Grandmaster of Catan – Xbox Arcade – A Ranked Win – Part 1 of 2
Part 1: See Part 2 here – www.youtube.com This is for Catan fans only really – it’s a sped up full game of Catan on the Xbox. Maybe if you are new to it this will help you see some strategies. Feel free to ask about anything. I can go into more detail about reasons behind any particular decisions/moves I did if anyone is interested in discussing tactics or tips. On the Xbox 360 the Arcade version of Catan has it’s achievements all called ‘… of Catan’. So Builder, Ambassador, Professor etc. As I played past all of those and did extremely well playing the ranked matches a friend kept dubbing me with extra ‘… of Catan’ titles. Eventually it reached a point where I had a 0.9 win/loss ratio and declared myseld a Grandmaster of Catan. With 4 players and only 1 winner per game the average player will win 25% of their games and have a 0.333 win/loss ratio. (The 77% in the video reflects a 0.77 win/loss ratio) There were a lot of people when Catan came out who couldn’t handle Swift Code Century Savings Bank a game where a good player still lost well over half their games. Especially if those games lasted 40 minutes or more. Also some just tried to glitch achievements by starting a game and quitting right away. This left a big problem for those trying to play because each game has to have 4 players so people quitting leaves AI opponents and if you are left with AI’s you don’t get credit for winning but you do for losing. So my win/loss ratio would have been even higher and would have been over 1.0. Which is …
How come your tiles look cool and mine look lame? lol
It’s a shame some ppl don’t realise you have to go to options and change the skin. It defaults to the plain one to help beginners get used to the game.
You can zoom in and pan and see all the details of this skin too, it’s really cool.