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.

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.

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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).

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!

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.

BSG (Chief)

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.

Like that time you randomly played a Red Tape. I was so confused that you were deliberately playing into a check where you had no positive colors. CYLON ALERT, I thought.

I had the get out of jail free card already when I tried to make you guys spring me.

What! Ha.

BSG (Cally)

And I couldn't shoot you in the face because you were in sick bay! So unfair.

BSG (Roslin)

I know! Sickbay was totally the safest place for me! I mean, unless I'd been able to brig all of you, because that would have been hilarious with me unrevealed running around the ship alone.

Wow, I'm surprised the Humans got this close. They've been dying for 2/3rds of the game. Thanks for the entertainment!

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Quick wrap-up. Congratulations Cylons, commiserations humans. that was the tightest and hardest-fought game we've had in a long while. Team Human was just two turns away from victory. (Thus: Apollo XOs Cally - he would've drawn an XO - who ditches her Personal Goal. As he's in the Brig, no crisis card to cause further damage. Then on Cally's turn, she hits FTL Control for all it's worth.) And this despite the following headwinds:

• There were two Cylons from the very start of the game.
• It took the first three jumps just to reach 3 Distance.
• Two humans wound up in the Brig.
• Each human player started in Sickbay at least once during the game.
• By game end, all twenty raiders had appeared on the board.

Finally, of course, humans spend pretty much any Galactica game dying slowly (or not so slowly). The question is whether they reach Kobol before it happens. This game clocked in at 55 turns. That's a long time to try to stay alive.

I think part of the reason the humans kept going for so long is that - the twenty raider comment notwithstanding - you did much better at keeping the Cylon fleet under control this game. It only got out of hand when the game was about two thirds of the way through, and even then, you managed your jump timing to minimise problems.

Nonetheless, the Cylons got over the line in the end, and Chiefbot sealed the deal with two visits to Caprica - each of which gave him the option of a Current Player's Choice card with automatic Morale loss. Worth noting - the Cylon Fleet toys are a lot of fun, and there were lots of toys to play with, but Caprica can still be a powerful option for the Cylons. (Incidentally, game 2 ended in much the same way, with a Cylon Chief using Current Player's Choice cards from Caprica to win the game. There were even two Cylons from the outset in that game too.)