Middle East / South Africa rules

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Middle East / South Africa is an expansion for Power Grid. map expansion (Recharged).

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Middle East / South Africa

These maps are played with Power Grid (Recharged or the original). Everything else is unchanged.

Setup: Middle East: put 3 garbage and 1 uranium token back in the box. Fill the resource market with coal (natural gas) on spaces 2–8, oil 2–8, garbage on space 8 and uranium 12–16. Use the Middle East refill card.
Setup: Middle East plants: after preparing the market and stack, remove plants 06, 11 and 14 if they are in the current market.
Middle East Step 1: garbage and nuclear plants are not available: remove any that reach the current market and draw replacements (a plug-back plant leaves the game, a bigger plant goes face down below the stack).
Setup: South Africa: fill the resource market with coal on spaces 1–8, oil 4–8, garbage 5–8 and uranium 12–16, with an empty storage space for coal beside it. Remove oil plant 07 and use the South Africa refill card.
Middle East steps: Step 2 starts after the Step 3 card is drawn the first time, not at 7 cities: shuffle the stack and put the Step 3 card back below it. Step 3 starts after the card is drawn the second time.
Middle East Step 2: at the start of Step 2 remove the two lowest-numbered current-market plants into the box, one after the other, drawing a replacement in between.
Middle East Bureaucracy: during Step 2, put the two biggest future-market plants face down below the stack, one at a time, drawing a replacement after the first.
Middle East oil: resupply always adds the stated oil, moving oil from the most expensive spaces down toward the cheapest space (which holds any number) if the supply is short. Garbage and uranium prices can only fall to 2.
South Africa coal: you can always buy coal for 8 Elektro from the storage space. Coal you use goes there, and refills take coal from it.
South Africa connections: the international connections to neighbouring countries cost a flat 30 Elektro and no building cost, and only one player can use each, by putting a house on its flag space (it counts on the scoring track at once).

Power Grid rules it changes

Update the Power Plant Market On the Middle East, during Step 2 put the two biggest future-market plants face down below the stack, one after the other, drawing a replacement after the first.

All Middle East / South Africa rules (7)

Middle East Setup Put 3 garbage tokens and 1 uranium token back in the box, so you use 21 garbage and 11 uranium.
Middle East Garbage and Nuclear Plants At the start and in Step 1 there are no garbage or nuclear plants available.
Middle East Resupply and Market Update Resupply with the Middle East refill cards, always refilling the stated amount of oil.
Middle East Steps Step 2 starts at the start of the next phase after the Step 3 card is drawn for the first time, and connecting 7 cities does not trigger it.
South Africa Setup Fill the resource market with coal on spaces 1–8, oil on 4–8, garbage on 5–8 and uranium on 12–16, with a storage space for coal below the…
South Africa Coal Storage You can always buy coal for 8 Elektro from the storage space below the market.
South Africa Connections and Metropolises Capetown, Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria are each two cities with a connection cost of 0.

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