This game re-lives the fierce competition between the two great Florentine families Medici & Strozzi The players compete to buy the best goods load them on their ships & sail away to sell them for great profits The mechanism is similar to Medici but for two players If you liked Medici but wanted to play with two
- now you can 2 to 6 players 90 to 120 minutes to play Power network expansion Strategy game Expansion for base game
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After Power Grid taught you the tough competition between energy producers now you get to know the road traveled by energy consumers Start to be a Factory Manager & make the important decisions to improve your own factory Fight against the other competitors for the best factory equipment available in the market to be the best player at the end of the game Power Grid
- Factory Manager is a Business-Buildup-Game You start with a small factory & try to improve it At the beginning you may simply focus on increasing the production Later you are confronted with new challenges track the ever increasing energy price & cleverly distribute your workers for the best benefit By being close to the theme the game is logical & coherent in its main features A clever new mechanism improves the game by affecting the player order & the actions on the market But don&t say we did not warn you Because of only 5 turns the game is exciting right from the start Be careful all the time or your fellow players will mercilessly leave you behind! Age range 12 & up Number of players 2 to 5 Play time 60
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As clan leader you are responsible for the well-being of your clan during the Stone Age You need to develop new hunting technologies & get new knowledge to successfully hunt food or to learn to control fire With help of these skills you will harvest enough food to feed your clan & to spread it far enough to reach new hunting areas In this game you are always confronted with manifold decisions which technology cards offer you the biggest advantages when it is the right time to spread your clan on the game board which hunting areas will grant the most food? Reaching new hunting areas or trying to secure parts of the game board for your own clan are important factors for your strategy Empty spaces are cheaper for your clan to settle in compared to spaces where other clans already settled earlier If you are the first to increase your clan size to 13 clan members you will win The First Sparks Lead your clan & try to survive during the stone age Distinctive gameplay based on Powergrid 60 minutes playing time 2-6 players Ages 13 ...

Power Grid Northern Europe United Kingdom & Ireland is a pair of expansions for Power Grid that

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Please note that this is an expansion pack & will require the original game in order to play The object of Power Grid is to supply the most cities with power when someone&s network gains a predetermined size In this new edition players mark pre-existing routes between cities for connection & then bid against each other to purchase the power plants that they use to power their cities However as plants are purchased newer more efficient plants become available so by merely purchasing you&re potentially allowing others access to superior equipment in addition players must acquire the raw materials (coal oil garbage & uranium) needed to power said plants (except for the &renewable& windfarm solar plants which require no fuel) making it a constant struggle to upgrade your plants for maximum efficiency while still retaining enough wealth to quickly expand your network to get the cheapest routes A strategy game of planning with surges of energy Spiel Des Jahres Recommended 2005 Playing Time 120 mins Ages 122-6 players ...

You finally have a new opponent for your Power Grid games a robot that acts as an additional player Thanks to his different actions & special abilities he is a strong opponent You will manage the robot&s "decisions" & can use him to act against the other opponent (s) With this expansion Power Grid is an exciting & fun experience for two (and more) players! Power Grid The Robots is designed especially for two players but you can use a robot with up to five human players too You can even use more than one robot in a game The robot consists of five tiles one tile with rules for each phase (except phase 1 » Determine Player Order« & phase 5 »bureaucracy«) plus a special ability which the robot uses during the game With a total of 30 tiles
- six different tiles for each phase
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The expansion Power Grid The Stock Companies offers players a completely new game experience specifically three new ways to play either Power Grid or Power Grid Deluxe The main game is The Stock Companies As shareholders the players want to get control over different stock companies so they can acquire the greatest wealth The two variants are a little bit closer to the well-known Power Grid experience The Biggest Electricity Distributors In this first variant the players are shareholders who try to get shares of the most successful companies the companies that supply electricity to the most cities The Competition of the Private Companies In this second variant the players control their private stock companies & try to establish them successfully on the electricity market They sell shares of their own companies to generate more cash & they are able to buy shares of other players’ companies Thus they can also earn a portion of the other players’ successes If you own all Power Grid maps & the expansion New Power Plants this expansion offers 222 new possibilities to play Power Grid & Power Grid deluxe The rules for this expansion are based on module 9 " Shares" of the game 504 As 504 is a modular game system we are able to take that module & mix it with Power Grid The results are three different options to play this expansion For the main game we focused on the first option of the shares module so you will discover a lot of surprises Both variants are a little bit closer to the well-known Power Grid experience; they are for gamers who want to experiment with the game system ...

Power Grid Fabled Expansion offers completely new experiences for both the Power Grid & Power Grid deluxe base games through the new Fable Game system introduced in Fabled Fruit With two presorted Fable Decks the players are confronted with exciting challenges in different campaigns on the maps of USA Germany Europe or North America Each campaign is played in three consecutive games & in each game the players reveal Fabled Cards as their conditions are met These Fabled Cards add new rules to the gameplay With two players the " Against the Trust" rules are in effect ...

In Power Grid The Card Game the players represent CEOs of mighty power companies producing electricity During the game the players bid for power plants at auctions & supply them with resources Their income depends on the amount of electricity produced in each round At the end of the game the player who produces the most electricity wins the game Power Grid The Card Game offers all the tension & tactics well-known of its two big brothers — Power Grid & Power Grid deluxe
- without using the different maps You get the full Power Grid emotions in an intensive playing time of sixty minutes! To give two players an exciting experience they will play with the Trust acting as a third player While challenging the opponent they must incorporate the schemes of the competing Trust in their plans & use these schemes against their opponent This game

Includes:: a small variant for the Demolition Contractor This variant is playable with Power Grid The Card Game & all maps of Power Grid deluxe & Power Grid! 2
- 6 Players 45
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Power Grid Middle East South Africa is a pair of expansion maps for Power Grid! For decades there has been an abundance of oil in the Middle East However in the near future the so-called peak oil threatens this area This is the point in time when the output of the oil wells begins to decrease Already a few countries of this region have nuclear power plants & that number will increase in the future as the amount of oil from the wells diminishes Most likely other energy sources will play a part too such as the recycling of plastic waste The players start the game with an excessive supply of oil in addition the players have access to plenty of natural gas (using the coal tokens of the base game) & a few solar plants (the green power plants) However at the start of the game the players cannot buy nuclear or garbage power plants During Step 2 the abundance of oil & natural gas will run dry Both nuclear & garbage power plants will then be available as alternatives Thus in the middle of the game the players are forced to adjust their power plant mix The energy supply in South Africa is executed almost exclusively by a single trust which is the seventh biggest energy supplier in the world measured against the production of energy Roughly 90 of the energy is produced in coal power plants in addition South Africa uses a few nuclear power plants & both water & wind ecological power plants Because of its size the trust also supplies half of the rest of Africa with energy Thus the game board contains six international power connections & a lot of available coal Players 2&8211;6 Playing Time 120 Min Age 12 ...