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[Axxle]

"In Cosmic Encounter, each player is the leader of an alien race. The object of the game is to establish colonies in other players' planetary systems. Players take turns trying to establish colonies. The winner(s) are the first player(s) to have five colonies on any planets outside his or her home system. A player does not need to have colonies in all of the systems, just colonies on five planets outside his or her home system. These colonies may all be in one system or scattered over multiple systems. The players must use force, cunning, and diplomacy to ensure their victory."

I'm not sure if you're familiar with Cosmic Encounter.  Feel free to ask my any rules questions that pop up.  A link to the rules for the base set is located toward the end of this post.

This game will use aliens from all sets, and will use the Rewards deck variant from Cosmic Incursion.  If we have 8 players we will also be including the Large Group Cosmic Cards from Cosmic Alliance in the Cosmic Deck.

You will be given a choice of three aliens.  Please PM me your choice of alien.  Also PM me the flare out of the ones you didn't pick that you'd like to see in the deck.

Please send me Conditional Orders (COs) when you can.  This will speed the game up considerably. eg "If the offense invites me, I will send 3 ships to the offense, unless XYZ alien joins the defense with at least 2 ships" or "If I am Cosmic Zapped I will play my Card Zap to counter it"

CE Ruleset (adjusted mafia ruleset)

Game Rules:

1. Bold, blue text is reserved for the Mod. No invisible/small text is allowed, nor is cryptography.
2. There is to be NO personal communication outside of the forum postings unless your role PM specifically allows it. Mafia members may communicate at night and during the confirmation stage.
3. If you have an issue/problem with the game, please PM the Mod privately. Do not post issues/complaints in the game thread.
4. The Mod may make mistakes - please point out any mistakes gently. Mistakes will be corrected where possible, but sometimes mistakes are made that cannot be reversed. These will stand as final to be commiserated over after the game.
5. Please bold all requests to the Mod so that they don’t get missed.
6. If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 48-hour period please post a notice to that effect in the thread. Treat this game as a commitment. Be considerate – don’t leave us hanging.


The Golden Rule:

Please remember that this is a game and your main objective is to have fun! Be considerate of each other, don’t get personal, and enjoy the game.

Helpful Links:

• Rules
  
  
• Cosmodex: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA FOR COSMIC ENCOUNTER

TO CLARIFY, I AM NOT A MODERATOR OF F.DS IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM.  IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS GAME, I AM MODERATING THAT THE RULES ARE FOLLOWED AND HIDDEN ACTIONS ARE COMPLETED PROPERLY.

[Axxle]

Gamestate

Turn order is:

• Lightning (Lekkit) - Yellow
     Gains and Takes Away Encounters
• Merchant (Kuildeous) - Red
     Plays Cards as Extra Ships
• Reborn (DSell) - Orange
     Filters Hand of Cards
• Warpish (Grujah) - Black
     Adds Ships in Warp to Total
• Pacifist (zxcvbn2) - Brown
     Wins with Negotiate Card
• Mite (Galzria) - Blue
     Demands Colony or Loss of Cards
• Animal (cayvie) - Purple
     Throws a Hearty Party
• Mercenary (Glooble) - Green
     Always Rewarded for Winning

Here's the script. I Hope there are no mistakes:

I. Start Turn

• If Offense has no Encounter Cards, they discard hand and draw eight cards.

II. Regroup

• Lightning gains token/Lightning Super
• Lightning may end Encounter.
• Wild Lightning
• Wild Animal
• Mobius Tubes
• Rift
• Plague
• Hand Zap
• Offense retrieves one ship from the Warp.
• Wild Reborn
• Super Reborn

III. Destiny

• If Offense's destiny card is his own color, the player may either attack a foreign colony in his home system or draw again.
  
• Defense is determined.

IV. Launch

• Offense sends one to four ships to the Gate.
• Mite blusters.
• Super Mite.

V. Alliance

• Offense may invite allies.
• Defense may invite allies.
• Animal punishes party-poopers. / Super Animal
• In turn order (starting after Offense), players accept up to one invitation and send one to four ships.
• Force Field
• Wild Mite.

VI. Planning

• If Defense has no Encounter Cards, they discard hand and draw eight cards.
• Kicker
• Main players secretly choose Encounter Cards.
• Merchant may hire.

VII. Reveal

• Main players reveal cards.
• Pacifist uses power
• Wild Pacifist
• Warpish uses Necromancy
• Super Warpish
• Wild Warpish
• Wild Citadel.
• Main players and allies may play Reinforcements.
• Wild Merchant.
• Emotion Control
• Winners are determined, or a deal is attempted.

VIII. Resolution

• Ionic Gas
• Quash
• Super Pacifist.
• Loser's ships and loser's allies' ships (or three ships from each main player in an unsuccessful deal) go to Warp
• Super Merchant.
• If Offense wins, Offense and their allies land on planet.
• If Defense wins, their allies gain rewards.
• Animal throws a party.
• Mercenary gets paid rewards.
• Super Mercenary
• Wild Mercenary
• Wild Glutton
• If a deal was made, its terms are carried out.
• If one player played Negotiate, compensation is gained.
• Wild Hacker
• Non-Flare cards played are discarded.

IX. Post-Encounter

• Cardships return to Merchant.
• Lightning may have encounter.
• If this was offense's first encounter: If Offense won or made a deal, they may have a second encounter. If he cannot, or do not wish to or this was offense's second encounter, play passes to next player.

Any Phase
Reborn may Rebirth
Cosmic Zap
Card Zap
Finder
Space Junk

[Lekkit]

I like the game IRL, so I'm in.

[Dsell]

IN

[Axxle]

Also call dibs on a color!

Colors are:
Blue
Green
Purple
Red
Yellow
Orange
Black
Brown

[Dsell]

Orange4me

[Grujah]

Dibs on black. If this is indeed slower than mafia, in.

/in

[Lekkit]

YELLOW!

[cayvie]

/in

purple

[cayvie]

since lekkit took my yellow >:|

[Glooble]

I'll play if there's still a spot?

[Glooble]

Green!

[Kuildeous]

Okay, this may be a forum game I can get behind.

Sign me up for red.

I'll be at GenCon next week, so my responses on here may be spotty.

I'll look at the alien races and flares and make my choice.

Man, haven't played CE in a long time.

[Axxle]

One spot left.

[Axxle]

I'll be at GenCon next week, so my responses on here may be spotty.

I'll probably be at GenCon that weekend too.  Maybe I'll see you there!  I wonder who else on f.DS is going.

[cayvie]

I'll be at GenCon next week, so my responses on here may be spotty.

I'll probably be at GenCon that weekend too.  Maybe I'll see you there!  I wonder who else on f.DS is going.

i went the past 2 years but can't get the time off work this year

[Glooble]

same here. I also don't live in Indianapolis anymore.

[Kuildeous]

I'll be at GenCon next week, so my responses on here may be spotty.

I'll probably be at GenCon that weekend too.  Maybe I'll see you there!  I wonder who else on f.DS is going.

I started a GenCon thread in General Discussion. It'd be interesting to see who'll be there.

[Grujah]

What are them Techs? Do we use them?

[Axxle]

What are them Techs? Do we use them?

We will not be using them.

[cayvie]

is there a list of all the cards in the deck anywhere

[Grujah]

Try Comicdex.

[Grujah]

Try Comicdex.

Cosmodex.

[Grujah]

There is a part called: card distribution. Probably want to check that out.

[cayvie]

All Combined Cosmic and Reward Cards from all sets:
62 Attacks: –07, –04, –01, 00 x2, 01, 02, 04 x5, 05, 06 x9, 07, 08 x9, 09, 10 x8, 11, 12 x3, 13, 14 x3, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 x3, 23 x2, 30 x2, 40
23 Negotiates: regular x20, Crooked Deal x3
03 Morphs
12 Reinforcements: +2 x2, +3 x3, +4 x2, +5 x3, +6, +8
04 Kickers: x0, x2 x2, x3
04 Rifts: 3, 4 x2, 5
20 Artifacts: Card Zap x4, Cosmic Zap x4, Emotion Control, Finder, Force Field x2, Hand Zap, Ionic Gas, Mobius Tubes x2, Plague, Quash x2, Space Junk

is this what we're using? this seems to be with the 6 and 7 player expansions.