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!
城主:向西班牙的老Wolfgang Kramer設計師問好
在 1995 年發行的這款屢獲殊榮的遊戲中,策略性地放置您的「騎士」,以成為最具影響力的「領袖」和15 世紀最強大的西班牙偉人為目標。
歷久不衰,經典不敗!
在城主中,玩家扮演中世紀西班牙的領主角色。
國王的力量正在衰退,這些強大的領主正在爭奪各個區域的控制權。
為此,您要將騎士(彩色指示物形式的騎士)拉攏進您的朝臣,然後將他們移到棋盤上來幫助奪得區域的控制權。
每三輪之後,對區域進行計分,在第九輪之後,得分最高的玩家獲勝。
在九輪中的每一輪中,您從 13 張權力卡中選擇一張來決定回合順序以及從各省(一般供應區)移動到您的個人供應區的騎士數量。
然後一個回合包括選擇五張允許改變規則和額外得分機會的行動卡中的一張,此外還可以確定有多少騎士從您的球場移動到棋盤上的一個或多個區域(或進入卡斯蒂略 - 一個秘密塔)。
通常,您只能將您的騎士放置在與包含國王棋子的區域相鄰的區域中。
領主的一條硬性規定是任何東西都不得進出國王的區域。
每輪都能用的五張行動卡中的一張可讓您將國王移動到新區域。
其他四張行動牌則因輪次而異。
我們的目標是在得分回合期間在盡可能多的地區(和卡斯蒂略)中佔據多數。
在卡斯蒂略得分之後,您將存放在那裡的任何騎士放入您在地區圖板上秘密指示的地區。
然後根據印在該區域的表格對每個區域進行單獨評分。
在包含您的領主(大型米寶)的區域和包含國王的區域中擁有獨占多數的情況下,將獲得兩分獎勵。
這款遊戲獲得了“1996 Spiel des Jahres”和“1996 Deutscher Spiele Preis 最佳家庭/成人遊戲”獎項。
這是有充分理由的:直到今日,這款遊戲機制仍經得起考驗。
如果您喜歡經典遊戲,也喜歡卡牌,請務必試試這款2-5 人一場約60 分鐘的遊戲。
還是不相信嗎?
在此處查看遊戲頁面(還有一個教學課程教您如何遊玩):
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=elgrande
感謝我們的開發人員VanHlebar 和 Volker78所做的出色貢獻,使這款遊戲可以在您的電腦上順暢遊玩。
我們要感謝他們出色的工作。
當然,如果沒有遊戲設計師Wolfgang Kramer 和 Richard Ulrich以及發行商Hans Im Glück的幫助,遊戲是無法順利授權登上Board Game Arena的。
我們由衷地感謝設計師和他們的團隊!
關於否決卡的注意事項:這張卡實施起來特別具有挑戰性
在Board Game Arena中,否決卡可用於取消任何尚未觸發的行動卡。
某些行動也可以部分取消,但這並非對所有行動都適用。
請注意,您也可以在開始遊戲時透過遊戲選項關閉否決卡的使用。
這就是今天的全部內容,夥伴們!
今天的標題不是一個小遊戲,所以你將有時間在下週之前發現這個寶石,在下一個版本之前。
玩得開心,公平競爭,善待彼此!