Power Grid Italy with New Plants!
I picked up the Italy/France map just this day, and played the Italy portion in the evening with Harry and Li Zhen. And we used the new power plants. It's a double expansion game! We played the higher-cost lower three regions, together with the higher resource costs, it should have been a game where money was tight...unfortunately, not so with the efficient power plants! So money was almost never an issue, which kind of took a bit of fun out of the game. But in any case, we proceeded as usual, this time I actually built more houses than Harry sometimes! Initially I was blocked in by both of them, but I rammed north to take a stake there (with enough money to do that...heh).
The power plants were mostly balanced, so we couldn't get a lasting plant early in the game, which is good. Step 3 auctions were kind of lame, though, since we were all trying to bet if the next plant is going to be one of those giant ones. So instead of bidding high for a plant, there was almost no bidding. In the end, I was the only one with 19 capacity while both Harry and Li Zhen had 18 capacity. I had just enough money to build to 19 cities, so I won. Harry had less money than Li Zhen, so Li Zhen got second place. But the trick is, had Li Zhen bought one more plant in the last round to raise his capacity to 19, there was a possibility that he might have won...heh. But for now, I win for the first time in a while.
About the new power plants...I think the way we play them sort of ruins part of the fun. The giant plants that are above 50 messes things up quite a bit. Maybe that's why for a few games now, we had enough capacity to finish the game way before we had enough cities on the board. That slowed the tension by quite a bit. So in the future, we should either play with the old plants or play only the new plants up to 50, like what the rules said...heh.
Final scores:
Li Zhen: 18 capacity and cities, 53 dollars left.
Harry: 18 capacity and cities, 36 dollars left.
Me: 19 capacity and cities, 36 dollars left.
The power plants were mostly balanced, so we couldn't get a lasting plant early in the game, which is good. Step 3 auctions were kind of lame, though, since we were all trying to bet if the next plant is going to be one of those giant ones. So instead of bidding high for a plant, there was almost no bidding. In the end, I was the only one with 19 capacity while both Harry and Li Zhen had 18 capacity. I had just enough money to build to 19 cities, so I won. Harry had less money than Li Zhen, so Li Zhen got second place. But the trick is, had Li Zhen bought one more plant in the last round to raise his capacity to 19, there was a possibility that he might have won...heh. But for now, I win for the first time in a while.
About the new power plants...I think the way we play them sort of ruins part of the fun. The giant plants that are above 50 messes things up quite a bit. Maybe that's why for a few games now, we had enough capacity to finish the game way before we had enough cities on the board. That slowed the tension by quite a bit. So in the future, we should either play with the old plants or play only the new plants up to 50, like what the rules said...heh.
Final scores:
Li Zhen: 18 capacity and cities, 53 dollars left.
Harry: 18 capacity and cities, 36 dollars left.
Me: 19 capacity and cities, 36 dollars left.
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