Cats & Dragons 2026

In Cats & Dragons, players are cats leading their armies against hordes of dragons that infest their land. But these cats are devious and always out for themselves as well, scheming to take the glory and the spoils of every battle. Armies are deployed stealthily, hiding their strength from the other cat leaders. Will this lead to glory and victory, or will all this deviousness hand the victory to the invading dragons?

On each player's turn, they add a new tile to the landscape and possibly deploy new army units to this tile with their strength hidden from the other players. They may even hire the big wild cats to help them win the battle and best their peers. When a region closes, all army units are revealed, and players see whether they have defeated the dragons. If they did, the strongest armies get the most spoils, and all players earn glory. Spoils and glory are the path to victory over the other players.

Player choices in Cats & Dragons are relatively simple, but the board becomes very dynamic. Will you try to jump into a battle underway to earn spoils and glory? Or will you work hard to dominate a battle you know you can win and best all your rivals? The combination of blind bidding for area control and tile placement means that your interaction with the other players — as well as the dragons coming onto the board — will determine your fate.

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