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As far as I can tell, the trackers are unnecessary because you could just use the icons on the cards themselves, so the boards are just needed for keeping track of how much of the 3 different resources you have. On that note, I’m not a big fan of the player boards either. As it is, I feel like the board just serves as a reminder of what’s missing in the game. If they were going to include a board showing Mars, then make it matter. Obviously Ares is intended to focus exclusively on the card tableau element of the game and that’s fine, but then what purpose is the board serving? Since the positioning of the oceans don’t matter at all, the main board is essentially just 4 tracks. After playing it on BGA and watching previews of TM Ares, I doubt TM Ares is going to turn out to be the better game. I just can’t justify spending upwards of $40 on that game when I can get Race for the Galaxy for under $30.

However, I’ve decided to pass on it for now. I was excited about TM Ares because I liked the idea of a quicker, lighter TM that would be easier to get the the table than TM.

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So my question for you guys is this, what is your opinion? Do you think the game is worth it to go all in at 370$ for all I mentioned above plus shipping to the US? Are the components really that terrible? Is the company that horrible? What would you do, or what do you plan to do? Couple that with a general sense of anger and disgust from folks in the comment section has me seriously questioning backing at all. I'm a fairly seasoned Kickstarter backer, and no stranger to pricey big ticket campaigns, KDM comes to mind, but this feels overpriced to me. The campaign claims that if you order the add-ons now its cheaper then if you do it after the campaign ends, but those suckers are already disgustingly expensive.

As a collector, I'm something of a completionist, so the temptation to go after the Corporate Investor level (all in first nee game plus big box version with all expansions) plus the metal resource cubes and 4 neoprene mats from the addons is pretty high. Today while looking for something else on Kickstarter, I came across the Ares Project campaign and got curious.

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Figured worse case, I'd keep the cards and look for ways to upgrade the rest of it myself. Decided I enjoyed it enough that I'd look for a second hand copy to mitigate any disappointment I might experience if the components did turn out to be that bad. In the last few weeks I decided to pick up the digital version of the game on my phone to see if it would be worth pursuing the physical game. I typically love this style of gameplay, but was scared away by all the criticism of the component quality and questionable nature of the company that makes it. So I've yet to actually make the jump into owning the physical TM boardgame.

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