Overview

A Game of Thrones: Catan – Brotherhood of the Watch combines the Catan resource-trading system with the Night’s Watch theme. Players settle the Gift (the territory south of the Wall), collecting resources to build roads, settlements, and keeps. Meanwhile, wildlings threaten the Wall and must be repelled. The first player to reach 10 victory points wins.

Components

• Game board tiles (terrain hexes with number tokens)
• Settlement and keep pieces (per player color)
• Road pieces
• Resource cards (Lumber, Brick, Wool, Ore, Grain)
• Development cards
• Guard cards for the Wall
• Wildling and Tormund the Robber pieces
• Dice (2 standard d6)
• Special dice or tokens for wildling attacks

Setup

1. Arrange terrain hexes and number tokens per setup guide (or randomly).
2. Each player places 2 initial settlements and 2 roads.
3. Collect starting resources from hexes adjacent to second settlement.
4. Place Tormund the Robber on the desert hex.
5. Set up the Wall with guard positions.

Turn Structure

On your turn:

1. Roll dice for resource production. All players collect resources from hexes matching the number rolled (if they have adjacent settlements/keeps).
2. Trade with other players or with the supply (4:1 base, better ratios at trade routes).
3. Build roads, settlements, keeps, or buy development cards.
4. Wall defense – manage guards at the Wall against wildling threats.

Actions

Building Costs

| Structure | Cost | VP | |———–|——|—-| | Road | 1 Brick + 1 Lumber | 0 | | Settlement | 1 Brick + 1 Lumber + 1 Wool + 1 Grain | 1 | | Keep (upgrade) | 3 Ore + 2 Grain | 2 | | Development Card | 1 Ore + 1 Wool + 1 Grain | varies |

Resource Production

• When a number is rolled, all hexes with matching number tokens produce resources.
• Settlements produce 1 resource per adjacent producing hex.
• Keeps produce 2 resources per adjacent producing hex.

Trading

• Player trade: Negotiate freely with other players on your turn.
• Supply trade: Default 4:1 ratio (4 of one resource for 1 of any). Trade routes improve this to 3:1 or 2:1.

Rolling a 7 / Tormund the Robber

• Any player with more than 7 resource cards must discard half (rounded down).
• Active player moves Tormund to any hex, blocking its production.
• Steal 1 random resource from a player with a settlement/keep adjacent to the robber’s new hex.

Wall Defense

• Players deploy guards to the Wall to defend against wildling attacks.
• Wildlings periodically threaten sections of the Wall.
• Successfully defending earns rewards; failure causes penalties.

Scoring / Victory Conditions

• First player to reach 10 victory points on their turn wins.
• VP sources: Settlements (1 each), Keeps (2 each), VP development cards, Longest Road (2 VP for 5+ continuous roads), largest contributions to Wall defense.

Special Rules & Edge Cases

• Distance rule: Settlements must be at least 2 intersections apart.
• Road building: Roads must connect to your existing network.
• The Wall adds a cooperative defense element unique to this Catan variant.
• Wildling attacks affect all players but reward those who contribute guards.
• Trade routes at specific intersections give improved trading ratios.
• Development cards are kept secret until played (except VP cards, revealed at end).
• Maximum 5 settlements, 4 keeps, 15 roads per player.

Player Reference

Resource	Terrain
Lumber	Forest
Brick	Hills
Wool	Pasture
Ore	Mountains
Grain	Fields
None	Desert

Number Frequency	Most Likely: 6, 8	Least Likely: 2, 12
Starting VP	2 (from 2 settlements)
Win condition	10 VP