<p>Seafarers and Cities &amp; Knights have their own 5-6 Player expansions in addition to the base game 5-6 player expansion. Think of them as expansions to expansions. So to play a 6 player game of Seafarers you will need the following: </p>

<p>Base Catan Game + 5-6 Person Base Expansion + 4 player Seafarers Expansion + 5-6 Person Seafarers Expansion</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-02-01T21:34:02.073Z
2013-02-01T21:43:03.137Z
2013-02-01T21:43:03.137Z
Tapan Zee
<p>No--not easily at least. Each expansion has it's own 5-6 Player Extension, which you would need in addition to the base 5-6 Player extension. (BTW, they use the term <em>expansion</em> for things like Cities &amp; Knights or Seafarers that change the rules significantly, and the term <em>extension</em> for sets that just add support for additional players.)</p>

<p>Seafarers adds boat pieces for each of the 4 base-set colors, but does not include boat pieces for the 2 additional colors. These you could proxy, or you could buy the Seafarers 5-6 Player Expansion.</p>

<p>Cities &amp; Knights has more player-specific equipment: knights tokens, city walls, flipbooks for each player... playing without the C&amp;K 5-6 Player extension would be very difficult. Traders &amp; Barbarians is even more extreme than Cities &amp; Knights.</p>

<p>Searching for the Expansion-Specific 5-6 Player Extensions on Boardgame Geek (Seafarers <a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/4103/catan-seafarers-5-6-player-extension">here</a> and Cities &amp; Knights <a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/4101/catan-cities-knights-5-6-player-extension">here</a>, Traders &amp; Barbarians <a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/34691/catan-traders-barbarians-5-6-player-extension">here</a>), you can see what they include.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2013-02-01T21:47:13.360Z
2013-02-01T21:47:13.360Z
Gregor Thomas
<p>If I have the Settlers of Catan 5-6 player extension (for the base game), does that mean I can use the Seafarers or Cities and Knights expansions with 5-6 players? </p>

<catan>
Can the extra players extension work with Seafearers or Cities and Knights?
user4853
# Can the extra players extension work with Seafearers or Cities and Knights?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-02-01)

If I have the Settlers of Catan 5-6 player extension (for the base game), does that mean I can use the Seafarers or Cities and Knights expansions with 5-6 players?

**Tags:** catan


---

## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-02-01. Score: 11

Seafarers and Cities & Knights have their own 5-6 Player expansions in addition to the base game 5-6 player expansion. Think of them as expansions to expansions. So to play a 6 player game of Seafarers you will need the following:

Base Catan Game + 5-6 Person Base Expansion + 4 player Seafarers Expansion + 5-6 Person Seafarers Expansion


---

### Answer by username_2 on 2013-02-01. Score: 9

No--not easily at least. Each expansion has it's own 5-6 Player Extension, which you would need in addition to the base 5-6 Player extension. (BTW, they use the term *expansion* for things like Cities & Knights or Seafarers that change the rules significantly, and the term *extension* for sets that just add support for additional players.)

Seafarers adds boat pieces for each of the 4 base-set colors, but does not include boat pieces for the 2 additional colors. These you could proxy, or you could buy the Seafarers 5-6 Player Expansion.

Cities & Knights has more player-specific equipment: knights tokens, city walls, flipbooks for each player... playing without the C&K 5-6 Player extension would be very difficult. Traders & Barbarians is even more extreme than Cities & Knights.

Searching for the Expansion-Specific 5-6 Player Extensions on Boardgame Geek (Seafarers [here](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/4103/catan-seafarers-5-6-player-extension) and Cities & Knights [here](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/4101/catan-cities-knights-5-6-player-extension), Traders & Barbarians [here](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/34691/catan-traders-barbarians-5-6-player-extension)), you can see what they include.


---

