The game is then played like the standard Settlers game, with each player taking turns. An important difference between this variant and the basic game is in trading . The victory conditions the game is to reach 18 victory points . Ships Intimate settlers has ship units, as used in the seafarer expansion set. Building ships cost one wool and one wood.
Ships are like roads, placed along the edges of tiles, either on coastal edges or in open sea.
Only one ship per turn may be displaced, and this cannot be a ship built in the same turn. Ships in a 'closed ship line' may not be displaced. The cards that apply to roads in the basic game also now apply to ships. Discovery All of the area outside the 14 tiles used in the initial set-up is treated as 'undiscovered region' of the board. If the tile is a harbour the player may choose the orientation of the tile, although if it is being placed next to another harbour tile it may not be placed so that it causes an intersection to contain two ports.