Excellent video mate, learned a couple of things through it. I'm the founding designer of the card game Infinity Wars, well done on being a part of the design of such an incredible game that I adore and respect so much!

I consistently find the most confusing rule for new players is when to draw a new hand. Although as long as you explain it deliberately, people understand it.

Definitely include rearranging ships. I've played with a few people who see regroup phase and just assume you can do that.

Nuclear War in the background. Legend!

My first play of Cosmic Encounters was terrible. I had never played the game but was so excited to. I felt like getting rid of it. I did some digging and I found a few things I did wrong. Unfortunately I didn't explain it right to begin with (the true art form any board game). I also didn't emphasise certain key points. Can someone help make sure I have this right: (1)You MAY ask for alliance. You don't have to. I had one player jumping in and just declaring they were going to assist with the attacker. This lead that person to smash it before I even got a turn. (2) Your defending ships don't go to the warp, and whatever is on your colony automatically adds to your defence total. (3) I should have included Alien powers from the start I thought we'd get through a couple of turns before introducing them.

After your destiny color is drawn Can you encounter a player in your home system to make deal with him and getting a colony on his system

Is that mean only the owner of the system can kick someone out?

If you had an encounter card as an offense main pkayer, but then get the to planning and have no encounter cards whats happens? Meaning do you still launch ships call for allies, then while planning just lose all ships on the warp due to not have a cardto play? Or does all your ships and allies just go back?

Hi Jack! We're new to CE and we have a question. Apparently, we've played our first 3 games "wrong". For us, the colour you draw from the destiny deck only tells you whose system you're gonna play on, but then you can choose whose colony to attack, and THAT's gonna be the defense: the colony owner. (This also means that whenever a planet is empty, no matter if it's a home planet or a foreign one, you can always instantly move in skipping all the way from launch to resolution.) We've had a lot of fun playing like that and now we don't really want to follow the actual rule because our version makes the game a little bit more "wild" and we like it like that. Do you think that this is gonna break the game? An example we've already thought about is the Leviathan. It's significantly weaker with our rules. As the offense, if you lose an encounter where you've used a worldship, you'll be left with a planet that's completely free for others to conquer until your next regroup phase, they just need to draw your destiny card. (It still sounds kinda balanced though). What do you think? Thank you!

Hey Jack - I've got a question about the invader, which isn't really related but is sort of related to the destiny deck so I'm going to ask anyway. The alien discusses adding the 'invasion' cards to the destiny deck, and if one is pulled invader gets an encounter. Okay, cool. Then later on, the card says (cutting not relevant details): 'As a main player, after ... a destiny card of your player color is drawn, you may use this power to [do a thing] before having your extra encounter.' This is the only reference to having an extra encounter in response to your own colour being drawn and it is not very clear. if, say, quartermaster draws invader's colour how do we decide who is the defence? Also, after the extra encounter, does quartermaster then resume their turn and have an encounter where invader is the defence? Or, is this a mistake and the invader only supposed to have an extra encounter on drawing 'invasion!' cards? Thank you!

Hi I got a question, If I want to attack one of my own planets which there are 2 enemy colonies on it (for example red & green), who will be the defender? should I choose between them? and If I win, I will kick out both colonies out or the enemy I chose? Thanks!

If the offense has a successful encounter and gets a second encounter, but they have no encounter cards, do they get a new "start turn", so they can draw new cards at the beginning of the second encounter?