El Grande is to Area/Majority Control what Dominion is to Deck Building. In that light, Caylus offered us Worker Placement, whether Mr. Attia knew it or not. After giving some much-deserved love to Mykerinos a couple months ago, I’ve decided to share with you the beauty that is Caylus, the game featuring the cover of ‘that CREEPY king dude’.
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A classic game is back! As one of the first worker placement games, Caylus stands among the true board game classics of the 2000s. The original designers' team, together with the Space Cowboys, have now created a revamped version! The mechanisms of Caylus 1303 have been streamlined and modernized for an intense and shorter game. Don't be fooled, though, as the game has kept both its depth and ...
The general theme and mechanics of Caylus Magna Carta are similar to the Caylus board game. However, there is no board or score track and the tactical nuts and bolts of the game are somewhat different. In terms of components, the game consists of cards, money, worker pawns, resource markers, the provost, and castle building stones. Each player has a set of identical cards, which are shuffled ...
- To strengthen the borders of the Kingdom of France, King Philip the Fair decided to have a new castle built. For the time being, Caylus is but a humble village, but soon, workers and craftsmen will be flocking by the cartload, attracted by the great prospects. Around the building site, a city is slowly rising up.
Caylus is a coldly brilliant Eurogame of precision and tension, a design that rewards foresight, punishes inefficiency, and offers a near-perfect blueprint for the worker placement genre it helped define.
You can, of course, play Caylus casually and simply build some structures, but Caylus is like chess – as you delve deeper, you begin to see successive layers of strategic depth (for the record, I do not even remotely consider myself a great player; I still have a long way to go).
Caylus 1303 for us. Totally understand the feelings of hardcore Caylus players if they prefer the sharp edges and twisty minutiae of the original, as I'm sure many an opponent lay slain by the cuts and confusion of these, but this remake is a wonderful example of taking what is good about an aging design and giving it a smart spin.