![]() ![]() To start, each player is dealt a hand of eight project cards from the deck. It’s a nice system that saves components, but be careful as a small jostle of your board could suddenly change what you own. Interestingly, the game uses generic cubes to denote quantities of 1, 5, and 10 – and their location on your player board defines their identity. There are also areas to store your inventory of MC, heat, and plants. Players each get a player board where they can track their production of MegaCredits (MC), heat, plants, and card drawing power, plus their steel and titanium capabilities. Ocean tiles are shuffled and placed face down on the central area. The main game board shows these three aforementioned projects as well as a Terraforming Rating track around the outside. When all three of these are complete, the game ends, and the player with the most victory points at that time will win. There are three components to this – raising the temperature, increasing the oxygen supply and adding oceans – and unsurprisingly, you’ll score victory points for contributing to these projects. Players will use these cards to build their engine – with the goal to convert the planet into something habitable for humans. Lots of cards – 208 project cards to be exact. Like the original game, TMAE revolves around a bunch of cards. This new version promises a similar experience but in a smaller timeframe! To me, the game plods along well past its expiration date – I don’t care for 3 hour games with a lot of downtime. I feel like I am in the minority of OG writers in that I don’t particularly care for Terraforming Mars. Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition (TMAE) is a new 2021 release to follow up on the critically acclaimed game Terraforming Mars. Played with review copy provided by Stronghold Games.Designers: Jacob Fryxelius, Nick Little and Sydney Engelstein.Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition (Target Exclusive Edition)
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