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Mission: Red Planet

The Second Edition of the 2005 Classic
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"Simple, fun!"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Simple and fun!

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"Its a must have for the boardgamer in all of us"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

You can't plan ahead because of the randomized cards others play. It can be chaos to land on the planet. You can strategize when your on the planet. Plus you can modify the 2 player game for solo play up to 5 players. Its quick if you dont worry about what other players cards that will be played. Its a must have!

"Good fun game"
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

The first couple of games make the game seem like “yeah, this might be OK”. The more you play, the more you learn new strategies and it gets better and better and you end up thinking " yeah, this is a good, fun game, with some fun strategies etc". Very much worth a look at.

Description

With technology rapidly developing and the human population growing, Victorian-era Earth is in dire need of fuel, land, and other natural resources. Fortunately, automated probes sent to Mars have discovered celerium, an ore that can be combusted to produce ten thousand times more power than a steam engine, and sylvanite, the densest substance ever found. More incredibly, the probes found ice that could be used in terraforming the planet, bringing the idea of colonizing Mars even closer to becoming a reality.

As the head of a mining corporation, these minerals and ice found on Mars could make you unfathomably wealthy – if you can reach them before your competitors. You have ten rounds to send your astronauts into space, occupy the planet's most resource-rich zones, and harvest as much celerium, sylvanite, and ice as possible. At your command is a team of nine professionals. Each has a unique skill set, from helping your astronauts traverse the Red Planet to blowing up spaceships before they launch.

In each round in Mission: Red Planet, players start by secretly deploying one of their character cards, with this card determining both when they place astronauts on the spaceships awaiting launch to Mars and which special action they take during the round. Each spaceship has a specified destination, and until an astronaut sets foot in a region, no one knows which resource they'll find. Players collect resources (worth points) three times during the game, and they each have a secret mission card that might grant them additional points at the game's end. During the game, players might acquire an additional mission or a research card that changes the value of what awaits on Mars.

The 2015 edition of Mission: Red Planet features the same gameplay as the original 2005 edition, but it includes:

  • Components for up to six players instead of five
  • Special two-player variant rules
  • New action cards and revised mission and discovery cards
  • Mars' moon Phobos is a new zone that astronauts can explore before possibly returning to the planet itself

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Release date NZ
May 1st, 2011
Publisher
Age Groups
Number of Players
2-6
Play Time
45-90 minutes
Recommended Age
14 years or over
Board Game Type
Board Game
Board Game Requirement
Base Game
Box Dimensions (mm)
300x300x75
UPC
841333100025
Product ID
10514611

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