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Settlers of Catan

Are you talking about the board game? If so I have only played it a couple times and I loved it! It's a shame no one I know wants to play it though 🙁
 
Yup, my buddies want to play this weekend, me for the first time. I'd like a bit of advice so I can add that on top of beginner's luck and whoop them.

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I find it a good strategy to play the odds. Meaning that you should try to position yourself with settlements near the squares that will be rolled more often. (6's and 8's for sure) Keep an eye open for the trade in spots on the outside ring. (The 2:1 wood/sheep etc) These can be very helpful if you can manage to accumulate a lot of that type of resource. Also wood/brick are very important early in the game for road building purposes. Try to have a source of each, and if possible (depending on how the board is layed out) try to block others from getting any. And always keep count of how many points the other players have. You gotta know when they are in striking distance of a victory, so that you don't make trades with them.
 
I usually shoot for variety--if you can cover all the numbers, you'll be getting SOMETHING on every non-7 roll. OTOH, if you try to monopolize the 6 and 8 hexes, lady luck tends to sh!t on you and they never roll up.

Additionally, variety of resources is also good--the sooner you don't "need" the help of the other players to get a leg up, the better.

Another thing I try to do is become a tycoon in one element, AND get a settlement on the matching port. It can even be worthwhile to put one of your first settlements on a port.

Worry about your other opponents, but don't go out of your way to cut them off. All too often, the people I play with spend so much time trying to cut off the other players, that they spend full-on 3 settlements' worth of resources just building roads. If another player is encroaching on where you want to build, you may have to race him, but don't race him if you don't need to.

Resource cards are your friend. If you can run away on soldiers, or amass a bunch of point cards, you're that much closer to winning but nobody knows for sure--You're playing to 12 points, you've got 9 on the board, no one really sees you as a threat as much as the other player who has 11 points. While everyone is beating the crap out of that player, you wander in and build another settlement and toss out your 2 point cards and BLAM!

And finally:
Never, but NEVER keep more than 7 commodity cards in your hand at any time if you can help it. Don't wait until your next turn to trade those 4 wool cards in for a brick--tomorrow will never come for you.
 
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