Doug Bass
United States
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
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We played a game last week where the Step 3 card showed up in Phase 5, immediately after removing the highest and lowest numbered plants, per the Benelux rules for Steps 1 and 2. Should we have removed the lowest plant again (per the base game rules), leaving only five plants in the market? We ruled not.
Note: The Benelux rules state to remove the lowest plant in Steps 1 and 2, but they don't say only in Steps 1 and 2.
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Daniel Corban
Canada
Newmarket
Ontario
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This is what should have happened:
It's step 2, phase 5 (bureaucracy). You remove the smallest power plant and draw the step 3 card. Drawing the step 3 card during this phase means you remove the card itself along with the smallest power plant. Since "step 3" does not take effect until the following phase (as per the base game rules), you proceed as normal with the other parts of the phase. The end result is that you have four power plants remaining.
From this point on, during phase 5, you remove the smallest power plant and draw a new one to replace it.
So your answer is, no, you do not again remove the smallest power plant. You will have six power plants available.
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Chris Gray
United States
Erie
Colorado
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So you have four plants in the market in phase 3? That's not how we play. Hmm...
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Daniel Corban
Canada
Newmarket
Ontario
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Sorry, I meant six, not four. For some reason I had in my head that the normal number of plants is six, not eight.
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Randall Bart
United States
Granada Hills
California
Red October
Earth is one of my favorite planets
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dcorban wrote: Sorry, I meant six, not four. For some reason I had in my head that the normal number of plants is six, not eight.
Playing on the Russia map?
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Doug Bass
United States
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
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Thanks guys, I'm clear now.
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Daniel Corban
Canada
Newmarket
Ontario
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Barticus88 wrote: dcorban wrote: Sorry, I meant six, not four. For some reason I had in my head that the normal number of plants is six, not eight. Playing on the Russia map?
It is one of my new favorites.
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