Terraform Mars in the most eco-friendly way possible to score points & win the game. We will use Hellas & Elysium, Prelude, Venus NEXT & Colonies Expansion sets.
Description:
Pick your corporation and compete with your fellow players to raise the temperature and oxygen content of Mars. Get your ass to Mars! Game time includes set-up, rules explanation and game play.
This expansion puts players in charge of powerful corporations, using cards and shared phases to raise oxygen, heat, and oceans while competing to make Mars livable.
Description:
Terraforming Mars: Ares Expansion is a fast-paced, card-driven strategy game where players take on the role of ambitious corporations working to make the Red Planet habitable. Using a shared phase system, everyone selects actions simultaneously, keeping turns quick while preserving meaningful choices. Players play project cards to raise global parameters like oxygen, temperature, and ocean coverage, unlocking new possibilities and scoring opportunities as Mars slowly transforms. Each decision balances long-term planning with short-term efficiency, as resources must be carefully managed to build engines, claim milestones, and earn awards. While all players contribute to the planet’s survival, only the corporation that best adapts, innovates, and times its strategies will emerge as the most influential force in humanity’s greatest planetary endeavor.
2025 U.S. National Terraforming Mars Championship - Final Round
Summary:
Final Round, for qualified terraformers. Winners at the final table will share a prize pool of $1,000 in IGS titles.
Description:
The 7th Annual Tournament, run by John Lash. Play one of the corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things. This event will include the Prelude Expansion. Players may play in any or all of the 4 preliminary rounds, but may only qualify for the Final Round once.
2025 U.S. National Terraforming Mars Championship - Preliminary Round
Summary:
Prelim Round 1 of 4, for experienced terraformers. Winners advance to the Final Round Saturday at 1PM for a chance to share a prize pool of $1,000 in IGS titles.
Description:
The 7th Annual Tournament, run by John Lash. Play one of the corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things. This event will include the Prelude Expansion. Players may play in any or all of the 4 preliminary rounds, but may only qualify for the Final Round once.