Power Grid: Québec/Baden-Württemberg
Power Grid: Québec/Baden-Württemberg Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Québec
Overview
The Canadian province Québec places great emphasis on energy production via ecological hydro power plants. Once an ecological power plant has been added to the power plant market, it will remain until purchased by a player or removed when the number on it is lower than the number of cities powered by any player. The two cities of Montreal and Québec offer several cheap connections, making this map challenging with several layers of decisions regarding building the best networks.
Preparation
After the starting market is prepared, set aside power plants 13, 18, and 22. Prepare the remaining power plants as usual.
Important: In games with 2 to 4 players do not remove ecological power plants when removing random face down power plants!
Finally, place the power plants 13, 18 and 22 face down on top of the draw stack in this order: 13 on top, then 18 and 22.
At the start, the prices of resources begin at: coal 2 Elektro, oil 2 Elektro, garbage 7 Elektro, and uranium 14 Elektro.
Playing the game
Phase 5: Bureaucracy
When placing the highest power plant below the draw stack, never take an ecological power plant. Instead take the next highest power plant.
In this phase, the resources are filled in accordance with the Québec resource supply table.
The Québec resource supply table is on the last page!
Hints
- The ecological power plants reduce the costs for buying resources. Nevertheless players need to make sure to own other power plants, too, as ecological power plants alone do not supply enough cities to win the game.
- When choosing the regions at game start at least one of the two regions with the cities of Montreal or Québec should be chosen to guarantee enough links to the more distant regions of the province.
Transcriber note: the printed hint reads "ecological powder plants"; "powder" is corrected to "power" here as an obvious typo.
Baden-Württemberg
Overview
In Baden-Württemberg, the clocks move differently: The main change focuses on the order of phases of a game round. First, you buy power plants, and then, you rearrange the player order. Furthermore, as this province is small, several transregional cities may only be connected starting in »Step 2«.
Playing the game
The order of the first two phases of each game round switch positions:
- Buying power plants
- Determine player order
- Buying resources
- Building
- Bureaucracy
For this map, during the first game round, the random player order will be rearranged regularly in phase 2 after buying power plants.
Phase 1: Buying power plants
If no power plant is sold in a round, the players remove the two lowest numbered power plants from the market, placing them back in the box, and replace them by drawing two power plants from the draw stack.
Phase 3: Building
The »transregional« cities (e.g. Strasbourg) only open their gates in »Step 2«. Players can only connect to them for 15 or 20 Elektro.
If at any time during the game there is a power plant in the actual market with a number equal to or lower than the number of cities any player has, players do not remove it from the game!
Phase 5: Bureaucracy
»Step 2« starts after the first player connects to 9 cities (in 2 player games), 6 cities (in 3 to 5 player games), or 5 cities (in 6 player games) in phase 4 of a game round.
In this phase, the resources are filled in accordance with the Baden-Württemberg resource supply table.
The Baden-Württemberg resource supply table is on the last page!
Resource Supply Tables
Québec Resource Supply Table
| Resource | 2 players Step 1 | 2 players Step 2 | 2 players Step 3 | 3 players Step 1 | 3 players Step 2 | 3 players Step 3 | 4 players Step 1 | 4 players Step 2 | 4 players Step 3 | 5 players Step 1 | 5 players Step 2 | 5 players Step 3 | 6 players Step 1 | 6 players Step 2 | 6 players Step 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coal | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Baden-Württemberg Resource Supply Table
| Resource | 2 players Step 1 | 2 players Step 2 | 2 players Step 3 | 3 players Step 1 | 3 players Step 2 | 3 players Step 3 | 4 players Step 1 | 4 players Step 2 | 4 players Step 3 | 5 players Step 1 | 5 players Step 2 | 5 players Step 3 | 6 players Step 1 | 6 players Step 2 | 6 players Step 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coal | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 |