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Christmas is almost upon us! Based upon current delivery timeframes, please order before 10am on these dates for your best chance at your delivery arriving by Wednesday 24th Dec:

Perth / Darwin Metro: 5 - 7 business days, order by Tues 16th Dec. (WA / NT Regional + 3 - 5 business days)
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ACT: 2 - 3 business days, order by Fri 19th Dec
Sydney Metro: 1 - 2 business days, order by Mon 22nd Dec (NSW Regional + 2 - 3 business days)

This is for titles in stock on the shelf ONLY! If your order needs to come from a supplier you will still need to allow the usual 2 - 7 business days for that, meaning that supplier items are now unlikely to make it for Christmas.

I hope this helps your Christmas shopping timings!

May you all have a wonderfully gaming filled Christmas with friends and family. :)

Much love and best wishes to all.

Dean. (Advent Games)

Terraforming Mars

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Ages:	12 and up
Players:	1 - 5
Playing Time:	90 - 120 mins

In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things.

The players acquire unique project cards (from over two hundred different ones) by buying them to their hand. The projects (cards) can represent anything from introducing plant life or animals, hurling asteroids at the surface, building cities, to mining the moons of Jupiter and establishing greenhouse gas industries to heat up the atmosphere. The cards can give you immediate bonuses, as well as increasing your production of different resources. Many cards also have requirements and they become playable when the temperature, oxygen, or ocean coverage increases enough. Buying cards is costly, so there is a balance between buying cards (3 megacredits per card) and actually playing them (which can cost anything between 0 to 41 megacredits, depending on the project). Standard Projects are always available to complement your cards.

Your basic income, as well as your basic score, is based on your Terraform Rating (starting at 20), which increases every time you raise one of the three global parameters. However, your income is complemented with your production, and you also get VPs from many other sources.

Each player keeps track of their production and resources on their player boards, and the game uses six types of resources: MegaCredits, Steel, Titanium, Plants, Energy, and Heat. On the game board, you compete for the best places for your city tiles, ocean tiles, and greenery tiles. You also compete for different Milestones and Awards worth many VPs. Each round is called a generation (guess why) and consists of the following phases:

1) Player order shifts clockwise.
2) Research phase: All players buy cards from four privately drawn.
3) Action phase: Players take turns doing 1-2 actions from these options: Playing a card, claiming a Milestone, funding an Award, using a Standard project, converting plant into greenery tiles (and raising oxygen), converting heat into a temperature raise, and using the action of a card in play. The turn continues around the table until all players pass.
4) Production phase: Players get resources according to their terraform rating and production parameters.

When the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen, ocean) have all reached their goal, the terraforming is complete, and the game ends after that generation. Count your Terraform Rating and other VPs to determine the winning corporation!

**Includes "Small Asteroid" promo card from the Terraforming Mars Launch Kit Promotion**

The Dice Tower - Every Game is Awesome Ep 36 - Terraforming Mars