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From: rec@cosivax.UUCP (Rick Cobb)
Newsgroups: net.games.board
Subject: Re: Game Recommendations Sought
Message-ID: <165@cosivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 19:52:25 EST
Article-I.D.: cosivax.165
Posted: Tue Mar 18 19:52:25 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 05:17:31 EST
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Reply-To: rec@cosivax.UUCP (Rick Cobb)
Distribution: net.games.board
Organization: COSI, Ann Arbor, MI
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Keywords: Cosmic Encounters
Summary: 


Have to agree that Cosmic  is one of the great board games.
However, you need to be aware of two things:

[1]	Don't try to learn it with the expansion sets first (well, maybe
	only two or three....)  It gets *very* chaotic after that.

[2]	This is a game of ``rule-based cheating.''  The basic idea is
	essentially the card game War; everything else is some way
	of breaking or abusing or bending or confusing some
	of the rules.  Rules lawyers can be a big pain, but if
	I remember right, there's a flare in expansion set 5 that
	deals with them....

I have to disagree with the statement that the moons are worthless;
our group considers them essential to the good humor of the game.  

In addition, Eon has just repackaged the game; as I understand it, the
initial set has the first two expansion sets (which
bring the game up from four players to six) into the basic box,
and reduced the number of expansion sets to four, which combine the other
seven of the original game.