December 16, 2024

[@glowerworm]

It had been a long time since i played cosmic with a dedicated group until relatively recently, i finally got my friends into board games enough that they were up for a more complicated game like Cosmic. I certainly forgot how enjoyable it is to just listen to your discussion of cosmic aliens. Love these vids, jack. In case it interests you, it seems this game has a very international appeal once the english is hashed out, my group of physicist friends from egypt and india especially really love the game and how varied it is. We're all a very structure-oriented bunch so theres a lot of passion for "relearning" the strategy for each collection of aliens. Also you mentioned you love tortoise and now I've got a personal beef with you. Our most recent five player game, I was Particle and had managed to get 6 points against everyone else's 3 or fewer. But another player was tortoise, and he worked with everyone at the table to get me down to 4 points before running out of cards. Then two players made a deal and "won", and tortoise used his power and made another deal with the 5th player and they also won. I had 6 points at one time but ended up being the only loser of that game, and it was because of Tortoise, the jerk 😡

[@jackredathewarp]

@@glowerworm fantastic!

[@sageautumnmacdougall299]

Hey jack reda since you have such great passion for board games have you ever thought of recording a game posting it on your channel, I would love to see how you play comsic encounter

[@jackredathewarp]

@@sageautumnmacdougall299 we have done some playthroughs, but I will be doing more.

[@matiasmaenpaa6270]

Any particular reason you didn't include Judge in top 10? I feel like solo win is extremely easy to achieve with fiat "The loser gains a colony in the winner's system."

[@jackredathewarp]

@@matiasmaenpaa6270 Haven’t ever been successful with it, so it was personal. But it is a good contender.

[@Bundeskaiser]

I absolutely dislike Ace and I would never pick it if I have the choice between it and something else. It is an anti power. Not only that you will most likely not get any alliance invitations as long as you have your power, neither would anyone join you on offense (unless they could win the game this way) and if you are able to pull of to win a foreign colony against all odds, everybody would probably try to target you. I have a similar problem with Winner but it's not quite as bad with Winner.

[@glowerworm]

You're definitely committing to being the public enemy with Ace, but thats sort of just part of the power. The fun of Ace is in properly managing your hand so that you can trick people into using their good cards. But yeah, if you dont want to be a common enemy you wont like the power. It also really suffers with the inclusion of the reward deck in my opinion. Take reward deck out and people might actually invite you as a defensive ally.

[@sageautumnmacdougall299]

Sometimes my friends and I just choose new aliens we haven't played instead of randomly picking one, if there was one aliens from the expansions (I'm only missing cosmic storm and eons) what's a must try aliens that I should at least play once

[@jackredathewarp]

@@sageautumnmacdougall299 check the aliens of the month for sure. Those are all great plays. New one coming.