Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Promo Cards #2
Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Promo Cards #2 Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Corporation Cards
Five corporation cards. Each card gives its starting Mega Credits (MC) and any setup or phase effect in its printed text. Symbols are given in brackets as printed.
Austellar
Start with 42 MC. Choose 1 tag and add it to this card. Place 1 cube of your player color on 1 milestone of your choice. Only used if you play with milestones.
Effect: If you achieve the milestone marked with your player cube, gain 3 TR.
Romirra
Start with 48 MC. Only used in games with 5 or more players.
Effect: If you choose the same phase as another player during the planning step, gain 1 MC.
The Next Step Initiative
Start with 35 MC. Only used if you play in crisis mode.
Effect: At the start of the planning step, if there is at least 1 detriment tile in play, gain 2 heat or 1 plant.
Modpro
Start with 37 MC. Choose 1 tag and add it to this card.
Action: Reveal the top 4 cards of the deck. Add to your hand 1 of the revealed cards that has a tag identical to this corporation's tag (if there is one). Discard the rest.
Nebu Labs
You start with 25 MC. Upgrade a phase card.
Effect: When you reveal an upgraded phase card, gain 2 MC.
Event Cards
Twelve event cards. The number in the top corner is the card's cost in MC. The tag symbols down the top of each card are listed by name, and the brown circle with a number on some cards is its VP value. The boxed symbols below the text are given as printed.
Bacterial Aggregates
Cost: 7 MC
Tags: [microbe tag], [earth tag]
Victory points: 1
Effect: When you play a [microbe tag], including this one, add 1 microbe to this card. (Max 5.)
Effect: When you draw cards during the research phase, draw 1 additional card for each microbe on this card.
Icon box, as printed: [earth tag] : [microbe tag]; V : [card] / [microbe tag]. Roman numeral marker: I-II, V.
Genetically Modified Vegetables
Cost: 26 MC
Tags: [microbe tag], [plant tag]
Production box, orange, Roman numeral marker IV: 3 [plant].
During the production phase, you produce 3 plants.
Zoos
Cost: 7 MC
Tags: [animal tag]
Victory points: 1 VP per animal on this card.
Effect: Each time you achieve a milestone, add 1 animal to this card.
Icon box, as printed: [milestone token] : [animal tag]. Roman numeral marker: I-V.
Orbital Outpost
Cost: 16 MC
Tags: [building tag]
Effect: When you play a card with at most 1 tag, you pay 3 MC less for it.
Icon box, as printed: at most 1 [tag] : -3. Roman numeral marker: I-II.
Gas-Cooled Reactors
Cost: 16 MC
Tags: [building tag]
Victory points: 1
Action: Pay 12 MC to raise the temperature by 1 step (2°C). This cost is reduced by 2 MC for each upgraded phase card you have.
Icon box, as printed: 12 → [temperature]; -2 / [upgraded phase card]. Roman numeral marker: III.
Community Afforestation
Cost: 13 MC
Tags: [plant tag]
Victory points: 1
Action: Pay 14 MC to gain 1 forest tile and raise the oxygen level by 1%. This cost is reduced by 4 MC for each tag you have.
Icon box, as printed: 14 → [forest tile]; -4 / [tag]. Roman numeral marker: III.
City Council
Cost: 21 MC
Tags: [building tag]
Action: Draw 1 card. Draw 1 additional card for each tag you have.
Icon box, as printed: + [card] / [tag]. Roman numeral marker: III.
Research Grant
Cost: 3 MC
Tags: none (three empty tag slots)
Effect: Not legible in the photographs. Every print of this card is cut off or covered by another card. See Transcription notes.
Icon box, as printed: → [?]. Roman numeral marker: III.
Martian Studies Scholarship
Cost: 11 MC
Tags: none (red symbol column with a yellow down-arrow symbol)
Effect: Upgrade your phase II card. Gain the bonus in this phase.
Transcribed from the Spanish print. The visible line of the Hungarian print also begins with an upgrade instruction for this phase, but the rest of that card is covered. See Transcription notes.
Innovative Technologies Award
Cost: 16 MC
Tags: none (red symbol column with a yellow down-arrow symbol)
Effect: Raise your TR by 1 for each upgraded phase card you have.
Transcribed from the French print. The Polish print's visible line reads "for each phase card you have"; the word "upgraded" is not visible there. See Transcription notes.
Glacial Evaporation
Cost: 18 MC
Tags: [power tag]
Production box, orange, Roman numeral marker IV: 4 [heat].
During the production phase, this card produces 4 heat.
Tourism
Cost: 8 MC
Tags: [earth tag]
Production box, orange, Roman numeral marker IV: 2 (MC).
Effect: Raise your TR by 1 for each milestone you have.
Effect: Raise your MC production by 2.
Transcription notes
These notes disclose where the photographs did not allow a clean reading, and every judgment call made while translating. The printed card text above is complete except as stated here.
- Source type. No text rulebook exists for this promo set. The text above was read from photographs of the printed cards and translated into English. The English card names are taken from the FryxGames product page, which lists the 12 event cards and 5 corporations.
- Research Grant. The Polish, French and Hungarian photographs of this card are each cut off or covered by another card, so its effect text is not transcribed. The cost, the empty tag slots and the icon box are given as far as they can be read.
- Martian Studies Scholarship and Innovative Technologies Award. These two cards are the 11-cost and 16-cost red cards. Their effect lines are read from the Spanish and French prints. Their symbols are given by shape, and the Roman numeral and the red down-arrow symbol are not interpreted.
- Innovative Technologies Award, "upgraded". The French print reads "for each upgraded phase card you have." The Polish print's visible text reads "for each phase card you have." The word "upgraded" is not visible in the Polish photograph, which is cut off at that point, so the English keeps the French wording. This is a judgment call, and a reader who has the physical card should confirm it.
- Gas-Cooled Reactors, temperature step. The Polish print says the action raises the temperature by 2°C. The French print says "1 level." The English gives the Polish figure and names it as one step, since one step is 2°C in this game.
- "Tag" in the Polish print. The Polish prints of Community Afforestation and City Council use the word tytuł (title) for the symbol that the Polish Modpro and Next Step cards call symbol and the French prints call badge. This transcription reads it as tag, which matches the rest of the set.
- Next Step Initiative, crisis mode. The Spanish print says "only used if you play in crisis mode." The Polish print says "only used with the Crisis expansion (Kryzys)." Both are given here as crisis mode.