The Bloggers of Catan
Catanism, the blog for serious Catan fans. This blog is where Klaus Teuber and the rest of the “Bloggers of Catan” write about new game developments and provide lots of in-depth information about each title.
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July 9, 2015
A Travel Edition's Long Road to Publication
2011 was my first year as a Catan GmbH staff member. In the same year, our Japanese licensee launched a rectangular Catan carrying case. I immediately fell in love with the idea of a carrying case. Hence, the carrying case became my first big project, and I eagerly started working. Kosmos still had several (thousand) sets of game pieces from the old travel edition in stock, so it seemed reasonable to use these pieces for the Japanese carrying case. …
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July 1, 2013
Creating “Star Trek Catan – Federation Space”
Many of you asked us to take the joint venture of the two franchises Catan and Star Trek even further towards the “Final Frontier.” So we thought: Let us take Star Trek Catan into a “real” region of space to put our little NCC-1701 spaceships in. The crucial question was: Is there a region of space sufficiently “real” inside the Star Trek – The Original Series time period?
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February 20, 2013
Explorers & Pirates – The New Expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” – Part 7
In the 7th and final part of our latest Catanism blog post about “Explorers & Pirates,” the upcoming fourth large expansion for “The Settlers of Catan,” Klaus Teuber elaborates on the identically named scenario “Explorers & Pirates,” which is played with all three missions and combines all tactical and strategic possibilities.
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February 14, 2013
Explorers & Pirates – The New Expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” – Part 6
Part six of Klaus Teuber's latest Catanism blog post about “Explorers & Pirates”, the upcoming fourth large expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” shows you how the players bring in “Spices for Catan.”
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February 6, 2013
Explorers & Pirates – The New Expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” – Part 5
The fifth part of Klaus Teuber's latest Catanism blog post about “Explorers & Pirates”, the upcoming fourth large expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” deals with whales – and the mission “Fish for Catan.”
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January 31, 2013
Explorers & Pirates – The New Expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” – Part 4
In the fourth part of Klaus Teuber's latest Catanism blog post about “Explorers & Pirates”, the upcoming fourth large expansion for “The Settlers of Catan”, we portrait the scenario “Pirate Lairs”.
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January 25, 2013
Explorers & Pirates – The New Expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” – Part 3
Land Ho! The third part of the latest Catanism blog post by Klaus Teuber about “Explorers & Pirates”, the upcoming fourth large expansion for “The Settlers of Catan”, will tell you everything about the Introductory Game.
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January 11, 2013
The New Expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” – Part 2
Part two of the latest Catanism blog post by Klaus Teuber about the upcoming fourth large expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” will tell you all about Harbor Settlements, Ships, and Settlers.
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January 3, 2013
Star Trek Catan – Questions and Answers
Why isn't Star Trek Catan a remake of The Starfarers of Catan? Why do all players play on the side of the Federation? Why are there so many Enterprise starships? Why is the robber a Klingon? These and many similar questions have kept Catanians and Trekkers busy since first details about the game were made public after Star Trek Catan was announced (see also here). Below, I would like to answer some of these questions. …
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December 21, 2012
The New Expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” – Part 1
Read the first part of the latest Catanism blog post by Klaus Teuber about beginning the development of the fourth large expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” that will see the light of day at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair in February 2013.
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