, the game was enjoyed by all.Also, we found it better for all the players to set up the colonies and spaceports before the numbers (resource chips) were turned over. Fairer all around. The rules and instructions were well written and we found ourselves always referring to them to get the best rules possible. My son thinks that 15 victory points should be higher because after about 3 hours of game, you still didn't hit the farthest corners of space so maybe it should last longer. Geez - if that doesn't speak enough about how much fun it was, I don't know what else would.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.Complicated and Involved
By Christopher Bennage
I bought this game because I liked Settlers of Catan and I'm a sci-fi fan. However, this game is not much like Settlers.The game might be compared to a combination of Risk and Monopoly. It takes about three hours to play and longer if you are teaching a beginner. There are a lot of small pieces to break or lose. Also, you really need three, and not more than four, people to play a game.All that aside, we really enjoy the game and I would highly recommend it for teenagers to adults.
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