Description

General Condition of Interior Components:

• New – Original shrink/seal is intact. Never opened.
• Like New – Pieces unpunched, cards wrapped, never played.
• Very Good – Original shrink/seal is intact. Never opened.
• Good – Played but well maintained. Pieces unsorted. Box/book(s) shows signs of wear.
• Fair – Discernible wear. Box/book(s) shows minor damage and/or have been slightly marked.
• Poor – Worn but playable. Box/book(s) shows damage and/or have been significantly marked.

Missing Components:

• Seller has inventoried the components and none are missing.
• Seller has not inventoried the components,but is confident thatnone are missing.
• Seller has not inventoried the components, and is unsure if any components are missing.

Smoking Household? NO

Pets?NO

Musty or “Basement” smell?NO

Additional Info:

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expeditionis an engine-building game in which players control interplanetary corporations with the goal of making Mars habitable (and profitable). You will do this by investingmega credits (MC)into project cards that will directly or indirectly contribute to the terraforming process. In order to win, you will want to accumulate a highterraform rating (TR)and as manyvictory points (VP)as you can. Players raise their TR by increasing global parameters:oceans, oxygen, and temperature.TR also determines each corporation’s basic income, and, at the end of the game TR counts as VP. Additional VP and production capabilities are awarded for building project cards and other actions taken during the game.

The game is played in rounds, and each round the players will choose one of five phases, which determines which activities will take place during that round. This means every round is different, but can 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. Every player will take all the phases selected for the round, and will receive a special bonus during the phase that they selected.To speed up the game, within each phase, players can act simultaneously without waiting for each other!

The game board has tracks for oxygen, temperature, and terraform rating, as well as a place for all of the ocean tiles that will be flipped over the course of the game. The game ends when there is enough oxygen to breath (14%), oceans enough to allow Earth-like weather (9), and the temperature is well above freezing (+8C). It will then 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.