Attendees: (5+2) Michael Hall, Barbara Hall, Steve Walker, Matt Asher, and Andrew Bradley (also Heather and Matthew played Exxtra with us)
We had a small group over to our house on Tuesday.
Exxtra
This is a light "push your luck" dice game that Warren and Sharon let us borrow to play with the kids. They enjoy it and we got a game in with Heather, Matthew, Barbara, Matt, Andrew, and me. Andrew proved the winner and everyone was in the game except for me (I was always within 1 or 2 spaces from the Start...game ends at space 21.
El Grande - Grand Inquisitor and the Colonies
We decided to try one of the El Grande Expansions and it was an interesting variation. The Grand Inquisitor is a single card in Stack 6 (similar to the King) and it allows a player to control the black caballeros tokens on the board. The expansion also adds a 7th stack that places new goods (Gold and Wares) on two new boards (America and the Mediterranean). There is also a board for France and a board for the Ship to travel from Spain to the colonies (America and Med).
The game allows for some interesting manuevering to get goods back to Spain for VPs and also getting certain positions on boards that are worth additional VPs during scoring. This increases the benefits of Intrigue actions and also makes for a greater spread of Caballeros tokens across the board. In general, I liked the expansion once we got through the added rules and resolved some unanswered questions with House Rules.
The game was close but Steve pulled out the victory - Final Scores: Steve 148, Andrew 143, Michael 135, and Matt 134.
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