Terraforming Mars: Turmoil

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Political Arena — New action allows players to add delegates to different parties. The party with the most delegates becomes the dominant party, allowing for in-game bonuses.

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• If you're judging this group and you're on the sheepdog and you're digging through all that fur and you only see one eye then you've got the wrong end
• Ugly on a moose have you ever heard that
• the investigators are dogs and you're investigating like evil cats and everything like that
• this game is a brain burner
• it really is and it's very mathy
• it was surprisingly faithful to the game in how you play it
• we were debating like would it be better to put down this card and take a hit to our water if it meant getting some money back for it

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• Nippon originally came out in 2015 and it's had a new version.
• I love the original game. So, I'm more happy the fact that it's come back.
• Nippon is basically back; it's mostly the same as the old one.
• Concordia is the very definition of elegant.
• Princess of Florence was an absolutely classic game that I absolutely loved when it first came out.
• Endeavor Deep Sea is amazing and I've loved it.
• Millennium Blades is the game that I was thinking.
• it's a fantastic game.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Ambience of government change — change of government in turmoil with events and outcomes
• Colony production and tempo — production involving colonies and timing in the solar phase
• Colony tiles — build colonies with new colony tiles and improvements
• Endgame and solar phase adjustments — endgame trigger and solar phase mechanics with Turmoil
• Global Events — six parties and global events affecting endgame and scoring
• Lobbying and delegates — pay credits to move delegates into parties and gain leadership position
• Trade fleets — trade fleets can be moved from home base to colonies for income
• World Government and dominant party — dominant party selection, chairman, and governance effects

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• since its release terraforming Mars has spawned several expansions and variants
• The Prelude expansion provides a quicker and more variable start to the game by giving players moderately powerful extra resource cards on top of their corporation benefits
• Prelude components have this icon in the starting card draw you additionally draw four Prelude cards and choose two for free
• Venus components show this icon
• Venus board with its new Global parameter and special City locations
• Hostile venusian surface means there is no map
• you'll play with two more Colony tiles than there are players in the game or you'll use five in a two-player game
• there are six parties one of the six parties will be ruling initially
• the dominant party becomes the ruling party
• the first delegate in a party becomes its leader and that position can be usurped by another player with strictly more delegates
• turmoil adds project cards with turmoil specific prerequisites

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