Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Crisis

During the Crisis step, resolve persistent effects of Crises already in play, then draw a new Crisis card and resolve its immediate effect. The new card’s persistent effect does not happen that turn (p. 5).

At the start of each round, take and apply the matching detriment token for any metric in a yellow or red zone; temperature and oxygen effects affect all players for that round. If any metric is in the purple zone during this check, you lose (p. 4).

Yes. If it fulfills the goals of multiple Crisis cards, remove one counter from each qualifying card. But when a goal requires discarding resources, one player must pay the full cost; players cannot split it (p. 6).

In a 2-player game, both players resolve the revealed phase, and choosing it themselves does not make it resolve twice. In a 3- or 4-player game, players cannot choose the revealed phase; solo players draw two solo cards and resolve one chosen phase from each (p. 6).

No. In Crisis Mode, spending heat and plants to increase metrics during the Action phase is optional (p. 7).

VP tokens go into the VP Bank when you gain forest VP or score VP from cards, but not when you gain TR. During the End step, you may spend two banked VP tokens to remove one Crisis counter (pp. 7–8).