Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Alliance

Recommended for Ages 13 & up
3-8 Players
60 minutes playtime

Description:
Game description from the publisher:
Cosmic Alliance, the third expansion set for the Fantasy Flight Games version of Cosmic Encounter, brings 20 alien races, both original and classic, exploding onto your tabletop. Players will now stand petrified by the hideous Gorgon, be baffled by the puzzle of the Schizoid, and feel obsolete before the bionics of the Cyborg.
Cosmic Alliance also makes the Cosmos even bigger, adding another player white as well as rules for large eight-player games if you own all three expansions. Finally, Cosmic Alliance introduces a new variant – team rules, which allow steadfast allies to dominate the Cosmos together!
This optional Team Cosmic variant places players in randomly determined teams of two, in which theyll attempt to conquer the Cosmos cooperatively. Without discussing their race selection in advance, partners sit opposite each other at the table, where they can occasionally offer a helping hand; whenever a player gains a new foreign colony, he can choose to instead gift that colony to his partner.

Includes the following aliens:
Animal Bandit Butler Chrysalis Crystal Cyborg Extortionist General Gorgon Horde Lightning Poison Pygmy Reborn Remote Sapient Schizoid Skeptic Sting Winner
Includes Team Cosmic which allows for playing in teams of two as well as adding Large Game cards into the deck for games of more than 6 players.

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Designer(s):
Kevin Wilson

Artist(s):
Ryan Barger
Felicia Cano

Board Game Geek Category(s):
Bluffing
Expansion for Base-game
Negotiation
Science Fiction
Space Exploration

Board Game Geek Mechanic(s):
Hand Management
Team-Based Game
Variable Player Powers