Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago
Here was a nice 4er with some less-featured players!
Extremely happy with how i played this game...until the end. Was ready to fight for the 30 plant right before Step 3, but gave it up at $80; had figured Step 3 would last for two turns so i could get acceptable plants way cheaper then. The one thing i did that threw away this game was, you guessed it, buying the damn 20. My thought was that with 2 coal stored, i could drop in the turn order and eventually get 1 more, but ninjacatt worked the turn order perfectly and made sure that would never happen.
There was also an extremely painful misclick that helped give the game to ninjacatt: barmstrong replacing the 26 plant instead of the 03. Had that not happened, my 20 would probably have worked out since there would be another player with 17 capacity at the end; this would force ninjacatt not to buy out coal on me. Message to Board Game Arena (since you surely want to add Power Grid to your fine site): Please make sure you allow undos!
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
Here was a nice 4er with some less-featured players!
Extremely happy with how i played this game...until the end. Was ready to fight for the 30 plant right before Step 3, but gave it up at $80; had figured Step 3 would last for two turns so i could get acceptable plants way cheaper then. The one thing i did that threw away this game was, you guessed it, buying the damn 20. My thought was that with 2 coal stored, i could drop in the turn order and eventually get 1 more, but ninjacatt worked the turn order perfectly and made sure that would never happen.
There was also an extremely painful misclick that helped give the game to ninjacatt: barmstrong replacing the 26 plant instead of the 03. Had that not happened, my 20 would probably have worked out since there would be another player with 17 capacity at the end; this would force ninjacatt not to buy out coal on me. Message to Board Game Arena (since you surely want to add Power Grid to your fine site): Please make sure you allow undos!
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
