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I thought it was interesting. Coming in the middle, I feel like I never fully grasped the import of the treachery cards. I agree that the game still felt balanced.

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Congrats to the Cylons.

I had a feeling we were done for after Dee revealed and we lost half the fleet in one turn, but kept hoping we could turn it around if the Cylons would just stop attacking us for 5 seconds. Alas, it wasn't to be.

I had a lot of fun playing Starbuck. That extra action for being in a viper is huge and opens up a lot of options. My backup plan, if BT had nixed me using two Full Throttles in one turn, was going to be to discard to move to the Hanger Deck, repair a couple vipers, then use my second action to launch myself back into space and XO Gaeta.

Would have cost the same number of cards, get us two vipers back in reserves, but would have meant me shooting two less raiders. In the end it wouldn't have helped, because I don't think we got a single card that added vipers to the board after that, anyway.

Oddly enough, I suspected Helo, but Roslin's accusation actually made me less sure. There is such a thing as being too paranoid.

I was also certain Ellen had chosen to drop our Fuel down to 2 because she was a Cylon. Oops.

Once we hit the Sleeper stage, and Helo revealed, I was pretty sure Roslin and Gaeta were human because they passed up prime oppurtunities to screw us if they'd been Cylon. Which left Dee or Ellen. I was very much in favor of leaving Dee in the brig from a tactical standpoint, but felt sympathy for her player since she hadn't done anything toastery yet. Which is why I just stayed out of the check completely.

As for the Pegasus stuff, I'm also not in favor of the new ICs. Especially in a check that takes Yellow, it's painful to spend that card ahead of the check and still potentially be off target by up to 10 points.

Also, while I like the new Piloting options, I find the additional Green and Blue cards kind of offputting, simply because XOs and Repair cards are so essential, and they reduce your chance of drawing them.

I do like the revised Cylon locations, and like the option of the Airlock thematically, even if I don't know how often it would be used by non-Cylons in a game.

The remaining Pegasus locations, I could take or leave. I'm also not really sold on the Engine Room. Other than the time Gaeta used it to ensure an autojump, it mostly felt like a waste of turns and cards to me.

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Pretty confusing, but I was starting to get the hang of some of the Pegasus stuff by the end, and there are pretty fun possibilities in there. I wouldn't want to completely throw over the original for the expansion, each has elements I prefer.

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One additonal, non-Pegasus-related note: I think this is the first time in awhile we didn't have the Chief, and man-oh-man were we missing him in the end with both Battlestars full of holes and our vipers dropping like flies.

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It didn't help that Dee can repair and I ended up being toaster.

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Yes, half the crew was able to draw Blue this game. (There's no question that the Chief is king of repairs though.) Ultimately Galactica and the vipers were tking too much punishment to keep up.

One possibility (if you'd managed to jump away safely and had time for it): Consolidate Power lets you draw, potentially, a lot more Blue. And since Roslin wasn't President anymore and isn't much good at activating locations, she may have been your most efficient avenue to fixing some stuff.

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That was some pretty smooth fifth-column double-agent stuff, P-C. If I hadn't seen your loyalty card I wouldn't have suspected you at all.

I would just like to note that I totally suspected Helo, in large part because he kept sending me emails saying things like "LET ME SPIKE SOME SKILL CHECKS YOU GUYS.", and on a related note, "I WANT TO SPIKE A GODDAMN SKILL CHECK." Helo really wanted to spike a skill check, is what I was hearing. One of the best things about running this game was being privy to his constant stressing about how best to sink the knife in.

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One possibility (if you'd managed to jump away safely and had time for it): Consolidate Power lets you draw, potentially, a lot more Blue. And since Roslin wasn't President anymore and isn't much good at activating locations, she may have been your most efficient avenue to fixing some stuff.

I had the same thought, but as you said, there was never time to do it.

The advantage of the Chief in this instance, is not only does he draw a lot of blue, but repairing stuff doesn't "waste" his turn. He can also potentially get 4 vipers back up in one turn. (6 if he's already in the hangar and gets XOed.) So if we had a non-toaster Chief, we might have been able to keep a lot more birds in the air, in addition to getting Command and Weapons Control back on-line.

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Yeah, when I chose to play Chief last round, it was because I was thinking he was a background character and I`d be able to get my feet wet. But this game it was clear just how valuable he was. In no small part because his player is thinking about fixing things as his first priority, whereas we are all doing stuff with other priorities, and really we could have used some stuff fixed! I mean, everything was broken at the end there! Ok, not everything, but you know what I mean.

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I felt worn down to the raggedy end there those last two turns.