Attack Card Distribution (range and card number)

[bioball 31]

Is it possible for the Cosmic gods to bestow apon us the attack card value range and card number for each value? I did not see this in the rule book, but perhapes I have over looked something. I am curious to see how the Tripler will stack up to the Virus and what happens to the Anti-matter (assuming the latter two are in the set).

[Toomai 0]

Well, various alien previews (including Tripler) have mentioned the 40. So I would expect a smilar (if not identical) card distribution to CE Online: one 40, one 30, one 23, two 20s, one 18, two 15s, two 14s, one 13, four 12s, six 10s, eight 8s, eight 6s, two 4s, one -1, one -4, and 11 N's.

[Lizalfos 7]

 I seem to recall a designer's comment on Board Game Geek that the lowest would be 1, but I could have imagined this... or it could have changed between then (not long after the announcement of the game) and now.  That's not really helpful, I know, but who can say no to a bit of rumor and hearsay?

[The Warp 23]

If it hasn't been posted by the time I get a copy, I will be happy to do so.  I can tell you it's pretty comparable to the basic CE sets we've seen in the past (not counting the Mayfair set). 

[whizzard 0]

I don't have the exact mix at hand, but the range is 0 to 40, and the average value is 10 for most aliens, 15 for the Tripler when using his power.

[bioball 31]

Any particular reason you dropped the negative numbers? I guess you are not really losing too much and a negative attack really does not make a lot of sense.

Thanks for the reply Kevin, hopefully my copy will hurry up and get here.

[Lizalfos 7]

They have to save something for expansions.  We may see negatives yet.

[The Warp 23]

Adam said:

They have to save something for expansions.  We may see negatives yet.

That is certainly a possibility, especially since there are no Kickers in the base set.  Kickers could conceivably appear in an expansion, and that would make negative Attack cards more feasible.