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I spoke to you recently about best game all-time expert for me: Project Gaia! Despite the presence of new people created by fans I couldn’t wait to see an official expansion arrive! Feuerland has just revealed the first information on it! I am joy!
New planets
Turquoise protoplanets
The new planets are found on small sector tiles. Turquoise planets require 3 stages of gaiaformation for everyone but pay off 6 points. We can already imagine that the coveted gaiaformation track will become even more popular! So imagine a player who only has 1 gaiaforme ore having fun on a turquoise planet the round where the gaiaformation stages earn points! Strong !
Pink asteroids
Asteroids are gaiaformed in spending a gaiaformer. They thus offer them another use… it’s a welcome development… we end up quite often with a gaiaformer which is useless because we had to take the techno tile underneath (for example with the itars) or that we took this first step on the track with the crazy androids… I will be able to get on this track more often, which I shy away from 2 times out of 3.
Beware of Geodens
2 new planets are choice sockets for the Geodens. Indeed, I hope they thought about the fact that with 2 new types of planets they can become the best people in the game (with the 6 science gained in addition!). A priori yes given that the publisher announces covering tiles on the planetary institutes of certain peoples (we can imagine that the Geodens would go from +3 sciences per new type of planet colonized to +3/+1 depending on the type discovered)
The Tinkeroids are coming!
A very mobile but dangerous people
The Tinkeroids promise to be very mobile on the map with several planets that only requirea stage of Gaiaformation. It will be difficult to block them. On the other hand, they should not bother other players too much with other people’s planets which will cost 3 stages of gaiaformation. We can also notice that the Gaia planets cost 2 green cubes! Be careful of games with scoring on gaia or types of planets.
A very adaptive people
They start with a single building the planetary institute. Unlike Terra Mystica or more recently Age of Innovation, starting with a single building is not too risky in Project Gaia (hello Swarm). And this Planetary Institute allows you to choose one additional action per turn (the top 3, turns 1 to 3, then the bottom 3 in the photo below). A model of its kind to adapt!
It seems very strong
Additional actions are very strong ! Having a free shovel (imagine with the shovel booster) at the start of the game or even 3 at the end seems really strong to me! And the +4 power action can also make a combined turn at +8 power with the right technology (it seems to me the perfect opening turn 1 in fact, where few players have power early).
Other promising additions
New technologies
We will also find in this extension new technologies to place at the very top of the tracks for even more renewal: points for large buildings, for peripheral sectors, for asteroids, or even points in gaiaforming (that seems so strong to me). My favorite: points using green cube actions!
New roundboosters
We will also be able to have fun with new round boosters : points for the types of planets (another great thing for the Geodens), for the gaiaformers (finally a gift for my favorite people: the Bal Tak), for the peripheral sectors and direct gaiaformation (to be confirmed it seems excessive to me underpants).
New round scoring
And finally new tiles round scoring (you know the precious tiles to follow to win): points for the construction of labs, points for new sectors (that will change the dynamic of development in the game), points for new types of planets ( here too the pace of play will really be changed).
An already essential extension
With all these little additions already presented I already see this extension as essential. And the people seem really ___y to me to play. I’ll let you know as soon as we have information on the 3 other peoples and the new additions!
