Thanks @Agemegos et al, it’s great to be here.
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Sounds like a guest on a Radio show! 
“Well, thanks Simon, its great to be here. Big fan of the show.” 
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Who gets to be Kirsty Young? (And I know Lauren Laverne does it now but I much prefer Kirsty’s voice!)
Hello everyone, I’m a VERY new member of your lovely community. I can’t promise I’ll be a particularly prolific member, but I look forward to getting to know all or at least some of you, and hopefully I won’t step on any toes.
My wife and I have really gotten into board games starting last year (y’know the one, it felt like at least a decade), so we’re pretty new to the hobby. We’ve been enjoying exploring its riches and getting into deeper and deeper games, starting with 7 Wonders Duel and Patchwork (the latter of which remains an enduring classic in our household) and gradually moving on to stuff like Pandemic (a personal favourite), Terraforming Mars and Inis.
That’s… about it I guess. Hi!
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Welcome! Make yourself at home 
Welcome to the forum. Grab a brew.
Thank you for the warm (and fast, wow) welcome. 
Can’t grab a brew yet, I’m technically working and I do have a semblance of professionalism. 
But soon it will be the week-end! And then I will… Will… Well, sleep quite a bit most likely.
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Hi
Nice to meet you. I’m a big fan of Terraforming Mars and Inis.
What’s your favourite starting corporation?
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Ooooooh, that’s a hard one. Probably Ecoline. It’s strong and I like the idea of tree-hugging hippies winning the space race. 
Hello and welcome to the forums 
Glad you found your way here. I am sure you‘ll quickly find out that quite a few of us here … also enjoy games maybe even the same ones you mentioned
Me? I really like Terraforming Mars even though I don‘t get to play it much in multiplayer. And I am still waiting for my chance to play Inis with more than 2 because I got my copy in January last year…
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I used to like Ecoline but I don’t like the lack of money. You can get a great combo with some Prelude cards though (if you don’t have Prelude I’d thoroughly recommend it)
Kindred spirits! Huzzah and other such utterances!
I know, right? I want to try out TM and Inis with 3/4 players so bad… Maybe my wife could destroy someone ELSE for a change, LOL. My mother-in-law’s a fan of board games as well, but those are just a bit above her level for the moment, she’s learning Quacks of Quedlinbug with both expansions at the moment and she’s not a regular player. But one day!
We also like to play the co-op variant of TM, that really gave that game a new set of wings (as if it really needed them…)
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The lack of money hurts, yes. We don’t have Prelude. From what I’ve read it’s mostly to speed up the early game? We’ve never found the early game to be super slow, but maybe it would be more of an issue with more players…
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You obviously aren’t in the UK, he’s talking about a mug of tea
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Correct. I’m in Quebec, in Canada. I’m still trapped for an hour. 
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That’s basically it. You get two cards that push your engine along; some money, some production, a city placement that kind of thing. It’s not so much the time it saves (my wife and I fly through Terraforming Mars), but it gets you into the game a bit quicker so you can do stuff.
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Interesting. We got the Venus Next expansion, but we’ve only played with it the once. Not that it’s not good, it’s just that the base game is already strong enough that we don’t feel the need for it. Especially at the price they are, LOL.
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This is the reason that Prelude has been in my online shopping basket many times, but I still don’t have it!
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While I am more of a completionist with expansions, TM is a special case as it becomes just such a monster with all of them.
However, if you were to own only a single one, I would recommend Prelude because it folds so easily into the start of the base-game and because it is not a short game a little speed boost at the start is quite welcome. Venus and Colonies both create sideboards that take you away from the main game. If I had to choose between these 2 in particular I think I prefer colonies as it seems more flexible and at least adds some resources back to Mars. Venus is—please correct me @Simfers you have probably used this one more recently than I—more of another track to run up. The map expansions are fine but I am not sure that map variety is for anyone but the all-in crowd
Personally, the one I most want to see in action next is Turmoil. In my test games the parliament was just great. However this also delivered too close to Covid for it to have found its way to the table.
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