Games We Love: CATAN: Cities & Knights

Everyone I know can point to a game that brought them into the fold as a modern hobby gamer…and for me, that game was CATAN: Cities & Knights, first released in 1998.

I don’t exactly remember when I first played Cities & Knights (C&K), but I do remember a lot of the other details. My friends Terry and Erin invited me over to their apartment in the Chicagoland area for a game night during one of my trips to the city before moving there. My buddy Dave, another guy in my network at the time, joined us, and we did my first play.

Even though C&K is an expansion, it was actually my first time playing any of the CATAN games. I remember thinking that C&K had a lot of rules—which is a little funny now, since I was a huge fan of the game Battlefield America at the time. Battlefield America was one of the games in the 1980s “Gamemaster” series published by Milton Bradley that included two other classics from my time growing up, Shogun and Axis & Allies, the clear winner in the popularity contest that has covered the last 40+ years.

Still, I remember being OK with all the rules because I had begun to hear more about…

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