Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Here's a stacked 3P game for you - everyone over a 45% winrate!
Loved my start with 10 at cost followed by the 13 for around $20. An awful early market made that a champ, and i would've missed out on it had i gone for the safer 2-build with 03. This is why i preach building just 1 city when you're first! Eventually my opponents caught up with 15 & 16, though i drove up 16 to a decent price. Maybe should've bid a bit more for that, considering i was willing to buy 06 to move the market!
My patience eventually paid off when i got 23 with cheap uranium. The funny part was that i missed an opportunity to build to 5 cities without losing turn order beforehand, but with 23 + 13 i was much better off staying at 4. Having extra coal stored on the 10 paid off big-time in the 25 auction, as it allowed me to win that plant for around $41. 26 ended up going for close to $50, so i was pleased with that value!
The rest of the game was fairly academic from there. Funny how i could afford to buy 36 at the end just to prevent anyone else from powering 18 cities - good to look for those opportunities to bid others up even when you don't need a plant. Feels great to get such a comfortable win against this tough of a crowd, let me tell you!
If you'd like to learn more about Power Grid, please check my blog for strategy articles on each power plant as well as a guide to 2-player games:
maninmotiongoingnowhere.wordpress.com/power-grid-strategy-individual-plant-articles
If you want to step up your game even further and set up BSW or Tabletop Simulator games with us, come join our Power Grid Discord server:
discordapp.com/invite/pSq9qp9
Here's a stacked 3P game for you - everyone over a 45% winrate!
Loved my start with 10 at cost followed by the 13 for around $20. An awful early market made that a champ, and i would've missed out on it had i gone for the safer 2-build with 03. This is why i preach building just 1 city when you're first! Eventually my opponents caught up with 15 & 16, though i drove up 16 to a decent price. Maybe should've bid a bit more for that, considering i was willing to buy 06 to move the market!
My patience eventually paid off when i got 23 with cheap uranium. The funny part was that i missed an opportunity to build to 5 cities without losing turn order beforehand, but with 23 + 13 i was much better off staying at 4. Having extra coal stored on the 10 paid off big-time in the 25 auction, as it allowed me to win that plant for around $41. 26 ended up going for close to $50, so i was pleased with that value!
The rest of the game was fairly academic from there. Funny how i could afford to buy 36 at the end just to prevent anyone else from powering 18 cities - good to look for those opportunities to bid others up even when you don't need a plant. Feels great to get such a comfortable win against this tough of a crowd, let me tell you!
If you'd like to learn more about Power Grid, please check my blog for strategy articles on each power plant as well as a guide to 2-player games:
maninmotiongoingnowhere.wordpress.com/power-grid-strategy-individual-plant-articles
If you want to step up your game even further and set up BSW or Tabletop Simulator games with us, come join our Power Grid Discord server:
discordapp.com/invite/pSq9qp9
