Dear Terraforming Mars friends,

I am pleased to present you the fanmade Big Board Edition, containing Tharsis, Hellas, Elysium and the new boards called Utopia Planitia, Vastitas Borealis and Terra Cimmeria with all official extensions.

Note: Since we only play with 3D-tiles, we don't need the space for the oceans. If you have ordered the bigbox like many others, you won't need the space in the future either. 😜

Link to download: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16AlZXDCR8YYSTJan3OHKCX1kzqlgPT4e?usp=sharing

Terraforming Mars fan made board Tharsis

Big Board Edition: Tharsis

Big Board Edition: Hellas

Big Board Edition: Elysium

Terraforming Mars fan made board Utopia Planitia

Big Board Edition: Utopia Planitia

Terraforming Mars fan made board Terra Cimmeria

Big Board Edition: Terra Cimmeria

Terraforming Mars fan made board Vastitas Borealis

Big Board Edition: Vastitas Borealis

Detailed View

Venus Next

Big Board Edition: Venus Next

Colonies

Big Board Edition: Colonies

There is only room for seven colonies - but in the rare case (5 player+ Aridor ) that an eighth colony needs to be placed, you can place this colony on the top of the lettering. There is enough space for it.

On every map there is a space station under the thermometer. Use it for the setup of the trade fleet.

Trade Fleet

Turmoil

Big Board Edition: Turmoil

Utopia Planitia

Big Board Edition: Utopia Planitia

Milestones

Specialist - have 3 special tiles
Pioneer - have 3 colonies
Trader - have minimum 3 different nonstandard resources
Metallurgist - minimum 5 of any combined steel and titanium production
Researcher - have 4 science tags

Awards

Suburbian - most tiles on the rim of the board
Investor - most earth tags
Botanist - most plant production
Incorporator - most played project cards cheaper or equal to 10MC
Metropolist - most cities

We tested the board several times and also optimized it. What we like is that the oceans are placed so unfavorably that they annoy us 😉. It is more difficult to find good places for cities and greeneries. This is a deliberate difference to the other boards, which we enjoy.

We have intentionally not added any new features, like other fan maps do. We didn't want to change the original game design because it's just not necessary for us. On Utopia Planitia there are no playable volcano fields, like on Hellas. Therefore the volcano names here are in regular white font, just like the other place names.