Ark Nova - Marine Worlds (Board Game Expansion)

Ark Nova: Marine Worlds, an expansion for Ark Nova, introduces multiple newelements to the game, such as sea animals that each have to be played in newspecial enclosures that must be built adjacent to water.

Roughly half the sea animals are reef dwellers, and whenever you add a reefdweller to your zoo, you trigger the ability of all reef dwellers in your zoo.To deal with the dilution of the deck, naturally caused by adding more cards,all sea cards feature a wave icon, and whenever it is revealed in the display,you discard the first card in the row, then replenish.

A fourth university — the breed registry — is available on theassociation board, and if you take it, you claim one of six special universitiesfrom the reserve that feature one research icon and one of six animal icons.When you take this registry, you reveal cards from the top of the deck and keepthe first revealed card with an animal icon that matches your chosenuniversity.

For each of the five action cards, four alternate versions with a littletwist will be available. Players draft action cards at the start of play,replacing two of their standard action cards with these new ones, increasing theasymmetry in the game. The build action, for example, might allow you to spend2 money once per action to build over a water or rock space, with the upgradedside of the card allowing you to do this for free. The animal action might allowyou to ignore one condition on an animal card that you're playing when you havethe chance to put two animals into play, but play only one.

New bonus tiles and final scoring cards will also be included.