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Terra Evolution

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The evolution of life on our planet - Terra Evolution simulates those developments. In the card game of a total of 208 cards there are Population cards, Species Cards, Continent cards and catastrophe cards.

You make up your own display in your area of the table - a planet made up from continent cards and animal varieties played next to those continents; this is supplemented by card stack, population stack and fossil stack made up from fossilized species. In the middle of the table all population cards and cards available for buy are stacked. In your turn you a choice of several actions; you need not resolve all of them, but those you do you must do in order, you cannot change the sequence: Play a population - play a species - play a continent - play a catastrophe - buy a card or take on from the fossil stack - final actions. Species cards with the exception of Bilateria cards demand the presence of other species cards; when you replace one species with another the replaced one goes to the fossil stack. All continents of a player must be different and for catastrophes played on an opposing continent you pay the activation cost and must play them on continents with a species card and corresponding impact area. You win with 10 to 15 fossil points, depending on the number of players, and a minimum of one mammal and one bird card.

Terra Evolution is a deck building game with strong interaction; the catastrophes offer many ways to disturb the opposing development and to acquire cards for your own deck; the topic has been well implemented and you have a good choice of strategic possibilities.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Tomi Rantala, Esa Wiik, Jaana Hintsanen

Art: Esa Wiik, Charles R. Knight

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Mindwarrior Games 2011

Web: www.mindwarriorgames.com

Genre: Card game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en fi jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Also good as a family game

Topic very well implemented

Low chance element

Many tactical and strategic possibilities

Compares to:

Other deck building games

Other editions:

English and Finnish editions

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0