Ruins of Mars uses a unique action selection mechanism in which the benefits of the action are derived from the action tiles which are placed below that site's action. The action tiles will shift around the board's actions each turn in a similar fashion to mancala.
Game Contents:
- 1 Planet board
- 4 Player boards
- 4 Tech boards
- 1 Oxygen cost track & 1 Language board
- 5 Character cards
- 48 Tech cards
- 12 Solo Tech cards
- 20 Language markers
- 4 Scoring markers
- 16 Resource markers
- 30 Radiation tokens
- 20 Hourglass tokens
- 11 Action tiles
- 16-sided Wasteland die