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Yes, with 4 or 6 players you put a Cylon sympathizer card in the loyalty deck at the midpoint. If Baltar or Boomer are in the game, they have a higher chance of being the sympathizer than the other characters.
I think this is more a nod to the source material than any benefit to game play; the player who gets this card has to reveal it immediately and then gets sent to the brig immediately.
I haven't seen anyone use the sympathizer effectively for anything. Basically it's just a turn in the brig and limited actions thereafter. It can't happen until the midpoint of the game, so there's that.
One of the things about the game is that, until/unless you are a revealed cylon, you are always busy. Even if it's not your turn, you have to respond to the crises generated on others' turns, and other players may use their turns to direct your action (think Adama ordering Starbuck to go shoot down raiders). And there's always a lot of analysis and discussion about whether there is a cylon (in the first half; after the midpoint you know there is) and if so, who? The sympathizer can still do all these things, to some extent.
I think the best play is the 6-player game, where you have two cylons, if one reveals and one doesn't. And of course, one of the cylons could be the sympathizer.
I haven't seen anyone use the sympathizer effectively for anything. Basically it's just a turn in the brig and limited actions thereafter. It can't happen until the midpoint of the game, so there's that.
I hear there's an 'official' variant where there's no sympathiser and the humans simply start our with lower resources to balance it out. At the moment I'm inclined to try it out that way - especially for a first play, I don't want anyone to feel stuck with a second-best option.
So I was checking out my (58 year old) cousin's profile on FaceBook. She listed under interests "RPG video games". So I clicked it.
Imagine my amusement that omnis was the first person listed.
I won at Munchkin! Twice!
Polter-Cow, me. It's so simple and gloriously designed it's, well, glorious.
I spent all night playing it. There was a lot of "This is IMPOSSIBLE!!!" followed by "My my, that was a clever puzzle."
Imagine my amusement that omnis was the first person listed.
Huh what? I'm listed where? Do I know your cousin? So confused.
She clicked on the RPG video games link on her cousin's FB profile. That finds other people you may know who are also interested in whatever.
You were first.
My Xbox360 is randomly freezing. One time it showed three rings of red, but just that once. Tech supports answer: unplug all cables and hard drive for an hour. Reconnect. If problem persists, call back. I guess 1 hour is the time it takes to cool down, even thought I told him it's cool, as I had just tried to power it up when it made strange sound and frooze.
:: grumble grumble ::
I think an hour is when he gets off his shift and someone else has to take the call the next time.
