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These are all in excellent condition and are a set of five
original Seasonal Promo Pack 2023 cards for the brilliant Terraforming Mars
(TFM) science fiction game. These are guaranteed original Terraforming Mars
board game accessories. This Seasonal Promo Pack contains all the four seasonal
promo cards from 2023, with the inclusion of a stand-alone promo card named 16
Psyche. None of these is contained in the base game or any expansion: I've
added these cards into my standard game,
These cards are printed in English. There are 5 cards in
the set. You will receive:
Five Project cards:
16 Psyche
Robot Pollinators
Supercapacitors
Icy Impactors
Directed Heat Usage
Terraforming Mars really is a great game that is very
cleverly designed, it plays well and retains interest. Players will need
strategy, tactics and logic to win. It is a resources card game, but tiles are
also used and player boards are there to keep track of the changing in game
resources. The playing time is said to be 120 minutes, but I would say that was
average to minimal time needed to play, as I've played two player games that
took near 6 hours to finish. A better understanding of the rules lowers this,
plus I'd feel that more players would reduce the time involved overall, as many
actions reduce game length. It all depends on the cards that are drawn, and how
the players play, as different tactics can pay dividends. Each player is in
control of a competing corporation that is trying to tame the red planet. They
each race to obtain awards and reach milestones before the other players.
This game is ranked number 4 in the BoardGameGeek top
games of all time rankings. To put that into perspective, that list has 17063
different games in it, so to come number 4 really is an achievement.
Terraforming Mars has been repeatedly nominated and is a Multi-award winning
board game. Some of those nominations and awards are as follows:
2016 Ars Technica listed in the top 20 best games of 2016
2016 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Nominee
2016 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Winner
2016 Golden Geek Best Solo Board Game Nominee
2016 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee
2016 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee
2016 Polygon Best game of 2016 Runner up
2016 Polygon best solo game of 2016 Runner up
2016 Polygon best strategy game of 2016 Runner up
2016 Swiss Gamers Award Nominee
2017 Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Board Game Nominee
2017 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family / Adult Game
Winner
2017 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming Nominee
2017 Goblin Magnifico Nominee
2017 Gouden Ludo Best Expert Game Nominee
2017 International Gamers Award, General Strategy:
Multi-player Nominee
2017 Jogo do Ano Nominee
2017 Kennerspiel des Jahres Nominee
2017 Tric Trac d'Argent
2017 Tric Trac Nominee
2018 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Expert Nominee
2018 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Expert Winner
2018 Guldbrikken Best Expert Game Winner
Terraforming Mars is a board game for 1 to 5 players and
was designed by Jacob Fryxelius. It was initially published by FryxGames in
2016, and later by 12 others, including Stronghold Games. It is an economic,
environmental, industry / manufacturing, Science Fiction, Space Exploration,
Territory Building game.
The Terraforming Mars game is set in the science fiction
future of the 2400's. Players in Terraforming Mars take on the role of giant
competing corporations. They have been sponsored by the World Government on
Earth to terraform the Red planet by raising the temperature and creating
oxygen, water, plant and animal life, for habitation. Mars is represented by a
board made up of 61 contiguous hexes (there are two others out in space, Phobos
and Ganymede) onto which can be placed oceans, plants, cities, and other
features. Players compete with each other to earn the most victory points
(VP's). These are counted up at the end of the game to dictate the winner and
add up on various factors in the game by player contribution to the
terraforming process, as well as building human infrastructure on the Red
planet.
In the game players collect income and resources which
allow them to buy to their hand and play different project cards. These cards
can represent various technologies, amongst others, infrastructure built,
scientific accomplishments or localised events. So anything from introducing
plant life or animals, hurling asteroids at the surface, building cities, to
mining the moons of Jupiter and establishing greenhouse gas industries to heat
up the atmosphere. The cards can give you immediate bonuses, as well as
increasing your production of different resources. Many cards also have
requirements and they become playable when the temperature, oxygen, or ocean
coverage increases enough. Buying cards is costly, so there is a balance
between buying cards (3 megacredits per card) and actually playing them (which
can cost anything between 0 to 41 megacredits, depending on the project).
Standard Projects are always available to complement your cards. The cards
played can then increase the players income, resources or directly contribute
to terraforming the Red planet. Your basic income, as well as your basic score,
is based on your Terraform Rating (starting at 20), which increases every time
you raise one of the three global parameters. However, your income is
complemented with your production, and you also get VPs from many other
sources, Capitalism at its best!
Each player keeps track of their production and resources
on their player boards, and the game uses six types of resources: MegaCredits,
Steel, Titanium, Plants, Energy, and Heat. On the game board, you compete for
the best places for your city tiles, ocean tiles, and greenery tiles. You also
compete for different Milestones and Awards worth many VPs. The game
automatically ends when three terraforming conditions have all been met:
1, the atmosphere's oxygen level has been raised to 14%
2, the temperature has risen to 8 degrees Celsius
3, nine ocean tiles have been placed
There have been five very good expansions released for
this excellent game, Hellas and Elysium (2017), Venus Next (2017), Prelude
(2018), Colonies (2018), and Turmoil (2019).
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