Let's Play COSMIC ENCOUNTER | Board Game Club

[Music] foreign [Music] hello i'm adam from no rolls bard and welcome to board game club where the first rule the board game club is a new hope although that would later be rebranded as the fourth rule of board game club and look where we are we're in we're in our brand new studio located within one of our favorite places drafts board game cafe in london who we've worked with to create this wonderful space where every week we'll gather together a group of our friends to play a board game to show you how much fun board gaming can be for more information about drafts you can check out their website link at the top of the description and you should by the way now let's crack open the safe to find out what game we're playing this week this week we'll be playing cosmic encounter designed by bill eberle jack kitridge bill norton and peter locker and published by fantasy flight games in the game we'll be playing different alien races each violently vying for galactic real estate in a war-torn galaxy in a bid to establish dominance over the very stars themselves it's my favorite game for detailed rules you could always watch my board game masterpieces video on it and we'll be covering the smaller stuff as and when it comes up but before we start here's how you play at the beginning of each turn a player will turn over a card from this destiny deck that will tell them who they have to fight so for example blue or have an encounter with which is a nicer way of saying invade wipe out the natives and hang up a home sweet home sign above the planet when you know who you're fighting you choose one of that player's planets send in your invading force and then each of you play a card face down you turn the cards over take the number of the card add it to the number of ships and whoever's got the highest number wins the invader wins they move in game one foreign colony and that is one-fifth of the way to victory the first player or players to reach five foreign colonies win they'll be doing that by forging alliances getting other players to add ships to the fight bluffing with cards betraying trust negotiating or using their special alien power whatever that may be who will emerge as the new benevolent emperor of the known universe let's find out as we play cosmic encounter [Music] joining me for the first ever in-person board game club i am joined by laurie hi i'm your boy john hello i'm dropping blair jefferson hello i'm joined by tom hello okay [Laughter] and of course they are joined by the reigning defending gods board game club champion which is only bloody me i love that we've done the entire room up looking super special and we still have the crappy little tape i've never seen this in person here it is it's so bad this could be yours can i hold it no are you board game club champion black no yeah then you will never never touch this right we are gonna start we're gonna start the game and we're gonna start by turning over the destiny deck that player will go first it is blair okay oh very exciting all right so i now need to flip another one over to see who i'm encountering correct so i'm gonna do that oh it's a special this is a destiny card and it says have an encounter with the player who has the most foreign colonies other than you in an event of a tie break the tie to your left yeah sullivan get it back oh no i'm coming after you no don't do that would anyone like to join me i would [ __ ] love to oh please [Applause] i'm going to put four ships towards this encounter all right what is the maximum i can contribute to this forum although i could i could use it to defend sally but why would you want to why would i do that well these are the two nicest people so i could pick either one and i'm not a bad person we're in the alliance phase which means so blair has put her four against sully's four so currently it's tied and uh sully's winning but uh as the attacker blair gets to offer alliances first and then yeah we can add up to four ships on the side if we are if we're successful as attackers allies we get a colony as well which is good one in salutopia however if anyone wants to join sully's doomed cause that's that's the that's a face that inspires military optimism um then you will not get a colony on sully's planet if you're successful but for every ship that you put in uh if your side wins you get that many extra cards from the deck and these are all good they're all exact you get your ships back [Music] but if you join my side we get to live on this planet which is the kissing planet it is the kissing so many wars fought over the kissing planet the mouth that launched the thousand ships look i'm all in well they're so much kissing well i've got four for someone who wants them me please oh wow whoa i want them more than blair okay well i'm i'm very open to offers who's who's likely to win blair are you feeling confident uh yeah i feel i feel pretty confident so first of all yeah i got some good cards attacking allies basically are you opening up attacking ally ship to everybody yeah yeah yeah i'm i'm in oh no oh tom 100. how confident are you feeling sully i'm feeling real ace real great real nice there's many ships in them yeah yeah oh yeah yeah yeah take them away you don't need these other two there's it's gonna be fine john we're gonna be we could it could be great you too tom and laurie we have a great time together we need you to join the war effort to do kisstopia it's poor kistopia gross um if i if i win with blair do i then are these four then stuck on kistopia yes but you um for future fights you have a mission for these guys future fights you can blow the conch and they'll come and join other fighters oh cool so i can why would they want to leave kistopia am i right heavily disinfected you can check out any time you like but you can never leave your mind is always in kisstopia well i'm with i'm with you blair oh no i have four of my little hats you'll always have a mono oh my gosh oh it's always oh no lorry knows which way the wind's blowing this does feel like bullying doesn't it okay at the moment we're doing okay yeah okay great great said a man for whom it was not great [Laughter] strolling into kistopia there's going to be some changes made around here now i know what you've heard don't worry it's a very small attacking force nothing we can't handle don't worry the entire the galaxy is ganged up against crystal everywhere we're a kiss loving peaceful people yeah we didn't bother training you to fight because you're such good kisses so i think you'll be fine on the horizon you can just hear that make kiss not war all right very good please yep yep all right make out here we go make out look what he's got it three two one negotiate yep brave folks have kissed token but yeah have you considered a kiss so for those watching at home um just because the first encounter uh blair had 11 ships plus 23 that's an incredible like it's an armada of 34. uh at which point sully's been like no thank you but because sully has played a negotiate uh for every ship he's about to lose four you get to take that many cards at random from blair's hands oh yeah nice oh yeah i'm taking them all yeah i'm only taking four one two three four your four ships have gone to the warp and then uh blair would you mind moving us all yes lovely to have you everyone this feels very uncomfortable now this many ships it was 30 what was it 34 against four no 34 against nothing because he negotiated just one what one a week stained white flag did that cold spread around the galaxy so quickly we all went to kistopia i think we might be the bad guys in this story the fall of kistopia will be remembered in the cosmic history books or sort of like the cosmic lads mags i guess chap lip sync ships death to kistopia we will kiss again we get a point yeah yeah everyone except for sully yes and you yeah cool all right yeah everyone else goes up one yay yeah well done peer pressured into it because everyone was on there okay well of course you're gonna do it at that point sorry mate when the whole galaxy says one person is wrong and bad and they must be destroyed it's fair enough oh this [ __ ] martyr over here um blair you had a successful first encounter first of all good job thank you um would you like a second encounter i mean yeah all right hell yeah hell blair you all heard that so said hell blur instead of hell yeah thank you thank you it's nice it's nice doing it in person when you can ask for this demand it with your intimidating presence blair has chosen her own color which means uh you can either attack uh an invading force on one of your planets or draw again because there's no one there [Laughter] this is johnny bollock's big planetarium planet uh why would why would the planet be a planetarium it's both planetary it's just looking at a mirror the planetarium planet tell us if you guys want in honestly i'm not feeling very confident about this one so you know if if you guys have some reinforcement cards that could potentially help out then then maybe we can do this i've got my eyes on that planetarium everyone looking through their telescopes and it just goes dark and is that all the allies are attacking me oh should i defend sally this does feel a bit cruel why would why would you defend him oh just because he's already lost so much i don't understand why would you [Laughter] why would you all right you know i've committed to blair uh hell blair as we say let's go i'm going to help you out too but thank you oh hey big spender mate one i got time i went on all this action me once hey adam you wanna i wanna help help a little little little old planetarium planet out give him health thank you so much excellent this doesn't make you look good this doesn't make you the good guy i see you all right next half of blair's hand i think he might have it three two one yeah what do we need uh we need how many are we at probably not many we have the same amount best card what the [ __ ] have you done to me how does it feel on the other side four ships over there hey we've got we've got we've got we've got four we've got four four yeah we've got eighteen what did you expect from sally have you watched the last year apart from blood on the clock tower when he inexplicably keeps winning every single week [Laughter] they're currently at 18. we are at uh 12. yeah nothing i can do at this stage i'm afraid well i tried congratulations see we bloody did it we bloody did it you gave him hell sully uh so all of those go into the war hold it right there because i think you're fired i am the zombie uh so this means this ludicrously overpowered card means i have the power of immortality i could never die which is why i'm going to be committing ships with gay abandon to every whenever you should lose ships to the war use this power instead to return any of them to your colonies and keep using them i will thanks zombie shadowy forms on a dark and murky world zombies prized all sources of energy they could flourish only by careful recycling of their own kind living on decomposed organic matter that's that's [ __ ] um they are poor the needless waste of war and have developed effective techniques to make sure their numbers will not be reduced which basically means yeah i can't die because i eat [ __ ] much like blair much like blair you're heaping help of [ __ ] then i guess so these come back to you they come right back to me apparently uh in addition you may free any player ships from the warp back to any colonies as part of the deal so i could give sally some ships back i can swear right yeah i'm gonna go and [ __ ] [ __ ] up i'm gonna i'm gonna swan around the galaxy killing everyone with impunity because i just get my ships back so uh very excited about that john's power is annoying but also it's nice because you don't really have to worry about him too much you know you know he's gonna be in the battle he's not going to die but he seems to just be kind of doing his own thing so i'm i'm not too worried about him i really wish i wasn't sat next to the zombies so i did uh four ships so i'll take one two three four very good doing business with you thank you very much adam i i abhor bullies i'm sure you all will be leaving because soon get adam does anyone are we good should we move on no yet [Laughter] his magic card scares me yeah oh my god oh no what is going on what does that mean i'm scared should i be scared okay what does it mean lurking in the depths of space-time beyond even the warp itself this mechanical race waits patiently for the heat death of the universe when it will rule over the strange abyss that remains in the meantime they subtly turn the races of the universe against each other to prevent them from discovering a way to prevent the unpreventable i am the tick tock and i have the power of patience whenever any player wins an encounter as the defense or a successful deal is made between any two players can use this power to discard one of these 10 tokens when all tokens are gone the universe itself has ended and the tick tock are the only thing that remains amidst the cosmic dust tom's character is the cold emotionless clock ticking away counting down to the moment where our own incompetence hangs us out to dry it is the most tom character that ever tommed tom's power is terrifying he has put a stop clock on the entire game we are the tick tock and we simply wait until the universe dies and then we move into the void that is left behind does anyone else have any terrifying reveals they'd like to make no no uh yeah so i just had an unsuccessful encounter so i'm no longer attacking and it moves on to me is that all blair's turn yep yeah my word but look look how much you did yeah yeah it's true so at least losing so you know yeah we're doing good everything everyone's having a great time can someone please turn over the card for me as i'm far away i only have tiny tiny arms yellow hey come on in baby how are you doing don't die [Laughter] but you'll want to die because the horrible tick tock that's true no hold on i don't want to i don't want to defend do i for the tick tock although i'm going to defend well well we have we have 10 tokens to play with jung there's plenty of time well before we do anything else i'd like to make a reveal oh no try i'm yes the bride has left a trail of broken circulatory pumps and legal hijinks across the cosmos and yet her allure is impossible to resist the bride however assures the social pressure of the present and rejects wallowing in the past to share just through space longing for a fantasy future with her true soul mate be it a low-life hate or a noble ethic and here we go it's um basically i have the power to marry god kistopia keep this is this is a kistopian ritual that i do not approve of dystopian as a main player before allies are invited you may use this power to marry your opponent i don't want to marry you oh i'm afraid that doesn't matter zombies do not consent i'm irresistible we literally eat feces oh now you're just don't talk dirty to me that player must choose one of his or her ships and place it on this sheet uh you may be married to one player only one player at a time uh you and your spouse may ally with each other without uh being invited and may show each other cards in your hands at any time should have done it for blair you're closer once per encounter you may use this card you may use this power to allow a trade of one card each from your hand in your spouse's hand you may divorce your spouse at any time please please do i file for divorce by turning that player's ship on your sheet upside down and taking uh half of the cards in his or her hand at random what as alimony in marriage now this sucks [ __ ] i wanna i wanna consume you so that i don't have to be married anymore you may not remarry a player when you have previously divorced but we're going by very traditional space rules if the sheet is lost or turned face down you must divorce your current spouse without receiving any alimony anyway there we go what the [ __ ] does all that mean it means wait so i can survive death but not marriage to sully oh you sound like a seventies comedian am i am i right [Laughter] i'm the bride i get to marry everyone because everyone wants to marry me because i'm irresistible it won't last nothing lasts except the tick tock uh right so you uh which planet would you like to attack uh oh that's my darling wife yes well this is your first act of matrimony is to attack me yes like any good marriage a good marriage is a good offense yeah yeah just to sort of really bring you down i know you're nagging me yeah i'm negan you yeah this is just a horrible version of the book the game oh no yeah that's what it is who wants to join in my horrible marriage yes hooray excellent oh i love a wedding who doesn't love it let me clear everyone i have a very angry series of zombies who will happily side with anyone who doesn't who doesn't pile on me at this stage uh okay so anyone no one can defend me because all of you scumbags have just jumped on i mean i'm the zombie i can't die i'm a mindless shit-eating horde it's not i am a husband you are not the only one i'm a family now oh look after me we're gonna have tourists in love i'm doing this for love my insane bride has married me against my wishes and is now killing me so what am i like oh brilliant but you know i could have brought so many of you back from the warp hey hey blair yes i could have i could have brought you back from the walk the next time i go and retrieve some ships i'm not gonna be doing that anymore we could have been immortal together before i would have but you piled on me didn't you you all piled on me and now you look ashamed of yourself now that you know i can't that's true okay uh feeling pretty good about this so uh i guess let's rumble yep okay let's tussle you ready actually hold on hold on just okay let's go three two one yeah so that makes sense yep awesome that's a big pile of [ __ ] that i got from sully so that's good if you don't die your ships go wherever you like okay well i think i'll but they can't stay here they can't say no you don't you don't have to you can't go home but you don't have to go home or stay married married life am i right it's a living not for me i'm immortal uh he's a terrible wife uh i want out but of course he's taking the kids he's taking all my little my little bacteria horrible zombie children with him uh i mean not literally but i'm angry and i both want to leave and also i'm stuck in a terrible relationship so i need to call my space lawyers so there's current scores um everyone who isn't sally and john has two foreign colonies uh starting john have one foreign each sully that was a successful encounter hooray love wind i'm so proud of you darling would you like a second encounter yes please yes you are going up against the tick tock [Music] um cards here we go one two three yes or so a lot of negotiation happens uh right so um the tick tock are removed from that planet wait using the spiff's flare card the wild power of the spiff as the defense when you lose an encounter you may leave one of your ships on the planet instead of sending it to the warp it co-exists with defensive ships oh god he's never going to be able to lose his alien power because he still has that planet now also we're all on this one planet we've got everyone in the galaxy on this one planet together that's nice so but if tom uh played if someone played a negotiation against tom they could potentially take that card from him right i mean he would never give that card but is it random that you take four random cards yeah yeah you can absolutely yeah if someone played negotiate card against him and got compensation absolutely negotiate with me let the defense succeed it's a small loss for a bigger victory we have to get that card away from him uh just in case um as well we haven't clarified um everyone has their alien powers we're seeing them emerge throughout the game uh if anyone loses three or more of their home system planets uh for example john has lost one uh sully has lost one uh if they lose three or more they lose their alien power which is it's a real way to kick someone when they're down uh right so sully those are your two successful encounters um we all move up uh one apart from tommy stays and there we go it doesn't carry on with me does it mean now it is the tick tock turn so do we do a little withdrawal from the warp thing at the end of a turn at the beginning of a turn so tom could i take one of my ships back please they always come back in the end could you please turn the destiny deck for me the tick tocks will be facing special um have a uh encounter with the player with most cards in hand in the case of a tie break to your left oh no one two three four five two thank god for that oh my goodness how many do you have could you pick a planet with two in it for me it would be my pleasure let's go first this one super duper uh right so uh tom how many ships are you sending on this doomed voyage to red spill in the usa you can't begin to comprehend the concept of doom okay i'm gonna send two and i'm inviting allies why only two tips i'm not a four ship kind of guy okay what does that mean it means i don't tend to send four ships i like to keep some reserved back of my planet you know you did spread them out right yes the difference between two and four in an encounter for me with good cards is negative enough that i'd rather keep backups tom wants to lose this well he benefits either way yeah he benefits either i think he wants to do bear in mind that five colonies is a faster way to victory than getting rid of tentacles that is true oh blair's gone away would anyone like i have not i have got one i thought you're just rinsing blair for putting they were like to defend yes when i helped and it gave me the cards which has doomed me beautiful okay yes would you like to honor i will honor that that alliance take my ships off of that and put them on put them next to yours i guess you're defending me wow now it's it's the honorable thing to do there is my card please place your card but wait over eons the clan of sorcerers studied the cosmic flow and learned to channel these tides to their own needs beginning with minor alterations in the probability patterns of matter they progress to transportation of objects over great distances undaunted by an occasional backlash of fate they even now are humming the incantations of mastery i have the power of magic as a main player after encounter cards are selected but before they're revealed you may use this power to switch the encounter holy [ __ ] with your opponent so that he or she reveals your card and you reveal theirs oh my god this game has space wizards balls now hang on a second so you uh so six against our five is that's 11. one two three four five six seven eight we're winning at the moment i mean it's no ships for me so i'm not that invested it does mean tick-tock looks for something first things first sully please take three cards from the deck is your little treat for coming to my aid so much that is wonderful yeah that's right walk away because i'm magic oh where did he go so that was an a failed encounter the defense won and god oh no right where are we going green hello laurel laurel i want to go for the one with two please a ultimately meaningless [Laughter] choice many ships are you hazarding this guy just came back from the warp maybe this guy just came back he's just just back from the wall really wanted to see it turn around boys give your son a quick hug and then off to the next one i'm going to go three for now can somebody make them look nice please delighted too how come how confident i'm pretty confident yeah but i will accept allies okay will you accept my ally ship before you ally with laurie i'm listening if laurie wins this lorry is up to four whoever wins this is now one encounter away from winning the game yeah that's true just keep that in mind adam and blair how you feeling i'm i'm out just in case how are you feeling as defender tubes i would say with some good numbers in with a decent shot all right it's not good enough for me i'm with you laurie thank you tom please feel free to move three of those reds over to your planet you little turncoat once again i thought you said you weren't involved i mean i i've decided to align myself with the uh a more enduring power don't let him intimidate you with his talk of eternity can i have my three of them of course but where sully where to also defend what you gutless look laurie is so close my bride you can let your husband talk to you like that i can't believe i'm not i can't believe i married you how many's on there uh six eight cowards eight cowards versus eight brave noble attacking ships oh no spawned on a totally liquid world amoebas are highly conscious of vibrations quick to withdraw from danger they are equally able to ooze menacingly into combat when confronted with the proper turbulences amoebas pity those who are less able to respond to circumstance and will be sensitive cosmic masters the purple rain begins okay so i am the amoeba which doesn't sound like much but actually can do quite a lot their ability is ooze you get to either put more little ships on things when you ooze or you can ooze away and be like i don't want to be involved in that i'm an amoeba i don't know what an amoeba's motivation is in a great galactic war but they're there oozing i might also play this what i want this to go through oh i'm going to play laser as a main player or ally during the alliance phase you may discard up to three cards from your hand select up to the same number of cards at random from any one player's hand that player must set those chosen cards aside and cannot use them until the end of the encounter wow so you can just see temporarily blind basically can block some of tom's cards oh sally we've made a terrible choice this is awful so i will discard these three cards all right um so tom uh you you've discarded three so tom at random you have to take three cards from your hand and set them as oh he's not got many cards yeah can i have two off the left and then the one on the i want that one in the middle so i don't see any of tom's cards yep gosh you can see the facade of the grandfather clock slowly cracking little mirror fracture come on laurie lubricate my gears let's see what happens so that is now eight versus ten okay you ready three two one oh don't worry about us tom yeah no worries i've actually been i've heard the warps lovely this time of year you [ __ ] bastard yeah i thought that would be a great movie you're trying to help out the tick tock i'm trying to help out the game blair i'm ultimately just i'm looking out for myself here yeah by the time laurie had had the potential to ooze and with some cards out of my deck negotiates the only thing i'm gonna get anything out of you [ __ ] toaster i cannot express this enough your entire lifespan the lifespan of your children your children's children what a drag is so this is pretty important now the scores as they stand uh tom and sully are happy to be here with two foreign colonies me and uh me and john are in it but not looking super healthy with three foreign colonies one foreign colony away from victory blair and laurie if blair or laurie get one more foreign colony they will win instantly so now is the time to be careful who you invite to be your allies um lori that was your success successful encounter oh yeah i get to do it again yeah please thanks wild have an encounter with any other player of your choice oh attack adam nice you're going to take me yeah good good which which planet would you like to one of these two is these little tufas pierce all right not red town usa no this one was red town this one is adam another great bit of improv pun that was red tennis big big planet can i have two from that planet there please thank you are you inviting anyone to be your allies yes please feel free not blair uh well [Music] i really want to join in and i'm going to use my alien power which is the parasite [Applause] it's the one from the box evolving late on their almost totally polluted world the parasites had to depend on the already dominant life forms for survival but so rapidly did they sorry let me say that again but so rapidly did they succeed in infesting their home planets they now need unsuspecting hosts to carry them throughout the far reaches of space oh [ __ ] uh so basically i'm the parasite i have the power to infest meaning unless specifically prevented by another game effect when it is your turn to ally you may use the power to ally with one side and an encounter as if you had been invited even when you were not so i'm on four points right now i have four colonies all i need is just one more and with my power like i don't think i can lose you know i'm just going to keep doing this i'm going to keep latching on to people get that fifth one blair's power is very blair she's your friend whether you want her to be or not i like blair that's mean so like i know you want to win this but i also want to win this so like why not just go in together we can be buds you know the only thing less than laurie winning is a duel victory yeah that's nothing thank you i'm with adam shared victories of [ __ ] yeah [Music] i'd quite like blair to win but not both of them come on at what cost yeah exactly think of lori's face for the next year oh we can't have lori winning his first ever game of cosmic it's like so easily as well oh sorry i didn't put this here there we go parasite joins alliance at will yeah i just want to do buds with everyone you want to be my friend too bad it's your choice it doesn't matter for the sake of my own personal flavor could you latch your little blue one onto the brain of one of those purple ones thank you very good nice hat you've got what hat it's me a little toad mushroom cat let's go can someone please make a meme of a toad blur on top of lorry's head that would be right could we say uh could you laurie could you mouth the words i'm invading your planet and could you as toad say i'm invading your planet i thought i'd sing the most horrifying thing this game had to offer but no not the eternal tick tock not weird space bride the toad hat on laurie's on the amoeba's head um i would like alliances um and based on what laurie plays i think we've got this in the back okay i mean yes based on what lorry plays yeah yeah because yeah gold sorcerer power this is like the end of two rooms in a boom where it's either this or this and that will determine who wins the game how are you feeling lauren how are your cards looking yeah good yeah good good he's got two they're still your cards they're great how many cards do you have larry but now we're in a horrible i've got two cards okay so they're not going to be good aren't they if he's got two can you put my three from your uh planet tubes can you yes and here's four from mine there is my card [ __ ] there is my card and now we play the bluffing game so he's only got two cards and he did fight tom last round suggesting he would have used his big guns there so the chance of him having another big gun adam adam don't switch you know what you have adam adam what are you doing you're crazy you're interested we'll have to film another game if you lose here it is a great game though john it is good i would like to happily play another round yeah no i would have a legal another round as well this is a phenomenal game but i'd quite like to win okay i'll leave him i'll leave them i'm one colony away from winning i'm going to ooze all of my ships as many ships as i can spare from all of my other colonies into this attack plan because then i'm gonna pick up the win it's amoebas all the way baby this is tactically terrible because if this goes badly i'm [ __ ] but why not hail mary so we got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven versus fourteen i'm ready three two one that's a lot of dead he fell for the trap suck it lorry i have just smacked the [ __ ] out of lorry basically uh he put all of his forces into one uh huge attack into me and i i i spanked his little bottom and now he is absolutely boned oh i am boned i am boned so hard i uh oh i lost a lot in the warp of the old ooze the thing about amoebas is you just need one one little guy and i was gonna start building up my forces getting them back and maybe i could win maybe would you like to to do the honors oh yes there's always a greater threat isn't there be it blair or tom doesn't count doesn't count i have to do it again now all right failed encounter there from laurie swords uh it's your girl john excellent um all right i will draw and it's perfect what the [ __ ] kick him when he's down get him in the kitchen holy [ __ ] lorry your issue is though if blair gloms on she wins the game yeah don't get him hey blair hey blair huh cosmic zap baby get off my [ __ ] back [Laughter] to clarify the cosmic zap means that yes blair cannot use it stops a power for one entire encounter blair has no power black cannot glom onto this fight i just i just don't get why they don't want to be my friend i like i i honestly i don't get it have a brain leech it's fine it's fun everyone loves it uh lori i'm i'm helping you out you are okay wow this is stupid i'm not even the parasites with you not even someone's gonna leech off you his brand's dead let's just take that this is just this is just poison to us okay uh all right lori you've got a whole new hand you might have a chance poppa's got a brand new hand papa's got a brand new hand that little little [Music] uh anything else needs to happen or do we flip them and strip them boys it's well you certainly flip them i mean strip this this this planet of all its resources oh god i can ooze you can you you would empty planets by doing it hmm yeah but i could use him to here this planet is the dirt i'll be honest what we have done here is napalmed an entire empty place oh no so much it's not pressing fire we've made it entirely unlivable there's no way we can apart from this but the zombies who go in policy we don't need to see these cards let's just just turn that that's a 15 that's very upsetting okay i mean yeah it could be so that is uh no you get no compensation from uh john because he did not lose any ships he ran away i don't want condensation all right more than i need let's move in okay lovely party oh there's no parasites here that's nice oh that's really amazing hey hey why didn't you um uh why don't you invite me to this party what oh sorry busy shooting all the brain slugs out of my head new phone okay now there's a lot of people oh my god why did i let everyone piggyback on me um john you get oh i get to go again yeah [Music] [Applause] absolutely i would like to cordially invite you to kiss my grits lorry um it's official uh as i can't really justify attacking you because i feel i feel another brain slug coming on would that be fair to say i mean always always always be slugging so slugs be sluggish so i can't really i can't win this fight you can throw it yeah unless unless you can if you think you can win this fight without blair and you have a cosmic zap i agree i don't have a cosmic zap unfortunately i wish i wish i did there's so much so many of us are one colony away from victory now sullivan's back there just like hello don't worry about old sullivan do you wanna do you wanna do a trade murray what kind of a train are you open to the concept of trading before i'm open to the concept of trading all right well what would a trade look like in your mind release one of my ships from the warp as part of the deal could get you a ship out of the wall what are you giving me what do you want got any tasty cards i could do with a reasonable attack card because i'll be honest my attack hand is scrope i feel like you have to i don't think you can start negotiating before you play the game all right i'm good i'm going to play a negotiated card laurie uh actually i guess blair is with me isn't she uh well basically put put yeah you have to put at least one chip in uh let me quickly check it doesn't really matter to me because i get them back anyway i'll put three in put them all in john why not well no because if you win oh yeah you're right yeah you just want one you want one because she's gonna slug she's slugging slag lovely lovely beautiful zombie face mostly teeth this particular head smells like [ __ ] oh that'll cry that applies across the board i'll have you know um okay so i want to lose this fight laurence uh i guess if so if laurie wins this fight these just go away right i mean you can still just to negotiate if you negotiate and lorry negotiates you will get one minute on a timer to come up with some sort of deal if your deal fails uh you each lose three ships of the warp well yeah yeah lorry i'm going to negotiate uh if you don't want to negotiate that's fine that doesn't really bother me either way i'd like to do a deal with you but i can't win the fight or i can but i can't i'm not sharing a victory with blair absolutely no it's not the zombie way yeah [ __ ] liar but i don't actually mind if i trust you yeah all right i would have given you some [ __ ] back that you preciously needed that's fine i lit this this doesn't affect me i know that doesn't affect i'm immortal it affects blair yeah i mean slightly hey laurie hey you successfully defend them mate oh [ __ ] that noise when tom drops the little token into his little metal cup goes right through me this is my first turn and you're one away from winning i've played exceptionally uh and i am fighting myself uh so what i will do is i can have an encounter with anyone who's in my system no one's in my system what's wrong what's wrong with the usa galaxy um so instead i'm going for white well that's good because john it's over give me a card no i've got so many cards this marriage has been nothing but poison i take half your cards that's coming from a [ __ ] monster i'm a [ __ ] monster and this is still the worst thing that's ever i've got so many cars i've just fallen this is not about love sully this was never about love congratulations on the divorce you're the real parasite i don't care what i don't care what the actual parasite says there's a new boy in town you know what you know what the worst part is i loved you sullivan and you took everything from me can i just clarify you have been swept off your feet there's a new player in town who you've fallen madly in love with and that new player is a magician currently trying to attack my planets it's a great first date until they run out of card tricks you're the first flashy guy that comes along you suddenly forget about your infinite army of zombie [ __ ] the eating monsters i have made your marriage disappear [Laughter] you hate to see it but to be honest anyone who was at the wedding was like i give it a year i'm very happy for sullivan you know getting out of a zombie relationship i i could understand that that might be exhausting after a while so uh yes i was very proud of sullivan getting getting out of john's relationship till death does part loses its significance when you can outlive death itself so you get you get half of these do you have a piece of gold digger yeah absolutely absolutely get remembered do i just give you hot i guess one two three four five six seven out of eight nine ten eleven thirteen so do you round up does it say oh you [ __ ] monster i've got a terrible thing of feeling about what's coming great i've got some real dog [ __ ] left over absolute dregs oh my goodness oh yeah i bet you're missing that one yeah uh hang on a second can we please please please do this properly can i have a proposal adam your magic is really good it's really good it's so good i left a eating zombie for you and i love you i love you so much let's get married and i'll take your stuff in a little bit oh just a little bit yeah real soon pop the question adam will you marry me no oh no oh now you're alone how does it feel alone like i say like marriage is not something that you just rush into i'm i'm not ready to be tied down that's how you do it john play the field adam blocking me for marrying him is one of the worst things that's ever happened in my life i gave everything to adam and he just turned me down straight away this is cosmic justice let's do this boom here i come to save the day couldn't you save the cosmic zap for blair uh i was it was worth it for the bit oh god okay let me just play this to [Music] force field stops allies play after alliances are formed during you may cancel the alliance of any or all players thank god for that cancelled allies return their ships to any of their colonies phew are you stopping allies along with sullivan as well yeah no no no allies for no one oh my god wait so adam could win this yeah although actually sally nicked all of my cards so he'll probably be fine hopefully oh no oh no let's see what i can do here uh okay okay okay okay okay that's all right uh right my card is selected sally it's three versus two right now so none of us can uh offer help to sally because you're force field is that right oh now remember adam can switch the cards yep yes absolutely oh no oh no yeah you want to switch those cards or you want to keep it you want to keep them safe yeah i want to keep them ah you silly man silly man 20 but wait what oh yes i've got emotional control it alters the attack it means all attack cards are now going to negotiate cards we need to make a deal we should have got married baby so to clarify bo essentially two negotiate cards have been made so in a moment we're gonna put one minute on the clock and sally and i need to come up with a deal and shake hands within the minute uh we can swap ships cards but that's pretty much about it um and yeah if we don't come up with a deal then we both lose three ships of the war and that would count as a wait a minute oh god damn it all right um okay did you get that negotiate card off me sully i think so yes i think that's great i was so i was boned no matter what i did yeah yeah well played yeah well played all right can we have one minute on the clock please yeah uh so you're not the same level as me so i can't suggest that we go for a shared victory even though that would be poison to me i hate i hate the concept but uh i could you've got so many more cards in me yeah yeah i've got a few i've got a lovely lots of cards um what what kind of cards are you looking for huh huh should we just swap like some tell you what i've got a flare card here do you want it yeah should we just flair for flair flower flare let's do flavor flare leftover i think you'll like this flair we'll do it there we go all right deal there you go adam yeah not a successful deal it was [Music] to the end of the universe to the heat death of the universe and you're right sally i do like that card yeah um you've got my flag card you piece of [ __ ] yeah i have an amazing flair card oh yeah i didn't get to use it oh yeah [ __ ] it gold digging wife mixtape i'm absolutely livid i didn't even realize how much you took from me oh yeah i'm gonna put a [ __ ] into my hand and eat it later as a zombie as a zombie get your heads out of the gutter so you're eating this is what eating your feelings looks like yes if you eat [ __ ] as we do then actually makes us feel better so a successful deal counts as a successful encounter not to move on from uh oh red no so on i go again and oh that's good that's good means that blair cannot latch on to this god am i in the position of having to defend blair we're gonna have to defend me well we're gonna have to send poly parasite ah polypeptide i've only ever just been here we are in danger town people adam is in control of the board he's one colony away from victory and it all comes down to what blair has in her hand adam in this one turn could win everything and i only have one card that i can play now the question is will he swap them there is my card alakazam [Applause] what have you done [Applause] it was so plausible oh suck [ __ ] adam he just got bled baby who's eating [ __ ] now adam huh eat [ __ ] adam that's the making the t-shirt it's gonna happen freaking amazing well done blair well done we're still in the game we are still in the game i'd say i played myself but that would not be doing blair justice she played me oh i had it i had it and i've alakazamed my way into this uh please collect your cards my my dear dearest allies oh i'm in need of cards actually in the moment that's really good oh you're in need of cards are you yeah how do you think i feel like you bankrupted me was that a successful we are defence the later seasons of this tv show where the big bad has been revealed and it's this horrible robotic menace i did it to myself splitting the clock tower all over again i knew this would happen all right it's my turn now yes so oh special all right have an encounter with the player who has the fewest chips in the warp in the event of a tie break the tide of your left anyways that doesn't matter it is you're right it's not me fantastic it is our lovely zombie here who of course does not have any um you don't like the warp like i mean i guess and i guess but like if anyone wants to help i'm assuming not so yeah probably not yeah somehow zombies we can also just make a deal we don't have to fight yeah but i've just seen how well you just bluffed against adam and i i cannot risk this i need cards so yeah you've got on a card come on come on in i'll give you some feathers oops [Laughter] go around for a quick smooch they are uh used to the long way around are they tipped up yeah i'd love some more cards actually so you're claiming that you're going to play a negotiator is that true you promise yes i i promise you filthy liar oh are you please don't gift it don't gift wrap it and give it to blair three two one i would never lie to you excellent never ever get [ __ ] bastard hey john was that a successful defense oh no like every time we forget every time we forget okay well you need [Music] all right here comes the bride here comes the bride who am i going to marry let's have a little look and your husband is oh no yes i resisted for as long as i could can't give a good bribe down thank you so much excellent i cannot wait could we could you do the proposal you blame a little guy back from the warp as well oh yes thank you so much can we just say the proposal yeah adam you may have rejected me once but i knew i'd get you one day will you marry me fine [Applause] no one says no to me no one i'm not sure uh whether or not i'm happy for the for the couple as it were i'm not sure half of the couple is particularly happy to be in the couple but i'm glad it's not me i'm i'm happy for them is that what you want to hear i'm delighted that she's moved on and found love i'm sure they're going to be really happy and i'm sure no more cards no more alimony is going to be paid i'm going to be in the game are you going to play in the game why would i do anything else i don't want to win this there's no there's no way i can win and win the game yeah yeah can we uh can we point out that tom only has three left we don't need to do that oh god um we're fine you can make an unsuccessful deal oh i'll get right on that shall i lose three of my kids well that's the only option that's true nothing nothing i can do if you fail a deal other than just wait a little longer oh my god oh this is awful are you have you put a negotiate card down 100 because if i don't then if i betrayed you then i just hand the victory to blair i don't win myself i gain nothing from putting anything other than negotiate cards to see your dear friend damn it all you know my secret motives it's just to get to you there's no way there's no way sully what are you doing are you doing bro choosing changing my cards are you going to do the switcheroo or you're going to stick with it no i'm not if you want to switch your router no they're both the same like a zim i like azop switching them around cool lovely they it i either way is fine because i want to lose this good oh my god excellent all right brilliant okay can we have one minute on the clock please uh your time starts now i'm gonna make you a deal my friend okay i will give you a foreign colony on my planet bringing you up to four if you give me eight cards amazing perfect yeah hundred percent eight yeah that'll do me what great uh just uh yeah oh yeah if you could pop oh no no no they're all going to go to the wall in negotiation all allies go back to where they were uh so you get these back but apart from this one which will stay which planet yeah it's got to be red spells in it and you head up here that that adam is a successful deal it's a successful deal i want sully on side because he's my husband and i got a terrible feeling we're gonna win this together here's the thing here's the thing adam it's over i want half your card oh [Laughter] [Laughter] i feel like ric flair well you know how fleeting love is it's amazing when somebody gives you a free colony essentially and then exchanges it for eight cards and then you just basically just take those eight cards straight back with a swift and very very very well planned divorce ah well that's love i suppose yes right who am i going for next who's who's next at the altar i get to liberate kistopia finally finally you get to liberate kistopia so what you could do yeah you can only you can't get rid of all of the colonies you get rid of one player's ships on kistopia so you could take another card if you'd like okay you could kick blair off no why would you why would you oh i think i might kick blair off because he's the greatest threat to just latch on to other things that's a great shot you're right sullivan blair is the greatest threat right now you deal with that there's only two more two two left oh my god so you have to have a successful encounter now so kicking blair off yeah does work okay great let's let's kick blair off kistopia i want to slowly liberate kistopia one kiss at a time one one kiss strict at a time oh no kiss drink nine what a great film that is right uh can i have the old uh thingabob sending some kissionaries over on earth on a very peaceful mission so okay so now i get to draw eight cards are you being attacked yes you are so you can draw eight cards also blair here comes the bride all dressed in white here comes the groom and he's dressed like a broom yes it was a beautiful lovely wedding i had a lovely time i was one of my favorite days and i can't wait to divorce him and take all of his things i've been thinking about this for ages now oh my god honestly i've just got out of a really tempestuous relationship and harridan i just think that maybe it's time that me and you finally just tie the knot get married i'd love to amazing wow amazing the parasite is so happy fantastic like someone likes me somebody really likes me can i have one of your ships please to probably have me around thank you so much here's the thing blair we've come to it we can't look no already yeah it's just not working for me and i think i'm gonna have to end this relationship sorry i i the speed it's like these breakers that's what everyone says when i'm attached to their heads i'm gonna need half your cards i gave a lot to you and it'd be really good if you gave everything back to me he doesn't like me i was really shipping those too what a shame while we pop this down i also just need to quickly play um my amoeba card right which will also as a main player you may increase or decrease the number of your ships in an encounter by up to four uh before encounter cards are selected oh sorry imagine i've done still the planning phase yeah yeah um uh this may result in yeah so basically feel free to change that because it was meant to be before the encounter cards were selected right if you want to um i think that's fair uh but basically okay yeah yeah so i can change that to okay i'll have to only be three because i've only got that there we go going hell for leather just to kick blair off i just want to win games but i keep this you won't win the game from this you'll just get rid of blair yeah yeah and that's like winning a game in my own head what a complicated monster you are it's so mean okay great okay oh no that's the disguise three two one oh yeah dang it blair sang it tom instead i don't get to pop this back here yeah you pop them all back oh they all have to go back okay they go back not not on to this planet they go back onto that planet oh okay great they all go you now have a huge invading force yeah monolith so solomon was still the offense in that round right oh yes that was not a successful defense i am afraid i'm gonna play plague play calms player play at the start of any encounter and choose a player blair whoa damn that player loses three ships of his or her choice to the warp if possible and how many cards you got left very few she just come out of my mouth just just came out of a messy divorce [Laughter] um you must discard one card of each type blair is larry's on three victory points now if that changes things no he already knew that i already knew that she's just come out of a message one of each different type so if you've got two attack cards you only lose one of them okay okay so i lose that and i lose that yeah great okay destiny please wild a player of your choice oh no time to uh shuffle these yes who's who's good at shuffling i'm not i am bad is it time to wait is it time to shuffle the discard uh yep sweet uh tick-tock flair card each time the new discard pile is shuffled to create a new deck you may immediately establish a colony on any one of your opponent's home planets with up to four of your ships wait you get a new colony wait what wait hold on i need to draw this card first does that mean you win nah hang on hang on hang on i know he's got it cut zap there you go i just wanted to get your cards if he had not zapped would you have won the game i would have won the game just then so this was jesus this game is so swingy i wasn't gonna prompt sullivan to do it but if he had not started looking furiously through his cards and had forgotten about his card zap yeah then i would have just worked for the second time this game it's like you have such a big pile of riches you wouldn't know where to look for the particular key to a treasure chest oh it's in here somewhere amongst these priceless artworks and they just keep being gifted from all these divorces my second husband's great-grandmother's ring this is nearly the same as the actual like oh my god ridiculous oh it is mad i do genuinely have no clue what's in my hand there's too many cards to remember so i just look through every single time there we go all right so eight cards for blair great tom are you inviting any allies no else ah please no no no no please no we shouldn't tom needs to win this tom has two um like these little tick-tock tokens left i think we just have to give him his fourth colony yeah yeah for sure i think he's playing for the tick-tock token yeah he might throw it i think he's throwing it i think he's gonna play a negotiate card well then it's up to blair then black can win oh but then he gets a point because the defender wins oh [ __ ] yeah because either way wait so either way he's it's a catch 22 you guys it's the catch 22. either way he won't win this this particular turn no he'll either get a colony or he'll remove one of those cursed tokens i'm with you yeah i need uh cards because i the only way i'm gonna be able to win is by getting more cards you're not with the force field like the monsters we are such a table of villains it is it is we're bad we're bad people but we're good clockwork titans slash parasites three two one it's ty it's a tie defense wins ties no no it depends does tom want this enough to reinforce it or does he want to surely thomas i want to win this one it's so tom has a choice either he can leave the tie in which case successful defense tick-tock token or he can win the colony to bring himself up to four am i gonna do it so we can we play we can play um play reinforcements i'm gonna put out this plus three just to jump myself up to a ten so blair because blair has no allies only allies or main players can use reinforcements so tom has won you have no reason i have i have no dirt yep i have nothing winning feels strange but it'll do for now up to four foreign colonies tom would you like to have a second encounter you know it baby oh do you tic tocs oh destiny deck please so is there anything we can what did you mention before about using cards to stop him for a turn uh your cosmic zap a cosmic zap card can uh basically negate me from adding a token so if let's say this next encounter ends in a defense and i'm about to drop my little tingles into the tinkler you can cosmic zap i hate it why do you call it that you look me in the eye and tell me that is not a tinkling sound sullivan tom is taking on the zombies either way i'm gonna have a good time yes which one do you want uh anyone with three will do the only thing we can do is help john defend blair you don't want to defend i suppose you can't do both can you uh no i'm good eating eating his friends i mean tom would win and you wouldn't yeah he might as well win the other side why don't the ex-wives club all team together yeah and with with with our ex-wife hello my hand of cards away from you could you chuck in another one blair no no blair if we don't win this all your ships are for naught yeah who who would you like to wear as a hat i mean whose hat would you like to be i'll just be the zombies again can i do that okay oh no two hats is that alliance's over parasite within the parasite oh no play it tom so if that's the line seven i'm gonna play the laser card so oh okay i thought you can do forcefield um as a main player ally during the alliance phase i made a skirt up to three cards in my hand select the same number of random from any one players and even my own set them aside for the encounter what type of card is that um it's a flare card i'm going to negate it with card zap please oh and that is your card lost because you are scaring me okay that's fair enough okay john gracie thomas burgess three two one oh my gosh okay we've got loads four oh six unbelievable ten that's amazing fifteen we've got 50. so we're 45 and you are 34. yeah are you going to add any more cards you need to add 11. oh i don't have 11. oh wow wait a minute john gracie thomas burgess was that a successful defense i hate these questions you know the answer is direction which you know means yes [Laughter] one token left five players on four um foreign colonies this is where we are tom has two ways to win this game he either wins one more colony or he successfully defends it's my go if i can win one more colony i win the game i haven't got anything else it's all in the warp and it's building the warp for pretty much the entire game now so i don't know i'm gonna have to have to make some alliances all right laurie let's see who you're fighting laurie is fighting purple you want to fight purple do you want to fight someone on your um thing because then you could elongate the game uh because you would be essentially just removing one foreign colony or would you like to go hell for leather just flip over another card all right we're moving into the definite end game you're going after tom you're going after someone who wants to lose oh no i need to win this but i win if i win this yeah yeah yeah anyone fancy coming with me 100 are you opening up for alliances i am interested in who's interested what what what if tom loses this fight that's a very good question if if i lose if i lose this then lorry moves in lori wins um if i win this encounter by successfully defending the universe ends unless someone has a cosmic zap that they've been saving because i've got a cosmic zap let's defend against laurie i promise you i'm not lying obviously i would lose if i'm lying you would you have to play it now oh right now yeah okay cause it lasts for the turn no you you play it on the turn it's relevant to right so it says says as any player and it has all the phases on yeah it lasts for an encounter yeah so i'd say i mean you can afford to wait to see if i do because if basically if i don't suggest you defense you don't need to use it so you can wait until that stage so you would have to trust me that i have a cosmic exam i mean i would lose if i don't so there's not much in it for me for lying but that's what i'm claiming and i'm going to defend i'm going to defend tom oh we go way back you're one of the few people that hasn't tried to marry and or kill me it's not what i do i just wait wait is there a way that someone can cancel a cosmic zap yeah zap can cancel cosmic zap so if i have a cards app then i can cancel your custom example which is why tom would want me to play my cosmic zap later tom do you have a card zap all right this is a terrible idea i rescind everything oh god oh god he's going to cancel my cosmic zap guys uh lori guys this this doesn't work anymore the plan is bad okay okay would you like anyone to come along with you yeah you can come along lori i'm can i come with you please thank you no lori come on come on [Applause] sweetheart sweetheart please can i come no no he's a petty man what can i say he's a small petty man i can't believe he might let me fight with him damn it i thought that that that if i just don't commit to anyone and and i i i thought laurie might allow me to join this alliance and i'm so happy he did because everyone was talking about defending tom and then suddenly there i come in swooping in living in sin with my wonderful new new squeeze laurie blake laurie laurie sorry mate laurie laurie i'm sorry man you weren't offering initially what you want to do i presume is you want to help me defend so gracie can cause him exactly he's going to contact me you want to help me defend so grace speaking cosmic zap don't you we've got to help him defend now that laurie has done this laurie you've made a you've made an enemy of a potential ally yeah let's defend come on come on tick tocks let's do this okay are we good sorry two one twenty twelve okay so let's count it up let's count it up that is four plus five that's nine so that is uh 21 that is 20 that's 30. so it's 21 versus 30 right now uh lori has uh team as 21. tom has 30. i don't know what you have i've got a reinforced card of eight oh my god so oh my god okay i'm putting in plus three for tom what do you want so far then guys so uh 28 plus five so that is nine 29 34 versus 30. 33 adam can i play one more than one reinforced card i don't have it did i kind of play you have as many reinforced cards as you like yeah oh ace [ __ ] in the air oh no those are oh no the spoils of marriage these are all our cards these are all your cards you're playing this alimony is that enough oh it does is defense solid is that enough defense no he's playing he's playing i'm attacking okay so how much do how much does a fence now need uh so offense is on 33 and um then that's for 30 33 41 against 33. so currently attacking team 41 defending team 33 don't have enough to beat 41. you've got something else i do not have enough to beat 41 not like this not lori ladies and gentlemen is that it the winners of the game they're not even married the winners of the game with five foreign colonies we're living in sin baby sully and laurie blake have won it all worked out marriage love wins love always wins i don't mind being a little toy boy she's brought all of this stuff to the table sully has come in with all these possessions that he had from other people and spent and spent and spent i have got a good deal here and i think sharing the board game club trophy is going to go incredibly well i'm livid you'll have to find some way to split this i'll hold it and then when he divorces me you can have it hey that sounds great oh my god well done ladies and gentlemen that has been the first in person gamer board game club we've been playing my favorite game cosmic encounter oh i'm livid but join us next week for another fantastic game of board game club we'll be playing something we've never played before as well there's gonna be so many games we've never played before and we're doing it right here in drafts in dulstan thank you so much putin helping us put the studio together check out drafts link at the top of the description they're amazing we will see you next week everyone on three three two one [Music] bye

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Published: Tue Sep 07 2021