This is always a tricky line: Do you discuss the game components first or the game set-up first? If you show the game set-up first, you know how the components fit together in context of gameplay. Right after we see the components, and they are fresh in our minds, we can correlate what’s on the card with what was JUST in our head/hands! (Recall, a minor complaint about The Phantom: The Card game was that the card layout was near the end of the rulebook where it was less useful). Right away, the game discusses the card layout: see above. The components page lists the components AND shows their pictures. A lot of people will probably be coming to the table with experience with Terraforming Mars, so this really helps! Perhaps more importantly, it discusses the difference between Terraforming Mars (the big board game) and Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition. There’s a nice quickstart guide (see above). The paper quality is really nice! (If you look closely above, you’ll see some of the texture). The rulebook is of SUPER high quality paper (linen paper) just like the Canvas rulebook. I can’t comment on these differences until September (when I receive my Kickstarter version), but I can say the Target list seems accurate. See the graphic below (directly from the Kickstarter) for differences. There are differences between the Kickstarter version of the game and the Target version. We’ll take a look at the game and see what we think, orthogonally to the controversy. (There are also some people who give it a 10.0/10.0 just to balance the 1s). At the time of this writing, the rating is all the way down to 5.1/10.0. This is a “civil unrest” way for Kickstarter backers to show their displeasure. If you l ook at the current ratings of Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition on BoardGameGeek, you will see a LOT of ratings of 1.0/10.0. A lot of Kickstarter backers have stated that they would have been a LOT more forgiving if Stronghold had been more up front about this. The rationale is something like: “We helped back the game with our hard-earned dollars, shouldn’t we be put first?” There is also some grumpiness because Stronghold only told the Kickstarter backers A DAY BEFORE the Target release. A lot of people from the Kickstarter were VERY upset that the game was available from Target BEFORE it was delivered to Kickstarter backers. RichieCon 2023 and I… on A Review of Valor And Villainy…Īs of yesterday, June 20th 2021, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition was available at Target (see above).
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