Watch “El Grande (2024) unboxing and Decennial Edition comparison,” a board game unboxing for El Grande from Just Got Played on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Just Got Played on YouTube:
Stephen unboxes the 2024 edition of El Grande from Hans im Glück. Designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Richard Ulrich.
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Learn more about El Grande at BoardGameGeek:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/93/el-grande
00:00 Intro
00:40 Unboxing
10:59 Decennial Edition comparison
15:47 Action card differences
18:03 Outro
The Just Got Played crew are:
Andrew Birkett (gentleman farmer), Stephen Eckman (master of probabilities), Cory Goff (master Pokemon trainer), the AMAZING Jim Jam (as JJ), Jon (like Prince and just as tall), Lloyd Kochinka (editor supreme), Teriffic Pace (Tiffany & Eric "Erock" Mock ), and Patrick Siebert (the boss)
Mainly reviews. El Grande is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 36 reviews, 18 how-to-play guides, 7 recorded sessions, 8 unboxings, and 7 other videos.
2 - 5 players
60 - 120 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About El Grande, from BoardGameGeek:
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.
Designers
Wolfgang Kramer, Richard Ulrich
Artists
Doris Matthäus, Stefan Sonnberger, Franz-Georg Stämmele