by cordeiro
FunkyBlue wrote:
Also, are you playing Catan rules and only building lairs every 2 spaces apart? Because in Junior, it's 1 ship and then 1 lair. It goes lair - ship - lair- ship and that beginning orange hex, if built quickly, can give orange 3 3's, 2 4's, 2 5's, and a 1 with one ships and two lairs.
If I remember the rules correctly, you're actually required to build lair-ship-lair-ship. You can't build 2 ships in a row with first building a lair in between them. That should help prevent blocking out people from expanding.
Also, don't worry about having to circle an island. The 1:1 market trade and 2:1 trades make it very easy to get the resources you need.