Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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BSG
End-of-turn summary:
Round 5.3 - Adama
Locations and Hands
Roslin: President's Office; 8 cards, 3 trauma
Cottle: Pegasus CIC; 3 cards, 3 trauma
Adama: Command; 11 cards (pending discard), 1 trauma
Starbuck: Sector 4; 2 cards, 3 trauma
NPCs
Weapons Control: Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza
Engine Room: Callandra "Cally" Tyrol
Armoury: Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo
Main Board Sectors
Sector 1: 1 RSV
Sector 2: 1 (SD) Basestars
Sector 3: 2 Raiders, 1 Heavy Raider
Sector 4: 1 RSV, Civilian A, Starbuck
Sector 5: 1 RSV, Civilian B
Sector 6: 1 RSV, Civilian C
Resources
Fuel: 3
Food: 5
Morale: 4
Population: 9
Viper Reserves: 3
Damaged Vipers: 0
Raptors: 2
Boarding Party: 0
Other
Nukes: 2
Jump Track: 2 (Red)
Distance Travelled: 3
Galactica Damage: Main Batteries
BSG (Adama)
I discard
Iron Will-0
BSG (Starbuck)
MOVE:
To sector 3.
ACTION #1:
Attack first Raider.
ACTION #2:
Attack second Raider.
I want them both DEAD!
ps: I really love what you've done with our space. The RSV's look great!
BSG (Adama)
Why thank-you!
BSG (Starbuck)
While waiting for the death to Raiders, a couple questions for the group.
Has anyone peaked at the civilians manifest? I don't think so, but something I track on my sheet.
The other, Madam President, how many Quorum cards in your hand now? I show 11, but a lot happened, and work has been crazy, so I might have missed something.
BSG
1. No one has activated Communications since the civilian ships were placed.
2. The President has seven Quorum cards in hand. Per Pegasus and Exodus rules, the Quorum hand cannot exceed ten cards.
3. Time for some fireworks:
Fire 1: 4. Hit!
Fire 2: 1. Miss.
Looks like you could use some target practice, Starbuck. Why don't you try taking some potshots at:
The Olympic Carrier
Skill Check (11 YGR)
Possible interrupts: IC, SR, Reckless. Everyone, please pass or play.
BSG (Adama lama ding ding dong)
Pass
on interrupts. I can help.
So, after four tries, I was finally able to play a BSG game to completion in facespace, though we had to draft substitute players for the Chief and Baltar halfway through because it was getting late and people needed to go home.
5 player game with President Baltar, Admiral Tigh, the Chief, Sleeper Cylon Helo (yours truly) and Sleeper Cylon Starbuck. We did the basic game with the updated Cylon locations from Pegasus.
Cylons won at 6 distance due to boarding party. Since I was the only experienced player (two others had played in one of the aborted games before) I tried to continue to give good advice to the other players even after my turn to the chrome side, though I spiked the hell out of the Network Computers check that ended up bringing the boarding party on in the first place.
The humans lost mostly due to bad luck. At 6 distance, only Fuel and Morale were in the red (Morale got hit hard that game. It was raised twice by Inspiration speeches and was still at 4 at game end.) but they just couldn't kill the boarding party, despite numerous attempts via XOs and with the occasional Strategic Planning for assistance and every other crisis after Network Computers seemed to have a heavy raider activation.
I ended up revealing simply to try to speed things up as it was getting very late, but never got to take a turn as a full cylon as the centurions marched their way to victory without my assistance. Starbuck stayed hidden until the end.
Poor humans. Boarding parties, man, they can be tough.
BSG (Doc)
Pass on interrupts.
I'm no help, sorry.
BSG (Roslin)
Pass on interrupts. I can help.
