Mission Red Planet Board Game 2nd Edition

With technology rapidly developing and the human population growing, Victorian-era Earth is in dire need of fuel, land, and other natural resources. Fortunately, automated probes sent to Mars have discovered celerium, an ore that can be combusted to produce ten thousand times more power than a steam engine, and sylvanite, the densest substance ever found. More incredibly, the probes found ice that could be used in terraforming the planet, bringing the idea of colonizing Mars even closer to becoming a reality.

As the head of a mining corporation, these minerals and ice found on Mars could make you unfathomably wealthy – if you can reach them before your competitors. You have ten rounds to send your astronauts into space, occupy the planet’s most resource-rich zones, and harvest as much celerium, sylvanite, and ice as possible. At your command is a team of nine professionals. Each has a unique skill set, from helping your astronauts traverse the Red Planet to blowing up spaceships before they launch.

The Mission Red Planet Board Game 2nd Edition features the same gameplay as the original 2005 edition, but it includes:

• Components for up to six players instead of five
• Special two-player variant rules
• New action cards and revised mission and discovery cards
• Mars’ moon Phobos as a new zone that astronauts can explore before possibly returning to the planet itself