Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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BSG
End-of-game summary:
Round 10.1 - Starbuck
Locations and Hands
Starbuck: Occupation Authority; 8 cards
Boomer: Occupation Authority; 5 cards
Roslin: Breeders Canyon; 0 cards
Dee: Occupation Authority; 4 cards
Cain: Shipyard; 2 cards
Sectors
Sector 1: Empty
Sector 2: 1 Basestar, 4 Raiders
Sector 3: 1 Basestar, 4 Raiders
Sector 4: Empty
Sector 5: 2 RSVs
Sector 6: Empty
Resources
Fuel: 1
Food: 4
Morale: 2
Population: 0
Viper Reserves: 0
Damaged Vipers: 4
Raptors: 3
Boarding Party: 0
Other
Nukes: 2
Jump Track: 0 (Red)
Distance Travelled: 7
Galactica Damage: Pegasus, FTL Control
Locked Civvies: 1
Prepped Civvies: 2
Occupation Forces: Lady Gaga (SY) / Elsworth Beast Major (OA)
BSG (Roslindignant)
Tally: 19 - 8 = 11. Pass!
Holy crap, whew!
First, there is an Occupation Force activation, which means Beyonce has reached the Shipyard!
Oh crap.
2 Population
Oh. Crap.
Population (which has been at 1 for 21 turns)
Hey, give it up for Team Human: we're scrappy!
I honestly cannot believe we lasted that long, and it would have taken a frakking miracle to win (I'M SORRY FOR NOT DESTROYING BEYONCE YOU GUYS), but, man, what a game.
BSG (Booooooomer)
Yeouch! That was a fun one.
I'M SORRY FOR NOT DESTROYING BEYONCE YOU GUYS
she was one tough chick-en. I made so many mistakes but that comes with being human, eh?
BSG (Starbuck)
WHOOT! Finally!
I swear at one point I thought we were going to be able to do you in before the sleeper phase, and then at one point I thought we weren't going to be able to do it at all! Damn scrappy humans!
That was a super wild game!
BSG (Dee)
Woo, Beyonce, I knew you could do it! Age of the giant metal chicken, y'all.
That was an amazing game. I was almost rooting for the humans sometimes.
BSG (Roslin)
I swear at one point I thought we were going to be able to do you in before the sleeper phase, and then at one point I thought we weren't going to be able to do it at all! Damn scrappy humans!
I didn't think we'd make it to Sleeper Phase! And then I didn't think we'd make it to New Caprica! And then I didn't think we'd last long enough for
Galactica
to return!
And then I didn't think we'd win! I got one right, finally.
That was an amazing game. I was almost rooting for the humans sometimes.
It was nuts. I can't believe we managed to stave off death with two resources at 1 and one at 2. If our Population hadn't been hosed, we might have had a chance.
BSG (Boomer)
We went down swinging, that's for sure.
BSG (Roslin)
We passed way more checks than I expected we would. We didn't fail very many at all on New Caprica.
BSG (Cain)
Yeah, I really didn't expect this game to last as long as it did. I thought that team human was done for ages ago, and yet we just kept plugging away and not dying.
BSG (Starbuck)
It was an interesting one because of both early reveals. I kinda had to because it was too funny, what with the deliberate execution and all. Plus, my reveal ability was not all that strong.
But it meant that the game lost the element of speculation quite early on, which is sometimes the most fun bit for me. However, it was a brutal game, so there was plenty of suspense, and all different elements took a beating.
I am not sure what we could have done to strike the killing blow earlier. I kept conditional ordering bt with stuff that I couldn't do. Like, the whole game. But it was still pretty fascinating from the toaster side.
