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Terraorming Mars: Colonies
From mars to the outer moons
In Terraforming Mars, your corporation is involved in the transformation of Mars. You play generations of 1. Turn order, 2. Research, including acquisition of one of four cards. 3. Action: play a card; use standard project - patents, power station, asteroid, water, greenery, city; Claim a milestone; fund an award; convert plants to greenery to enhance oxygen; convert heat into rise of temperature. 4. Production – Energy turns into heat and you receive resources. When the goal levels for water, temperature and oxygen have been achieved, you add your Terraforming Rating to victory points from awards, milestones, status of the board and cards.
In Terraforming Mars: Colonies, the Outer Solar System becomes the new frontier - colonies on Saturn, Jupiter within reach! As a corporation you visit several moons, where you set up colonies or trade with them. Colony project cards and corporation cards are shuffled into those of the core game. With one action you can build one of maximum three colonies on a moon; and only one colony per player on a moon. Trading is an action, too, you move your trade fleet to a colony, only one fleet per colony is allowed, and you follow the instructions of the colony. The Solar Phase is resolved after the Production phase, step 3 is Colony production with marker advancement on the colony tiles.
The founding of colonies as a new action as well as the new corporation and project cards introduce fresh ideas into the game; the topic fits in well and integrates seamlessly with the core game alone or in combination with the other expansions. Enhances pleasure to play without elongation of playing time!
Players: 1-5
Age: 12+
Time: 120+
Designer: Jacob Fryxelius
Artist: Isaac Fryxelius
Price: ca. 30 Euro
Publisher: Fryxgames / Stronghold Games 2018
Genre: Development, colonies
Users: For experts
Special: 1 player
Version: en
Rules: cz de en es fr hu it nl pl ru
In-game text: yes
Comments:
Clever, functional colony boards and ships
Thematical and game-play expansion
Playing time not extended
Good in combination with all other expansions
Compares to:
Terraforming Mars and its other expansions
Other editions:
Ghenos Games (it), Intrafin (fr nl), Lavka (ru), Maldito (es), Mindok (cz), Rebel (pl), Reflexshop (hu), Schwerkraft (de)
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 3
Strategy (blue): 3
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 2
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0