Title:

Power Grid: Factory Manager

Description:
Power Grid: Factory Manager is the new stand-alone game in the world of Power Grid. It was released at Spiel ’09 in Essen, Germany.

Power Grid Factory Manager is a Business-Buildup-Game. You start with a small factory and 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 and cleverly distribute your workers for the best benefit.

Each player owns a factory and tries to earn the most money during the game. To be successful, each player must use his workers to buy the best machines and robots at the market and to run the machines most effectively in his factory. Because of increasing energy prices, the players must be careful to check the energy consumption of their factories and to avoid using only energy-consuming machines. Otherwise, their profit will suddenly vanish, the worst fear of a good businessperson.

Power Grid: Factory Manager uses a clever market mechanism for choosing the supply of factory tiles in the market.

AWARDS & HONORS:
2010 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee.
2010 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee.

COMPONENTS:
Cardboard:
1 Storage board (Clipboard 26x36cm)
5 Factory boards (player factory boards, 29.5x21cm)
106 Factory tiles (38x38mm; player counts on back) in 6 types:
36 Storage tiles (including 15 Starting tiles)
27 Machine tiles (including 10 Starting tiles)
18 Working Robot tiles
9 Personal Robot tiles
9 Control tiles
8 Optimization tiles

8 Energy Price tiles (38x38mm; lightening bolt on back; 2x 0, 4x +1, 2x +2)
12 Player Order tiles (38x38mm; gears on back; 1-12)

Paper money (blue 1 Electro, yellow 5 Electro, orange 10 Electro, lime green 50 Electro)

Wood:
35 Workers (squared arms, 7x per player color - red, blue, yellow, green, purple)
10 Seasonal Workers (one straight arm, 2x per player color)
15 Markers (10mm cubes, 3x per player color)
1 Energy Price marker (10mm black cube)
10 Shut Down tile markers (gray disks, 20mm dia. x 4mm)

Rulebook (6 p.)
Supplement A (The Player’s Factory) & B (The Market Mechanism) sheet (2 p.).
Max Number of Players:
2-5
Barcode:
655132004022
Publisher:
Rio Grande Games
Playing Time:
60
Year Published:
2009
Designer:
Friedemann Friese
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Artist:
Maura Kalusky
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Suggested Ages:
12+
Family:
Power Grid
Date Added:
2018-06-21 11:57:22
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$61.53
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-12-27
Date Added:
2018-06-21 11:57:22

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