BSG (Roslin)

I decided not to push Crises because on New Caprica cylons have no control over the crisis deck (there's no option to look at the the top card and bury it, or draw two cards and choose one)

Oh, I didn't realize you didn't get to choose! Huh.

As long as we had you spending all your time punching centurions in the face, you weren't prepping ships.

Don't I know it. It was my constant whiny refrain.

BSG

The close of our second New Caprica game, and this one went all the way to 11! Congratulations Cylons, commiserations humans. I knew this was going to be a game to watch when on the very first turn you eschewed the relatively straightforward options of a discard or moving the Presidency in order to execute Apollo, with spectacular consequences. Someone noted during the game that ND was the only player not to have a character executed. Sorry to have left you out like that, Drew.

You spent the first twelve turns with Pop at the starting value of 12 before losing 2 to a crisis card. That was Rescue the Fleet, a difficult decision early in the jump cycle. You could certainly have used that extra 2 Population on New Caprica; but the alternative was adding ships to the board, and the next card was Scar.

In fact, that jump cycle, you faced Scar, Lured into a Trap, The Guardians and Tactical Strike. You lost eight civvies, killed four Centurions and lost 11 Population over that one jump. Population remained at one throughout the Sleeper Phase and onto New Caprica, 21 turns in all. Then on New Caprica, no less than ten occupation forces started out on that treacherous journey to the Shipyard - a journey only two of them completed.

Last game, you found yourself having to evacuate at least nine civvies or so from New Caprica in order to win. This time around, you found the other way to make your ship situation desperate. You only had a few to get into the sky. Four XOs would've prepped and evacuated the lot. But with Population at 1, you couldn't risk losing a single civvie. Under those conditions, it's little wonder the Cylons just kept spamming the Occupation Authority. It's hard to say you were unlucky with the OFs, exactly - you didn't miss on any turn you took punching them until that last attempt by Roslin - but I will note that of your eight NC crises, six of them activated the OFs. Just under half of all NC crises do that.

Thoughts about the Cylon's options on NC. Given the precarious Population situation, I can't fault anyone for spamming the Occupation Authority. Nonetheless, Breeders Canyon is a powerful option, especially with Morale at 2. Over half of the cards put Morale at risk, and a number more threaten putting someone in Detention (or could hit Population or Fuel as well). In fact, the only halfway safe resource was Food. Most NC games I've seen, the Cylons most often activate Breeders Canyon. You can see why: say you'd reached NC with about six ships and 6 Population. There's no real way the OFs could destroy enough ships t force a loss. The crew will be leaving most ships behind anyway; losing one or two to OFs doesn't really matter.

We'll start talking about the next game soon. If you'd like to play, you can post it here or email me. New players are always welcome, as are former players making a return.

BSG

I'm in!

You lost eight civvies, killed four Centurions and lost 11 Population over that one jump.

That was quite the eventful jump cycle. FOUR CENTURIONS. Man, we were surprisingly good at destroying metal.

Population remained at one throughout the Sleeper Phase and onto New Caprica, 21 turns in all.

Man, that's nuts.

BSG

I did feel like at certain points we were just, create new metal man, advance new metal man, metal man dies, create new metal man! Which is not the most enthralling game action. I would have liked to have been more creative with it. But we had plenty of bloodletting nonetheless.

BSG

Time to start preparing for game 12. As always, we welcome veterans and newbies alike.

• Who would like to play?

• How's your schedule for a start date?

• Our last two games have headed to New Caprica. Do you want that to be the destination this time round too? Are there any other expansion sets you'd like to try?

Post here or email me.

BSG

I am in and can start right away. I would like to continue with New Caprica until we at least can get a normal game there! One where the humans have an actual fighting chance.

BSG

I am in and can start right away. I would like to continue with New Caprica until we at least can get a normal game there! One where the humans have an actual fighting chance.

I like this. We're eleven games in and still you think a normal game is "one where the humans have an actual fighting chance."

BSG

Ha. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. The first time, I destroyed them in one move (even though they were close to toast already), and this last game was just grueling. I'd like to see what New Caprica is like when Team Human has a reasonable number of civvies/Population and doesn't have to worry about the old jumping-early trick. Of course, every single game has been interesting in its own way.

BSG

I'd really like to see some new people get in on the game and I'm happy to watch from the audience but if there's room for me I'm in and can start right away.

Note: Some days it is hard for me to check the board more than once. If that's holding up the game too much I don't mind being left out this time.

I'd like to play, I don't have teh books but I watched the last game and it seemed like fun.