Terraforming Mars : Ares Expedition

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition 

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is an engine-building game in which players control interplanetary corporations aiming to make Mars habitable (and profitable). You accomplish this by investing mega credits (MC) in project cards that will contribute directly or indirectly to the terraforming process. To win, you'll want to accumulate a high terraform rating (TR) and as many victory points (VP) as possible. Players increase their TR by raising the global parameters: oceans, oxygen, and temperature. TR also determines each corporation's base income and, at the end of the game, TR counts as VP. Additional VP and production capabilities are awarded for project cards and other actions taken during the game.

The game is played in rounds, and in each round players choose one of five phases, which determines the activities that will take place during that particular round. This means that each round is different, but it may consist of building new project cards, taking general and project-specific actions, producing income and resources (plants and heat), or researching to draw more project cards. Each player will undertake all the phases that have been chosen for the round and will receive a special bonus during the phase they selected. To speed up the game, within each phase players can act simultaneously without waiting for one another!

The game board has tracks for oxygen, temperature, and the terraforming rating, as well as a space for all the ocean tiles that will be flipped during the game. The game ends when there is enough oxygen to breathe (14%), enough oceans to allow Earth-like weather (9), and the temperature is sufficiently above zero (+8°C). Then it will be possible, if not comfortable, to live on the surface of Mars!

The winner is the player with the most VP at the end of the game.

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