Catan Historical Scenarios II: Troy and Great Wall - Great Wall

In Great Wall, each player takes the role of a Chinese general attempting to strengthen the Great Wall of China from Hun invasion. At the start of each game, players take one of the locations along the wall, as well as build their initial settlements (so that each player starts with three settlements).

During a player's turn, they may choose to expand as normal, but can also improve their section along the wall in an attempt to repel Hun invasion. Every time a settlement is built or upgraded, a Hun token is placed and deployed to a specified "assembly hex" on the token. On a subsequent turn, whenever the dice are rolled, Huns may be moved from assembly hexes to attack hexes, which run along the wall (though no attack hex may have more than 5 Huns). Each of the attack hexes border a player's section of the wall - whenever there are more Huns than the relative strength of the wall (i.e. number of wall improvements built), the Great Wall is breached.

Whenever the Great Wall is breached, the Hun tokens are placed in the Chinese interior hexes, which no longer produce resources. The player responsible for the breach is given one Minus token (penalizing the player one victory point), and one wall improvement is removed. The Great Wall may be breached multiple times at the same location.

Although there is no robber, there is a pirate in Great Wall, which merely disables the use of harbors along the coast. However, the player moving the pirate may take a card from any player. Whenever a Knight card is played, the player may choose to take two Knight actions, which include removing Hun chips in the Chinese interior, moving Huns between assembly hexes, or moving the pirate.

The game ends whenever one player reaches 10 victory points, although the players can lose as a group by allowing too many breaches and exhausting the supply of Minus tokens.

Catan series of games
Core game
  • The Settlers of Catan
  • Seafarers
  • Cities & Knights
  • Traders & Barbarians
Core spinoffs
  • Catan Dice Game
  • The Kids of Catan
Historical scenarios
  • Alexander and Cheops
  • Troy and Great Wall
Starfarers of Catan
  • Starfarers of Catan
  • Starship Catan
Catan Adventures
  • Candamir: The First Settlers
  • Elasund: The First City
Catan Histories
  • Settlers of the Stone Age
  • Struggle for Rome
  • Settlers of America
Catan Geographies
  • Germany
Catan Card Game
  • Catan Card Game
  • The Rivals for Catan
Licensed adaptations
  • The Settlers of Canaan
  • The Settlers of Zarahemla
Related
  • Klaus Teuber
  • Entdecker
  • Löwenherz

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