Comments on: The Vintage Gamer #3: Cosmic Encounter (BG)

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:48:39 +0000

Thanks, Peter, glad to hear that this podcast has influenced people to check out a great game.

So… what’s the trivia behind the Pirate?

By: Peter Olotka

Peter Olotka — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:42:34 +0000

A player just joined CE Online mentioning this PodCast, so I tracked it down. Its always great fun to find CE popping up in random locations around the world. Once I was playing wtih a CE Online member from Brazil and he mentioned the Brazillian version of Cosmic. I replied that we never licensed a version for Brazil. We wound up trading. I sent him one of the new Hasbro Avalon Hill versions and he sent me the 1980′s PIRATED VERSION by the Brazillan company. Well expansion set 6 did have a Pirate in it so perhaps we needed a version dedicated to the PIRATE.. By the way, that alien has a great insider bit of trivia that is only obvious to players who read the History.

By: Rob Ritchie

Rob Ritchie — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:11:33 +0000

Hi there,

I subscribed to your podcast because Mer recommended it on GFAG, so I figured I’d give it a listen. I like what I hear! I am primarily a role-player, because frankly I always have trouble understanding complicated board game rules; but I think you really have a knack for explaining them. I’ve never played CE before, but after listening to this episode, I think even I could make a pretty good showing.

Thanks for a great podcast, I look forward to future episodes.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:04:27 +0000

Aha, we missed that. Good to know, thanks.

Something that I forgot to mention in the session report: we also missed the fact that the compromiser gets to take cards from their opponent. That changed the tone of the game a lot. In particular, Laser becomes less desireable when you’re taking the chance that you’ll lose cards.

By: Shaun Klein

Shaun Klein — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:28:16 +0000

Not to nitpick, but I have a small correction: you said that you had a couple of instances in your last session wherein the challenging player didn’t put any tokens into the cone, as well as mentioning putting “a large number of tokens” into the cone. Neither of those is allowed (barring powers, of course) — the challenging player must put at least one token into the cone, and may put no more than four in. Allies (on both sides) are subject to the same limitations.

Other than that, great show.