Catan
12 Achievements
200
15-20h
Knight of Catan
You won Largest Army 10 times.
20
How to unlock the Knight of Catan achievement in Catan - Definitive Guide
4 AI
10 Victory Points - Standard Game
To get the Largest Army card, you need to use at least 3 soldier cards. To keep the Largest Army card, you need to have used more soldier cards than anyone else. To get a soldier card, you must build development cards. There is a better chance of getting a soldier card than any other card, by about 50-60%, estimated.
After 10 games of doing this, you should get the achievement.
TIP: Do NOT do this achievement along with Citizen and Builder of Catan. If you are to get all 3 achievements, or any other achievements, simultaneously in this game, it will record one and void all the others unless you load Catan onto another Xbox 360 and recover your gamertag. This is the only known workaround. View Xebu's comment below for more information.
EDIT: Win or lose, as long as you end the game in possession of any card, it will count towards your achievement.
There is a way round it which is apparently to begin again on a new console. Clearing caches may work but nobody seems to know for sure.
Personally Catan has been horrendous for achievements. After winning 25 without being awarded 100 victory points (25x7 as a minimum is way more than I need) or either of Builder or Knight I started again on a new console as suggested. This time around I was able to unlock the 100 victory points on schedule but once again Builder and Knight failed to unlock.
There is some discussion about the glitched achievements here:
http://forums.xbox.com/23512295/ShowPost.aspx
The achievement says "End any game..." so I thought I could just play 3-player with easy AI to speed things up. Turns out that 10 3-player games don't work for this (found out the hard way). I only got the achievement after 10 4-player games w/ Largest Army.
Just thought I would put that out there so people don't end up wasting time trying to short cut like I did.
The achievement says "End any game..." so I thought I could just play 3-player with easy AI to speed things up. Turns out that 10 3-player games don't work for this (found out the hard way). I only got the achievement after 10 4-player games w/ Largest Army.
Just thought I would put that out there so people don't end up wasting time trying to short cut like I did.
However, using my setup you can do this in half the time.
On single player, set up a lobby and press the (Y) Button for setup options. Here, you can change the settings to the ones below!
My Setup:
- 4 Easy AI (cannot be 3 AI, higher difficulty will be sufficient)
- Fast Setup
- Normal Victory
- Fixed Positions (Big time saver)
- Friendly Whatevers (Your Preferences)
What you should know
- Dice Rolls of 7 will not count towards largest army
- to get a soldier card, you have to buy a development card (1 Wheat, 1 Ore, and 1 Sheep)
You will be placed in heaven resource wise.
1) You will start out with 2 Bricks, 2 Ores, and 2 Sheeps, and your 2 settlements will be 3 spaces away from each other.
2) Trade 1 ore for 2 wood (should be easy with AI on easy)
3) Build 2 roads trying to connect the towns. Trade one of the sheeps for a wheat, and buy a resource card. This is the beginning of the strategy.
4) Trade excess resources and focus trying to get development cards.
5) After you get your 3 soldier cards, build a settlement at the ore and wheat closest to the shore (only acceptable place) and then focus on trying to make them all cities or collect victory point cards. C: good luck, Hopefully this helps someone!
You must win the 'Largest Army' award 10 times in matches. Like the longest road award you will need to win an award in the game to unlock this, although for this you must use three soldier development cards during one match to get the award. When you set up a match make sure that the AI you choose do not have a soldier icon next to their name (it is a red/brown man) which indicates they will use soldier cards more often, avoiding these players mean you have a greater chance of winning the award.
Collect wool, grain and ore resource cards and keep buying development cards until you have three soldiers. There are 14 soldier cards out of the 25 development cards available so you will find they are easier to obtain than the other cards. Then all you need to do is play three cards during three of your turns and you win the award, make sure to keep playing soldier cards if any of the AI play one.
You can check how many a player has used by looking at the number of chevrons next to their picture, one chevron is one soldier card played.