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Z-Man Games  |  SKU: ZMG7063

The Ares Project

€27.31 EUR
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Description
Designer Brian Engelstein
Geoff Engelstein
Publisher Z-Man Games
Players 2-4
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 13 and up

In  The Ares Project , 2-4 players are competing to see which of their factions will lead mankind into the future. Each faction has its own deck of cards, buildings, upgrades, attacks, special powers, and a screen behind which a player will play cards. Your opponents do not know what you are building. When a player lays down an attack card, he chooses an opponent, the players drop their screens, and they battle for control of the Frontier, i.e. the center of the table. Whoever controls the Frontier scores points and also has the ability to attack player bases directly. Eliminate your opponent to win instantly, or have the most points when the game ends.

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Asen Aleksandrov
One of a kind

In order to achieve a near-complete representation of RTS mechanics on tabletop (down to things like fog-of-war and combat micro), the Ares Project builds a towering infrastructure of deep rules and fiddly mechanics, held together with a bonkers amount of cards, tokens, and other components. This is the type of approach that has killed so many other thematic games, turning them into mindless book-keeping and repetitive token-shuffling, but shockingly, in The Ares Project it all just... works. The game has a long setup and an intimidating core ruleset, but after that it's a fairly quick and smooth experience. The action is well represented and fun, the mechanics are easy to take advantage of, and all gameplay decisions have weight and consequence to them. This game is a rare instance of over-designing turning out great in the end.
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