Thanks Scott, really helpful video. Got Cosmic Encounter yesterday and about to play for the first time tomorrow so wanted a little extra tuition on how to play. You did a great job on clarifying some areas I wasn't sure about when I read the rules. Your experience of the game and obvious enthusiasm for it make this video extremely helpful for new players. I will certainly recommend it to others. Thanks again.
I think the score marker is pretty neat idea in my gaming group. Often times, it saves time counting the colony when the special "the most colony" destiny card came out. Also, it warns us who is about to win. Well, even though we can count 1-5, often times, we are busy talking, yelling, and forgot how many colony each player have (especially in 6 players game). Other than that, Good Job with the review. We "discover" the fun of the game because of you :D.
Thanks for the review, Scott. You didn't mention the 1986 Games Workshop edition. That's the one I've got and I love it - the artwork's brilliant and think they kept all the Eon rules.
you can actually put 2 ships on your technology per turn assuming that your first encounter is successful. you can add another before your second encounter.
Thanks for posting this. I last played CE about 25 years ago. Just got the FFG edition for Xmas and this was a great refresher. Wonderful example there at the end!
@FlippyDosk Based on my reading of the rules, yes, any offensive allies would get a colony. So the motivation would be to only do so if attacking the foreign colony of a player in the lead. Yes, a planet can have any number of ships.
After your Puerto Rico review I knew I could watch your reviews to get a good sense of how to play a game and if I would like it. This is an even better review (which is saying a lot because that was very good). You won me over on this one. I was initially turned off because of the components. FF usually includes so much and the box offers little info. What you did for me Scott is open my mind to what a game can be regardless of components and this will give me better gaming experiences, thx!
Information Science. My thesis created a search tool that would look at Web pages and predict if they contained academic content. Now I teach Library Science at Syracuse University.
Fantasy Flight recently released an expansion for Cosmic Encounter. It enhances the game significantly. Tom Vasel (The Dicetower Review) has done a nice report of it here on TH-cam.
Hi, I'm fairly new to board gaming, just bought this game, and found this tutorial to be the clearest, and most informative. So I wanted to say Thank you.
Very comprehensive review, you covered all the basics and every card that most game reviewers don't do and you illustrated with a action packed example. Still have some questions left unanswered, (e.g. when you return ships to your home colonies from the warp or the hyperspace gate, can you assign any ship to any planet) But I guess I'll find that out by reading the 14 page instruction manual. Thanks for the great video!
Very informative review here, lots of great examples and comprehensive explanations. :) There's just one thing that I haven't quite understood... Say, we have a 4 player game and the attacker wants to invite everyone that he possibly can. Does he invite all the players before the defender, or does he invite one and then the defender gets to ask one of them? Does the potential ally have to respond immediately, or do they wait to see if both sides will invite them to ally?
I'm currently playing this game w friends and more often than not we end up immerse in heated debates about some of the rules. I find sometimes that sometimes the rules and powers are not enough selfexplanatory.
Gave you thumbs up just because of all the history info and overall good job but please if you could answer my questions in comment section that would be greatly appreciated.
I've seen how much Tom Vassal loved this game, but didn't look like something I wanted. Watched your review and now I'm totally going to buy this game. Don't get me wrong, I love Vassal's reviews, but this one gave me enough examples and rules that I understand it...and want it! (By the way, your BSG reality show was awesome)
it told us in the vid but i think you skipped it. The blue player may atack the other colored space ships that are in a planet along with him(your home sistem or ships you have on the atacked planets along with others) or you just take another card from the deck. Sorry if i have any english mistakes and tell me if i was helpfull
I really want to buy this soon, but one question. If blue player picks a blue card from the destiny deck, what would happen? Would he have to attack his own planets? I haven't downloaded the rules from FFG so I guess this is answered?
I have been looking everywhere to try to find out how exactly the bride alien works me and 5 friends just played this I had the bride alien I married a friend and so many questions came up and no one knew the answers to it. #1 does we get a shared win we played as we don't get a shared win. #2 can we attack each other while still married we played as we could which seemed odd to me. then again domestic disputes :D. #3 can we send help even without the other asking for allies we played as we could always send help even without asking. #4 I don't remember but it feels like we had like 7 more questions that came up.
+Cindy Cruz I don't know - I would suggest posing this question at boardgamegeek.com in the Cosmic Encounter forum. There' s a place there for Rules questions.
if you have 4 players vs a "virus" then he can be killed easyly. and most game you won t have high cards or negotiates. so they don t matter. hepe i helped you
Best tutorial for Cosmic Encounter on youtube.
Thanks Scott, really helpful video. Got Cosmic Encounter yesterday and about to play for the first time tomorrow so wanted a little extra tuition on how to play. You did a great job on clarifying some areas I wasn't sure about when I read the rules. Your experience of the game and obvious enthusiasm for it make this video extremely helpful for new players. I will certainly recommend it to others. Thanks again.
I’ve watched a few tutorials for Cosmic Encounter but this one is by far the best.
Your narration is quick yet well articulated! Well done!
An excellent rundown of the game. Thank you!
I think the score marker is pretty neat idea in my gaming group. Often times, it saves time counting the colony when the special "the most colony" destiny card came out. Also, it warns us who is about to win. Well, even though we can count 1-5, often times, we are busy talking, yelling, and forgot how many colony each player have (especially in 6 players game). Other than that, Good Job with the review. We "discover" the fun of the game because of you :D.
This was fantastically informational and really, really helpful solidifying some gray areas. Thanks so very much!
Thanks for the review, Scott. You didn't mention the 1986 Games Workshop edition. That's the one I've got and I love it - the artwork's brilliant and think they kept all the Eon rules.
you can actually put 2 ships on your technology per turn assuming that your first encounter is successful. you can add another before your second encounter.
Thanks for posting this. I last played CE about 25 years ago. Just got the FFG edition for Xmas and this was a great refresher. Wonderful example there at the end!
@FlippyDosk Based on my reading of the rules, yes, any offensive allies would get a colony. So the motivation would be to only do so if attacking the foreign colony of a player in the lead.
Yes, a planet can have any number of ships.
My copy of Cosmic just came in the mail, and tomorrow we're gonna play our first game and I'm really looking forward to it!!
Come back Scott and review more games!! We miss u!
After your Puerto Rico review I knew I could watch your reviews to get a good sense of how to play a game and if I would like it. This is an even better review (which is saying a lot because that was very good). You won me over on this one. I was initially turned off because of the components. FF usually includes so much and the box offers little info. What you did for me Scott is open my mind to what a game can be regardless of components and this will give me better gaming experiences, thx!
Thank you for the excellent video and tutorial.
Information Science. My thesis created a search tool that would look at Web pages and predict if they contained academic content. Now I teach Library Science at Syracuse University.
Fantasy Flight recently released an expansion for Cosmic Encounter. It enhances the game significantly. Tom Vasel (The Dicetower Review) has done a nice report of it here on TH-cam.
Very helpful, thankyou. I bought the game but haven't had chance to actually play yet
Hi, I'm fairly new to board gaming, just bought this game, and found this tutorial to be the clearest, and most informative. So I wanted to say Thank you.
Very comprehensive review, you covered all the basics and every card that most game reviewers don't do and you illustrated with a action packed example. Still have some questions left unanswered, (e.g. when you return ships to your home colonies from the warp or the hyperspace gate, can you assign any ship to any planet) But I guess I'll find that out by reading the 14 page instruction manual.
Thanks for the great video!
awesome, good introduction!
"WOOHOO! Party on Red's planet!"
FF's Cosmic Encounter is my favorite version! :)
Will I see you in Essen this year?
Big fan! :)
Yes, on either side.
thank you so very much. wastn't sure. munchkin quest it is just one person to help fight off monster. so wondering if this was same way.
Very informative review here, lots of great examples and comprehensive explanations. :)
There's just one thing that I haven't quite understood...
Say, we have a 4 player game and the attacker wants to invite everyone that he possibly can. Does he invite all the players before the defender, or does he invite one and then the defender gets to ask one of them?
Does the potential ally have to respond immediately, or do they wait to see if both sides will invite them to ally?
EXCELENT REVIEW !!!!
Are you allowed to take ships from your colonies?
I've been looking everywhere I can't seem to find it
I'm currently playing this game w friends and more often than not we end up immerse in heated debates about some of the rules. I find sometimes that sometimes the rules and powers are not enough selfexplanatory.
poor red, always under attack. All they wanted to do is worship the flying spaghetti monster!
Gave you thumbs up just because of all the history info and overall good job but please if you could answer my questions in comment section that would be greatly appreciated.
I've seen how much Tom Vassal loved this game, but didn't look like something I wanted. Watched your review and now I'm totally going to buy this game.
Don't get me wrong, I love Vassal's reviews, but this one gave me enough examples and rules that I understand it...and want it!
(By the way, your BSG reality show was awesome)
it told us in the vid but i think you skipped it. The blue player may atack the other colored space ships that are in a planet along with him(your home sistem or ships you have on the atacked planets along with others) or you just take another card from the deck. Sorry if i have any english mistakes and tell me if i was helpfull
There's some excellent pics of the GW edition on Flickr... search for 'cosmic encounter games workshop'
Scott, what is your doctorate in? What was your doctoral thesis about?
No just if you have an alien power that says so. Normally you can have just 4.
I really want to buy this soon, but one question. If blue player picks a blue card from the destiny deck, what would happen? Would he have to attack his own planets? I haven't downloaded the rules from FFG so I guess this is answered?
Is it just me or is:
21:11 "Now here's how you play them, JIZZ, ..."
I have been looking everywhere to try to find out how exactly the bride alien works me and 5 friends just played this I had the bride alien I married a friend and so many questions came up and no one knew the answers to it.
#1 does we get a shared win we played as we don't get a shared win.
#2 can we attack each other while still married we played as we could which seemed odd to me. then again domestic disputes :D.
#3 can we send help even without the other asking for allies we played as we could always send help even without asking.
#4 I don't remember but it feels like we had like 7 more questions that came up.
+Cindy Cruz I don't know - I would suggest posing this question at boardgamegeek.com in the Cosmic Encounter forum. There' s a place there for Rules questions.
Board Game Geek has a link to get it.
can you have more than one ally join you?
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my god....
if you have 4 players vs a "virus" then he can be killed easyly. and most game you won t have high cards or negotiates. so they don t matter. hepe i helped you