Elasund
| The First City | |
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| Designers | Klaus Teuber |
| Publishers | Kosmos Mayfair Games |
| Players | 2 to 4 |
| Setup time | 5 minutes |
| Playing time | 60 minutes |
| Chance | Medium |
| Skills | City building, eminent domain |
Elasund: The First City (German: Elasund - Die erste Stadt, "Elasund" pronounced /eːlaː'zʊnt/ in German) is a German-style board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It is the second game in the Catan Adventures series (the first being Candamir: The First Settlers), a series of spinoff games based on the theme from Teuber's hit game Settlers of Catan as well as its German-language novelization by Rebecca Gablé. As a game in the Catan series, it is published by Kosmos in German and Mayfair Games in English. Despite the thematic connection between Elasund and Settlers, the two games have completely different mechanics.
A German language expansion to Elasund is available from the author's website.
Elasund deals with the formation of the first city on the island of Catan, as established in Settlers. It is a city along the coast, founded with foreign trade in mind. In this game, players seek to score victory points by building public buildings inside the city, as well as contribute to the construction of the city's church and city walls. To build buildings, however, one must collect money to puchase building permits on their preferred building sites, and use their influence (in the form of influence cards) to prevent others from building on the chosen site or to build over other buildings. As the city is being founded, however, pirates from the sea are waiting to sack the city.
External links
- Mayfair Games' Elasund: The First City page
- Online tutorial for Elasund: The First City
- Elasund at BoardGameGeek