This whole game was malf sips and Justin arguing over who should get resources while they all had one boot on the back of Ryan's head pushing him deeper into the dirt.

I miss Erlin, Fergus, and Chyou, but the new guys are cool too

Ryan won the first episode and from then on the series became "bully Ryan" the game.

Love the Catan vids. The mild arguing. The frustration, but ultimately fun competition. Keep making them! Thank you NL.

Someone: Engages with the mechanics of the game Everyone: "WHAT THE HECK MAN? EMBARGO'D! YOU'RE GONNA PAY"

Excited for another episode of the egg getting unfairly oppressed for being a natural born catan player

Malf threatening to take Justin's cat but give him a good life is the same thing as saying you'll kill someone and raise their kids as your own

I can't believe NL got that close to winning when the bandit took so many resources from him that game.

MALF's sock idea already exists and it's a great one! Those socks don't wear out the heel or toes as quickly because they aren't put on the exact same way every time. The only drawback is the slight excess of fabric bunching. MALF is a true visionary, a hero of our time...

Throwing away all my old socks and buying all the same type was the best sock related move I've ever made.

Whenever MALF starts talking about some kid from his past, I have started to always be suspicious that he is telling a story about NL and just saying it was some dude bragging about his dad's porche

Entirely underappreciated line by MALF (about taking Justin's cats): "I'm gonna give them a good life... but I'm gonna be the one that gives it to them."

I really like this catan gameplay. Definitely some top tier content

Huge ups to egg for bringing my favorite series on the channel back. I can't wait to mald for the next hour because these professional entertainers don't know the meta to a game that came out when I was 3.

great to see NL hangin with CEO business mogul sips

I'm here for every Catan video, loving it

Lol! I love how, withing 10 minutes of each game, there's a point where at least one player goes, "....So you have chosen death."

These are actually my favorite NL vids at the moment. The banter kills me, surprisingly entertaining for watching a screen that barely moves

You're right - I've never seen someone get so robbed.

my man ryan trades for sheep and then discards it when someone rolls a 7 instead of discarding from his steady supply of brick and log

Sips refusing to give wheat for sheep, spending four wheat for a brick and then needing more wheat. What a great mind.

NL I love the Catan streams and vids, even if you get tired of making them please consider playing and uploading more every few months, the banter is fantastic and I enjoy watching tremendously!

This match is pure mobbing, holy robber

The more I watch NL, the more I appreciate the older generations.

i see hexagons in the thumbnail, and my brain lights up because I've just been gifted something incredible.

NL is ruthless and butthurt and it's hilarious

A toast to Sir Northernlion for this positively fantastic video.

Justin and Sips playing a whole other game than the others…

I look forward to this upload every week

We. Care. A. Lot

when enelle tried to build a settlement in that 5 sheep tile not noticing he's out of setties...i felt that.

I love Canadian (+Justin) tabletop board games

love how sips being in the group is just normal now. such a lovely dynamic :)

I have just binged all of the catan episodes

i fucking love salty NL

Love the catan games

I really enjoyed this episode! 53:39 if you just trade away shit here to get 4 wood and 4 brick, build four roads along the coast (crossing by malf's settlement) you could win then again, this is just a board game, and checkmates are pretty hard to find.

I get you have an aversion to Cities&knights, but you might consider Seafarers. It's not really a complication to the game, it just gives you a bigger world and diversifies resource values (you can use sheep instead of bricks to build boats, which are essentially roads). Also the wildcard spaces, which are a slight complication, but only about a 5 second explanation worth.

40:36 - NL jizzes his pants from perfectly timed 6 roll

I love catan it’s all I want to watch tbh

End of game Ryan could have taken longest road (4 on the left side to get 13) if he traded some of his wheat or rock for a single tree he would have stolen longest road and won straight up

Love this crew! Y'all are great

Also, toe socks are the freaking best. They are a step up!

I waited for a new episode! I'm so excited!

Cities and Knights is amazing, idk what NL is talking about

I think NL is good at hiding it well generally, but Catan might be one of the most salty games for him.

I frikkin love this series 👍👍👍👍

Imagine if nl went for the wood or brick port first

Cities and knights is more complex, but really really fun

how was 4 10 8 with road pointed at the wheat port taken last (with road pointed the wrong way) has to be one of the strongest spots you get 2 wheat spots and once you get the port you'll an insane amount of wheat coming in

Almost threw up when he threw away his one sheep, that he has no way of rolling for, instead of the wood and brick which he rolls easily

Instead of hiring a professional baby sitter just keep inviting family members to stay over and when they do wait until your date time and give em the ol "oh hey were going to go to town real fast but the baby is already asleep sooo...." and bam you're free and all it costed was putting up with your family members for half a day

50:45 that hurts

I think there was some dice tampering this game lmao

"Who's Andorra?"

I have a firm conviction that the 5-9-10 and 9-10-11 were the right placements for NL.

Nls pov was so frustrating to watch here he actually got screwed at every single opportunity and still nearly clutched it out only one turn away.

I don't get how NL can maintain his sanity with them clearly targeting him with the robber...

NL is highly smooth brained about the expansion. Cities and Knights makes Catan considerably better. Definitely pick it up if your group wants to spice things up after a lot of plays.

when is the next it takes two episode dropping?

40:35 i also came

Love these vids post these more pls

Does anyone know how many times Ryan was robbed? I know he wanted to check but the stats didn’t have that statistic and I’m not gonna go back through and count

CATAN

ryan is obvious a total shark in this game. it must've been all that play in college lol

The way NL's eyes roll back every time a 6 is rolled makes me thing he is climaxing xD

We Request More Catan

This is pure gold, I am laughing so hard! Here's an idea, play Civ, please!

Cities and knights is the best expansion

POGGED

Love these vids

Watching despite knowing nothing about catan and its rules

re Expansions: I've never ever played vanilla Catan. Watching these videos made me realise, vanilla is almost a different game, especially if you add Seafarers to the mix.

Sips trades all the time but he does it on other peoples turns which is why the stats say he has 0 trades, it only counts on his turn. Trading on other peoples turns is much more friendly trading than trading on your own turn.

Sips just constantly putting the robber on NL's best tiles is pissing me off

the moment you realize NL could have won with longest road at 54 min (just connect the two lines along the coast) Trade for 1 wood or 1 brick from stones & rocks and he's golden Edit: it doesn't work as i learnt...

I’m not really that great at catan but couldn’t Ryan have gotten longest road and won the game by connecting on the left side?

NL is the guy who would complain about his ice cream tasting too much... Cities & Knights is great

lol how is the 5 9 10 open for blue 😄

I also almost threw up at Hardcore Henry how did enelle know

Umm... Pog E?

No way SIPS?!??!?!?!??

Initially I enjoyed these videos, but now NL doesn't even get to play the game cause the constant robber being on his shit

I swear every catan match its always ryan getting kicked in the balls

"I'm learning a lot about geopolitics here. It sucks to be ass." Many people are saying this

it's okay NL i thought the penguin joke was funny

Spoilers on the batman movie nooo...

Poggy

roads ryan

No way, man. Cities & Knights is by far the best expansion of all the Catan expacs. Baseline Catan is way too basic; there’s not a whole lot of strategy and very little to do. It *needs* more complexity to be more engaging, otherwise it just devolves into, well, hex-based Monopoly: Essentially the outcome is determined by little more than RNG and positioning and nothing else, with players getting salty at each other because it’s super easy to just get totally shafted by said RNG or getting locked out of a spot, and then you’ll be able to just do nothing because nobody will trade with you. C&K actually has ways to bypass all those issues, including resource shortages via the Market (and Gold spaces, if you’re using those), and has better interaction between players in terms of attacking their strategies via the expanded development cards and having solid reasons to work together via the Barbarian mechanic. And the city development stuff adds another later of stuff to compete over than just trying to snipe largest army and longest road, too.

53:21 Should have traded away the rock and wheat to steal the longest road and win right then and there. 100% justin would have taken the bait

😭

Fool of a took, also no idea what a took is

The only thing I don't get about NL's game is how he randomly builds roads. He could have at least built another city at 51:28 by trading 2:1 with the bank

NL is one wood or one brick away from longest road on his last turn, don’t think he realized:(

One of the worst games ever to curse out fair earth. Good video tho

Blue gets two best spots somehow. Green and Orange both avoid the 11, 4, 5. Good content but please gitgud

Someone: Engages with the mechanics of the game Everyone: "WHAT THE HECK MAN? EMBARGO'D! YOU'RE GONNA PAY"