I was just laughing the whole time. Like obviously he sees black as HIS biggest threat to his game but the rest of board would see red as their biggest threat as they have no stone and he’s on a sheep port 6. Imo red was the obvious winner unless black got super lucky with some rolls

Yes. This is the first game I saw Dylan play sub par. Should have citied up when had a chance. Even the last turn, he should have taken road (road building+ one road with sheep ported for brick) because he is anyway getting robbed and they wouldn't have done anything more.

Thank you. I sometimes wonder to myself “am I simply wasting a bunch of people’s time?” It’s people and comments like you that remind me I’m not.

Agree!

This!

Yea I panicked there and wish I had more time. At the very beginning of turns there isn't much time to decide to play a knight before you roll or hold off and made a mistake. You're definitely right.

@@DyLightedCatan I think Brent is saying that black builds that road, then even an orbit or two later you mention in the chat that black wins with road, but the whole time you’re leaving that win-con open. Not an issue per se of not enough time before rolling, but an issue of leaving that easy win-con open for multiple orbits.

The video is clearly sped up in the edit which make him sound ridiculous. If played at 0.75x it almost sounds normal

@@kbevers it is definitely not clearly sped up sounds normal to me.

It’s normal, I just speak fast. I watch all my KZfaq videos on 2X speed and it’s impacted me to where I naturally talk faster.

Same, I hate lectures I can't watch online at 1.75x speed, but this pace is really good

@@kbevers I'm new to learning the strategies to Catan so I had to play it .75 to even follow.

It’s really bad. In my experience typing anything is instantly viewed as “toxic” in a game that requires communication. Lack of voice comms and toxic community really ruins the game. Table talk is a vital element and is what makes the game so great. Talking up your opponents position, downplaying yours, extorting others, whacky negotiations like future trades or other agreements is what makes catan, catan. Testing your political ability and manipulation strategy to the limit is the best part of the game which truly makes every single game unique.

@@focusobjectives As bad as chat can be on Colonist, on Catan Universe chat is hidden so no one ever uses it...except to call you a "c*nt" (which happened to me today...lol

Yeaha I saw that too roard build to 11/12 and that would force him to road road settle on his own 5

I saw that as well, but I think its better to use rb to get 5 roads on 6 sheep which means black still needs to play 3 roads, but now you have a settlement spot as well

Was thinking the same. He had a road build card

100% I was thinking the same

The idea with that setup is high production, road building and side by side. Your goal is to build to a 3 to 1 port, then trade with the wheat and ore heavy players to get a city. At that point your production is so high you can go for road and even buy some devs to hopefully win LR, 5 settles, 1 city and 1 VP. Also notice both settlements are close to each other in the corner of the board. This side by side concept means he has the ability to connect roads, space to expand for all the settlements, AND avoids getting blocked and stolen from as there arent many good ways to block them without it being a solo block.

​@@djz5gaming292 Maybe I'm missing something. 3-4-8 5-9-10 gives you 21 points of production, and building to the 3-1 port means you now have 26 points of production. The set-up that Dylighted got is 22 points of production AND he has the wheat so doesn't need to trade as much. Once he builds to sheep port he has 29 points of production, and he's on 10 points of sheep which makes that port really strong. Overall more production, I guess one tradeoff is getting wheat trades might be easier than getting brick trades, but then again with the set up he got he has much better ability to pop. I'm not sure if the increased chance at road with alternate set up is worth a clear preference, especially given how high production he is. Although one thing is clear that this set up was super vulnerable, if he lost the sheep port it's a lot weaker, and there's chances of missing that AND the 3:1 port and then it's basically game over vs the alternate set up there's pretty much no way he loses the 3-1 port...

Its not just production but speed maybe. With 2 wood and 2 brick hexes and a good sheep hex you need to acquire just 1 wheat for settle #1. Then 2nd settle follows soon. After that you need to find a way for a city but at that point youre basically unlockable, a ton of cards AND a near locked LR win condition. Its not the only good setup but its one with a gameplan that feels linear and clean and is likely undervalued by others.

I also didn't understand this. Early 1-1 trades of like wood for sheep and stuff were offered. I'd have taken those trades and used YOP on brick and that would've been a way faster expansion for that start than you'd typically see. Then hopefully soon the 6s hit and you can city. Probs would have also gotten less aggro too without the city.

It's on Treeckosaurus' youtube channel. He favours statistical and algorithmic analysis and is worth checking out. His vids are good - nowhere near as good as Dylan's, but still good. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/et5le72Br9exhJc.html

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/et5le72Br9exhJc.html

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Yep will do! Good suggestion

Also towards the end of the game you had a chance to use your road building and build to the 11/12 and settle

My best wishes to play against smart, knowledgeable and fully aware players in all your future Catan games. This will surely help at catapulting you to the first place in the rank! 😋

It’s more so there wouldn’t be any OWS competition and black would wipe the floor compared to the other players. Needed to clarify that

Bro the man has a 55% win percentage. To say his decision making gets so bad is a bit of an exaggeration.