Strategically position your "caballeros" in order to be the most influential of the "Influencers" and become the greatest of the Great of Spain in the 15th century in this award-winning game from 1995.
An oldie but a goodie!
In El Grande, players take on the roles of Grandes in medieval Spain. The king's power is flagging, and these powerful lords are vying for control of the various regions. To that end, you draft caballeros (knights in the form of colored meeples) into your court and subsequently move them onto the board to help seize control of regions. After every third round, the regions are scored, and after the ninth round, the player with the most points is the winner.
In each of the nine rounds, you select one of your 13 power cards to determine turn order as well as the number of caballeros you get to move from the provinces (general supply) into your court (personal supply).
A turn then consists of selecting one of five action cards which allow variations to the rules and additional scoring opportunities in addition to determining how many caballeros to move from your court to one or more of the regions on the board (or into the castillo - a secretive tower). Normally, you may only place your caballeros into regions adjacent to the one containing the king pawn. The one hard and fast rule in El Grande is that nothing may move into or out of the king's region. One of the five action cards that is always available each round allows you to move the king to a new region. The other four action cards vary from round to round.
The goal is to have a caballero majority in as many regions (and the castillo) as possible during a scoring round. Following the scoring of the castillo, you place any caballeros you had stashed there into the region you had secretly indicated on your region dial. Each region is then scored individually according to a table printed in that region. Two-point bonuses are awarded for having sole majority in the region containing your Grande (large meeple) and in the region containing the king.
This game won the "1996 Spiel des Jahres" and the "1996 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game" awards. And that is for a good reason: the game mechanisms are still solid today.
If you are fond of classic games the cards are in your favour, try this 2-5 player 60 minute game.
Still not convinced? Take a look at the game page (there is also a tutorial available for you to learn how to play) here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=elgrande
Thanks to the amazing work done by VanHlebar and Volker78, our developers, the game is perfectly playable from your computer. We would like to thank them for their amazing work.
Of course, nothing would have been possible without the help of the game designers, Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich, as well as the publisher, Hans Im Glück for their autorization to have the game on Board Game Arena. Our warmest thanks to them and their teams!
Note about the Veto card: *this card was specifically challenging to implement. On Board Game Arena, Veto can be used to cancel any Action card before it is activated. Some Actions can also be cancelled partially, but this is not possible for all Actions. Please note that you can also exclude Veto through an option when starting a game. *
That's all for today, folks!
Today's title is not a small game, so you will have time until next week to discover this gem, before the next release.
Have a good time, play fair and be kind to each others!
EL GRANDE: Go'e gamle Wolfgang Kramer i Spanien...
Placer dine "caballeros" strategisk for at blive den mest indflydelsesrige "Influencer" og blive den bedste blandt Spaniens Bedste i det 15. århundrede i dette prisvindende spil fra 1995.
En gammel klassiker!
I El Grande indtager spillerne rollerne som Grandes i middelalderens Spanien.
Kongens magt er ved at falme, og disse magtfulde herrer kappes om kontrol over de forskellige regioner.
Med det formål skal du trække caballeros (riddere i form af farvede meeples) ind til dit hof og flytter dem efterfølgende ind på kortet for at hjælpe med at tage kontrol over regioner.
Efter hver tredje runde scores regionerne, og efter niende runde vinder spilleren med flest point.
I hver af de ni runder vælger du et af dine 13 styrkekort for at bestemme turrækkefølgen samt antallet af caballeros, du må flytte fra provinserne (fælles forsyning) til dit hof(personlig forsyning).
En tur består derefter af at vælge ét af fem handlingskort, som tillader variation af reglerne og yderligere scoringsmuligheder ud over at bestemme, hvor mange caballeros der skal flyttes fra dit hof til en eller flere af regionerne på kortet (eller ind i castillo - en hemmelighedsfuldt tårn).
Normalt må du kun placere dine Caballeros i regioner, der støder op til den, der indeholder kongebrikken.
Den ene hårde og hurtige regel i El Grande er, at intet må bevæge sig ind i eller ud af kongens region.
Ét af de fem handlingskort, der altid er tilgængeligt hver runde, giver dig mulighed for at flytte kongen til en ny region.
De øvrige fire handlingskort varierer fra runde til runde.
Målet er at have et caballero-flertal i så mange regioner (og castillo) som muligt under en scoringsrunde.
Efter scoringen af castillo'en placerer du enhver caballeros, du havde gemt der, i den region, du hemmeligt havde angivet på din regionsurskive.
Hver region bedømmes derefter individuelt i henhold til en tabel trykt i den pågældende region.
To bonuspoint tildeles for at have flertal alene i regionen, der indeholder din Grande (stor meeple) og i regionen, der indeholder kongen.
Dette spil vandt priserne "1996 Spiel des Jahres" og "1996 Deutscher Spiele Preis Bedste Familie/Voksenspil".
Og det er der en god grund til: Spilmekanismerne er stadig solide i dag.
Hvis du er glad for klassiske spil, er kortene i din favør, så prøv dette 2-5 spillere 60 minutters spil.
Stadig ikke overbevist?
Tag et kig på spilsiden (der er også en tutorial tilgængelig, så du kan lære at spille) her:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=elgrande
Takket være det fantastiske arbejde udført af VanHlebar og Volker78, vores udviklere, kan spillet perfekt spilbart fra din computer.
Vi vil gerne takke dem for deres fantastiske arbejde.
Selvfølgelig ville intet have været muligt uden hjælp fra spildesignerne, Wolfgang Kramer og Richard Ulrich, samt udgiveren, Hans Im Glück, for deres tilladelse til at have spillet på Board Game Arena.
Vores varmeste tak til dem og deres hold!
Bemærk om Veto-kortet: dette kort var særligt udfordrende at implementere.
På Board Game Arena kan Veto bruges til at annullere et hvilket som helst Action-kort, før det aktiveres.
Nogle handlinger kan også annulleres delvist, men dette er ikke muligt for alle handlinger.
Bemærk venligst, at du også kan udelukke Veto gennem en mulighed, når du starter et spil.
Det var alt for i dag, folkens!
Dagens titel er ikke et lille spil, så du vil have tid indtil næste uge til at opdage denne perle, inden den næste udgivelse.
Hav det godt, spil fair og vær søde mod hinanden!