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And you hardly ever got skill checks!
Actually, their first seven crisis cards on New Caprica all contained skill checks. They had 21 skill checks out of 48 turns, which sounds about average.
It's not like she blew me off. She just left with another guy, that's all.
Riley ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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billytea - Jun 23, 2012 1:36:23 pm PDT #16366 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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2012 1:38:27 pm PDT #16367 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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Perhaps I should they hardly ever got skill checks after I had good cards to spike them with.
They didn't get a single skill check after I played God's Plan. It's still sitting there, waiting to explode.
chrismg - Jun 23, 2012 2:06:53 pm PDT #16368 of 26134
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
If I were asked my opinion, I'd say the decision to decamp to Caprica when there were four OA centurions on the board might have something to do with it. Spamming OA activations would have kept us busy punching, and maybe destroyed more ships.
NoiseDesign - Jun 23, 2012 3:00:14 pm PDT #16369 of 26134
Our wings are not tired
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Yeah, my whole strategy was to play the long game and stay hidden until I could steal the admiralty and jump early, then there was the skill check that revealed me. Basically I had one positive card left to play, so I played two negative and one positive and then the hand went in such a way as to leave no doubt who played the negative cards. I considered playing only the one positive card, but it was a huge skill check and I was holding a ton of cards and thought that it was just as likely that I'd get outed if I didn't play the full three cards I was allowed.
omnis_audis - Jun 23, 2012 3:35:35 pm PDT #16370 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
hot damn! Can't believe we did it! With all those resources flirting with nil. Crazy. Amazing. Must have been the stellar leadership of the Presidency.
askye - Jun 23, 2012 4:50:37 pm PDT #16371 of 26134
Thrive to spite them
Must have been. I was really surprised we managed to pull it off.
omnis_audis - Jun 23, 2012 6:30:39 pm PDT #16372 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
To be honest, I thought the Admiral was a toaster for the longest time.
chrismg - Jun 23, 2012 6:55:10 pm PDT #16373 of 26134
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
To be honest, I thought the Admiral was a toaster for the longest time.
(blink, blink) Me? Really?
billytea - Jun 24, 2012 4:33:56 am PDT #16374 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.
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Let's do the end-of-game summary:
Round 10.3 - Tory
Locations and Hands
Kat: Occupation Authority; 4 cards
Adama: FTL Control; 1 card
Tory: Communications; 11 cards
Gaeta: Caprica; 2 cards
Apollo: Hangar Deck; 9 cards
Sectors
Sector 1: Empty
Sector 2: Empty
Sector 3: Empty
Sector 4: 4 Raiders
Sector 5: 1 RSV, Civilians C G
Sector 6: 2 RSVs, Civilians A B E F H I
Resources
Fuel: 1
Food: 3
Morale: 2
Population: 6
Viper Reserves: 0
Damaged Vipers: 3
Raptors: 2
Boarding Party: Alejandro (2)
Other
Nukes: 0
Jump Track: Galactica
Distance Travelled: Earth
Galactica Damage: 0
Locked Civvies: 0
Prepped Civvies: 0
Occupation Forces: Zwanzig (BC)/Michaud (BC)/Balthazar (BC)
For those who were interested, the ships' contents were:
Civilian ship A: 1 Population
Civilian ship B: 2 Population
Civilian ship C: 1 Population
Civilian ship E: 1 Population, 1 Morale
Civilian ship F: 1 Population, 1 Fuel
Civilian ship G: 1 Population
Civilian ship H: 2 Population
Civilian ship I: 1 Population
You were good to go once you'd evacuated civvie F; though that really only meant one turn faster than you managed anyway.
billytea - Jun 24, 2012 5:11:42 am PDT #16375 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
Perhaps I should they hardly ever got skill checks after I had good cards to spike them with.
On the other hand, failing Second Thoughts should only have cost 1 Morale. Each side had their share of lucky moments.
If I were asked my opinion, I'd say the decision to decamp to Caprica when there were four OA centurions on the board might have something to do with it. Spamming OA activations would have kept us busy punching, and maybe destroyed more ships.
Activating the OA only moves one Occ force at a time. There were only two times the Cylons did anything but hit the OA; if they had kept using it, all that would have happened is that the last civvie would've been destroyed, for a loss of 1 Population.
My assessment is the opposite; activating occupation forces was largely a low-return option. A better choice would be Breeders Canyon. Over half the NC crisis cards threaten Morale, and a lot of them are Current Player's Choice. When the humans have to deal with more crises than they have human turns, eventually something's going to slip through the cracks.