Terraforming Mars: Colonies - Solo Playthrough - Poseidon

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

I found the answer to the rule I was unsure of from Jacob Fryxelius. You cant split resources gained from colony tiles. boardgamegeek.com/thread/2088736/split-floaters-floaters-cards

[@mdcs1992]

I'm late to this TF MARS party. I only play games solo. I was put off this game for a long time because of the Achievements and Rewards, which seemed a fun part of the game, being absent from solo play. Finally got the base game Christmas 2021 and liked it so much, I already invested in Colonies (and Turmoil and Hellas/Elysium!). Greatly enjoying your play through a. They're both informative and entertaining so....Thank you. It must be very challenging to play, narrate and film all at the same tim, so I appreciate your efforts!

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Welcome to the party! :) Happy to read the video is doing someone good! It is challenging to film and play but gotten somewhat used to it, still I do make mistakes here and there but hopefully not enough to mess up the enjoyment for the viewers :D Thanks!

[@mattparker7932]

Glad to see more play throughs! Nice job on the win! I was yelling at the screen the whole time for you to put that colony down! You forgot. It happens. The additional money and steel production would’ve helped your score a lot. On the other hand, you also played the Titan colony incorrectly. With Titan, Miranda, and Enceladus you don’t put the trade marker on the track until there is a card in play that can hold the resource provided. You had the track building up floaters when it should’ve been paused until you got a floater card out. All good though. We are all learning! Thanks for being brave enough to put your plays out there for us!

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Thanks! Oh good catch there, I totally forgot about that rule with the marker starting at the planet for those 3 colony tiles... :D

[@ehartnett00]

+1 for fixing the glare. Appreciate that.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

I will work on that for future videos, use matte sleeves or no sleeves for videos and try to place the lights differently in the studio, I hate glare :D

[@ehartnett00]

+1 for the Tom Morello Master Class ad before your video. I was mesmerized.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Haha I dont choose the ads but happy you enjoyed it :D

[@1337M347lolz]

Barely scrapped it out....nice win! Looking forward to the other play throughs!

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Thanks :) Yeah me too, Im going home tomorrow so at the start of next week Ill do the second one as well as a runthrough with Drako. Will also resleeve the whole game with matte sleeves, with added lights in the studio I cant keep using sleeves unless they are matte I think :)

[@misterenic]

Rules says: "TITAN, ENCELADUS, and MIRANDA start with their white marker on the moon picture itself, and the marker is placed on the highlighted second step of the track immediately when there is any card in play that may collect their respective resources."

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Yeah, mistake there. Think maybe it evens out as I forgot the colony ;)

[@misterenic]

Also, Gyropolis is on Venus :)

[@tomaszvexling]

@@misterenic Stratopolis, Gyropolis is a normal city.

[@Dexsting]

Thank you! Love this game, gotta get colonies now!

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Of course ;)

[@BrianD0313]

Critiques about gameplay: Missed to Colony from the Corporation :P When placing down Mining Rights Tile, there was a spot on the East Equator (Arsia Mons?) with +1 Plant, +1 Titanium. I know you didn't play many ocean tiles, however you could have been a bit more efficient with tile placement to get more profit from placing your own Ocean Tiles.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Thanks, yeah always things to improve of course, the missed Colony was kinda bad hehe but didnt really have time or energy at the time to redo the whole playthrough so ;)

[@tomaszvexling]

It's so sad you have forgotten about building colonies for your corporation and trading bonuses. Also you should have placed a colony as your first move for free and increase your MC production (the corporation bonus). +1 point from the city.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Yeah indeed, and realized that way too late :( Well, at least I prefer missing stuff that is to my disadvatnage so I dont cheat right :)

[@tomaszvexling]

You’ve got a point! :) At least you have shown trade.

[@williamgarcia-medina9989]

That’s a lot of sleeves.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Indeed..think its 390 or so :D

[@kriXoff75]

thank you, one of first playthrough with colonies :)

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

I think it is the first and only on KZbin right now ;) Happy you enjoyed it, I did make some mistakes but overall it turned out well anyway :D

[@kriXoff75]

@@BoardgameswithNiramas Can floaters be splitted from titan to various cards floaters on board? You was wondering but did you find out something about that rule?

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

I will look it up and get back to you!

[@kriXoff75]

@@BoardgameswithNiramas I asked the question by opening a topic on bgg forum and Jacob Fryxelus himself answered me! He said: "The official rule is no. Each effect should only add to one card, just like similar card effects like Large Convoy. The colony bonuses hiwever, are different effects and can be directed to another card." You can see his whole answer here: boardgamegeek.com/thread/2088736/split-floaters-floaters-cards

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

@@kriXoff75 Nice! You were smarter than me to ask on bgg, I emailed Fryxgames and got refered to your bgg post and Jacobs answer there :)

[@DestroyYourSkills]

Well done for making it! 🙂 I wish you'd taken one of those titanium prelude cards at the start though - you had so many good titanium cards!! If you'd taken the one with titanium and steel you'd definitely have been able to get your titanium production up in the first generation, which I think would have paid off better in the long run. Just an opinion, and so easy to criticise from this side of the screen 😉 I'd love to play against you and/or Drako some time 🙂

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Hehe yeah so many options right... well if you are going to Essen Spiel this year there might be a chance, Im planning to do a event there for my kickstarter backers of 2019 to meet up and have a game night ;)

[@DestroyYourSkills]

@@BoardgameswithNiramas Nice! Is that in October? I might be able to make it although I'd be more likely to want to spend the money going somewhere sunnier at that time of year 😂 But hopefully I have more expendable by then... If not, hopefully we can play online some time or something 🙂

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Yeah last week of October, I wish it was earlier in the year also for better weather :D When they add draft to the Tmars on Steam Id love to play some multiplayer games vs viewers, will probably make a post about it then on my facebook page so people can schedule games with me nad Drako there also :D

[@waltercardcollector]

Hey were you supposed to bump up the marker on Titan (the floater colony) even though you didn't have any floater cards in play? (Did someone already point this out?)

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

No it only starts when someone has a floater collecting card in play. Ill add it to the subtitles :) Thanks!

[@waltercardcollector]

@@BoardgameswithNiramas No problem. Love the series.

[@duatmeadU]

You likely have this resolved now but you can’t split floaters or other similar resources that go on a card. All have to go to one card.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Yeah! I confirmed it with the designer :)

[@jimtompkins9946]

Once again, a great job. Let us know if you think the Colony expansion adds zip to a solo play. Thanks

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

After playing it once in solo I feel that it shines the most in multiplayer, but I still enjoyed the new options for soloing as well with the colonies and trades. :)

[@MaestroMarvolo]

Wow, I didnt know world government adds terraforming steps each generation in solo mode! That will make you much more dependent on pure teraforming crads to win solo mode.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Yeah its from the Venus Next expansion when WG was introduced. I love it!

[@gizel4376]

yeah but you need to terraform venus too, you got 13 government help, but you have 15 venus to terraform, that's a lot harder, with the prelude you got only 11 government help, im not sure if it's harder cause prelude are really good

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

@@gizel4376 Its hard to say, if it got harder with Prelude, It depends on so many things right.. I feel I enjoy it more with Prelude at least, love the faster start.

[@waltercardcollector]

At the end 1:12:08 were you supposed to get 3 points for greeneries and 3 points for the city?

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Indeed.. watching it now I dunno what got into me back then haha, first counted 3 greeneries and next second forgot about one of them.. :) Thanks! Ill add a note in Klingon Subtitles!

[@sjovir]

What kind of sleeves are you using?

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Ultimate Pro Matte, only use them these days, love the Matte even offcam but espeically to reduce glare when filining :)

[@sjovir]

@@BoardgameswithNiramas Thanks, for det quick reply :) What size are the sleeves?

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Its standard card size. Fits perfect.

[@Dexsting]

You can look at your first 10 cards before choosing prelude/corp? Might help decisions.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Yeah, I was a bit... over excited when filming this haha

[@marioladeialiberatodematos5241]

Whitch ones are the essential expansions in your opinion?

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

If I had to pick one it would be Prelude, but they are all good/great, I think Hellas & Elysium are really essential as well since they bring so much variation with 2 new boards including the milestones and awards there.. but for me Colonies really improves the game, more so for multiplayer than solo though as the interaction between players with building colonies and doing trade actions are so good.

[@BrianD0313]

OMG ALL THOSE CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Were those all the unused cards after dealing out 14 Generations worth of cards? If so, seems like you barely scrape 20% of the deck. Would you say the Solo is still manageable or do you think with all the expansions it needs some tweaks to get more cards in play and to be able to handle mechanics from all expansions? Colonies doesn't come with it's own set of Solo Rules like Prelude did? Seems a bit lame, especially if it makes the Colonies portion pretty much worthless :(

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Haha yeah I love tha amount of cards now :D Solo works well with Colonies, but no new solo rules except you start with -2 megacredit production to compensate for all the new possibilites in Colonies. I like it, I love how it added 50 new project cards, the trade option is awseome also, use energy for something new. But yeah building a colony isnt as good in the solo game as in multiplayer since no one comes there to trade except you, still great expansion imo :)

[@Rezuk4]

What do you are your thoughts on a Draft variant for Solo play ? Pick 4 cards, keep only 1. Pick 3 cards, keep only 1. Pick 2 cards, keep only 1. Pick1, keep it. And then you buy card from those 4. It allows you to see more cards, so you rely less on a bad draw/deck shuffling. But it also reduce the effectiveness of "card drawing" project...

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Its not a bad idea, though it wopuld make the game easier since u get more control...and also when doing house variants its always hard to find balance!

[@BrianD0313]

@@BoardgameswithNiramas My variant is I draw 6 cards per generation instead of 4. That's only another 26 cards out of that massive stack. I do find that I win more however many times the game always comes down to those last couple of Generations. Another thing that I do sometimes is if I drew absolute garbage, then I would discard and spend 4 ME to draw 4 new cards.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Well as long as your having fun right :D

[@decakjeisaozasuncem8843]

also if you want we can play together some cool board games on the site called board game arena, i can teach you few very interesting games there like tash kalar, seasons, time masters, hawaii, outlaws last man standing and so if you are interested let me know

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Im busy a lot this week but sometime later on maybe so :)

[@decakjeisaozasuncem8843]

colonies brought life to this game, although this game is better and interesting than most of the games its still not that much interesting, huge potential wasted

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

I think we have really opposite feelings on the game, but I do agree Colonies is nice ;)

[@decakjeisaozasuncem8843]

Boardgames with Niramas i like you man but i think i am right about this one, terraforming mars is more like awesome demo of some game than the actual game microorganisms and animals are very cool thing, floaters kinda too, we also have money in this game and plants,water,heat,steel and titanium but we use all of this only sometimes the thing this game needs are factories and a lot more resource for to be spending each turn because its a lot more interesting that way, lets be honest most of the time you only paying with mega credits in this game, very rare use of plants and steel,titanium for example in the game tzolk'in you can buy different things using gold, stone, corn, wood, crystal skull every single turn while in terraforming mars mostly we use only mega credits each turn and thats it, so a lot of turns past by and we did so little i like this game, like i said i bought all expansions for it except colonies but i am also disappointed because this game had huge potential to become big and popular game like for example race for the galaxy and through the ages and with even few efforts more it could be the best board game i truly hope in the future expansions like colonies set things right, cards looks fantastic and board itself, i just need more different resources to spend each turn instead spending only mega credits people like gathering different resources thats why minecraft was so popular game