Rivals for Catan: Age of Enlightenment

About this expansion

Rivals for Catan: Age of Enlightenment is a 2012 expansion for two players, designed for games lasting about 75 minutes. It contains three theme sets totaling 125 cards for The Rivals for Catan, adding new variety and fresh elements to the base game.

Each theme set presents a different way to shape the future of Catan. Together, they offer new challenges and opportunities while giving the two players distinct areas of focus.

• The Era of Explorers: Set sail from Catan and explore the world beyond its shores. An explorer harbor begins your journey across nine adjacent sea cards, where pirates, islanders, and shipwrecks await. Take on missions, use ship tokens to chart your position, and compete to become the best explorer.
• The Era of Sages: The wisdom of varied sages becomes a form of currency, allowing you to influence the strength and frequency of events. Fend off famines, deflect attacks, promote peace, and connect with nature while balancing prudence, power, foresight, and vigilance.
• The Era of Prosperity: Govern as a good and wise prince while building schools and a hospital, promoting the arts, raising your people’s spirits, and encouraging expansion. However, discontent threatens to undermine prosperity.

From charting unknown waters to managing events through knowledge or strengthening society through thoughtful rule, the three sets introduce different themes and strategic concerns. Their varied settings help expand the possibilities of the base game without losing its focus on rivalry between two princes.

Choose the theme that suits your ambitions, or experience all three approaches across your games. With its exploration, wisdom, and prosperity sets, Rivals for Catan: Age of Enlightenment broadens the world of Catan with new cards and distinctive challenges.