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We were playing the Swedish translation of Cosmic Encounter today (I love this version, it’s way stripped down to basics) and we couldn’t agree on how the card “Hemliga Styrkor” works. This is this games version of the “Rebirth” edict.
In my old group, we always played that it meant that you could move ships from wherever to a planet in your own system, whether or not you currently had ships there. In effect, you got a base back. The card does say that “a player of your choice” but I just read that as you could help a friend.
Today, though, some new players interpreted the card as if you could “chase away” a players ships from a planet in your system to a planet in their own. I said: “let’s play the card as I always played it before and I promise I’ll ask on the geek.”
So the question is:
A) It’s optional to do this if someone plays this card on you, right?
B) The targeted player chooses from which bases, to which planet, right?
For reference:
The Eon set 3 text (according to The Warp fan page):
Quote:
Rebirth: Regain home base. One player may place 1 or more tokens, from bases, onto any 1 planet in his own planet system. Play on any player, just before a challenge begins.
The Swedish text is almost word-by-word the same:
Quote:
Hemliga Styrkor: Återtar hemmabas. En spelare (du väljer själv vem, inklusive dig själv), får förflytta 1 eller flera rymdskepp, från vilka av sina baser som helst, till en av planeterna i det egna solsystemet. Spelas när en utmaning börjar (efter att det är bestämt vem som blir försvarsspelare).
Notably, word “may” is in both versions.
PS
CE is the best game of all time.
Posted Wed Feb 1, 2012 2:18 am
