{"id":14769,"date":"2023-06-01T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=14769"},"modified":"2024-07-16T17:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T17:23:59","slug":"grail-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2023\/06\/01\/grail-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Grail Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Citadelles<\/a><\/em> est, de tous mes jeux, celui qui se vend le mieux. Je le sais, mon banquier le sait, et surtout les \u00e9diteurs le savent qui, r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement, me demandent si je n\u2019aurais pas dans un coin \u00ab un autre Citadelles \u00bb. Ce n\u2019est pas toujours ce que j\u2019ai le plus envie de faire mais, de temps en temps, je m\u2019y essaie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aux Pierres du Dragon<\/a><\/em> et, surtout, L\u2019Ambition des Rois<\/a><\/em>, sont des tentatives de recr\u00e9er les m\u00eames sensations qu\u2019\u00e0 Citadelles \u00e0 l\u2019aide de m\u00e9canismes diff\u00e9rents. \u00c0 deux joueurs, je pense d\u2019ailleurs que l\u2019Ambition des Rois est un bien meilleur jeu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u2019ai aussi tent\u00e9 d\u2019exploiter le syst\u00e8me de choix des personnages qui est au c\u0153ur de Citadelles<\/em> \u00e0 des bases diff\u00e9rentes. Mes essais sur des jeux de majorit\u00e9, ou de votes, n\u2019ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 suffisamment convaincants pour que je les montre \u00e0 des \u00e9diteurs. Lost Temple<\/a><\/em> et, aujourd\u2019hui, Grail Cup qui en est le successeur, utilisent ce principe dans un jeu de course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dans Lost Temple, paru il y a une dizaine d\u2019ann\u00e9es, les joueurs \u00e9taient des aventuriers quelque part en Orient, \u00e0 la recherche d\u2019un \u2013 devinez \u2013 Temple Perdu. Dans Grail Cup, ce sont les chevaliers de la Table Ronde cherchant \u00e0 atteindre le ch\u00e2teau du Graal, avec l\u2019aide de leurs amis l\u2019Enchanteresse, l\u2019\u00c9cuyer, Merlin, la Forgeronne, le Dragonnier, la Princesse, le Pr\u00eatre, la F\u00e9e et la Licorne. Ces alli\u00e9s sont choisis exactement comme les personnages de Citadelles, et permettent d\u2019avancer plus rapidement, de s\u2019informer des possibles pi\u00e8ges, de s\u2019y pr\u00e9parer, de changer sa place dans la course avec un autre personnage\u2026 Le jeu est plus l\u00e9ger, plus rapide, mais aussi m\u00e9chant que Citadelles, tout en entourloupes et en queues de dragon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour ceux qui ont jou\u00e9 \u00e0 Lost Temple, la principale diff\u00e9rence, outre bien s\u00fbr le changement de th\u00e8me, est la disparition des gemmes, qui \u00e9taient une sorte de monnaie, afin de recentrer l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat du jeu et l\u2019attention des joueurs sur la position dans la course. Le jeu en devient ainsi plus rapide, plus tactique, plus fluide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u2019ai toujours beaucoup appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 la ligne claire et l\u2019humour subtil de John Kovalic, et je suis vraiment tr\u00e8s heureux qu\u2019il ait accept\u00e9 d\u2019illustrer l\u2019une de mes cr\u00e9ations. Ses personnages l\u00e9gers et color\u00e9s rendent tr\u00e8s bien l\u2019esprit de Grail Cup \u2013 c\u2019est un peu Citadelles, mais c\u2019est moins s\u00e9rieux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grail Cup devrait arriver dans les boutiques fran\u00e7aises le 16 juin 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n

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GrailCup
Un jeu de Bruno Faidutti
Illustr\u00e9 par JohnKovalic
3 \u00e0 8 joueurs \u2013 30 minutes
Publi\u00e9 par Matagot
Boardgamegeek<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of all my games, Citadels is the one that sells best. I know it, my banker knows it, and, of course, the publishers know it. Regularly, they ask if I can show them \u201canorher Citadels\u201d. It\u2019s not always what I\u2019m the most excited about, but, from time to time, I give it a try.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fist of Dragonstones and, even more, Greedy Kingdoms try to recreate the same game sensations using different mechanisms. As a two player game, Greedy Kingdoms is, in my opinion, much better than Citadels.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also tried to recycle the character selection system which is the heart of Citadels into other game systems. My attempts with voting or majority games were not convincing enough to be shown to publishers. Lost Temple, and its reimplementation Grail Cup, use it in a race game.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Lost Temple, which was published ten years ago, players were adventurers in the Far East looking for, you got it, a lost temple. In Grail Cup, they are now the Knights of the Round Table racing to reach the Grail castle, with a little help from their friends the Enchantress, the Squire, Merlin, the Smith, the Dragonrider, the Princess, the Priest, the Fairy and the Unicorn. These allies are chosen exactly like the characters in Citadels and allow the knight to move faster, to look for possible traps, to get weapons, to swap place in another knight, etc\u2026 The game is light and fast paced. It\u2019s less mean than Citadels, but there\u2019s still room for a few nasty magic tricks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u2019ve played Lost Temple, the main difference after the change in setting is the removal of gems, which were a kind of money used to pay for movement. The position on the track is now almost the only thing to take into account during the game. It makes the game faster, more tactical and more fluid.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve always liked John Kovalic\u2019s subtle humor and bright, simple art. I am really happy that he accepted to illustrate one of my creations. His light and colored characters are perfectly true to the spirit of Grail Cup \u2013 it\u2019s lighter and faster than Citadels, but equally mean.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Citadelles est, de tous mes jeux, celui qui se vend le mieux. Je le sais, mon banquier le sait, et surtout les \u00e9diteurs le savent qui, r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement, me demandent si je n\u2019aurais pas dans un coin \u00ab un autre Citadelles \u00bb. Ce … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[516],"tags":[15,517,511,297],"class_list":["post-14769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grail-cup","tag-citadelles","tag-grail-cup","tag-john-kovalic","tag-matagot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DD4450AD-A662-424E-A196-000F548C37DB.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HNOP-3Qd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14769"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17378,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions\/17378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}