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I feel like I have to apologise to our Cylons this game. Both Cylons turned at the Sleeper Phase; prior to that, everyone was playing human. As if that weren't enough, the fleet reached the Sleeper Phase at 6 Distance - just two jumps left to go, and thanks to the Lion's Head Nebula, already halfway to the next one. They really never had a chance to work much mischief. (At least you both got to exercise your reveal powers, and play a super crisis.)

On a wider note, IMO a human walkover also makes for a rather dull game. It felt to me like we had a flurry of excitement from Apollo's second State of Emergency through the Cylons' two super crises, but aside from that, it was just playing out a foregone conclusion. The most exciting games are the cliffhangers, of course; but even a one-sided Cylon victory doesn't lack for action.

Nonetheless, kudos to the humans for playing a solid game. Everyone plays the hand they're dealt, and you played yours well. Some other observations:

You had 17 skill checks this game. You failed five (though one was tanked for no effect), avoided the fail effect on two more with Iron Will, and got the partial pass once. You passed the other nine.

Skill cards were in short supply at game start; but by the Sleeper Phase, you had an average of 7 cards each. After all the super crises and all, however, the humans had only 2 cards apiece, and the Cylons only 1.

Finally, I'm planning one small tweak to future No Sympathiser games. In a standard game, revealed Cylons can draw 2 cards, but only 1 on the Resurrection Ship. Under No Sympathiser rules, they can draw 3 cards. We've been playing that they draw just 1 on the Resurrection Ship. I'm going to change that so that they draw 2 - that is, under No Sympathiser rules, revealed Cylons always draw one extra card compared to the standard rules.

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I was pretty tense there a couple times but I think never having played the game irl, it's harder for me to visualize how far we are from winning.

It is so much easier for Team Human if there's no cylon at the start. I don't tend to pull my punches before the sleeper phase (I figure I'm more likely than not to stay human) and if we all play that way it makes it so much tougher for the ones who do turn out to be bots.

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Both Cylons turned at the Sleeper Phase

Ah! So all pre-Sleeper suspicions were completely unfounded. I know there were times where I felt like we didn't have a Cylon at all; I was right!

On a wider note, IMO a human walkover also makes for a rather dull game.

And it lasted TWO MONTHS.

Even if the humans had an easy time of it, I sure did enjoy using Apollo's AVP ability! And I finally got to use an OPG!

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I think this is my first game where I stayed human the whole time and didn't use my OPG.

Thanks again for DMing, BT. I like winning, even if it wasn't as nail-bitey as it could have been.

BT, you rock! Thank you for GMing!

Good game everyone. Was it two months? wow.

It was indeed two months or so. On which note, I'm attending a conference in Sydney later this week, but after that I can start the next game whenever it works for the players. Let's start getting the crew lined up. Who's in for game 10? How's everyone's availability?

Game 10? Wowsers. I'm in, but as always I will step aside to make room for someone new who wants to have a go.

I'm in.

I'm in. My time might get a little constrained during the Halloween installation next month, but I won't be on a ship, so it shouldn't be too bad.

Maybe I won't be a cylon this time. You know, for a change.