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Terraforming Mars: Venus Next

Colonisation continues

After Mars has been terraformed, you now target Venus, a much more difficult undertaking than the terraforming of Mars, introducing a fourth global parameter -  the Venus Scale on the Venus board. As Venus is a substantially bigger long-term project than Mars, the scale only goes from 0% to 30% Terraforming, albeit with more opportunities to get Terraform Ratings (TR) and bonus steps, and as is the case with all other scales, there is no more TR to be got when the maximum has been reached.

The Venus Scale is not a game-end condition and cards relating to global requirements also affect Venus requirements. Then there are bonus levels - a free card for 8% and an extra TR at 16% on the Venus Scale. Air Scrapping is a new standard project, you increase the Venus Scale by one step or 15 M€, thereby gaining one TR as usual. There are four new regions for cities on the Venus Board, the cities are introduced via project cards in the expansion - Maxwell Base on the Venus surface, Stratopolis in the Venus atmosphere, Luna Metropolis on the Earth Moon and Dawn City, running on rails and moving in accordance with sunrise on Mercury. 49 new project cards comprise five new Corporations and Floaters a a new resource; Hoverlord is a new Milestone and Venuphile a new Award. After the production phase of a generation, there is a new Solar Phase, introducing support from the World Government for a non-maxed global parameter.

This is a coherent, harmonious and challenging expansion for Terraforming Mars, a must-have for fans of the core game, it takes care of the problem of overlong playing time with the introduction of the Solar Phase.

Players: 1-5

Age: 12+

Time: 120+

Designer: Jacob Fryxelius

Artist: Isaac Fryxelius

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Stronghold Games / Fryxgames 2017

Web: www.strongholdgames.com

Genre: Development, worker placement

Users: For experts

Special: 1 player

Version: en

Rules: de en es fr it nl pl ru

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Coherent expansion

Enhances the challenge

Topic of the expansion eminently suitable

Solar Phase reduces playing time

Compares to:

Terraforming Mars

Other editions:

Schwerkraft-Verlag (de), Maldito (es), Intrafin (fr nl), Ghenos Games (it), Rebel (pl), Lavka (ru)

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Tactic (turquoise): 3

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