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		<title>Settlers of Catan Online</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Settlers of Catan is quite possibly the greatest game created in the last century.&#160; A friend of mine turned me on to the game about 4 or 5 years ago.&#160; I loved it immediately.&#160; If you&#8217;ve never played it before, run, don&#8217;t walk to your nearest gaming store and go buy Settlers of Catan along [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Settlers of Catan is quite possibly the greatest game created in the last century.&nbsp; A friend of mine turned me on to the game about 4 or 5 years ago.&nbsp; I loved it immediately.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve never played it before, run, don&#8217;t walk to your nearest gaming store and go buy Settlers of Catan along with the expansion Cities &amp; Knights.&nbsp; Well now, you can play <a target="_blank" href="http://www.catan.com/CMS/content/blogsection/0/76/lang,en_US/">Settlers of Catan online</a>.&nbsp; The basic game is free, but to play more of the advance games, you have to pay a small fee per month.&nbsp; It&#8217;s well worth it.&nbsp; Once you&#8217;ve played Cities &amp; Knights, it&#8217;s really hard to go back to the basic game.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.davegruen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/catan1.jpg"><img width="500" height="313" alt="Settlers of Catan" src="http://www.davegruen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/catan1.jpg" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>50% of the results of the game are determined during the placement of your settlements and cities.</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.davegruen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/catan5.jpg"><img width="501" height="313" alt="Settlers of Catan" src="http://www.davegruen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/catan5.jpg" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">With Cities &amp; Knights, there are a lot of great possibilities.&nbsp; Space is at a premium.&nbsp; You have to fight for land and possitioning.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">There are a few difficulties in playing it&#8230; but they are all small.&nbsp; Most of the players are in Germany, so it&#8217;s hard to find a lot of good players in the evening in the US, because it is probably in the wee hours of the morning in Germany.&nbsp; Plus, a lot of players only speak German, so it&#8217;s hard to communicate with a lot of players.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.davegruen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/catan3jpg"><img width="500" height="313" alt="Settlers of Catan" src="http://www.davegruen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/catan3.jpg" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><i>There are a lot of variations on the game that you can play like this &quot;Enchanted Lands&quot; game.</i></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">What a great thing.&nbsp; Settlers of Catan is fantastic.&nbsp; Since our family get-togethers are few and far between, this can fill in the gaps between family games.&nbsp; I highly recommend it.</p>
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