Catan: Seafarers Scenario - Legend of the Sea Robbers is an expansion to Seafarers, released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Seafarers. It is the second anniversary-based expansion to Seafarers after Die Kolonien, though this is the first to receive an English localization. As an anniversary expansion, it shares its color coding of blue with that of its parent expansion.

This is the first major expansion to have Benjamin Teuber, the second son of Klaus, to be co-credited as designer; he has been with the development of Catan since the beginning, and had been credited as co-designer along his father in a number of non-_Catan_ games. This is also the first major expansion released since the formation of Catan Studios, the company representing the Catan brand in English, in 2016.

The main gameplay mechanic is a campaign of four scenarios meant to be played in order, one after another, though each scenario may be played standalone. The outcome of each game is recorded as Legend Points, and the player with the most Legend Points after all four scenarios are played is deemed the winner of the campaign.

Alongside the release of the game is a companion text-based adventure game for mobile devices, known as Catan Stories: Legend of the Sea Robbers, that looks at the lore of this expansion in further detail.

A rules addendum was published online with regards to how to incorporate Cities & Knights into this expansion, though it is to be noted that this expansion was not designed with integrating Cities & Knights in mind; all other expansions are explicitly listed as incompatible. (Note that despite this, “The Friendly Robber” from Traders & Barbarians is compatible, and in fact is in effect for all scenarios in this expansion.)

Players with older editions of Seafarers (English 3rd edition or 1st international edition) may not have all needed components to play scenarios from this expansion.

Scenarios

• “The Castaways”
• “The Attack”
• “The Battle Against the Sea Robbers”
• “The Spice Islands”
  • “Spices for Catan” - a variant that integrates the rules found in this scenario into that of other Seafarers scenarios. Not to be confused with “Spices for Catan” from Explorers & Pirates.

Parts List

• Hexes
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Desert
  • 2 Gold Field
  • 2 Ocean
  • 4 Spice
• Player Pieces
  • 3 units per player
  • 1 outpost per player
  • 2 markers per player
• Miscellaneous player equipment
  • 1 double-sided building cost card per player for “The Castaways” and “The Attack”
  • 1 double-sided building cost card per player for “The Battle Against the Sea Robbers” and “The Spice Islands”
  • 1 overview card per player for “The Castaways”
  • 1 overview card per player for “The Attack”
  • 1 overview card per player for “The Battle Against the Sea Robbers”
  • 1 overview card per player for “The Spice Islands”
  • 1 ship tile per player for “The Battle Against the Sea Robbers”
• Frame pieces
  • 1 land end piece with embedded Hills hex
  • 1 land frame piece
  • 1 land frame piece with spaces 1-8 of the scoring track
  • 1 land frame piece with spaces 9-14 of the scoring track
  • 1 1-hex frame extension
  • 1 2-hex frame extension
• Number tokens
  • 1 - 5
  • 1 - 6
• General equipment
  • 4 starting settlement tokens
  • 16 chest tokens
  • 13 Friend Cards
  • 1 double-sided general overview tile for “The Castaways” and “The Attack”
  • 1 double-sided general overview tile for “The Battle Against the Sea Robbers” and “The Spice Islands”
  • 1 sorting sticker sheet (international editions only)
• Scenario-Specific equipment
  • “The Castaways”
    • 12 Castaway Tokens
  • “The Attack”
    • 1 Gold Mining progress track
    • 25 Bog Iron Ore tokens
    • 12 Gold Mining tokens
  • “The Battle Against the Sea Robbers”
    • 15 Sea Robber Ships
    • Sea Robber card deck, consisting of:
      • 8 “Fewer than 2 ships defeated” cards
      • 8 “2 or more ships defeated” cards
    • 1 Greatest Sea Robber Nemesis scoring bonus
  • “The Spice Islands”
    • 4 Sea Robber Lairs
    • 10 Trade Option Cards
    • Spice Cards in the following quantities:
      • 10 Cinnamon
      • 10 Pepper
      • 10 Nutmeg