Brain Burners at DRAGON
Friday- Gaming at DRAGON: Dragon is a gaming community/group/thing that games every Friday. This Friday, it was a series of brain busters: 2 games of Puerto Rico, and 1 huge game of Power Grid.
The first game of Power Grid was a bust for me. 4 player game, 2 newer players, followed by Loren, followed by me. Loren ended up getting the hookups from the newer players, plus I made a major gaff when I tried to set up a major indigo trade, only to realize that indigo was already traded. Just didn’t see it. Loren won by a huge margin of over 30 points.
The second game was much faster and tighter, with 3 experienced players. Didn’t win that one either.
Power Grid with 5 players was interesting. The resources become far tighter as the number of players increases, and competition for just enough resources to fire a plant is fierce. I ended up winning, mostly because I think I was able to stockpile money using clean power, and then I jumped ahead with the cash influx, purchased a ridiculous amount of capacity, and rode out the wave. I ended up powering 17 of 17 cities, though I could have also won the turn before if I had counted closer and powered 15 when no one else had the cities to do it.
We also got in a couple of lighter games, like Bang!