Benelux / Central Europe rules
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Benelux / Central Europe is an expansion for Power Grid. map expansion (Recharged).
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Benelux / Central Europe
These maps are played with Power Grid (Recharged or the original). Everything else is unchanged.
- Setup: Central Europe resource market: coal on spaces 1–8, oil 3–8, garbage 7–8, uranium 8–16. Benelux: coal 3–8, oil 1–8, garbage 7–8, uranium 14–16. Use that map's refill card.
- Setup: Benelux has 5 regions: use all of them with 5 or 6 players, or the matching number with 2–4.
- Central Europe nuclear restriction: you may bid on or offer a nuclear plant only with a city in Hungary, Czech Republic or Slovakia. A player with cities only in Poland and Austria cannot. The Trust follows this too.
- Wien: with Wien in your network you buy garbage 1 Elektro cheaper per token, but never below 1.
- Benelux ecological plants: when the smallest future-market plant is ecological, it joins the current market, so 5 plants can be bought.
- Benelux Bureaucracy: in Steps 1 and 2, remove the smallest plant each round and replace it, unless you already removed the discounted plant at the end of Phase 2.
All Benelux / Central Europe rules (6)
- Central Europe Map Fill the Central Europe resource market with coal on 1–8, oil on 3–8, garbage on 7–8 and uranium on 8–16, and use the Central Europe…
- Central Europe Nuclear Plants You may bid on or choose a nuclear plant only if your network has at least one city in Hungary, Czech Republic or Slovakia.
- Wien Garbage Discount A player with Wien in their network buys garbage 1 Elektro cheaper per token, but the cost per token can never be 0.
- Benelux Map Fill the Benelux resource market with coal on 3–8, oil on 1–8, garbage on 7–8 and uranium on 14–16, and use the Benelux refill card.
- Benelux Ecological Plant Whenever the smallest plant in the future market is an ecological plant, it joins the current market, so five plants are available for…
- Benelux Smallest Plant Removed In every round of Steps 1 and 2, remove the smallest plant from the game in Phase 5 and draw a replacement, unless you already removed the…
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