"It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that the Teuber family announces their beloved husband and father Klaus Teuber passed away at the age of 70 on Apafter a short and serious illness," said the statement posted on the German-language Catan website.
It has spawned dozens of spinoffs and new editions, including electronic versions, not to mention products related to the game. The board game, originally called The Settlers of Catan when introduced in 1995 and based on a set of hexagonal tiles, has sold tens of millions of copies and is available in more than 40 languages. All the hexes and the mat can fit in an oversize shoebox.Klaus Teuber, creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional island, has died after a brief illness, according to a family statement.
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A plus is you don't have to store a huge board. I played with my eight-year-old daughter (somewhat more energetic than your average player) without any problems at all. Once the hexes were on the mat, they didn't move a hair. As for the pieces moving around, I tried putting down a felt cloth like for building jigsaw puzzles on. Even a 3 player Seafarers board is much bigger than a Settlers game. Speaking of which, if you were going to make a big oval board, you would have to come up with a plan to adapt to the different sizes of board that the different scenarios have, for 3 or 4 players. It's the painting that takes the time to do it right. The Forgotten Tribe scenario is the killer: it needs 47 sea hexes if you don't have a border. Seafarers uses the border pieces from Settlers, and adds more of its own. Repeat process, trimming four triangles off each rectangle, at least 18 more times until you have 19 perfect hexagons.įirst, I have to say that I have now gone through all of the board layouts for the nine scenarios in Seafarers for both 3 and 4 players and found that I have to make 13 more sea hexes! I seriously overlooked the variety of different ways that the board is put together. If you don't want the tiny triangle to go flying, wait for the saw to stop spinning before you lift it. Cut all the corners off against the stop. Again, you'll have to fiddle a bit to get it exactly right - sub-millimeter accuracy is in order here. Mark the center, then set a stop so your angle cut precisely trims off a 30 deg triangle (see picture). Unless your saw is set up amazingly accurately, you'll have to nudge it about from what it reads on the gauge. Cut a bunch of test pieces, and fit together to ensure your angle is exact. Angle your miter saw to 30 degrees not 30.5 or 29.5, but exactly 30. Cut to a stop, which you can clamp to the fence. 1.1547 x longer, so my rectangles ended up 84 x 97 mm.
The strip of plywood then needs to be cut to lengths 2/sqrt3 longer than the width, i.e. I made mine 84 mm, slightly larger than the standard Catan tile. First, cut your plywood to whatever width hexagon you want. You absolutely must set the saw up so you cut to a stop. but they won't be hexagonal enough that they tile nicely, and a board with gaps all over the place will look crappy. You'll end up with nice looking hexagons. Rip your plywood to the right width, set the mitre saw to 30 degrees, and cut to a line.
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