And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

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billytea - Mar 23, 2011 9:00:13 pm PDT #10676 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BSG

End-of-turn summary:

Round 6.3 - Baltar

Locations and Hands
Anders: Sickbay; 3 cards
Cain: Brig; 7 cards
Baltar: Cylon Fleet; 3 cards
Boomer: Caprica; 4 cards
Cally: Hangar Deck; 3 cards

Sectors
Sector 1: Empty
Sector 2: 1 Basestar
Sector 3: 1 Heavy Raider
Sector 4: 6 Raiders, 1 Heavy Raider
Sector 5: Civilians A E G
Sector 6: 5 Raiders, Civilians B H

Resources
Fuel: 4
Food: 3
Morale: 8
Population: 3
Viper Reserves: 2
Damaged Vipers: 5
Raptors: 3
Boarding Party: Start

Other
Nukes: 1
Jump Track: 1 (Red)
Distance Travelled: 5
Galactica Damage: Admiral's Quarters, Command, Airlock, Engine Room, Pegasus CIC


Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 9:09:34 pm PDT #10677 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

BSG

Boomer, if you activate those Raiders again, they'll be down to 1 Pop. And one more Raider activation will destroy them. There will be 9 Raiders in Sector 5 for those three civvies. They only have Anders and 2 Vipers to defend themselves as it is, if they can even launch them in time. They have to Repair Command first.

Maybe we can win the game before I leave for London!


-t - Mar 23, 2011 9:12:28 pm PDT #10678 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

BSG

I'll take a Treachery and a Tactics.

Second verse, same as the first. I will also move to the Cylon Fleet and activate Raiders.

Eta: I was very tempted to try to destroy Pegasus, but taking out Civilians makes more sense.


Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 9:17:20 pm PDT #10679 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

BSG

I was very tempted to try to destroy Pegasus, but taking out Civilians makes more sense.

Yeah, I've been wanting to destroy it too, but it's not a guaranteed hit. With this move, they are pretty much toast if Cally's Crisis activates Raiders.

I love how Morale is so fucking high when everything else is in the shitter.


billytea - Mar 23, 2011 9:22:01 pm PDT #10680 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BSG

The raiders destroy ships B and H, both of which contain 1 Population. The fleet's Population falls to 1.

I regret to announce that Cally's draw will not contain an XO, and no matter what she does, there's no way to avoid the next Crisis Card having a raider activation, nor to move the civvies to safety or get any air cover in place. No matter what you do, at least one civvie will be destroyed this turn and Population will fall to 0. I will therefore call the game, on turn 6.5.

CYLONS WIN!


Liese S. - Mar 23, 2011 9:31:53 pm PDT #10681 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

BSG

Damn! That was a rough one.


Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 9:37:40 pm PDT #10682 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

BSG

VICTORY!!! And such good timing, too. I was worried about the game extending into my vacation. Now I can sit the next one out.

I think I lost the game for Team Human when I XOed Boomer. And from that moment I was hoping to turn Cylon at the Sleeper Phase, and...I did! You guys put up a good fight, though. That Crisis where you lost the rest of your Vipers did you in, and I honestly was not expecting such a high showing from you and a poor showing from Destiny. You would have passed that if all my negative cards had only been worth 1. But I had a 3, 4, and a 5.


-t - Mar 23, 2011 9:49:14 pm PDT #10683 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

BSG

Good game, y'all. That was highly educational. As I suspected, it's pretty fun to play a Cylon, but kind of lonely. It's surprisingly hard to not give helpful advice.


Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 10:05:04 pm PDT #10684 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

BSG

It's very fun to play a Cylon since you get to be all evil and stuff, but, I agree, sometimes you think of cool things the humans could do but you don't actually want to tell them.

Like that time I taunted, "Execute Cain! Execute Cain!"? I meant it as a joke, but then I realized it could have been a good move. Morale was high, and Cain's cards were Treachery, so losing her cards was irrelevant. Her character ability was useless. Killing her would also get her out of the Brig without wasting cards. And she could have come back as another Pilot, which you desperately needed. But there was a lot of space battling going on at the time.

I am amused that Anders suspected me of being a Cylon before the Sleeper phase, though. I mean, I suspected me too, I was making such bad decisions.


Liese S. - Mar 24, 2011 6:43:27 am PDT #10685 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

BSG

Ha. It really was just that. I thought you were taking a calculated risk. Either Boomer was the "other" Cylon and you would give her a chance to act, or she wasn't, and you could act all justified. And then opening it up to Treachery meant that we were exposed to Beacon or whatever it was. I can see on reflection how it looked like the best thing to do, but at the time, I was convinced it was just deliberate sabotage!

Hee. I love the suspicions phase of this game. So much fun. And of course the thing that played into it was that I *had* pegged Boomer in time, but didn't speak up, which cost us. So once I decided I'd suspected you, I had to pipe up. And by then, you were!