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15th century Spain: for almost 700 years, the conflict for dominance over the coutnry has raged between Christians and Muslim rulers. Spain is divided into several kingdoms, counties, provinces, and an emirate.
As a member of the Grandes, the high nobility, you want to expand your influence. Soy ou send out your brave knights, the Caballeros, to conquer regions and gain more power.
By cleverly using new action cards, you try to sabotage your opponents' strategies. Influence the king in your favor and weave intrigues to stay one step ahead of the other players.
Will you win the battle for Spain and become El Grande?
In 1996, El Grande became Game of Year (Spiel des Jahres) and is played by fans all over the world since. WE have revised the contents of El Grande and also gave it a visual update. The game itself has remained the same and has lost none of its tactical fun.
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In this award-winning game, 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) 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. 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 cubes you had there into the region you 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 and in the region containing the king.
SLEEVING:
90 cards size 45x68mm (mini euro)
55 cards size 56x87mm (USA)
COMPONENTS:
1 Game Board
145 Cards
162 Wood Tokens
1 Castillo
5 Secret Discs
2 Scoring Tiles
1 First Player Marker
1 Rulebook
AWARDS & HONORS:
1997 Årets Spil Best Adult Game Winner
1996 Spiel des Jahres Winner
1996 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game Winner
1995 Meeples' Choice Award
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Data sheet
- Players
- 2
3
4
5 - Age
- 12+
- Game Duration (minutes)
- 60+
- Game Type
- Area Majority
Auction/Bidding
Board Game
Card Game
Draft
Eurogame
Hand management
Majorities
Medieval
Memory
Point to Point Movement
Renaissance
Simultaneous Action Selection
Workers placement - Language
- Spanish
- Publisher
- Devir
- Creator
- Richard Ulrich
Wolfgang Kramer - Card size (mm)
- 44x68 mini euro
56x87 USA
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15th century Spain: for almost 700 years, the conflict for dominance over the coutnry has raged between Christians and Muslim rulers. Spain is divided into several kingdoms, counties, provinces, and an emirate.
As a member of the Grandes, the high nobility, you want to expand your influence. Soy ou send out your brave knights, the Caballeros, to conquer regions and gain more power.
By cleverly using new action cards, you try to sabotage your opponents' strategies. Influence the king in your favor and weave intrigues to stay one step ahead of the other players.
Will you win the battle for Spain and become El Grande?
In 1996, El Grande became Game of Year (Spiel des Jahres) and is played by fans all over the world since. WE have revised the contents of El Grande and also gave it a visual update. The game itself has remained the same and has lost none of its tactical fun.