by Mamadallama
Your remark about San Juan...that makes me think that you just haven't played CoB enough to appreciate it and that you will enjoy it once you get it. There are knowledge tiles that get you points at games end and once you get a little bit more familiar with all those tiles you'll better see how to make that work for you.And then someone else mentioned the combos. Like having a Castle...maybe you'll have a Warehouse, and a City Hall in your storage also. You roll a 6 and a 1. With the 6 you place the Castle. It allows you to pretend like you have another die of any # so you choose to place the City Hall which allows you to place any other tile in your storage onto your estate so you place the Warehouse which allows you to sell one set of your Goods tiles so you sell them, collect a silverling and move the appropriate # of spaces then buy something (assuming you already had at least 1 silverling) from the center of the board and place it in your storage. That's all done from the roll of ONE die...then you go on to use your other die--the 1. Fun!