TERRAFORMING MARS
- Hellas & Elysium -
1 - 5 players
Explore new sites and strategies in Terraforming Mars!
Any of two game boards in these expansion
can be used instead of the original game board.
They each depict a new region of Mars,
with new placement bonuses, ocean areas,
and brand new sets of milestones and awards.
If you scan the QR code above, you can also see it on your mobile!
<Components>
- HELLAS game board
- ELYSIUM game board
<HELLAS>
Hellas map shows the south pole
as well as the great Hellas sea,
all the way up to the equator.
Therefore, the plant bonuses lie at
the top of the map, along the equator.
The map overlaps the original game board
by featuring Argyre Planitia
and its surrounding mountains.
The map features two new placement bonuses.
The first, heat, is found in the Hellas sea
because of the thin Martian crust in this area,
as well as around the south pole
where frozen carbon dioxide can be released
to the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas.
The other special bonus is on the south pole itself,
requiring you to pay 6 M€ for placing a tile here,
but giving you an ocean tile
(along with its terraforming rating)
to place on any available ocean area.
The Hellas map lacks volcanos and Noctis region,
so the tiles from the cards
Noctis City and Lava Flows
lose their placement restrictions
and may be placed on any non-ocean area.
<Hellas Milestones>
- Diversifier
: requires that you have
8 different tags in play
- Tactician
: requires that you have 5 cards
with requirements in play.
- Polar Explorer
: requires that you have
3 tiles on the two bottom rows.
- Energizer
: requires that you have
6 energy production.
- Rim Settler
: requires that you have 3 jovian tags.
<Hellas Awards>
- Cultivator
: most greenery tiles.
- Magnate
: most automated cards in play
(green cards).
- Space Raron
: most space tags
(event cards do not count).
- Excentric
: most resources on cards.
- Contractor
: most building tags
(event cards do not count).
<ELYSIUM>
Elysium map shows the region
west of Tharsis, from Olympus Mons,
the highest mountain in the solar system,
to Elysium Montes.
In the north, the great northern lowlands,
Vastitas Borealis, reaches down
towards the equator,
while the south is dominated by
its great creator-saturated highlands.
The map overlaps the original game board
by featuring Arsia Mons.
There are no special placement bonuses on this map.
The Elysium map does not have the Noctis region,
so Nocits City may be placed without its restriction.
It does, however, have four volcanic sites
where the Lava Flows tile can be placed :
Arsia Mons, Olympus Mons, Elysium Mons,
and Hecates Tholus.
<Elysium Milestones>
- Generalist
: requires that you have increased all
6 productions by at least 1 step
(starting production from
corporation cards count as increase).
- Specialist
: requires that you have at least 10
in production of any resource.
- Ecologist
: requires that you have 4 bio tags
(plant-, microbe- and animal tags count as bio tags).
- Tycoon
: requires that you have 15 project cards in play
(blue and green cards).
- Legend
: requires 5 played events
(red cards).
<Elysium Awards>
- Celebrity
: most cards in play (not events)
with a cost of at least 20 M€.
- Industrialist
: most steel and energy resources.
- Desert Settler
: most tiles south of the equator
(the four bottom rows).
- Estate Dealer
: most tiles adjacent to ocean tiles.
- Benefactor
: highest terraform rating.
Count this awards first!
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