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In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those 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. The players acquire unique project cards (from over two hundred different ones) by buying them to their hand. The projects (cards) can represent anything from introducing plant life or animals, hurling asteroids at the surface, building cities, to mining the moons of Jupiter and establishing greenhouse gas industries to heat up the atmosphere. The cards can give you immediate bonuses, as well as increasing your production of different resources. Many cards also have requirements and they become playable when the temperature, oxygen, or ocean coverage increases enough. Buying cards is costly, so there is a balance between buying cards (3 megacredits per card) and actually playing them (which can cost anything between 0 to 41 megacredits, depending on the project). Standard Projects are always available to complement your cards. Your basic income, as well as your basic score, is based on your Terraform Rating (starting at 20), which increases every time you raise one of the three global parameters. However, your income is complemented with your production, and you also get VPs from many other sources. Each player keeps track of their production and resources on their player boards, and the game uses six types of resources: MegaCredits, Steel, Titanium, Plants, Energy, and Heat. On the game board, you compete for the best places for your city tiles, ocean tiles, and greenery tiles. You also compete for different Milestones and Awards worth many VPs. Each round is called a generation (guess why) and consists of the following phases: 1) Player order shifts clockwise.2) Research phase: All players buy cards from four privately drawn.3) Action phase: Players take turns doing 1-2 actions from these options: Playing a card, claiming a Milestone, funding an Award, using a Standard project, converting plant into greenery tiles (and raising oxygen), converting heat into a temperature raise, and using the action of a card in play. The turn continues around the table (sometimes several laps) until all players have passed.4) Production phase: Players get resources according to their terraform rating and production parameters. When the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen, ocean) have all reached their goal, the terraforming is complete, and the game ends after that generation. Count your Terraform Rating and other VPs to determine the winning corporation!

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The Prophecy of Kings expansion is packed with new content for Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). The galaxy has grown far larger as seven never-before-seen factions enter the game, each boasting its own unique strengths and weaknesses, from the gene-altering powers of the Mahact to the watchful guard of the Argent Flight, to the mysterious and ancient Empyrean. And new factions aren't the only way the galaxy grows bigger! Forty new system and hyperlane tiles add new planets and obstacles to the map, and with two new colors of player components included in the box, you can play Twilight Imperium with up to eight players. But that's only a fraction of what you'll find in this expansion! Adding even more flavor to your chosen species, a wealth of unique leader cards arrive to support every faction in the game, giving you powers to unlock during the game. Lumbering mechs stomp onto the battlefield as powerful new ground forces with unique special abilities for every faction. As you venture into the unknown regions of space, brand-new exploration decks seed new planets and the void of space with new discoveries, including fragments you can combine to create awe-inspiring relics. On top of this, Prophecy of Kings includes new action cards, agenda cards, objectives, technologies, promissory notes, legendary planets, and more.

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**THIS LISTING IS FOR THE STORAGE BOX ONLY AND DOES NOT CONTAIN THE BASE GAME**Terraforming Mars: Big Box is both a storage option for all the Terraforming Mars material released to date — the base game, five expansions, and the first-player rover — and a set of 3D terrain tiles to dress up the game. Included in the box are: 24 city tiles (four each of six designs) 40 forest tiles (eight each of five designs) 9 ocean tiles 14 special tiles (the original eleven, plus three new ones) Terraforming Mars: Big Box also includes three new cards that relate to the three new special tiles, card dividers, and five plastic markers for the global parameters.

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Our world has widened before us. Corporations expand their operations to all corners of the solar system in pursuit of minerals and resources. Most places are not suited for terraforming, but building colonies may greatly improve your income and your possibilities in achieving that higher goal — the terraforming of Mars. Send your trade fleet to distant moons! Colonize the clouds of Jupiter! And let your Earth assets propel you to success! Terraforming Mars: Colonies, an expansion for Terraforming Mars that can be played with only the base game or with any combination of expansions, lets you visit the outer solar system. It features colony tiles where you can build colonies and send your trade fleet. It also includes new cards and corporations.

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As the mega corporations are getting ready to start the terraforming process, you now have the chance to make those early choices that will come to define your corporation and set the course for the future history of Mars - this is the prelude to your greatest endeavors! In Terraforming Mars: Prelude, you choose from Prelude cards that jumpstart the terraforming process or boost your corporation's engine. There are also 5 new corporations and 7 project cards that thematically fit the early stages of terraforming a new planet. Prelude is an expansion to Terraforming Mars, and can be combined with any other Terraforming Mars expansion or variant.

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Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition) is a game of galactic conquest in which three to six players take on the role of one of seventeen factions vying for galactic domination through military might, political maneuvering, and economic bargaining. Every faction offers a completely different play experience, from the wormhole-hopping Ghosts of Creuss to the Emirates of Hacan, masters of trade and economics. These seventeen races are offered many paths to victory, but only one may sit upon the throne of Mecatol Rex as the new masters of the galaxy. No two games of Twilight Imperium are ever identical. At the start of each galactic age, the game board is uniquely and strategically constructed using 51 galaxy tiles that feature everything from lush new planets and supernovas to asteroid fields and gravity rifts. Players are dealt a hand of these tiles and take turns creating the galaxy around Mecatol Rex, the capital planet seated in the center of the board. An ion storm may block your race from progressing through the galaxy while a fortuitously placed gravity rift may protect you from your closest foes. The galaxy is yours to both craft and dominate. A round of Twilight Imperium begins with players selecting one of eight strategy cards that both determine player order and give their owner a unique strategic action for that round. These may do anything from providing additional command tokens to allowing a player to control trade throughout the galaxy. After these roles are selected, players take turns moving their fleets from system to system, claiming new planets for their empire, and engaging in warfare and trade with other factions. At the end of a turn, players gather in a grand council to pass new laws and agendas, shaking up the game in unpredictable ways. After every player has passed their turn, players move up the victory track by checking to see whether they have completed any objectives throughout the turn and scoring them. Objectives are determined by setting up ten public objective cards at the start of each game, then gradually revealing them with every round. Every player also chooses between two random secret objectives at the start of the game, providing victory points achievable only by the holder of that objective. These objectives can be anything from researching new technologies to taking your neighbor's home system. At the end of every turn, a player can claim one public objective and one secret objective. As play continues, more of these objectives are revealed and more secret objectives are dealt out, giving players dynamically changing goals throughout the game. Play continues until a player reaches ten victory points.

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It’s the year 2700 and you’ve been selected to compete for the prestigious title of Ambassador to the Galactic Council. Not just anyone can become Ambassador—you must earn fame and glory by leaving the known universe behind. Delve deep into the unknown, discover new solar systems, meet new extraterrestrial lifeforms and use your diplomacy so they will aid you with their powers. As you explore the space in between, you’ll encounter wormholes, merchants, pirates and more. All of this is made easier with the right upgrades to your ship. Discover the joy of building your own mothership. Add boosters to fly faster, lock on freight pods to increase your bargaining power and diplomacy, and outfit cannons to fend off pirates. Each mothership also has a unique shaking mechanism to determine your moves and encounters in the game.

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Terraforming Mars: Venus Next, the second expansion for the Terraforming Mars base game, has players building flying cities and making the atmosphere more hospitable on the deadly planet Venus.In Venus Next, the World Government chooses to also fund the terraforming of Venus. Around 50 project cards and 5 corporations are added, with a special focus on how to make Venus habitable. With the new floater resource, a new milestone, a new award, a new tag, and a new terraforming parameter, players are given more paths to victory and an even more varied play.

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Hellas & Elysium is the first expansion for Terraforming Mars. It features two new game boards which can be played instead of the main game’s Tharsis map. • Elysium takes players almost to the opposite side of Mars’ equator, with vast lowlands for oceans in the north and a dry, mineral-rich south. Place a tile on Olympus Mons, the highest peak in the solar system, to gain three free cards! • Hellas, the southern wild, includes Mars’ south pole and the enormous seven-hex Hellas crater that just begs to become a giant lake. Building around the pole gives you new placement bonuses in the form of heat and possibly even water.

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Turmoil, the fifth expansion to Terraforming Mars, takes players back to Mars, and the struggle for control and progress of human society on a big and dangerous planet. The expansion includes new corporations, new projects, and a new type of cards — Global Events, from dust storms to riots to rising alloy demand — that give you something to plan for 3 generations in advance. At the heart of this is the political arena of the Terraforming Committee. A new action allows players to add delegates to different parties, the first delegate each generation being free, and additional ones costing 5 MC. Neutral delegates are added by the global events, representing the wishes and trends of society.When a player (even the neutral player) has more delegates in a party than any other player, that player takes over the party leader seat for that party, and when a party has more delegates than any other party, it becomes dominant. The dominant party will become ruling during the next generation, imposing its one-time bonus, its ongoing policy, and granting chairmanship for its party leader, awarding that player 1 terraform rating. Party: Bonus: Policy:Kelvinist 1MC/heat production 10MC -> 1 heat production + 1 energy productionScientist 1MC/science tag 10MC -> draw 3 cards (once per player)Unity 1MC/planet tag Titanium is worth +1MCMars First 1MC/building tag Placing a tile on Mars gives 1 steelGreens 1MC/biological tag placing a greenery tile gives 4MCReds 1TR for the lowest player Increasing TR in the action phase costs +3MC The political arena also determines the players' influence, which can be used to moderate or enhance the effect of the current global event. Influence is gained from being the chairman of the Committee, being party leader in the dominant party, and for having a non-leader delegate in the dominant party.In order to pay for all these new bonuses, the Committee is revising the terraform rating, lowering it for all players by 1 step each generation. In Turmoil, players can try to force their own agenda, or push it in a more moderate, economic way. They can play to mitigate the global events with influence, or adjust their play to better take advantage of them. And they can anticipate the competing players' agendas and try to benefit from them, or counteract them. Turmoil is an expert expansion - be prepared to meet the full spectrum of human civilization in the era of terraforming Mars!

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Set your sights on distant stars and strive to colonize the galaxy in Gaia Project, the follow-up to Terra Mystica! Explore the vast reaches of space and convert planets to meet your faction's unique environmental needs as you seek to tighten your grasp on the galaxy. Fourteen different factions stand ready to boldly take their first steps into the cosmos while building structures to generate resources, researching new technology, and uniting planets to form powerful federations. Chart your course in the cosmos in Gaia Project!

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  The first settlers arrived On Mars in the year 2037. In the decades after establishing Mars Base Camp, private exploration companies began creating a self-sustaining colony. As chief astronaut for one of these enterprises, you want to be a pioneer in developing the biggest, most advanced colony on Mars by achieving mission goals and your company's private agenda.  On Mars is played over several rounds. When in orbit, you can take blueprints, buy and develop technologies, and take supplies from the Warehouse. When on the surface of the planet, you can construct buildings with your bots, upgrade these buildings using blueprints, lead scientists and acquire new contracts, and explore the planet's surface with your rover. In the Shuttle Phase, players may travel between the colony and the Space Station in orbit. To win the game, players must significantly contribute to the development of the first colony on Mars. Components 1 Gameboard board 4 Player boards and player aids 1 Reference book 30 Building tiles (including 5 Starting Building tiles) 20 Shelter Building tiles (5 in each player color) 1 Building tiles display and 1 Scientist/Earth Contracts Board 8 Research tiles 19 Discovery tiles 20 Tech tiles (including 4 starting Shelter Tech tiles) 3 Mission tracker cubes and 1 Remaining Missions marker 3 Mission markers (A, B, and C) 8 LSS Reward tiles 1 Shuttle and 1 Colony level marker 12 First Colonist cards and 6 First Colonist tiles 6 Scientist markers 20 Resource tiles of each type and 30 Crystals 4 LSS Track markers 48 Colonists (12 in each player color) 4 Rovers (1 in each player color) 20 Ships and 20 Progress cubes (5 in each player color) 16 Bots (4 in each player color) 4 Player markers and 4 OP markers (1 in each player color) 32 Advanced Building markers (8 in each player color) 24 Blueprint cards 6 Scientist cards 12 Earth Contract cards 16 Private Goal cards 9 Mission cards 12 Solo cards

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After befriending the many alien civilizations across the galaxy, you must prove you are worthy enough to be a member of the Galactic Council The council gives you three missions: • Stop the notorious pirate leader Hog-Kahm from raiding planets in the sector.• Save your sector from giant ship-eating space amoebas.• Find a lost group of ancient people and study their technology. Accept the missions. Build your legacy. Requires: CATAN – Starfarers   CONTENTS: 2 amoeba figures, 25 ship capsules, 4 research markers, 2 pirate bases,1 asteroid, 1 outpost of the Lost People, 4 combat dice, 4 cubemarkers, 10 reinforcement chips, 6 position markers, 7 number discs, 2special markers, 2 marker arrows, 2 expansion markers, 1 researchboard, 8 colony ship and mission ship tokens, 39 encounter cards, 12overview cards, 10 research cards, 7 location cards, 4 friendship cards,1 rulebook

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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 as normal. 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 one or 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.

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Race for the Galaxy is the classic game of space civilizations for 2-4 players.   Come discover what thousands of players around the world already know.  Explore the galaxy, conquer worlds, expand your empire and defeat your opponents. Each game of Race for the Galaxy lasts less than 30 minutes.  But, the challenge is endless.  Every game is different with dozens of new worlds to explore and conquer. Now available in the new Second Edition adds 6 new start worlds, color-blind support, updated rules with sample turns for easier teaching.

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Terraforming Mars: Small Box expansion has a set of 3D terrain tiles to dress up the game. Included in the box are 24 city tiles, 40 forest tiles, 9 ocean tiles and 14 special tiles (the original eleven, plus three new ones) It also includes three new cards that relate to the three new special tiles, card dividers, and five plastic markers for the global parameters.

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This is the Collector’s edition of the game, containing dual-layered player boards and custom storage trays. A new, stand-alone game in the universe of the internationally best-selling game, Terraforming Mars! In this time of unprecedented prosperity and advancement for humankind, we are finally ready to expand beyond what once were considered our limits and make a new home among the stars. Ares Expedition is a card game where you take control of an interplanetary corporation with the mission to make Mars habitable (and profitable). Featuring simultaneous action selection and simultaneous resolution, Ares Expedition is a fast-playing strategy game inspired by scientific principles. Will you lead humanity’s new era?

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As you begin to establish the first colonies on Mars, you discover that you are not alone in the galaxy… and that you are not welcome anywhere beyond Earth. Play the familiar role of human civilization reaching out to Mars, or play for the other side, fighting to prevent the infectious spread of these beings bent on expanding to every habitable planet in the galaxy! On Mars: Alien Invasion is a somewhat cooperative expansion for On Mars. This box contains four chapters of a story by Nathan Morse, and each story features a different way to play the game, designed by Vital Lacerda. You will play one versus many; completely cooperatively; and even solo if you wish, depending on the chapter. Included are four fresh and completely replayable ways to establish colonies On Mars! Components • Over 20 Alien Meeples • Alien Player Board • Alien Advanced Building Marker • Sentry & Defense Exosuit Meeple • New Scientist - The Microbiologist • 77 Full-size Cards and 23 Mini Cards (includes the Beacon Promo Card) • Over 115 Tokens and Markers!   This is an expansion a copy of On Mars Required.

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As empires expand into space, they encounter mysterious alien artifacts and races uplifted to sentience eons ago. Meanwhile, Imperium factions provoke other worlds to ally and rebel as the galaxy drifts towards war.Can you build the most prosperous space empire in these challenging times?Expansion and Brinkmanship bundles 3 previously published expansions, The Gathering Storm, Rebel vs Imperium, and The Brink of War into a single product, compatible with 2nd Edition Race for the Galaxy.This product is an expansion for Race for the Galaxy 2nd Edition (RIO301). It requires the base game to be played. Race for the Galaxy is the classic game of space civilizations for 2-4 players.   Come discover what thousands of players around the world already know.  Explore the galaxy, conquer worlds, expand your empire and defeat your opponents. Each game of Race for the Galaxy lasts less than 30 minutes.  But, the challenge is endless.  Every game is different with dozens of new worlds to explore and conquer. Now available in the new Second Edition adds 6 new start worlds, color-blind support, updated rules with sample turns for easier teaching.

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15 Wooden upgrades to the punchboard Alien Action tokens in On Mars: Alien Invasion   This is an expansion a copy of On Mars and On Mars: Alien Invasion Required.

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  In the Age of Ambition expansion, you discover new frontiers of the Golden Era of Astronautics. Defend the interests of your Space Power. Enlist the support of influential politicians, powerful military leaders, and renowned scientists. Overcome crises and reach your strategic goals. Launch cutting-edge spacecraft and achieve breakthroughs in research. Manage it all using your own unique talents to carry out the most daring plans. The glorious history of space exploration unfolds over the 7 separate Modules. You add them to the game in any combination, using up to 3 Modules at a time. Each Module perfectly fits the others and creates new gaming experiences. Solo rulebook is also included and is compatible with the new modules.

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This Expansion contains additional player boards, cubes, and phase cards so that Ares Expedition can be played with up to six players. This expansion also includes two additional game boards. One is a larger score track. The other adds a fourth terraforming metric: infrastructure. Additionally, there are new project cards that involve the new terraforming metric and a new phase card.

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  The conquest of space was one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. In 1957, the first satellite—named Sputnik 1—was launched into orbit. Just four years later, Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space, aboard the spaceship Vostok 1. This game is dedicated to the early space explorers: all the outstanding people who worked to make space travel possible. As Yuri Gagarin said at the moment of his launch: “Let's go!” You are the head of a Research & Development Hub in a Space Research Center, competing with other such Hubs in the spirit of the Golden Age of Astronautics. Your goal is to complete large-scale space projects by gathering the best and brightest minds humanity has to offer. Thanks to your efforts, satellites, manned spaceships, and orbital stations will be launched into space! You score Progress points by recruiting Specialists and completing Projects. The game ends when all available Projects are completed, or you have recruited 12 Specialists to your Hub. The player who made the most Progress is the winner! Key game features: Closed loop resource system: when recruiting a Specialist to your team, you pass Research tokens to a player to your left. Specialists are assigned to the Divisions according to their skills. The more Specialists you have in a Division, the easier it is to recruit new ones to that Division. All Specialists have unique abilities. Only the ability of the top card in each stack is active. Therefore, by adding a new Specialist, you often get a new ability but lose the other one. Think carefully what is more important for you at that moment in the game!

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In Empires of the Void II, you have been given a mission to establish a foothold at the fringe of the galaxy for your galactic empire. The game begins when your massive Worldships reach the fringe, where you must explore, wage war, use diplomacy, and construct buildings to gain victory. The fringe is sparsely populated and the few local sentient species are struggling to survive, leaving huge regions of planets open for exploration and colonization. Many species are eager to ally themselves with a powerful empire to gain security and stability in a chaotic and difficult time.

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And the story continues...Twenty years after the Alliance was formed, the cost of constructing new space stations is becoming unbearable.In order to improve the economy, the Alliance has decided to rebuild and recolonize some of the planets and space facilities who were abandoned during the war. By activating them once more, the Alliance is hoping to acquire the much needed funds and resources. In New Dawn – a thematic sequel to Among the Stars and part of the Game: Among the Stars series – players take the role of Alliance officials.Their assignment is to explore and revive a galactic sector. By developing various technologies and dispatching ambassadors, each player has the chance to visit abandoned planets, military facilities and space stations and establish bases to maintain control. Competition is fierce, and each mistake in maintaining control can cost dearly... Both New Dawn and Among the Stars: Revival are compatible with the Among the Stars: Miniatures Pack accessory, which brings even more thematic elements and a great look to your games in the Game: Among the Stars. It is a... New Dawn. Will you be part of the solution, or will you be part of the problem?  

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