Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition

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Box 9.8 × 7.9 × 3.5 in (25 × 20 × 9 cm) · English Collector's edition (2021). Editions vary, check your copy before printing an insert.

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is an engine-building game in which players control interplanetary corporations with the goal of making Mars habitable (and profitable). You will do this by investing mega 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 high terraform rating (TR) and as many victory 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 (+8°C). 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.

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Sydney Engelstein , Jacob Fryxelius , Nick Little (I) , designer

William Bricker , Sydney Engelstein , Jacob Fryxelius +7 more , artist

FryxGames , publisher

7.6

Rating

2.9

Weight

1–4

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Main colors from the cover art. Find matching filament, or tap swatches to narrow.

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Insert / Organizer

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Insert / Organizer

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Insert / Organizer - Holds Discovery, Foundations, and Crisis Expansions

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Insert / Organizer - Holds Discovery, Foundations, and Crisis Expansions

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Insert / Organizer

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Insert / Organizer

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - 3D Mars Board and Temperature/Oxygen Tracks

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - 3D Mars Board and Temperature/Oxygen Tracks

Boards & Maps

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Player Board

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Player Board

Player Dashboards

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Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition Trackers

Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition Trackers

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Token Boxes

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Token Boxes

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Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition Insert (With Expansions)

Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition Insert (With Expansions)

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Insert / Organizer For Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition + All Expansions (Collectors/Retail Edition)

Insert / Organizer For Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition + All Expansions (Collectors/Retail Edition)

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Board Overlay

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Board Overlay

Player Dashboards

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition: Phase Card Holder

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition: Phase Card Holder

Card & Tile Holders

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition insert

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition insert

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Organizer Terraforming Mars Ares Expeditions + Exp

Organizer Terraforming Mars Ares Expeditions + Exp

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Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition Game Box Insert

Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition Game Box Insert

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Board Overlay

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Board Overlay

Board Frames & Overlays

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expansion, trays

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expansion, trays

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Insert / Organizer - Holds Discovery and Foundations Expansions

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Insert / Organizer - Holds Discovery and Foundations Expansions

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Table ready Boardgame insert for Terraforming Mars - Ares Expedition + expansions

Table ready Boardgame insert for Terraforming Mars - Ares Expedition + expansions

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition card ramp

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition card ramp

Card & Tile Holders

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Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition Insert-Organizer

Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition Insert-Organizer

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Organizer / Insert - All expansions in one box 3D print model

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - Organizer / Insert - All expansions in one box 3D print model

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Terraforming mars: Ares Expedition Crisis Expansion card holder

Terraforming mars: Ares Expedition Crisis Expansion card holder

Card & Tile Holders

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oxygen temperature token Terraforming mars: Ares expedition

oxygen temperature token Terraforming mars: Ares expedition

Tokens & Resources

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TM: Ares Expedition Inserts (Main + Crisis Box)

TM: Ares Expedition Inserts (Main + Crisis Box)

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Expansions (4 with models)

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Crisis

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Crisis

2023 · 10 models

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Discovery

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Discovery

2023 · 6 models

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Discovery · Foundations · Crisis

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Discovery · Foundations · Crisis

2023 · 5 models

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Foundations

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Foundations

2023 · 6 models

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