Terraforming Mars - Turmoil Corporations Tierlist

In my fifth installment of my Terraforming Mars corporations tier list series, I rank all the Turmoil corps and also talk about all other corps' performance within the Turmoil expansion.

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Intro: (0:00​)
Changes to previous Corps: (0:​47)
Astrodrill: (1:52​)
Factorum: (3:59​)
Lakefront Resorts: (6:00​)
Mons Insurance: (6:43​)
Pharmacy Union: (8:07​)
Philares: (9:37​)
Pristar: (10:42​)
Septem Tribus: (10:47​)
Terralabs Research: (13:09​)
Utopia Invest: (14:10​)
Outro: (8:19)

[marsexpert]

Hey guys, I forgot to talk about Ecoline. I wanted to move them up one tier due to the introduction of the Greens and the lower concentration of plant destroying cards when playing with all expansions.


Also, there seem to be two versions of Astrodrill, one with 35 and one with 38 MC. This does not influence my rating though.


Hope you had a great New Year’s Eve. Best of luck for 2022 :)

[iTyero_]

Really enjoyed this series of videos. I largely agree with you on most these sections. There are a few I think are being underrated though:

Polyphemus - This corp rewards players for understanding card value and playing efficiently (not over buying). The extra 2MC per card stings, but I feel that’s very much offset by the crazy start of 65 total MC AND 5 MC production.

Ecoline - Plant production is powerful. It gives TR, post game points, board control, and is linked to a handful of awards/milestones.

Recyclon - Again, plant production is great. If you have a steady feed of microbes, you’ll basically be getting free plant production every time you play a building tag.

Celestic - This corp benefits from colonies expansion, but also there are just some really powerful floater cards. If Celestic gets their hands on those, they can have some crazy engines (most of the time point engines, like with Floating Habs). And drawing two floater cards help a lot. Plus they always have an award/milestone suited for them in play.

I’m a little lower on Inventrix and Utopia. But surprised at how many of these we are really close on!

[yolopukki]

Great tier list! I have just a few notes on Septem Tribus, I think they are very strong. If you get prelude donation (or even loan, which I never play otherwise), you have a 12 mc production from gen 0. This is of course assuming that you move your free delegate to the previously emptied party every gen, but still.
On top of that, many very strong cards in Turmoil have restricuons that you must have two delegates there, meaning that you can just move your free delegate there and play the card. Then you can buy the 6th delegate and continue as before.
High A tier for me!

[robertlagerqvist]

Great list! Very interesting to hear your reasoning :)

[Brolly]

What are those remainin utiered corporations that you left ?

[picivyvortac]

This expansion is criminally underrated.

[Zgf]

Love these videos, as my friends and I are playing this game more and more and I intend on getting at least most of the expansions (not sure on turmoil yet).

Are the remaining corps I see at the bottom of your screen the community made ones?

[ryanhimmelblau]

What do you think of Terralabs' play-style of allowing you to keep every card that comes to hand without consequence. I've found it lets you be very reactive to opponents actions if they play a card that messes with your plans.
Any kept cards can simply be converted back to ME through an action with no net loss.
This also allows you to keep cards in the draft that you normally wouldn't that can open up interesting combos later.

It still really relies on drawing some ME prod preludes or cards in the opening hand to make up for the low initial capital, but it can be fun nonetheless.

Lastly when playing on the default map, it almost guarantees Planner.

I might rate it B or C tier due to the reliance on early game ME prod cards in order to be viable.

[JLH]

1 event in turmoil removes an ocean from the board makes lakefront 10 guaranteed mc S+

[pi_xi]

Mons Insurance is better, when you play with drafting.The Mons Insurance player usually will draft the bad cards away, even if they will not keep them. That limits their options a little, but it is still a strong corporation with a good income advantage.

[JulianRWR]

I have yet to lose a game with terralabs. The card advantage you get throughout the game is ridiculous. My friends asked me to stop picking it.