Terraforming Mars Solo Automa Playthrough - English

THE LONE BOARDGAMER presents a solo playthrough of Terraforming Mars Automa, a game designed by Nich Shaw and Dávid Turczi and published by FryxGames.
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In Terraforming Mars, players are coorporations that compete to build greeneries, generating oceans and raising the temperature in order to make Mars habitable. In the original box, a solo version was available, but now a new variant has arrived.
In this new solo automa expansion, I compete against the Mars Bot, which behaves a bit like a normal player.
The automa can be used with all expansions and maps, but today I play with coorporations and both Prelude expansions.
Comments are always welcome, be it rules questions, tips on how to improve my game or suggestions on what game to play next on the channel.

[@ichhabe330]

Interesting. 1 like awarded. That would be an extra 5 points to you on the Awards. You're welcome.

[@simong9246]

I have been waiting an age for someone to cover the new automa with an actual playthrough, so many thanks for this! Any plans to do a few more? :)

[@theloneboardgamer]

Yes, next time: More expansions!

[@simong9246]

Looking forward to it!

[@marcoferrario2032]

Thanks for the playthrough! This Terralabs corp sure seems brutal.
Some rules mistakes that I caught (sorry but I don't have the timestamps):
- Automa bonus cards never directly generate a failed action. If something must happen when they can't be resolved, they'll tell you.
- When the automa bumps up the temperature track to a +1 heat bonus space, it gains 2 MC (not a bump in the energy track).
- The Neural Instance tile is a bot's tile, so it counts for the Landlord award (you didn't consider it, although it wouldn't make a difference).
- You caught this in the end, but the NIT gives the automa 1 VP for each adjacent space that's not occupied by a tile *owned by you*, so it will happily place tiles beside it.

[@theloneboardgamer]

Thanks for the feedback! Terralabs seems easy at first glance but it is ruthless 😁

[@tommasomartinoli1468]

Thanks for your playthrough! The first to bring it!
Cannot wait to see it with more expansions!
Do you know the game from GMT "Red Dust Rebellion"?
It will be a COIN game settled on Mars with solo bots too!

[@theloneboardgamer]

Don’t know that one - but I have preordered Away Team: The Voyages of the Pandora by GMT as well

[@gustavodias5241]

Thank you. Nice playthrough. Greetings from Brazil.

[@marsuniversity-tm]

I played 2 games against it on brutal + all expansions, first game los by 15, 2nd game it beat me by like 60. It'll be fun when I beat it finally haha

[@theloneboardgamer]

I look forward to adding the expansions - I’m not sure about brutal mode ☺️

[@Giannis_Krimitzas]

Thank you

[@klaus3856]

Have had trouble beating the standard Marsbot, was hoping to catch some rules mistakes. Nope. I decided to make it pay for milestones and awards, but that’s just 4-6 points. Drafting really helps, but I may also curate the milestones/awards to ones I can compete on.

[@theloneboardgamer]

Yeah, I must try draft next time 👍