Featured Game - El Grande

NOTE: This was originally scheduled last week, but didn't end up firing off, so it's rescheduled for this week, except within our regularly scheduled time slot.

Featured games are our way of teaching new games and highlighting something we think our players may enjoy or take note of. We'll explain from scratch how to play the game with a detailed description and demonstrate a few turns, then break into tables to actually play it. Each week it'll be something new, but will run the spectrum of different lengths, complexities, themes, and game mechanics. So if this week's game doesn't interest you, feel free to look again next time around!

El Grande is a game of area majority set in medieval Spain. Through each of nine rounds, players will choose a power card that determines how many of their meeples they can acquire and their turn order for the round, then choose an action card that determines a special action and how many of their meeples they can place on the board. Throughout the game, each region will score for having the most of your meeples on it, but be careful, some actions may redistribute those meeples, and the king's presence may determine which regions of the board are even in play at a time! A careful player will need to measure which regions they can get the majority they need and when those actions need to be played.

El Grande is a game for up to 5 players and should take experienced players about 2 hours to play. It has a weight of 2.94 on BoardGameGeek, making it medium-high difficulty compared to games typically played here.

Read the rules here: https://www.yucata.de/langnet/1/elgranderules.pdf Watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alPlesO0XII

If this is your first time with this group, you should see a link to our Discord group once you've signed up for this event. You may join any time before the event begins to get to know people, but once this event starts, we'll typically join the Lobby voice chat, then move to another voice chat once we've gotten started. Note that I, as the game teacher, will share my screen to show how the game works, but all other interaction will be voice only, no video, so no need to look presentable first. The game itself will be played using Board Game Arena - please create an account on this site beforehand.