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COSMIC ENCOUNTER

COSMIC INCURSION

Players represent one of many alien races, which all have their own special and exclusive ability, which can be used by the player to conquer planetary systems and attack other player’s planets. Usually, the special abilities enable you to countermand one of the basic rules of the game. The  new edition of the base game tech cards which you can explore in the technology variant of the game. A turn comprises formation, determine destination, departure, alliances, planning, uncovering and resolving the situation.

This expansion introduces 20 new alien races and additional player, it also uses Cosmic Quake and introduces the Reward Deck. A player who is rewarded for defense by being allowed to draw cards can decide to draw from this deck. Discarded reward cards go to a special pile which is not affected by events affecting the normal discard pile. The Reward Deck also never initiated Cosmic Quake. Cosmic Quake only happens when both the Cosmic Card Deck and the discard pile are empty: All players discard their hands, the cards are shuffled and all players are dealt 8 cards each. The new aliens, too, promise a lot of diversity, from Genius to Fury to Bully, Symbiote, Fungus, Plant or Mercenary.

Together with the second, similar, expansion, Cosmic Conflict, Cosmic Incursion is again and still offering one of the best mixtures of tactics, negotiation and cosmic arbitrariness available from a game with a SciFi topic. Mixed in with this are immense fun in playing and space adventures galore, not least due to the various aliens, who make each game different and unpredictable.

Spieler         : 3-6

Alter            : ages 13+

Dauer           : 120+

Autor           : Kevin Wilson for the expansion

Grafik          : Team

Titel             : ident

Preis            : ca. 25 Euro

Verlag          : Fantasy Flight Games 2010

www.hds-fantasy.de

Genre                    : SciFi Negotiation and Conquest game

Zielgruppe             : For experts

Version                           : en

Rules                              : en

In-game use of language   : yes

Kommentar:

Expansion

Needs Cosmic Encounter to play

New game elements in the Reward Deck

Vergleichbar:

Still the one and only game with this combination of mechanisms

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