Food Chain Magnate Strategy

My copy of Food Chain Magnate is on order recently arrived from Splotter! With only a handful of opportunities to play, I have to satisfy my excitement with strategy articles written by others. Rather than simply bookmarking them for later reference, I am compiling them here.

Outside Resources

Strategy articles are still few and far between given the youth of FCM. That said, tips and tricks are trickling in on the BGG FCM Strategy Forum.

• Brett MacDonald lays out the current top strategies to help get you started in his “So you want to be a food chain magnate? Frame work for 4 player strategies.”

• Seth Logan discusses pricing wars in his “Price Wars — How to Survive and Thrive.”

• Zachary Homrighaus, Ragnar Krempel, and others raise some excellent beginner’s strategy tips in the BoardGameGeek thread, “FCM Would Greatly Benefit from a Detailed Game Report by 3/4 Experienced Players”

• There is much discussion on opening strategies. Strongest in opinion (that I have seen) is Patrick McGregor’s “First Hiring Action, an In-Depth Break Down.” While his take is limited in scope (due to limited experience with mostly two-player games), it presents an opinionated and detailed examination of the issue — and I hope the subsequent discussion will reveal further insight.

• Patrick McGregor is at it again with an article on turn order: “You Should Always Go Second.... Unless You Shouldn’t.... An In Depth Turn Order Analysis.” As with his first article, be sure to read the follow-up comments and take everything with a grain of salt in these still early days of strategy development.

• While light on strategy, the episode of Heavy Cardboard on FCM is worthwhile: “Heavy Cardboard Episode 35 — Food Chain Magnate”