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Rules assistance for First Martians: Rescue Team
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 1 player
Rules assistant for First Martians: Rescue Team
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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.
First Martians: Rescue Team is an expansion for First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet released in 2017 for 1 player. It was designed by Rafał Szyma.
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About the game
The MCEI (Mars Colonisation and Expansion Initiative) astronauts have received a distress signal. It was sent from somewhere on Mars - the planet they belived to be alone on! Who sent it? Can the rescue mission reach the location on time? Will you succeed in a task on which the future on the Martian mission may depend? Become a Martian astronaut and feel the flow of the boardgame! "Rescue Team" is a single player gamebook, showing the boardgame's challenges in a brand new way: dwindling resources, tense relations between a closed group of astronauts, the need to make tough decisions. GO THERE, BE THE MARTIAN RESCUER, AND DISCOVER THE MYSTERY OF THE SIGNAL! —description from the publisher The gamebook Rescue team is a single player add-on for First Martians highlighting the challenges in a new way. A choose your own adventure style book published as a part of the First Martians Kickstarter campaign. It uses some of the components from the game to give some of the feel of the main game in this solo storytelling game.
Questions and answers
First Martians: Rescue Team supports 1 player according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
First Martians: Rescue Team belongs to these categories: Expansion for Base-game. Categories describe the theme, setting and style of a game rather than its rules. Filter the catalogue by the same category to find similar games when you enjoyed First Martians: Rescue Team and want something comparable for your next game night.
The credited designers of First Martians: Rescue Team are: Rafał Szyma. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists First Martians: Rescue Team as an expansion for First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet to use it. Check that your edition of First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.