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: Dobri stari Wolfgang Kramer v Španiji ...
Strateško postavite svoje "caballeros", da boste v tej nagrajeni igri iz leta 1995 postali najvplivnejši od "vplivnikov" in postali največji med Velikimi Španci v 15. stoletju.
Stara, a dobra!
V El Grande igralci prevzamejo vloge Grandes v srednjeveški Španiji.
Kraljeva moč upada in ti močni gospodarji se potegujejo za nadzor nad različnimi regijami.
V ta namen na svoje igrišče povlečete caballeros (viteze v obliki obarvanih meeplov) in jih nato premaknete na tablo, da vam pomagajo prevzeti nadzor nad regijami.
Po vsakem tretjem krogu se točkujejo regije, po devetem krogu pa je zmagovalec z največ točkami.
V vsakem od devetih krogov izberete eno od svojih 13 kart moči, da določite vrstni red obratov in število caballeros, ki jih lahko premaknete iz provinc (splošna zaloga) na svoje igrišče (osebna zaloga).
Zavoj je nato sestavljen iz izbire ene od petih akcijskih kart, ki omogočajo spremembe v pravilih in dodatne priložnosti za točkovanje, poleg tega, da določite, koliko caballeros se premakne z vašega igrišča na eno ali več regij na tabli (ali v castillo - a skrivni stolp).
Običajno lahko svoje caballeros postavite samo v območja, ki mejijo na tisto, ki vsebuje kraljevo peško.
Eno trdo in hitro pravilo v El Grandeju je, da se nič ne sme premakniti v kraljevo regijo ali iz nje.
Ena od petih akcijskih kart, ki je vedno na voljo v vsakem krogu, vam omogoča, da premaknete kralja v novo regijo.
Ostale štiri akcijske karte se razlikujejo od kroga do kroga.
Cilj je imeti caballero večino v čim več regijah (in castillo) med krogom točkovanja.
Po točkovanju castilla postavite vse caballeros, ki ste jih tam shranili, v regijo, ki ste jo na skrivaj označili na številčnici regije.
Vsaka regija se nato oceni posamično v skladu s tabelo, natisnjeno v tej regiji.
Bonusi za dve točki se podelijo za edino večino v regiji, kjer je vaš Grande (veliki meeple) in v regiji, kjer je kralj.
Ta igra je prejela nagradi "1996 Spiel des Jahres" in "1996 Deutscher Spiele Preis za najboljšo družinsko/odraslo igro".
In to z dobrim razlogom: mehanizmi igre so še danes trdni.
Če imate radi klasične igre, karte so vam naklonjene, poskusite to 60-minutno igro za 2-5 igralcev.
Še vedno niste prepričani?
Oglejte si stran igre (na voljo je tudi vadnica, da se naučite igrati) tukaj:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=elgrande
Zahvaljujoč neverjetnemu delu, ki sta ga opravila naša razvijalca VanHlebar in Volker78, je igro popolnoma mogoče igrati iz vašega računalnika.
Radi bi se jim zahvalili za njihovo čudovito delo.
Seveda nič ne bi bilo mogoče brez pomoči oblikovalcev iger Wolfganga Kramerja in Richarda Ulricha ter založnika Hansa Im Glücka za njihovo pooblastilo za objavo igre na Board Game Arena.
Njim in njihovim ekipam se iskreno zahvaljujemo!
Opomba o kartici Veto: to kartico je bilo posebej težko implementirati.
Na Board Game Arena lahko veto uporabite za preklic katere koli akcijske kartice, preden se aktivira.
Nekatera dejanja je mogoče tudi delno preklicati, vendar to ni mogoče za vsa dejanja.
Upoštevajte, da lahko veto izključite tudi z možnostjo, ko začnete igro.
To je vse za danes, ljudje!
Današnji naslov ni majhna igra, zato boste imeli čas do naslednjega tedna, da odkrijete ta dragulj, pred naslednjo izdajo.
Lepo se imejte, igrajte pošteno in bodite prijazni drug do drugega!