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Cosmic Encounter

Cosmic Alliance

Players represent one of fifty alien races, which all have their own special and exclusive ability and uses this to conquer planetary systems and attack other player’s planets. Usual the special abilities enable you to countermand a rule of the game. This edition of the game adds 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 third expansion introduces 20 new races; the Schizoid has two different flares, players choose one of them at the start of the game, and the Schizoid cards are only used when the Schizoid alien is played. The Horde alien is accompanied by Horde tokens, which represent the ships that are generated during the course of the game; they are considered to be unlimited. There are also components for an additional player and rules for the variant Team Cosmic, in which players form teams of two members. Partners can form alliances with different sides of a conflict in which they are not directly involved. If you use all three expansions with the core set you can play with eight now and use the set of 24 Cosmic Cards marked for large groups that are included in this expansion. Cosmic Quake also happens in Cosmic Alliance when the Cosmic Deck and the discard pile are exhausted; all discard their hand cards for a new Cosmic deck and are dealt 8 new cards.

This is space opera and space adventure at its best, a still unique mixture of negotiation, tactic and random cosmic events, offering nearly unlimited possibilities with the now 110 different Aliens.

Players: 3-6 (8)

Age: 14+

Time: 120+

Designer: Kevin Wilson, Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge, Peter Olotka, Bill Norton

Art: Andrew Navaro, Chris Beck, Evan Simonet

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games 2012

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Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text:  yes

Comments:

3^rd expansion

Needs Core Game to play

Now altogether 110 Aliens

Compares to:

Cosmic Encounter with all other expansions

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0