We just finished playing the last few turns of our game of Terraforming Mars from last week and it was INSANE - Final score was 199 to 159 (I lost 😞 ) but that's still my best score by far. Almost the entire board was filled up too - mostly by my opponent John, who unleashed a deluge of cities and forests (12 cities were placed in total in the last three turns of the game!). On the card side, I was doing a lot with the Floaters, John was big on the animals/life cards. I did manage to pull off some big plays in the last few turns - I think we ended up playing for a total of 13-15 generations? I was vastly outmatched in points from what I call the "ground game" (cities and forests) but aside from that we wouldn't have been too far apart in points. I just find it hard to concentrate on both the cards and the ground game - I tend to just stick with one (usually the cards) and leave it til too late to start actually terraforming Mars itself. John did also start with two Preludes that gave him a big leg up in starting production too which probably helped him a lot.

Still I don't feel too bad about that considering that's my best score so far and I felt like I knew what I was doing. Maybe four intervening years of gaming experience was useful 😊
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(incidentally the digital version and DLC is on sale on Steam until 25th November so grab that while you can!)