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Terraforming Mars: Prelude
Define your corporation
The Prelude for Terraforming Mars, you can speed up the process and define your corporation. Die Expansion comprises 35 Prelude cards, five Corporation cards and seven Project cards.
Project and Corporation cards are shuffled into the cards from the core game. Prelude cards form a separate deck. In addition to the cards dealt at the start, you receive four Prelude cards and select two of them when you also select Corporation and Project cards, the Prelude cards are free of charge. When all corporations are played and cards have been paid for, there is an extra round as Step 7b, in which every player - in turn order - plays his two Prelude cards and discards the remaining two. They work like Green cards and remain in play with visible tags, “?” is a wild tag and represents a tag as chosen by a player and is not triggered when being put into play. It also does not count for awards. Then the first layer begins the action phase - Step 8.
The complete set-up is considered to be part of Generation I.
If you play the solo variant with Prelude, you only have twelve generations to complete the terraforming process.
There is also a new solo version, TR Solo, which can be played with any expansion - The goal is a Terraforming Rating of 63 within 14 generations (or twelve when using Prelude). There is a new Standard Project, Buffer Gas, with costs of 16 M€ and yielding 1 TR.
Prelude intensifies the fun to play, and it also speeds up the initial game, albeit with difficult decisions at the start; furthermore, the new corporations provide new strategies. Absolutely recommended, but maybe not with your very first game of Terraforming Mars.
Players: 1-5
Age: 12+
Time: 120+
Designer: Jacob Fryxelius
Artist: Isaac Fryxelius
Price: ca. 20 Euro
Publisher: Fryxgames / Stronghold Games 2018
Genre: Development
Users: For experts
Special: 1 player
Version: en
Rules: cz de en es fr hu it nl pl pt ru
In-game text: yes
Comments:
Works well with every expansion
Speeds up the starting phase
Demands a far-reaching decision at the start
Compares to:
Terraforming Mars and expansions
Other editions:
Ghenos Games (it), Intrafin (fr nl), Lavka (ru), Maldito (es), Mindok (cz), Rebel (pl), Meeple BR Jogos (pt), 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