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Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

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Liese S. - Jan 01, 2013 5:46:00 pm PST #18916 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

BSG (Roslin)

Seriously, I could not believe how long you lasted, humanity! So many moments upon which all futurity hung.


billytea - Jan 01, 2013 5:46:51 pm PST #18917 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

Chiefbot has chosen:

Mysterious Guido
Current Player's Choice

And the Chiefbot has chosen not to allow the fleet to listen to Guido! Morale falls to zero!

CYLONS WIN!


billytea - Jan 01, 2013 5:52:59 pm PST #18918 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

End-of-game summary:

Round 11.4 - Chief

Locations and Hands
Cally: Sickbay; 0 cards
Roslin: Resurrection Ship; 2 cards
Adama: Research Lab; 0 cards
Chief: Caprica; 4 cards
Apollo: Brig; 7 cards

Main Board Sectors
Sector 1: 6 Raiders, Civilian A
Sector 2: Civilian B
Sector 3: Civilian C
Sector 4: Empty
Sector 5: Empty
Sector 6: Civilian D

Cylon Fleet Sectors
Pursuit Track: -2
Sector 1: Empty
Sector 2: 1 Heavy Raider
Sector 3: 1 Basestar, 6 Raiders
Sector 4: 5 Raiders
Sector 5: 2 Raiders, 1 Heavy Raider
Sector 6: 1 Raider, 1 Heavy Raider

Resources
Fuel: 2
Food: 4
Morale: 0
Population: 8

Mk II Viper Reserves: 5
Damaged Mk II Vipers: 0
Mk VII Viper Reserves: 2
Damaged Mk VII Vipers: 1
Raptors: 4
Boarding Party: 0

Other
Nukes: 0
Jump Track: 3 (Blue)
Distance Travelled: 8
Galactica Damage: Pegasus, Admiral's Quarters, Hangar Deck


billytea - Jan 01, 2013 7:12:20 pm PST #18919 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

One last comment. There were two Personal Goals remaining within the Fleet. Adama had a Personal Goal that would have cost 1 Population - little risk from that one. Cally, on the other hand, held a Personal Goal worth 1 Morale. Even if the Chief hadn't ended the game here, the humans would have needed either to raise Morale (President Apollo held an Inspirational Speech) or play that Goal. Its condition was that there be no nukes left, which was fulfilled on turn 10.3.


Polter-Cow - Jan 01, 2013 7:22:47 pm PST #18920 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

BSG (Chief)

Ooh, so there could still have been a chance for Roslin to bring it home if Cally had to use an action to play her Personal Goal. Iiiiiinteresting.


Liese S. - Jan 01, 2013 7:46:36 pm PST #18921 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

BSG (Roslin)

So! I was a Cylon from the start! Who knew? Cause I think some of you did.

I totally thought you'd all outed me, and I had even made plans with the GM assuming that was the case, but then no, I slipped by.

That's the longest I've ever tried to stay unrevealed. It was a challenge, and scary, but fun. I think I did pretty well unrevealed -- those visions were amazingly powerful.


Polter-Cow - Jan 01, 2013 7:58:38 pm PST #18922 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

BSG (Chief)

So! I was a Cylon from the start! Who knew? Cause I think some of you did.

I think I vaguely suspected every now and then, but when you soft-revealed, I assumed you had turned at Sleeper. And there I was celebrating the fact that you were in the Brig before and being irritated that you sprung yourself!

I think I did pretty well unrevealed -- those visions were amazingly powerful.

Any really good Crises you got to reject?

I had a lot of fun with the Cylon Fleet. I was so intent on getting both basestars to jump in, and I went through so many different scenarios of how to make it happen, and billytea gave me the odds, and, really, that was my crowning moment. Well, until they spit out a shit-ton of Raiders and I got to activate 18 of them.

I never used my original SCC because it gave special benefits to unrevealed Cylons, so I was waiting until you revealed! But by that time, it was too late.


billytea - Jan 01, 2013 7:59:30 pm PST #18923 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

I will mention at this point that over her first five turns, Laura Roslin's Religious Visions turned up exactly one jump icon. She produced a no-jump crisis the other four times, burying jump icons all the way. That's pretty much an entire jump cycle she cost you. I really thought someone might have connected the dots on that (though Apollo came close).


-t - Jan 02, 2013 3:20:28 am PST #18924 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

BSG ( Apollo)

I was deeply deeply suspicious of Roslin the whole game, but when I was most suspicious was when I was least able to do anything about it. So, well done on that score, madam.

I was holding a BotB for ages and never able to play it! So frustrating!


Liese S. - Jan 02, 2013 6:01:33 am PST #18925 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

BSG (Roslin)

I got All the Cards at the beginning of the game. It was kinda ridiculous. It was more effort trying to figure out how not to play them to your benefit!

And then I got lots of low value cards too, ones I could innocently play into the check for no help. Because my draw colors were so restrictive, it was almost completely impossible for me to spike. It was always either where I had no negative colors or where I had no positive ones, so if I played it would have been clear I was the one spiking.

So that left me to other machinations, like making us waste a lot of time on the whole Presidency and jail shebang. I had the get out of jail free card already when I tried to make you guys spring me. You were sufficiently suspicious by that time, so it didn't work to draw your cards out.