You can build the settlement in the middle of an opponent's road (as long as your own road connects to it and there is at least one gap before any other existing settlements). Yes. It does affect the longest road: the road stops at the settlement for counting purposes, and starts again at the other side.
Can you build in an area claimed by another player?
A player cannot build in an area claimed by another player by road building. Scenario 2 is allowed. Roads can be built anywhere on the map, providing the user has the roads in their possession. However, once a road has been disconnected by an opposing settlement, the stranded road (s) must be removed from the game board.
Can you build settlements in the middle of your opponent's roads?
You can build the settlement in the middle of an opponent's road (as long as your own road connects to it and there is at least one gap before any other existing settlements). Yes. It does affect the longest road: the road stops at the settlement for counting purposes, and starts again at the other side. Yes.
Can the Blue player build behind the Red player's settlement?
In the situation depicted above, the blue player would not be connecting his road piece to his own road but to the red player's settlement, which the rule prohibits. Therefore, only the red player may continue to build behind the red settlement.
What is Catan and how to play?
The base game of Catan, as we usually simplify it to, involves building roads, settlements, and cities on resource “hexes”, which are gathered at the roll of two dice. The more resources you collect, the more infrastructure you can lay down, and so on. There are five different resources spread over the map, as I’ve listed below.
Can you build a settlement between someone else's road?
No. If you build a new road, it must always connect to one of your own roads, settlements, or cities.
Can you build a settlement between someones roads in Catan?
Definite "yes." It is an inexpensive way to gain control of an intersection you and your opponent may be competing to build on if you have enough resources for roads but not enough for a settlement. In fact, you can even build a settlement on an opponent's road if one of your road segments intersects with it.
Can you break someone's road in Catan?
Yes, settlements do break up other player's roads. If the blue player has a road that is six segments long, and the red player builds a settlement between two of the blue roads, than we say that the blue player's road is "broken". A broken road can not be counted for the Longest Road card.
Can you interrupt someone's road Catan?
You are correct. You can break an opponent's road by building a settlement on an open intersection along his road!
Where can you build a settlement in Catan?
Following the basic rules of the game, a settlement is built using 1 Lumber , 1 Brick, 1 Wool, and 1 Grain, and can only be placed on an unoccupied intersection that is at least two intersections away from another settlement, city, or metropolis.
How do roads work in Catan?
A road is built using 1 Lumber and 1 Brick and is always placed on an unoccupied side of a hex, connected to another road, settlement, city, or metropolis.
Can you cut off longest road with a settlement?
The settlement blocks your road if it appears at the end of your road, that is if one of your roads comes off it. If it is in the middle of your road, so that there are two of your roads coming off it, you can keep building at both ends, but the settlement splits the road in two when counting for longest road.
Can you build a settlement and a city in the same turn?
2.4 Players are allowed to upgrade a settlement to a city in the same turn it is built. To do that, the player cannot have five settlements on the board before building the settlement the player wants to upgrade.
What is the worst game in Catan?
The worst games of Catan are the ones where you get boxed in, literally unable to build a 4th or 5th settlement. Avoid it by putting at least some distance between your initial placements.
How to counter scarce resource strategy?
As a counter to the scarce resource strategy, you can also try to determine where there will be an abundance of resources based on which resource has the highest combined probability numbers and put one of your first two settlements on the trading port for that resource. Opponents who aren't paying attention may trade you two sheep for a rock because they have an overage of sheep, forgetting that you are sitting on a sheep port and can now trade for any resource you need in your next turn.
What to do if you can't get any good ore spaces?
If you can’t get any good ore spaces, hoard any ore you can get your grubby fingers on! It’s going to be incredibly valuable to you. Believe it or not, I see more people buying development cards when they lack ore than when they’ve got ore hexes. Again, the urge to buy s omething is the fault.
What to do with vanilla settlers?
For vanilla settlers, the most important thing to do is upgrade your first two settlements to cities. This is hands-down your number one priority. These settlements are generally going to be far better than any you build later on, and doubling the production for them is critically important. There are a couple of natural consequences of this:
Is it rare to build on the coast?
It’s rare for building on the coast to be a good idea, even with a ship.
Can the second player continue building their road through a settlement?
No, the second player cannot continue building his or her road through that settlement.
Is there a psychological element to Catan?
Finally, it’s important to remember that there is a psychological element to Catan.
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Is it legal to move a road?
Yes it is a legal move you can find an example on page 11 of the Almanac. Essentially as long as a road has a connection to a city it can be broken up.
Can you disrupt a settlement?
If you build a settlement on his road, you disrupt it yes.
What happens if you break the road in 7 and 1?
So Player 1 retains if the road is broken in “7 and 1”, otherwise it goes unclaimed.
How many roads does Player 1 have?
Example: Player 1 has 8 roads which is broken up in the middle. Players 2 & 3 have 7 roads. Who claims the longest road?
Why does player 1 keep the longest road card?
Since player 1 possesses the longest road card, he/she keeps it, because no player has a longer road then his/her long road. The main question was answered correctly, but I wanted to point out there was no reason for orange to place the second road. In both scenarios he couldn't have built next to browns settlement.
Can settlements break up roads?
As others have stated, the first scenario is allowed, and in fact used as an example of how settlements can be used to break up roads in some editions of the manual. (This may be in the context of breaking the Longest Road, but possibly exactly in the scenario that you are asking about - building past opposing settlements.) Additionally, some editions of the C&K manual have a more detailed example about using a knight to block, and then having the knight displaced.
Can Orange continue building from the split off road?
Assuming scenario 1 is what actually happened, Orange can continue building from the split-off road even if it's broken up by blue's settlement.
Can you expand past opposing settlements?
The second scenario is not allowed: you are not able to "expand past opposing settlements". Specifically, a road may only be placed next to an existing road if the intersection in between is either unoccupied, or occupied by a piece that is not able to block expansion. Friendly settlements and cities never block expansion, while opposing settlements and cities do. (Most opposing pieces in general do, but some in scenarios do not, or have their status unclear. For example, opposing wagons do not block road placement.)