If there are not, the Wildings invade the Gift and pillage the settlements and keeps therein. If there are more guards than Wildings, the Wall stands. When the Wildings attack, each player must use their guards to fend off the onslaught. In addition to building within the Gift, players must strategically balance their resources to defend the Realm from Wildling raiders.Įach player may recruit up to seven brothers from the prisons of Westeros to don their specific color and man their section of the Wall. While Tormund runs amok south of the Wall, Wildling forces gather in the Frostfangs, awaiting an opportune moment of weakness to breach the Watch's defenses and spread throughout the fruitful lands of Westeros. One of their ranks, Tormund Giantsbane, does not respect the Watch's claim to the land as he moves throughout the Gift, robbing resources from the Brothers sent to provide for their Order. Wildings from north of the Wall have crossed over and follow their own rules of honor, which often conflict with the laws of Westeros. The objective will be familiar to players of the original Catan the first player to achieve ten victory points wins the game and becomes the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.īut this is not as easy as it sounds as the area surrounding the Gift can be treacherous. ![]() Each of these acts bring players increased power and recognition through the awarding of victory points. Players take on the role of Brothers of the Night's Watch and use these resources to strengthen their hold on the north by building roads, settlements, and keeps recruiting guards for their patrol or buying development cards. The barren Ice Fields, however, produce nothing. In A Game of Thrones Catan: Brotherhood of the Watch, each area in the Gift supplies one of five resources: lumber, brick, wool, grain, and ore. But be wary - the north holds many dangers, and winter is coming. ![]() Many brothers now compete to build, defend, and do what they can to protect Westeros, but only one shall rise above their brothers to become the new Lord Commander. Drawing sustenance from the unforgiving landscape of the north offers enough challenges, but whomever takes up this task must also man and defend the Wall against the onslaught of Wildlings fighting their way into Westeros. Jeor Mormont wishes to promote one who can improve the infrastructure of the Gift, the bountiful and undeveloped area south of the Wall bestowed to the Watch by the Starks thousands of years ago. The Brothers of the Night's Watch seek a new leader from among their ranks. Here's an overview of A Game of Thrones Catan: Brotherhood of the Watch, which is scheduled for release in Q4 2017, with demos due to take place during Gen Con 2017 in August: In the fifteen years since that first title, FFG has released numerous games that represent various parts of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and now they're leveraging the power of their Asmodee parent company to do so once again, this time merging the tales of Westeros with the development of Catan, a fictional land that debuted in Klaus Teuber's Die Siedler von Catan in 1995, one year before the release of A Game of Thrones, the first novel in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.Ī Game of Thrones Catan: Brotherhood of the Watch, co-designed by Teuber's son Benjamin and co-published by KOSMOS in Germany, takes the familiar elements of Catan and transports them to Westeros, with players doing the things that one would expect players to do in Catan - but now they face additional challenges in the game as well. Martin, having launched A Game of Thrones: Collectible Card Game in 2002 and published the A Game of Thrones board game in 2003. Fantasy Flight Games has a long history with author George R.
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