Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Incursion Expansion

Cosmic Incursion is my favorite of the current expansions available for Cosmic Encounter. In the box you get: 1) 20 great new aliens. I don't really want to spoil any surprises, so I won't give away any of the new powers. 2) The new Defensive Rewards Deck. The cards in this deck can only be acquired by successfully helping a player defend one of their colonies. There are awesome new types of cards in this deck that can greatly improve your hand, so becoming a defensive ally is more advantageous than before. This is my favorite game variant offered in the expansions, and I really consider it to be essential every time I play. 3) In this expansion, you'll also get a new set of orange ships and planets so you can have 6 player games. That's awesome all by itself. But if you don't have six people interested in playing, this won't be as important. 4) Other Miscellaneous Tokens. If you want more aliens, 6 player games, and a new deck to make people REALLY want to be a defensive ally, then this expansion is for you. But if you're satisfied with the 50 original aliens, and don't care about 6 player games, then this won't be worth the cost. For me, a new fan of Cosmic Encounter, this is an indispensable expansion to an excellent game.

Great expansion, the new races are fun, having a 6th player is good too. Mostly the best part is the new special rewards deck, these new cards which can be taken when an ally helps defend successfully lets that ally draw a number of cards equal to the number of ships he or she sent to assist. These new cards are easily identified but other players by their dark blue backs - don't let them get stolen! All most all the new cards are above average, several are great even, however there are just a few bad cards as well - can't always be perfect!

Essential expansion so that we can play with 6 players and with the rewards deck, which provides an extra incentive for people to become defense allies. It should be part of the original game, in my opinion.

La primera vez que lo jugué pensé que no daría un dolar por él y acabé gastando 200. No te digo más.

This game has been a big hit with family and friends. The game play is easy to learn and follow and the cards make it fun. My son has had friends over several times to play this game.

The best of all expansions, includes orange player pieces, 20 aliens (and some of the best from the expansions, too) and the rewards deck, which I almost forgot didn't come with the base game. Absolutely essential, get it even if you haven't played the base yet.

It’s nice to have the option for a 6th player, and the rewards deck is an excellent (albeit nonessential) addition. The extra aliens, while not as good as those in the base game, add variety and help keep things fresh repeated play throughs. All in all, Incursion is a very nice expansion that deepens the core game without adding much in the way of complexity.

The core game is incredibly addicting, and this expansion has started all kinds of new trouble among my little collection of players - we love it! The powers add new perspectives on abusing the other players without introducing anything that's way overpowered. I'll probably end up buying every expansion set.