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Mar 19, 2025·How to play·09:23·1494·Watch on YouTube

Terraforming Mars Expansions: Colonies, Prelude, Turmoil and Venus Next. Learn in 9 minutes.

Meeple University

Meeple University

Watch “Terraforming Mars Expansions: Colonies, Prelude, Turmoil and Venus Next. Learn in 9 minutes.,” a how-to-play guide on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Meeple University on YouTube:

You can’t terraform Mars in isolation, you’ll need start up capital, supporting colonies all around the solar system and to manage politics in Terraforming Mars major expansions. We’re diving into a Quick Start Tutorial of Terraforming Mars expansions: Colonies, Prelude, Turmoil and Venus Next board game, to explain everything you need to know if you want to get started quickly and pick up the details and icons as you go along, in 15 minutes or less. We really appreciate if you can leave a comment for us, if you find it this video useful, or if you have any feedback. Thank you very much🙏 Check out our Quick Start Tutorial for Terraforming Mars base game - https://youtu.be/ffTMK2NCYVU Thank you Jacob Fryxelius, the designer, to check the rules in this video Join Meeple University Discord Channel where we chat about board games, where to meet at board game conventions, organise BoardGameArena and more - https://discord.gg/JUNsVty I (Stella) have a fortnightly Friday podcast now, our podcast titled Life Beyond Board Games 😀 . It's about life around board games, with my friends Candice (BoardGameGeek), Eric (What's Eric Playing) and Melissa. It really means a lot of you can listen and give ratings/review (apparently this is how it grows, especially the first episode) Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5X1Ay6nFcKU7DWFHLyiCQN?si=yqdUEbPZRr-P3rghB8zfPw&pi=aUeOme9wSs2K6 Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/life-beyond-board-games/id1791071879 Subscribe to our new YouTube channel for Shorts videos and Live Stream - https://www.youtube.com/@MeepleUniversityShortsAndLive Find out how you can be part of Meeple University member to get access to exclusive perks and badge when commenting : https://www.youtube.com/meepleuniversity/join Merch by Meeple University - https://meepleuniversity.creator-spring.com/ We have board game meetups in Melbourne, Australia. Details in Meetup site, of in our Melbourne board game Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/WePlayBoardGames INDEX 00:00 Game details 00:49 Game appraisal 01:19 Maps & promos 02:07 Prelude 02:46 Venus Next 04:10 Colonies 06:06 Turmoil 08:46 Combining expansions Board Game Geek Link - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/247030/terraforming-mars-prelude NEW SHOP! Meeple University has a fun merchandise shop, where you can find stuff we talked about in live playthrough, our other videos, and just board game nerdy stuff in general! Check it our here - https://meepleuniversity.creator-spring.com/ Connect with Stella & Tarrant: YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/meepleuniversity?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/meeple_university/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MeepleU TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@meepleuniversity Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/meepleuniversity Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/meepleuniversity/ Meeple University Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/meepleuniversitycommunity/ Website - https://www.meepleuniversity.com We're also on The Dice Tower Network - https://www.dicetower.com/contributors/meeple-university By Meeple University - Tarrant Falcke and Stella Jahja Hi everyone! Stella & Tarrant here. Thanks for watching! If you could please help us like the video, subscribe and comments if you find it useful and will help others to find the video and seeing your comments. That would help us a lot. Small gesture (even thumbs down, thou we prefer up lol) would help us a lot. And if you comment, I'll try to get back to you soon, and it's usually Stella, about 98 percent hehe. Many thanks for your support. Love from Down Under 🥰🙏🦘 If you want your board games to be featured in Meeple University channel, email us with the rulebook at meeple.uni@gmail.com - or go here for more information - https://www.meepleuniversity.com/work-with-us/ #meepleuniversity #boardgame #TerraformingMars

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Terraforming Mars: Prelude

Terraforming Mars: Prelude

Expansion

2018·Jacob Fryxelius

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Mostly reviews and unboxings. Terraforming Mars: Prelude is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, and 2 unboxings.

1 - 5 players
90 - 120 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Terraforming Mars: Prelude, from BoardGameGeek:

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! Terraforming Mars: Prelude introduces the new Prelude cards. At the start of the game, each player chooses from Prelude cards that jumpstart the terraforming process or boost their corporation's engine. This expansion also includes 5 new corporations and 7 new project cards that thematically fit the early stages of terraforming a new planet and can be added to the game even if you're not using the Prelude cards; and a new solo mode where your goal is to get to 63 TR before time runs out instead of completing the global parameters. Prelude is an expansion to Terraforming Mars, and can be combined with any other Terraforming Mars expansions or variants.

Designer

Jacob Fryxelius

Artists

William Bricker, Isaac Fryxelius

Publisher

FryxGames

Categories

EconomicEnvironmental

Mechanics

Hand ManagementDrafting
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