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Expansion for Terraforming Mars
Terraforming Mars: Prelude
Expansion impact
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Fit with your taste
- Published
- 2018
- Players
- 1–5
- Play time
- 90–120 min
- Reach
- Widely known (via base game)
- Evaluations
- 0
How it plays
Build a production engine, raise Mars’s temperature and oxygen, place oceans, and earn the most victory points. At the start, choose Prelude cards for immediate boosts; each turn, play project cards, use actions, manage resources, and place tiles. The game ends when all global parameters are complete, then points come from Terraform Rating, tiles, milestones, awards, and cards; solo play instead targets 63 TR before time runs out.
Main mechanics explained
- Hand management: Timing which card to spend is the core puzzle.
- Drafting: You pick from a shared pool and pass the rest along.
- Tile laying: You build a shared or personal board tile by tile.
Full publisher description
As the mega corporations are getting ready to start the terraforming process, you now have the chance to make those early choices that will come to define your corporation and set the course for the future history of Mars - this is the prelude to your greatest endeavors! Terraforming Mars: Prelude introduces the new Prelude cards. At the start of the game, each player chooses from Prelude cards that jumpstart the terraforming process or boost their corporation's engine. This expansion also includes 5 new corporations and 7 new project cards that thematically fit the early stages of terraforming a new planet and can be added to the game even if you're not using the Prelude cards; and a new solo mode where your goal is to get to 63 TR before time runs out instead of completing the global parameters. Prelude is an expansion to Terraforming Mars , and can be combined with any other Terraforming Mars expansions or variants.
What this expansion brings
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