thanks! yeah i've turned off auto iris, focus and color balance as they just don't get the job done :)

But now 100x more fiddley! :)

@@chriscollins1780 Haha Indeed!

.....and yet it's awesome regardless....

There's also a Terraforming Mars Dice game coming sometime in 2022. That might fit the bill.

Notes corrected... thanks

because the gameplay is almost completely centered around cardplay and card interactions. the tokens and board are just variations on score keeping

@@rahdo so like Terraforming Mars 🤔

@@peterkieling4347 the original had a large portion of the gameplay centering around building and expanding on the board, making it a board game. that's all gone now.

@@rahdo are we talking about the same Game? In Terraforming Mars nothing happens on the Board excepting moving exactly a few Token and place some tiles. About 90% of the Game happens on your build Card engine in Front of you. I am dissapointed about this small Terraforming Mars But another a great Video

@@peterkieling4347 wow you are sooo mistaken about the board being unimportant.

Completely agree - I can see no circumstances where I would play this over Race for the Galaxy or even New Frontiers.

well it's not terraforming the galaxy

@@rahdo because it only takes place on Mars not the galaxy 😋

@@rahdo terraforming the Galaxy was already done in Gaia Project ;p

It is very much Race for the Galaxy with TM reskin and some extra mechanisms. Interesting, but not sure if it's necessary to have both

@@atonaltensor true lol

It remains face up

that is a very good question. i think the best reason to own both is because you LOVE TM a lot, and sometimes want to have a quick session of it that plays in half the time (or vice versa, you love TM:AE and sometimes want a long epic session)

I dont know. Ares expedition looks like a better version of TM

Yes, this game is definitely more like Race for the Galaxy than Terraforming Mars...

@@TheTomAbz But it doesn’t have where you go over and add the tiles to the planets - ithas a very basic version of that. Also, it doesn’t have the cards in which you put stuff on them and that stuff ends up growing over time, so you can use it at toward the middle or end of the game.

It seems like this is more like Race for the Galaxy than Terraforming Mars... and I would rather play Race for the Galaxy...

1) don't you mean andreas seyfarth, since tom was borrowing from him? at this point, there are SOOOOO many games that use the leader/follow action mechanism that was pioneered in Puerto Rico, does it still need calling out every time? Should ever worker placement game give a special thanks to the designers of Bus? still no harm in shout outs i suppose, but then, shouldn't every game do this for ever mechanism? 2) i dunno... the vast majority of euro games have VP tracks on them, and none of them do dual layer recessed boards, so i can see why they didn't here, to keep costs down. it would be nice, but then, it would be nice for probably 90% of all boardgames on the market :) 3) beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Good points on one and two. Its not really standard to make such an inspiration a co-designer but I agree there needs to be a big shout out in the rulebook to Lehmann. I disagree on the iconography. I think 1) it represents the brand of TM with its unique styling, 2) that styling is refreshingly unique for future/spacey stuff (I'm sure whatever we think is the graphic design of the future is not so its fun to see a different, colorful take), 3) the color coding and icons are really clear about information/action relationships.

At 21:29, Rahdo says he can build green or red, but it's of course red or blue (and he does build a blue in fact).

@@MortenBarklund notes added... thanks

I dont understand people who wants short and small board games. Go play few games of Magic or Hearthstone on PC then. Board games should be long and big, so you can enjoy the time with your family and friends and get your money worth. Original TM is not that long and is very accessible. This kind of model is wrong on so many levels

@@swvi9459 Lots of family and friends find long set up and 2 1/2 hour games a barrier of entry so to each their own.

@@darrenjones4001 Then board gaming is wrong hobby for those people.

@@swvi9459 What a terrible attitude! I have friends and family who enjoy playing quick games like Battleline, Lost Cities etc but don’t want to play complicated 2 hour+ games. You seem to be saying they shouldn’t bother playing any games at all!

@@deanlowdon8381 It's like saying that you want to watch a movie, but you only have 45 minutes. Tell me great movies at 45 minutes. And my attitude is terrible, lol. Go play a video game then for 45 minutes and that's it.

Hopefully they do a better job than the current "big box" Kickstarter. A lot of unhappy backers there. I am personally on the fence and optimistic with the final product, but we'll have to wait and see

secret time: i choose thor because i figured i'd be more likley to forget about the hellion ability during play :)

@@rahdo That's a reason i can get behind!

You do not see the point in making a compact game that plays in 1/3 of the time with some different mechanisms thrown in? The RftG mechanism is a good one, which is why it is used in quite a few games.

@@TorIverWilhelmsen No, I dont see a point in copying another game, making card game from a card game and put up TM brand to sell it faster. If you want short games, go play original short games. In other words, dont play board or card games.

@@TorIverWilhelmsen i agree, the shorter game time can be super usefull and the phases makes interesting interaction between players. I can easily see this get more playes than original TM. But both games has their own places!

I agree that this game is nothing like TM - and is a cash grab (not a “crash” grab). I disagree that the original TM was only a “card game” - it has more complexity.

@@JJ_TheGreat Sorry, original TM was RNG card game. There we go, much better.