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Automa is an expansion for Terraforming Mars. MarsBot solo opponent.

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How Automa changes play

Automa: playing against MarsBot

A solo game played as a 2-player game against MarsBot, instead of the normal solo rules.

Setup: set up a 2-player game (Corporate Era allowed). Put the MarsBot board for your map in the holder, its reference card (which holds MarsBot's M€) and the final scoring card beside it, and a clear cube on 0 of each track.
Setup: pick MarsBot's colour: one marker on 20 TR, the rest beside its board. Shuffle bonus cards B01–B08 face down as its bonus deck and box the other bonus cards.
Setup: MarsBot gets no corporation card. Deal it 3 project cards face down (no 10-card hand), shuffle in 1 bonus card as its action deck, set aside the Neural Instance tile, and box the other MarsBot pieces. You go first.
Setup: with a MarsBot corporation or other expansions, add their MarsBot changes (see MarsBot Corporations and the MarsBot expansion cards).
MarsBot's turn: flip and resolve its next action deck card; it passes when the deck is empty.
Winning: beat MarsBot's score; you lose if the game reaches generation 20.

Terraforming Mars rules it changes

Solo Game With the Automa you play a 2-player game against MarsBot instead of these solo rules.

All Automa rules (22)

Automa (MarsBot) The Automa gives you an opponent in a solo game: MarsBot plays as the second player in a two-player game, and you must beat its score to…
MarsBot's Action Deck Each generation MarsBot gets a 4-card action deck: 3 project cards plus 1 card from its bonus deck, shuffled, and it never pays for them.
MarsBot's Turn On its turn MarsBot flips the top card of its action deck; with none left, it passes for the generation.
MarsBot's Failed Action When MarsBot can't do something, it takes a Failed Action instead and gains 5 M€.
Your Cards Against MarsBot An effect that removes another player's resources takes them from MarsBot's M€ supply, and one that steals may take them from it as if…
MarsBot Track Actions Track icons tell MarsBot to advance that tracker again, advance another track, gain the TR shown, terraform, claim a milestone or fund an…
MarsBot Milestones and Awards on Tharsis On Tharsis, Terraformer, Mayor, Gardener and Landlord count for MarsBot as normal.
Where MarsBot Places Tiles MarsBot's greenery goes next to as many of its own cities and as few of yours as possible, then it raises oxygen 1 step; its city goes…
MarsBot Placement and Terraforming Bonuses Instead of printed placement bonuses, MarsBot gains 1 M€ for each bonus icon its tile covers, and 2 M€ for placing next to an ocean.
Game End Against MarsBot If the game reaches generation 20 you lose at once.
MarsBot's M€ at Game End MarsBot scores its leftover M€ by the generation the game ended in, rounding down: up to 12, 1 VP per 8 M€; 13, per 7; 14, per 6; 15, per…
MarsBot Difficulty Levels Normal is the default. Easy: ignore Advance Tracker icons, Failed Actions give 3 M€, and MarsBot's award values are 5 lower.
MarsBot Corporations For a harder game, after choosing your corporation (before Preludes) draw a random MarsBot corporation, redrawing one that matches yours.
MarsBot Draft Priority With a MarsBot corporation you must draft from generation 2.
MarsBot with Prelude Remove the Recession Prelude before you draw yours. MarsBot gets no Preludes; instead its first action deck has 3 extra project cards.
MarsBot with Venus Next Add the Venus Next MarsBot board (clear cube on 0), swap Lobbyists B06 for B15, and shuffle Government Intervention (B16) into each new…
MarsBot with Colonies Set up Colonies as for 2 players, with every colony tracker on its highlighted second step.
MarsBot's Shipping Board The shipping board has 11 storage areas, one per colony tile.
MarsBot with Turmoil All 7 MarsBot delegates start in the reserve, and MarsBot starts on 10 TR while you start on 20.
MarsBot on Other Maps On Hellas, Elysium, Terra Cimmeria, Utopia Planitia or Vastitas Borealis, use the MarsBot board and reference card for that map and swap…
MarsBot on Special Spaces Hellas south pole: if oceans remain and MarsBot has 6 M€, it ranks above other 2-resource spaces, and there it places an ocean (+1 TR) and…
Cards That Work Differently Against MarsBot Asteroid Deflection System and Protected Habitat block MarsBot's bonus cards from removing your resources.

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