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Post by Mark Wightman on Dec 16, 2008 9:30:11 GMT
Last night we played my new Battlestar Galactica boardgame. The secret Cylons were myself: President Roslin, and joeoe18: Gaius Baltzar. Whilst the hapless humans were: Stephen (Lee Adama), Maurice (Admiral Adama), Steve (Boomer), Mike (Colonel Tigh) Somehow amidst all the confusion, we lost more than half the human fleet before our first jump as wave after wave of Cylon raiders swarmed the ship. Later there was a military coup, which gave Admiral Maurice Adama both the Admirals hat and the Presidents job. This was a disaster for the humans as many of the crisis cards call for the loss of resources or the loss of cards by the Admiral or President and one player just can't have the cards for both. All the resources were quickly reduced to 1 or 2, but the ship completed a second jump without incident triggering the sleeper phase. Boomer (Steve) revealed that they were the sympathiser as was promptly thrown in the brig. Shortly afterward I revealed myself a Cylon and zipped off to the resurrection fleet. Joe waited a little longer, revealing himself just before the fleets third and final fatal jump. With their fuel all gone, humanity were doomed! Welcome to the machine age
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Post by Legionnaire on Dec 16, 2008 10:06:09 GMT
Sounds you had a fun evening though, I was unfortunately held up by a surprise change in my rota. I'd liked to have had a crack at the game, despite me not being familiar with Battlestar Galactica (know it's about humans being chased by cyborgs, but that's it. And it never really "cut" it over in Sweden.) Maybe some other time... The Swede.
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Post by joeoe18 on Dec 16, 2008 11:22:37 GMT
It was great fun. I am almost completely unfamiliar with the show, but it didn't take me long to get to grips with the basics. I very much enjoyed being evil I think I hid myself fairly well, I'm pretty sure no one had me pegged as a Cylon - at least no more than they did the others. Look forward to playing it again sometime.
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Post by neuromancer on Dec 19, 2008 20:04:53 GMT
yes great fun though Adama obviosly was playing to type in not suspecting Laura :-)
I have the first 3 seasons on dvd if anyone wanst to borow them
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Post by Stephen Mawson on Dec 20, 2008 13:42:05 GMT
I think it would be nice to try this again in January perhaps, as we'll have a better idea on what the best actions for the characters are now, which might give the Galactica a slightly better chance of getting closer to the human victory conditions.
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