Description
Ares Expedition: Crisis is a brand new game mode that uses the mechanics of the original Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition in a challenging new way. Play it solo, or band together with up to three friends to work together to save Martian society after a catastrophic asteroid collision has taken out nearly all of your infrastructure. In Crisis Mode, the planet is already terraformed, but ongoing fallout from the impact is dropping temperatures, de-oxygenating the planet, and freezing over oceans, and there's no time to evacuate the entire global population. You must work fast, completing projects to counteract the ongoing crises and re-terraforming the planet before it becomes uninhabitable...with billions of people still on it.
•In Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition: Crisis, players will play as corporations, just as in the original Ares Expedition.
•You choose phases and play project cards asnormal. The difference is players are working together to keep Mars habitable after a natural disaster has landed the planet in crisis.
•Every round, a new Crisis card will be drawn that will require the players to achieve a certain goal to remove that crisis from play.
•Each turn that a Crisis card is not completely dealt with, it will lower oneor more of the terraforming metrics that keep Mars habitable. Handle all the crises as they arise. Eventually, a Crisis card will be drawn that allows the players to win the game once they have completed re-terraforming Mars.
•1-4 Players | Ages 14+ | 60 Minutes Playing Time
•In Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition: Crisis, players will play as corporations, just as in the original Ares Expedition.
•You choose phases and play project cards asnormal. The difference is players are working together to keep Mars habitable after a natural disaster has landed the planet in crisis.
•Every round, a new Crisis card will be drawn that will require the players to achieve a certain goal to remove that crisis from play.
•Each turn that a Crisis card is not completely dealt with, it will lower oneor more of the terraforming metrics that keep Mars habitable. Handle all the crises as they arise. Eventually, a Crisis card will be drawn that allows the players to win the game once they have completed re-terraforming Mars.
•1-4 Players | Ages 14+ | 60 Minutes Playing Time