a comparison: Siedler v Catan - Carcassonne

You can about the rules so earlier already informed, so here only my impressions:
When I was given this game, I thought that it could not keep up with the settlers of Catan, but far from it: it is a lot better !!! Why?
- You can play for two and it is at least as exciting as multi-player (for settlers you always had to gather together and persuading friends, which led in time to the fact that we no longer play it ... )
- The field takes with each pass other shapes and proportions, many more options than in settlers and you know in advance not know how it will end times (better play on the floor;))
- The points are counted openly. It's also great that in spite of a 50-point lead during the game by the final Meadow counting no profit guarantee is called for (unlike settlers where you pretty quickly know who wins ...) and with each card can turn the page, you must always think ahead (at settlers it was unfortunately also not a problem if one has times zurcükgezogen mentally something ...)
- One has to be lucky not 100% in their own hands, on the one hand, the cards are drawn in succession, on the other hand you get every now and then obstructed by opponents, the city adopted the meadow, made the road dispute ...
- The odds change with every card (when settlers is one set with its commodity-fields the whole game in doubt on sheep ... :) (and then no one wants to act ...)
- Fight for pastures or cities promote the fun factor if one takes his opponent yet sent the 30-point city shortly before)
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I can only advise against the purchase of this game because it just do addicted !! If you have already made the 'mistake' to buy it: You start early to play, otherwise the night is (empirically verifiable) the date)
Many greetings to all like-minded people!
Oh, and the durability: the otherwise very robust Pappkärtchen must be mixed somehow. So all on the table and rummaged through. Here have been resolved in some corners the Beklebungen, but not too bad, we will mix different now.