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Let's Talk (Old) Cosmic Encounter
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Simply Cosmic adds shapes to the player colours, so it's the most friendly, but it's not worth looking in to. There are only a few powers, ten I think? and it only plays up to 4 players.Shellhead wrote: Simply Cosmic appears to be designed to screw with people with red-green color blindness.
The mayfair edition changed the flares to compensate for the fact that they were discarded. I feel like I prefer keeping someone elses flare but discarding your own. But I'll play whatever rules you've got, it's still Cosmic. The fun doesn't hinge on this.
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Check this site out regarding Cosmic Encounter versions:
daveola.com/CosmicEncounter/Versions/
All of Eon base sets have the same components. But, I believe that latter printings included updated rules discussing the expansions.
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I'm just not feeling the aesthetics of it though. The aliens just seem so plain and the board so sparse. Almost minimalist...I suppose it does have it's own artistic flair.
The GW one just looks colorful and fun in a gaudy 80's way:
Here's a shot of all the aliens across the lines. GW is bottom second from left, Mayfair bottom second from right.
It looks like the aliens for Simply Cosmic (bottom left) are pretty good as well.
Ugh, that Mayfair set...I guess the upside is, that it's cheap enough to give away if need be.
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That's the big knock and what would give me the most pause.
I don't have an opinion on them, having only played the FFG '08 version a handful of times about 6-7 years ago. It seems like most everyone favors them. However, if the game is still plenty fun without them perhaps I'll see what I can do about obtaining that GW edition.
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But man, Cosmic+More Cosmic is SUCH a good set.
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Its a great edition of the game. Given that all editions of Comic have problems, the FFG edition solves most of them and still give you 5 players, flares, and great expansions (First and Latest). If you want a 6th player in the FFG edition just treat the special destiny cards as that player's "color".
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bioball wrote: Why no interest in the FFG edition? What are the exact reasons?
Sure.
* I feel they purposely screwed fans with the base game. The box has too much empty space and cost too much to not have included a 6th player...at least. The game could have cost much less for what they offer, could almost be done as a silverline game. However, the market has proven that they can sell it at that point regardless of the contents. Good for them, but I'm not buying.
* My interest in the game isn't enough to where I want to buy in on expansions to get extra players/options.
* The components have the standard FFG 'too busy' look to me.
* I haven't bought a FFG title since x-wing as I feel they handled the creators of wings of glory very poorly.
* I try not to buy games made in China.
They're reasons that some may not agree with, but make sense to me, so it is what it is. I'm just not a big FFG fan. I've only got four FFG games left in my collection, all are silverline (three card games and Kingdoms) that I picked up long ago.
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- If FFG is out of the question, the Mayfair version is the most cost-effective and complete to track down. It has the most content out of the box than any other version of the game. I am of the opinion that flares are an essential part of the game, because a lot of the more advanced insanity in Cosmic Encounter comes more from the flares than from the powers themselves.
- If this is still between GW and WEG, go with GW because their version goes to six players. That's probably as much as a non-diehard like you would need.
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The Mayfair base set is all the Cosmic you'll probably ever need.
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The Mayfair version isn't the prettiest, but on the table it works great. The lack of clutter on the board is very undistracting, which I like. If you don't have a strong feeling about keep or discard Flares it's really hard to go wrong with the Mayfair set. If you get MCE with CE then you've really got more Cosmic then you'll ever need, and it all fits easily in the base game box.
Having a complete Mayfair Cosmic + MCE is one of the reasons I haven't bought into FFG's Cosmic. The other reason is the expansion chain, which is also the reason I never tracked down the Eon game.
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FFG put the phases on the bottom of the cards and highlighted when a card can be played in which phase. This was a great idea.
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