Mission: Red Planet (2005)

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Designer	Bruno Cathala Bruno Faidutti
Artist	Christophe Madura
Publisher	Asmodee
Year Published	2005
# of Players	3 − 5
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players (40 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (9 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups (15 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Strategy Games (38 voters) [vote]
Category	Science Fiction Space Exploration
Mechanic	Area Control / Area Influence Hand Management Simultaneous Action Selection
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Family	Mars Steampunk
Primary Name	Mission: Red Planet
Alternate Names	Mission: Planète Rouge
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From Bruno Faidutti's website:

This one, designed with Bruno Cathala, started with the theme. We wanted to make a game about colonizing Mars, with shuttles leaving the blue planet towards the red one. The theme is strong, and well caught in the steampunk graphic style decided by Asmodée. In Mission: Red Planet, each player plays a colonial power which sends astronauts, in space shuttles, to occupy the most promising zones on the planet. For scholars, the systems merge a majority game, à la El Grande or San Marco, with a character/action card system, somewhere between Citadels and Hoity Toity/Adel Verpflichtet. Nothing really new here, but there was much work on it and we're really proud of the result.

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Publisher: Asmodee

Artist: Christophe Madura

Year: 2005

Product Code: MPR01US

Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)

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Mission: Red Planet The Gamers' Table Episode 3

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12	Reviews Review with a focus on the role selection mechanism	2012-01-02	iromsdahl	0
19	Reviews Mission: Red Planet: A Child's Play Review	2011-09-21	Spielemit...	4
4	General Box Insert	2011-06-11	Skyel	6
13	Reviews Fun, But With Three Notable Problems	2011-06-06	joepinion	17
18	Reviews Mission: Red Planet - it's like Citadels meets Alien Frontiers, but with H. G. Wellsian artwork!!!	2011-05-21	pacman88k	18
3	Sessions Isleworth Gamers decide they've had enough of Earth...	2011-04-13	jamessinden	2
1	Reviews Mission: Red Planet (russian review)	2011-03-07	eRen4ik	2
0	General "Event cards"...do they ever get played?	2011-03-03	John_VW	2
0	General Card size for Mission: Red Planet?	2010-11-26	edelen	1
1	General Mission Red Planet - Roll Card Sleeves - Do they exist?	2010-11-11	FeelGoodND	1

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M:RP Unique Abilities Variant

This variant gives each player a unique identity with a special power and a different crew of characters. There are 8 identities to choose from, each with a male and a female character image. This is a 10 page PDF document. The first 2 pages are the rule changes, and can be printed double-sided on a single sheet. The last 8 pages are the Abilities Reference Sheets, and every 2 pages can be printed back-to-back on a single page so that each ability has the male character on one side and the female character on the other.

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2010-07-28

Mission: Red Planet Nederlands

Nederlandse spelregels van Red Planet in tekstvorm.

zepson

2010-06-03

Scoresheet for "Mission: Red Planet"

This is my own simple scoresheet for "Mission: Red Planet" (copyright 2006, Asmodee Editions LLC) that I made up and use, the categories for which are according to the official scoring rules for this game. There are spaces for scoring a maximum of 5 players, as per the game rules (the game is recommended for 3-5 players). This is a Word file, with no graphics.

partino

2009-10-05

Player Mat for Mission: Red Planet

A player mat for Mission: Red Planet - two to a page with spaces for astronauts, score tokens, bonus card(s) and used character cards.

Gamegrunt

2009-07-27

Mission: Red Planet Notes v1.1

Updated and revised edition based on Grimnir's original, with permission. Now with more clarifications and precision!

Gretyl

2009-05-17

Mission:Red Planet card paste in simplfied chinese

Mission:Red Planet card paste in simplfied chinese.《火星任务》牌表

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2009-01-03

Polish Rules

Tłumaczenie instrukcji na j.polski.

masterein

2008-12-09

Mission Red Planet - Player's Aid - Hebrew

Quick Rules and Rules Summary in Hebrew. Enjoy ^_^

TneMadKow

2008-11-22

Overview characters DUTCH

An overview of the different character load abilities and powers.

facenorth23

2008-10-30

Mission: Red Planet Tuckboxes

This is a one-page file that has the designs for two tuckboxes. One is for the event cards, and the other is for all the character role cards. The boxes were created using graphics from here on BGG and the generator at http://tuckbox.gameupdates.com/.

Verkisto

2008-09-29

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Board Game Rank:	421
Strategy Game Rank:	263
Num Ratings:	2261
Average Rating:	6.89
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Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=5457&zoekcr...	2012-01-01
French rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/5457.pdf	2012-01-01
Polish review at http://planszowki.polter.pl	http://planszowki.polter.pl/Mission-Red-Planet-c20...	2011-05-17
English Session Report on Isleworth Boardgamers	http://isleworthboardgamers.blogspot.com/2011/04/d...	2011-05-05
English Session Report on Boardgamecafe.net	http://blog.boardgamecafe.net/2010/06/14/bgc-sj-me...	2010-06-22
Hebrew Review at Kufsa	http://kufsa.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/mission-red-...	2009-12-04
First impressions from Gamers Alliance	http://www.gamersalliance.com/Summer06/firstimpres...	2009-09-18
English review from Gamers Alliance	http://www.gamersalliance.com/W07/missionredplanet...	2009-09-15
Review in Italian at Giochidatavolo.net	http://www.giochidatavolo.net/gdt/modules.php?name...	2009-08-28
Review in Estonian - Volund	http://hillep.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/mission-red...	2009-04-22