Siedlers von Berlin

Anna is our neighborhood pusher. She approaches you FIRST, as a friend. Then she introduces you into her special little world. You think it seems cool. “No harm in trying it once”, she suggests. Next thing you know, you’re spending all your money on it, cant get your mind off it, and need to visit her once a week to get your fix.



Anna was the first one from our group to play the board game Siedlers von Catan. After playing it a few times, I was addicted and have since bought the base set, base expansion, and Städte & Ritter. That was about a year ago; since then we’ve met almost every Tuesday night to play. The die hard fans are Anna, my girlfriend Ingrid, and myself.

From first impressions Anna looks like one of those ‘nice’ Russians (as opposed to those mean ones that the great Sylvester Stallone saved us from throughout the 80’s (like Rocky IV and Rambo III)). But deep down inside she is ruthless like all the rest. She has been a tyranny to the poor people of Catan with particular oppression to peaceful US and Colombian settlers. I am here to publicly announce that TONIGHT is the night. I will personally end Anna’s lengthy winning streak ... in an effort to ‘spread democracy throughout the world’.