The El Grande Expansions

About this expansion

The El Grande Expansions is an expansion package for 2–5 players, with a playing time of 90 minutes, combining two English-language expansions for El Grande. Released in 2000, the package can significantly change the base game and allows the expansions to be used independently or together.

The first expansion, King and Intrigue, combines the priority cards and action cards into a single mechanism. This extensive change creates a substantially different way to play El Grande while retaining the original game board. The package includes all cards from the German edition König & Intrigant, along with some—but not all—of the additional cards released in the German König and Intrigant: Players’ Edition.

The second expansion, Grand Inquisitor and Colonies, expands the game geographically and adds more available actions. It introduces four new regions and two new actions, bringing the total to seven actions when played with the five actions from the basic game.

• King and Intrigue: combines priority and action cards into one mechanism.
• Grand Inquisitor and Colonies: adds four regions and two new actions.
• Flexible use: play either expansion alone or combine both with the base game.

With two distinct approaches to changing the original experience, The El Grande Expansions offers a broad collection of additional cards, regions, and actions. It is designed for players who want to explore a substantially altered El Grande game using either one expansion or both together.