I had someone target me because I took the highest producing spots left as 4th position because it covered all 5 resources. He retaliated by placing the knight on my wood and literally changing his road direction to build 5 roads over to steal a port that I wasn't even going for, making the game a 1v1 for the other players

Thanks! I try to enjoy Catan as much as possible as in the very end it's simply a game. I'd like to think of collusion as another typical Catan game except for it is extra hard mode :).

@@DyLightedCatan collusion, or colusión in spanish, new word learnt ^^

I mean red and orange had no hope this game, and green still barely kept up with the help

@@gabemerritt3139 That doesn't excuse anyone from being a bad sport

While unfortunate, I think it's a good model of what not to do in competitive play.

DylLighted - Catan had smth similar in a competition. I would have won a game but the guy coming last made me go 2nd (through helping the otherwise 2nd place, and 2nd givies half the points) so I wouldnt overtake him on the overall ladder.

Anyone playing Kingmaker immediately takes the fun out of it.

Thank you for watching! I appreciate it!

Thank you! This really motivates me to work harder! I'm quite the fan of neonate, so it really means a lot. I'm going to try to start an uploading schedule on the weekend. Look forward to a video soon!

Thank you! I really will try my best!

Someone asked Neonate "How do you decide whom to attack while playing?" and his reply was that we should see who whom we don't like and attack them. Whoever attacked us. Tit for tat. I thought that it was too lame.

Nathan dep Thank you! I really means a lot. One goal of this channel is to make Catan less of a “niche” game and more popular!

Thanks! Good luck man!

Lorenzo Espetxe hahaha of course. Just watch the rest of my videos lol.

Getting all the basics down is important.

yeah he edits all waits out

I do edit out all the wait time! My philosophy is if I can spend 10 hours editing out a minute of wait time for 1000 people, then it's worth it!

DylLighted - Catan that explains how everyone is super fast at picking their settlements. From what ive learned where you place your first two settlements + roads is like 50% of the game

Good point! I have a lot of critical spots that need defending and there wasn't always a time where I needed one particular resource. I would rather have a knight for defense compared to getting a random card from someone. Thanks for asking!

Thank you for watching! I'm glad you got something out of it!

Erik Ortega I’m glad you did! Now go beat your friends at home with what you’ve learned!

Good point actually.

Yea that was a mistake. I just thought hitting all 3 people was better than hitting 1, but the other 2 players were "dead" players. So I agree with you that later in the game I should've been placing the robber on the 6 wood instead of the 9 wood.

ii_Rein Thanks for the compliment. I wish orange had a better attitude about the game also.

I just posted one!

RNN Network Aw thank you! Just watch the rest of my videos to learn more!

Thank you! Originally I was super inspired by him, but now have developed my own videos and ideas. Thanks for watching my videos :)

1) Ports are still good! In fact I believe having a port is almost a requirement to win. However, that doesn't mean to sacrifice other potential spots just to go all in on a port (5 tiles of sheep with a sheep port). It's been mathematically proven this is inefficient (and it just sort of makes sense if you think about it) 2) You can't do a Cities and Knights strategy without wheat. Don't even try. In fact it's extremely difficult to win without wheat, hence the saying "No wheat = defeat". 3) Don't race unnecessarily. This one is probably the biggest one. As the cities and knight player, you can't waste a single road. Every road is super valuable. You build your settlements not usually for production, but rather for a port/VP's. To ensure not getting cut off, point towards the coast/desert to guarantee a 3rd settlement. Absolutely never commit to a race, unless you can win it before it even started. (In this case, I had a road building but if I didn't I wouldn't even have tried to go for the race.) *Edit: oops. I thought you mean playing a cities and knights game in the base game. Not the expansion.

Basically it was 2v1v1

Give it a second chance! Most people don’t see the strategic depth because they don’t search hard enough, but this game has a lot higher of a skill ceiling than most people think. The game is 100% not decided on turn one. Subscribe to my channel and learn!

@@DyLightedCatan Absolutley agree with DyLighted. Catan Is a Strategy AND a Luck game of course. Not only Strategy. Not Luck. The two things can exist togheter. That'swhat peapole don't undestand.

Honestly laughing at the guy/making fun of him isn't even worth the time. He's got a loser mentality and that's punishment enough. I feel sorry for Orange.

@Some noob 646 great question. A ‘port strategy’ is where you concentrate on a single resource (example: sheep) and you build your second settlement near the sheep port so you can 2:1 (sheep) for any resource you want. In theory, this should make you ‘flexible’ as you can make any resource you want for 2 (sheep). The issue with this strategy is that you need 2 sheep for any resource. This makes it so you need twice the amount of production just to catch up because you are doing a 2:1 every time compared to someone who diversifies their resources so they don’t need a port as badly.

Good thoughts! Thanks for analyzing my gameplay. Here are some of my thoughts. About Orange's road, I still think a safer play would to place your road towards the 3:1 port. The reasoning behind this is because their first spot doesn't have wheat, and more wood is always pretty good to fit the 1:1 wood/brick ratio. The 7 production points, a 3:1 port, and getting more wheat is a really great deal. On the other hand, pointing the road inwards can only secure a race for a mediocre 4/5/11 with more brick/sheep that is unnecessary. In addition, Orange's first placement as 3rd position means that they still have to wait for 4th position to place. This means there is still uncertainty where they will place. The safer option that yields a greater benefit to me is the 9/10. I like the thoughts with Orange taking the 6/3/11. However, the weakness is low wheat. If you watched my other videos, you should understand the importance of obtaining an adequate wheat source. If I were to place there, my first priorities would be to build on the 10/9 3:1 port for more wheat, and then build towards the 4ore/11 brick port. Remember, "no wheat = defeat." "No ore? You're done for. (This rule is a bit more flexible)" About green, yea I thought his road placement was terrible. I think he could've won the game easily if he didn't have such a rocky start. At 11:10, the reason why I bought a development card was because I wanted to invest my resources into something that doesn't give me an immediate victory point. This gives me a much better low profile rather than getting 2 points in a single turn which sort of lets everyone know I'm starting to ramp up. I find with lower level players, it's a lot more about sneaking around. I thought these players weren't super high quality. For strong players, this doesn't apply as much as they can tell pretty quickly you're planning next. About the trade I missed, perhaps the right move would've been to not move the robber and then try do the trade so I'm at 6 points which makes me look like a nonthreat. Perhaps you're right with green not taking my deal, but green was thirsty for ore to city up so I think trying to offer it couldn't have hurt.

@@DyLightedCatan Thanks for your response. I just watched the rest of your videos--they are very good, and I'm looking forward to seeing more! I think it's really close between the 2 possible road placements for orange. I actually thought heading towards the middle would be safer, because green might try to cut off my road toward the port, or someone might decide to place their second settlement on top of the 9-10 port. I also want to head toward the middle since I am going for longest road, so I need lots of room to expand. It's true it comes with low wheat numbers but I have the clay port and tons of sheep so in the worst case I could trade 4-for-1 sheep for wheat. Maybe I should try to make it less obvious when I am winning. I usually just assume that my opponents will rob from me no matter what (they often do) and plan accordingly.

@@Mousepotato8 If green is smart, then they wouldn't cut you off with the free road from placing 2nd on the 6/9/2. Whenever you play a port strategy, your first priority is to get to a port no matter what. Any other goal is delaying your game and stalling your ability to ramp up. With that said, there are bad players so I think the fear of getting cut off is valid. Doing 4:1 sheep for wheat is extremely inefficient. I believe it would be very hard to win like that. About heading towards the center for longest road, that does make sense. I am more of a conservative player so I dislike doing that, but should probably consider options like that more. Going to do my best to upload a video this weekend. Hope you enjoy!

Green was about to win in the end but Dy made some brilliant moves to sneak up the win.

The numbers have little dots on them, so an 8 has 5 dots or points, an 11 has 2 points, etcetera. Numbers with more points get rolled more often, so having a village with 13 adjacent points will get you tons of resources.

To be slightly more clear than the other comment, the points refer to the probability of that number being rolled. An 8 has 5 points, and that means it has a 5 in 36 chance of being rolled. A 9 has 4/36, 10 is 3/36, etc. A 7 is 6/36. In Catan with normal rules, a 13 point total placement is the highest you can get.

You could buy a settlement but in general it’s not a good idea to port your ore away.

jordan haas do you mean 11 when you say one?

Joe Maney yea

it do be like that sometimes

Joe Camerer That’s a good point, but I felt like the other players still could come back somehow and wanted to shut down 3 players instead of 1 and block 16 points of production instead of 15. I wouldn’t fault you for blocking the 6 wood.

Max Hoffmeyer Great point. Mistake on my end. There’s no reason to buy a development card when I have 2 knights already.

Victor Masot odds of that settlement getting a resource. Looking under the number you can see how many ‘points’ each number is worth

@@FlatlandsSurvivor Ahhhh ok thanks!

maybe a little late, but it seems he counts the dots right under the numbers together.

Echsenmeister nah i mean when he talks about pointa for example 0:35

@@BustaDeluxe Yes thats exactly what i mean, when he places a settlement on the corner of 5, 8 and 10, when you look at the number 5, 8 and 10 they have little dots under them. 5 -> 4, 8 -> 5 and 10 -> 3. The sum of the dots is 12 which he refers to as points.

Echsenmeister oh shit couldn’t see them. I thought you were referring to the „dots“ where you place the city’s. But how does this points get into the game, because if you play the board game there aren’t any dots or did i miss them too

@@BustaDeluxe the points only represent the chance of the number being rolled, therefore they dont get actually have any value besides being an indicator for the chance of getting a resource when you build on them

I agree with this statement to a certain extent. There are definitely a lot of exceptions to these 2 differing philosophies. This was one of my old videos and my viewpoint has changed quite a bit.

@@DyLightedCatan One of the main variables is the current chance of winning (and the accuracy of your estimation of it). If all things are equal or worse, you need to increase your probability and hope for a little luck. If you are really behind, the lack of diversity is a bonus because it represents a better chance of winning than if you can select diverse numbers. But that lack of diversity shouldn't probably be attained at the expense of better odds to draw cards.

You can’t “play” victory point cards. They are already included inside the point score. Feel free to go back and count the points.

@@DyLightedCatan Oh, my mistake. I'm still learning game, thank you. And great videos, thank you for sharing.

It’s a house rule. You can trade freely.

I guess that’s a good thing? Thanks!

It’s puts a heavy emphasis on those 3 resources, but it doesn’t hurt to get wood or brick also. Usually the best combo is OWS with a tad bit of wood or brick

@@DyLightedCatan whenever i want to play OWS, i can't get both brick and wood as well, because opponents take those spots, i might get like one of those only, should i play OWS if i have ONLY those 3 resources?

@@vladimirnikolic599 Yea sometimes it’s fine to just do pure ows as long as you have enough production

@@DyLightedCatan thanks man! you are the best

I agree the roads could have improved a bit!

​@@DyLightedCatan Yes,Just a Little bit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I totally agree - I understand his perspective that he can’t win so why care? It makes a lot of sense, although a bit unfair to other players.

What's the time stamp? Perhaps you're right; this video is from a while ago so I probably made a lot more mistakes. Edit: If you’re talking about 6:24 where I had 2 bricks and 4 ores, it doesn’t make sense to 4:1. There’s only a 50% chance that a robber hits within an orbit. If a 7 didn’t hit on my next turn then I’d have a city and a development card, vs your play of still having a literal dead hand. I think you have to look at the risk and reward. The reward is too great to not hold. It also doesn’t make sense to 4:1 for a wood when I could still get Year of Plenty or Road Building. If I did 4:1 for a wood and built a road the next turn my hand is stuck. Let’s compare this to holding my cards where I got 7’d out and still had a city in my hand. A city is better than a road,

@Rccamo3 Thank you for the compliment! I just read this now!