More (fun and) games with John and Tim (1/3)
As if I didn't have enough torture, I went back to play games with John and Tim... Why did I do that? I don't know. Anyway, Tim and I played a game to start, and the choice of game: Power Grid! Yay...finally. This is the first time I've ever played the 2-player version, and it's not that bad...
We chose the three central regions of the US for this game. The auctions were generally not too exciting, going up by at most 4 from the base price. I somehow decided that I would use garbage and uranium, while Tim used primarily coal and oil. So of course my resources were a lot more costly than his. We were both neck-and-neck in terms of getting capacity and building cities, though somehow Tim was one city ahead of me. But we got to a point where none of the power plants on the market was good to buy, so we passed on buying one for several terms, amassing a lot of money. This was where an interesting thing happened...
Tim bought a nuclear plant, and then we were both tied for plant capacity (11). He bought two uraniums, hence driving up the price to 12 for me. I had two uranium plants, and thinking that uranium is too expensive, I bought only one uranium. And then we were off to city building. This is where the massive money that Tim accumulated from the previous rounds came into play: seeing that I didn't have the resources to power more cities than him, he decided to build (from 8) up to the game-ending 21 cities, and ended the game right there. That was a very clever move! Nice one. So even though he could only power 11 of his 21 cities, he still won...heh. So in the end, my timing was off by just a step, and lost the game. Still a fun game for 2 players here. Only got to step 2...heh.
Final scores:
We chose the three central regions of the US for this game. The auctions were generally not too exciting, going up by at most 4 from the base price. I somehow decided that I would use garbage and uranium, while Tim used primarily coal and oil. So of course my resources were a lot more costly than his. We were both neck-and-neck in terms of getting capacity and building cities, though somehow Tim was one city ahead of me. But we got to a point where none of the power plants on the market was good to buy, so we passed on buying one for several terms, amassing a lot of money. This was where an interesting thing happened...
Tim bought a nuclear plant, and then we were both tied for plant capacity (11). He bought two uraniums, hence driving up the price to 12 for me. I had two uranium plants, and thinking that uranium is too expensive, I bought only one uranium. And then we were off to city building. This is where the massive money that Tim accumulated from the previous rounds came into play: seeing that I didn't have the resources to power more cities than him, he decided to build (from 8) up to the game-ending 21 cities, and ended the game right there. That was a very clever move! Nice one. So even though he could only power 11 of his 21 cities, he still won...heh. So in the end, my timing was off by just a step, and lost the game. Still a fun game for 2 players here. Only got to step 2...heh.
Final scores:
Tim: 11 capacity, 21 cities, 11 powered, 54 dollars left.
Me: 11 capacity, 9 cities, 9 powered, 192 dollars left.
Labels: Power Grid
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