From The Fantasy Flight Newsletter

Cosmic Incursion Announced!

The wait is almost over!

This Winter, the Cosmic Encounter universe will explode! New alien cultures are now racing towards the site of the conflict. They each want to carve out their own piece of the galaxy for themselves.

Cosmic Incursion is the first expansion for Cosmic Encounter. Including 20 new alien races, each with their own unique power; exciting new cards, and components to add a sixth player, Cosmic Incursion is a must for serious Cosmic Encounter players.

Over the coming weeks on the FFG website, we will be revealing the aliens that may be familiar to some of you (reprints of past favorites) and unveiling aliens no one has ever seen before.

Cosmic Encounter puts you in charge of the fate of an alien race. Each flavor of extraterrestrial strives to be the first to conquer five enemy col onies and establish themselves as the dominant life form. Every faction has a unique power, a power they intend to use to crush their enemies. With over 50 aliens to choose from no two games will be the same.

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Cosmic Incursion Now at Fantasy Flight Games

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=882

Halloween Party at Cosmic Online Oct 31st 7 PM EST

The Halloween Aliens are in the game, gearing up for the Halloween Party on October Oct 31st 7 PM EST. We might continue the Halloween theme for a three week Halloween League if players are game.

I’m just sayin’…….

What if Cosmic Online were relaunched with a 3D LOOK where you came into the Cosmic Nexus (a retro space station thingy). You would see little aliens slithering, floating and other wise acting up in the NEXUS and you could get to any Alien Home World via the HyperSpace Gate. Home Worlds would offer some special CE variant or other feature.
For Example:
Insect’s Home World: Duplicate Power games. (Play Cosmic where more than one player can be a given alien. So a game of 3 Viruses and an Anti-Matter might occur.)
Clone’s Home World: Multiple Power games. You can be more than one alien at a time.
Ghost’s Home World: Hidden Power games. Powers remain hidden until used.
Will’s Home World: Choice of Power, Get 3 aliens choose 1
Martian’s Home World: No Power ( beginners can play with no powers)
Prophet’s Home World: Choose Combo
Merchant’s Home World: Choose Your Alien
Sniveler’s Home World: April Fools Pods (The deck has a whacky set of pods from -10 to 101 with multiple flares.)
Locust’s Home World: 5 & 6 Players Options
Machine’s Home World: Bots Only
Gamblers Home World: Cosmic Poker mini game. Regular poker is played but the players become one of about a dozen aliens with a form of that aliens power applied to the rules of poker. A few of the dozen are Gambler, Seeker, Miser, Skeptic, Trader, Sniveler. Jokers stay in the deck and act as Cosmic Zaps against any power.
Sapient’s Home World: Cosmic Uzzle mini game: (A mini game based on Eon’s Runes (Buzzle) played for prizes with ONLY words from the Cosmic Universe.)
Disease’s Home World: Cosmic Solitaire mini game ( As set of playing cards with Cosmic Aliens as the face cards with solitaire games.)
Empath’s Home World: Cosmic Music ringtone downloads. (All the cosmic themes and aliens audio for ringtone and download)

I’m just sayin’…….

This Will Be a Must Have

Just reviewed the art and text for the 20 new aliens for Expansion Set Cosmic Incursion. Spectacular! Stay Tuned

Bill Wins Alphabet Aliens League Finals

It took only three games for Bill to win two first as Vulch, facing down the formidible Virus, Void, Vacuum trio and then as Oracle up against Reincarnator, Philanthropist and Pacifist. BigHeadZach, the dark horse contender, took the first win as Healer only to see Bill wrap up the next two contests. zxzxi who was the top seed and thus got to pick the first two combos was shut out as was Sleepy Weasel, winner of the 2005 Autumn Rumble and 2006 WInter Crunch Leagues.

Leagues of Yore

Garvoids League 2003 amatecon

TurkeyTrot 2003 amatecon

Spring Training 2004 Soothsayer

Summer Slam 7 2004 Peter

Summer Slam 8 2004 Lonely Moon

Autumn Rumble 2005 Sleepy Weasel Pacifist

Winter Crunch 2006 Sleepy Weasel Will

Summer Mini 2006 AP Void

Sarry’s Combo 2006 Capt_Dave_TSA Vulch

AP’s Christmas league 2006 -7 Amatecon Vulch

Amadeus Reincarnator league 2007 BigShidder Virus

Misfit League 2007 Subby Sorcerer

Double Trouble 2008 GeorgeOTC Empath

Much Madness 2009 Aadam (AP) ??

Alphabet Aliens 2009 Bill Vulch and Oracle

ALPHABETICAL ALIENS FINALS ANNOUNCED

ALPHABETICAL ALIENS FINALS

zxzxi, Bill, Sleepy Weasel, BigHeadZach square off for the title!

DATE: MONDAY JULY 27

TIME: 8:30 PM

LOCATION: EMPATH FANTASY LEAGUE ROOM 7

SOLO WINS ONLY

FIRST PLAYER TO WIN TWO GAMES IS THE CHAMP

PRIZE: T-SHIRT OR MUG FROM THE COSMIC STORE OF WINNER’S CHOICE.

The alien combos chosen by the finalists will be played in this order:
1. Empath, Filch, Ghost, Healer (zxzxi)
2. Vacuum, Virus, Void, Vulch (zxzxi)
3. Oracle, Pacifist, Philanthropist, Reincarnator (if necessary) (Sleepy Weasel)
4. Anti-Matter, Calculator, Clone, Dictator (if necessary) (BigHeadZach)
5. Martian, Mind, Mite, Mutant (if necessary) (Peter – for Bill)

Zxzxi Takes Top League Slot With 3 Wins

The last regular Alphabet Aliens League games were played last night with zxzxi having the best night seen in league for a long time. Zxzxi won the first three games, before dropping two. Some say it was letting him take the Blue seat that ended his winning streak, but he still took the top slot with 6 wins.

Bill made a walk-on for one game and won sliding to second place with a total of 5 wins.

Sleepy Weasel gets the third slot with a winning percentage of 31% on his 4 – 9 record. And BigHeadZach snuck  in with the lowest number of possible games (8) and a 2 – 6 record for a 25% winning percentage.

The W – Z alphabet combo was perhaps the weakest of the whole set, but the consensus was that over all the Alphabet produced a stunning set of combos.

FINALS

Finals will be the first player to win two games. FInal game date will be agreed upon by the four finalists with each finalist picking their top three alphabet combos.

Zxzxi will have his top two combos in the finals game. Each other player will get one of their picks. Peter (host) will resolve any duplicate picks.

We will have five Finals Alphabet Combos available (the maximum number of possible games to get a winner of two).

Final Alphabet Aliens Stats.

Player	Wins	Losses	Winning %	Played
zxzxi	6	13	32%	19
Bill	5	6	45%	11
Sleepy Weasel	4	9	31%	13
BigHeadZach	2	6	25%	8
Peter	4	15	21%	19
Icaruslnx	2	10	17%	12
AP	1	11	8%	12
					Games Needed
TheDukester	2	4	33%	6	2
subby	2	3	40%	5	3
Barrok	0	4	0%	4	4
Greg	1	2	33%	3	5
jkw	0	3	0%	3	5
Mesmer69	1	1	50%	2	6
motabota	0	2	0%	2	6
aviono	0	2	0%	2	6
amatecon	1	0	100%	1	7
Lenoxus	1	0	100%	1	7
Fljared	0	1	0%	1	7
LonelyMoon	0	1	0%	1	7
Serfuge	0	1	0%	1	7
Big Shidder	0	1	0%	1	7
Games played by players with 2 or more:				121
Number of Players with 2 or more games:				15
Number of games to qualify is currently:				8

Warpish, Warrior, Will, Zombie

Last chance to make the cut. After tonight’s games we will decide on a day for the Alphabetical Aliens Finals

All others are welcome to the coveted ’spoiler role’

TONIGHT

W Through Z

Warpish, Warrior, Will, Zombie