CATAN Explorers & Pirates Board Game Expansion - Sail on epic adventures! Strategy Game, Family Game for Kids and Adults, Ages 12+, 3-4 Players, 90 Minutes Play Time by CATAN Studio

Purchased as a gift for a close friend, who was over the moon! It's a great addition to any Catan fan and player.

This is a great expansion to the Settlers of Catan game. There are different levels of difficulty, so you can ease into learning it. Had lots of fun playing this with our family.

Primera expansión que compro, muy divertido de aprender y jugar, le da un cambio grande al modo de juego básico de catan, una vez pruebes este nuevo modo no volverás al modo base por un largo tiempo.

Nice expansion. The scenarios should be played in order and each scenario adds new rules. Makes it easy to remember the last scenario where all the rules apply. This is more like an expansion of 'Fog Island' scenario of Catan Seafarers. I have the 4th edition base and this works well with it. The resource hex has different designs but that kind of helps in sorting them while packing up the game. This also has cards that help in sorting the game pieces, i.e. which piece goes in which bag. This considerably reduces the packing up time!

Chosen as an add on to the original Catan which we bought at christmas, and loved. This was the expansion that seemed most popular (through a quick Google and reading reviews on board game sites that compared the various expansions available). Quick note - the ones labelled 'expansion' expand the game, as in create new goals and ways of earning victory points as well as physically expanding the size of the board, while 'extension' packs give you extra pieces so you can have more players - be careful which you end up buying because it isn't always clear from cut and pasted product descriptions! Our family (two adults, two teens aged 13 and 14) loved the original game but after enough games it can get a bit tedious, and so opted for this expansion. We're adding a single extra element at a time (there are several 'senarios' in this - you add extra islands, then pirates, then fish, then spices, but you can play with only one extra (pirates/fish/spices) at a time, or add each to the previous so first you play with extra islands, then extra islands and pirates, then extra islands and pirates and fish and so on. What we decided to do was add each new element and get comfortable playing that (so maybe four or five games) before then adding the next thing in, and that's working well for us - our thinking is that once we've played a game without having to check back in the booklet to clarify any rules or had any disputes along the lines of "But you already moved your ship so now it's too late to trade gold to get sheep to buy more moves for the ship" vs "No, because it has sheep for moves under the movement phase" countered with "but you're not using a sheep, you're trading gold for it THEN using it" then we have got our heads round it enough to add in something else. Add a lot of interest to the basic game, with much more going on and more things to keep track of, as well as being played on a physically larger board so do think about whether it will fit where you play! I'd highly recommended this expansion (though haven't personally played any of the other expansions so can't compare with them), but do keep in mind you need to use lots of pieces from the basic game so don't get this unless you already have ordinary basic Catan, as it will be useless! All in all, adds extra layers to the game, making it much more strategic and enjoyable.