A Brave New Geek
United Kingdom
Southampton
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Hi guys,
I am teaching Power Grid and wanted to know the best map for 6P that are new to it? Thanks! 
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juan
Argentina
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
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Probably Germany
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Paul Clarke
United Kingdom
Southampton
Hampshire
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Benelux is unforgiving due to easy blocking (low build costs allow rapid expansion)
Central Europe and Korea have some oddball rules
USA, Germany, France, Italy are all pretty vanilla,
Chinas okay, but I think the resources get expensive and can run out in the end game, screwing players who are not prepared for it but I suppose players need to learn about that sooner or later anyway.
I've not played any of the other maps.
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A Brave New Geek
United Kingdom
Southampton
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Quality - cheers Paul y Juanito. Germany, France or Italy it is then.
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Dan C
United States
Florida
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I thought germany was a max of 5 players?
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A Brave New Geek
United Kingdom
Southampton
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Germany worked well with six as a starter with 4 non-gamers. :-)
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Fraser
Australia
Melbourne
Yep that was 12 Power Grid maps back to back over two days. Worth doing, but possibly not in such a concentrated burst.
Ooh yes, now a little to the left - my nose is itchy. No, no the other left! Now what colour is 12 supporter badge going to be I wonder?
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jedimusic wrote: I thought germany was a max of 5 players? Only in later editions. Old maps still have six player marked on them. We've never had problems playing it six player.
If you want a tight game with lots of blocking for six players, go with Korea.
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Kevin Brown
United States
Macon
Georgia
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abravenewgeek wrote: Hi guys, I am teaching Power Grid and wanted to know the best map for 6P that are new to it? Thanks!
I would recommend US or Germany, whichever you're more familiar with the geography of.
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A Brave New Geek
United Kingdom
Southampton
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May try the Korea map next time then - cheers!
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Bill Eldard
United States
Burke
Virginia
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paulclarke339 wrote: USA, Germany, France, Italy are all pretty vanilla,
I played 6-player Italy in a PrezCon final about 4 years ago and it was nasty. The nature of the board encourages players to cluster up north; 1 maybe 2 start down south, but it's too expensive to expand quickly enough take advantage of the blood letting up north.
It's challenging, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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Eric Brosius
United States
Needham Heights
Massachusetts
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Avoid France. With 6 players, the 6th player in turn order on the first turn can just sit tight while the other 5 players buy initial power plants and then pick up the baby nuclear plant for 11 electros, gaining a huge advantage.
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Chris Johnson
United States
Azusa
California
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Karlsen wrote: jedimusic wrote: I thought germany was a max of 5 players? Only in later editions. Old maps still have six player marked on them. We've never had problems playing it six player.
I'm not sure about the German (or other languages), but as far as the English edition, only a single printing (the second one, I think) had a 5-player Germany; all subsequent printings I've seen have had 6-player Germany.
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Chris
United States
New Jersey
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Where would the rules be that say a map isn't for 6 players?
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Dan C
United States
Florida
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The turn order track for germany only has five slots. on my copy at least. Can't remember if rules specified or not.
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B K
United States
Cincinnati
Ohio
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I would think US map.
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Henning Kröpke
Germany
Ascheberg
Germany
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jedimusic wrote: The turn order track for germany only has five slots. on my copy at least. Can't remember if rules specified or not.
This is a misprint, happened a few years back in one of the many reprints. The map is and always was for up to 6 players.
Best regards,
Henning
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I generally prefer Benelux for 6P, just because it makes the game move much faster. The "always trash the lowest power plant" rule basically eliminates the step-2 stall, and cheap connection costs mean that fewer turns are spent accumulating cash. I haven't noticed serious blocking problems.
6P can really drag on on more normal maps. Benelux is designed to play quickly.
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John Cousins
Canada
Calgary
Alberta
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pilight wrote: abravenewgeek wrote: Hi guys, I am teaching Power Grid and wanted to know the best map for 6P that are new to it? Thanks! I would recommend US or Germany, whichever you're more familiar with the geography of.
I'm not sure how knowing the geography of a given country affects how well you play that board. In fact, if the city names were dropped from the board, what difference would it make? 
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