Catan Scenarios: Frenemies
BGG rating
6.9

Expansion for Catan

Catan Scenarios: Frenemies

2012

Rules assistance for Catan Scenarios: Frenemies

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 3–6 players
  • 45–60 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 2.2/5

Rules assistant for Catan Scenarios: Frenemies

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Catan Scenarios: Frenemies is an expansion for Catan released in 2012 for 3–6 players, 45–60 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Klaus Teuber and Benjamin Teuber and its main mechanics are Hand Management, Trading, and Dice Rolling.

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About the game

Game description from the publisher: Hark, friend! Let us... help... each other. We live in a time of altruism on Catan. We give away resources to help lagging players. We move the robber to isolated locations to ensure the safety of our fellows. We even go out of our way to connect our roads with our neighbors' networks. Has everyone gone nuts? Ah! Thanks to their beneficence, Catan's guilds reward such noble-minded behavior by handing out "Favor Tokens" (FTs). Each guild helps us in different ways: granting us roads, development cards, random resources, preferential trades, or even Victory Points. In Catan Scenarios: Frenemies, everyone is still just in it for themselves as there is an ulterior motive for everything. In fact, sometimes you can "help a friend" while making things far worse for them. Sigh. If goodwill really exists, it's not part of this scenario... The 2023 German re-release of this expansion includes enough tokens for a 5-6 player game.

Questions and answers

Catan Scenarios: Frenemies supports 3–6 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.