Terra -forming Mars

This is the English -language strategic board game and former Game prize winner Terra formation mars for 1 to 5 players (from 12 years and older is advised) with a playing time of +/- 3-5 hours. Taming the red planet has begun! In Terra forming Mars you are at the head of you a corporation with your own specialization and goals. Play project cards, increase your production, place your cities and green zones on the map and strive for milestones and awards! Will your corporation point the way to a new era in the history of humanity?

Background information of Terraforming Mars

In the 2400s, humanity started the planet Mars in Terra forms. Gigantic companies, sponsored by the world government on earth, start huge projects to increase the temperature, the oxygen level and oceans until the environment is habitable. In Terra-forming Mars you play one of those companies and you work together in the terra formation process, but you conflict with victory points that are not only awarded for your contribution to terra formation, but also for promoting human infrastructure throughout the solar system, And doing other laudable things. Take competition with different cooperations to turn Mars into a habitable planet. Use a huge number of drugs and innovative technologies to increase the temperature and to create a livable atmosphere and oceans. Depending on the terra -shaped process, more and more people will leave the earth to settle on the red planet.

About the gameplay of Terraforming Mars

The players acquire unique project cards (of the more than Two hundred different project cards) By buying them in their hand. The projects (maps) can be of anything, the introduction of plants or animals, throwing asteroids, building cities to the surface, mining the moons of Jupiter and setting up greenhouse gas industries to warm up the atmosphere. The maps can provide you with immediate bonuses and increase your production of various raw materials. Many cards also have requirements and they become playable when the temperature, oxygen or oceans increases sufficiently. Buying tickets is expensive, so there is a balance between buying tickets (3 megac credits per card) and actually playing them (which can cost between 0 and 41 megac credits, depending on the project). Standard projects are always available to supplement your cards.

Your basic income, as well as your basic score, is based on your Terraform Rating (from 20), which increases every time you increase one of the three global parameters. However, your income is supplemented with your production and you will also receive VPs from many other sources.

Each player keeps his production and resources on his player plates, and the game uses six types of resources: Megacredits, steel, titanium, plants, energy and warmth. On the game board you fight for the best places for you city ​​tiles, oceant tiles and vegetable tiles. You also compete for different Milestones and prices who are worth many VPs. Each round is called a generation (guess why) and consists of the following phases:

1. Player's order This shifts clockwise.
2. Research phase: All players buy tickets from four personally drawn tickets.
3. Action phase: Players take turns 1-2 promotions from these options: play a card, claim a milestone, finance an award, use a standard project, convert a plant into green tiles (and increase oxygen), convert heat into a temperature and the use action of a card in the game. The turn goes around the table (sometimes several laps) until all players have fitted.
4. Production phase: Players receive resources based on their Terraform classification and production parameters.

When the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen, ocean) have all achieved their goal, the terra formation is completed and the game ends after that generation. Count your Terraform Rating and other VPs to determine the winning company!