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billytea - Aug 14, 2013 7:29:02 pm PDT #20702 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

First, administrative note: Cally's card draw exhausted the Tactics deck. I've reshuffled the discards.

With Roslon's boxing, she discards:

Consolidate Power 1
Preventative Policy 4
At Any Cost 5
Launch Scout 1
Evasive Manoeuvre 1
Evasive Manoeuvre 1
Full Throttle 2
Calculations 4
Special Destiny 2
Sabotage 3

Meanwhile, from her sickbed, Cally pens the seedy tale of a Cylon hell-bent on her own destruction! Ripped from the Headlines! But is it accurate? Cally's crisis card (that's right, after all that we still have a crisis card) is:

Controversial Manuscript
President's Choice

Chief Tyrol, as your first action and when you're ready, please post your choice.


-t - Aug 14, 2013 7:29:13 pm PDT #20703 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

BSG (Chief)

Dude. Crossroads is crazy.

Omnis gets a prize for surviving the longest, yeah?


omnis_audis - Aug 14, 2013 7:36:45 pm PDT #20704 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

BSG (Starbuck)

As long as humans win, that's all I want.

So? Who is what title now? Chief is President???

Who knew today was December 26th. (Boxing day!)


billytea - Aug 14, 2013 7:40:45 pm PDT #20705 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

Omnis gets a prize for surviving the longest, yeah?

At this point, yes. And the prize is: Starbuck's still alive, what more does she want?

Option 2 of the Controversial Manuscript would raise Morale but damage Galactica twice. There are three damage tokens left, one of which is the Fuel token. If that gets drawn, the humans lose on Fuel! If the other two tokens are drawn instead, Galactica is destroyed! Therefore, there is no way in which the humans could survive option 2. I assume that the Chief picks option 1. Morale falls to 1 (yes, again) as the Cylons vow to pursue vigorous legal action against Cally! By which I mean they activate raiders again to fire on Galactica:

Raider 1: 8. Hit!
Raider 2: 5. Miss.
Raider 3: 3. Miss.
Raider 4: 6. Miss.
Raider 5: 5. Miss.
Raider 6: 1. Miss.
Raider 7: 2. Miss.
Raider 8: 5. Miss.

Ouch, one more damage. In this one turn, Galactica has been fired upon no less than 32 times. And the damage is:

Fuel.

It was 21 turns ago that we first saw a resource drop to 1, when Roslin executed the prisoner Adama. The fleet has held on desperately for all that time, almost half of the entire game. But now, with this last barrage, Fuel finally drops to 0.

CYLONS WIN!


-t - Aug 14, 2013 7:41:24 pm PDT #20706 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

BSG (Commander in Chief)

Yeah, let's do the thing that doesn't immediately doom us even though it bums us out. Option 1

Lets hope those raiders haven't gotten better at aiming...


-t - Aug 14, 2013 7:42:58 pm PDT #20707 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

BSG

Wow, that was amazing!

Good game, y'all.


billytea - Aug 14, 2013 7:43:39 pm PDT #20708 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

The end-of-game summary:

Round 11.3 - Cally

Locations and Hands
Roslin: Boxed!; 0 cards, 0 trauma
Chief: President's Office; 0 cards, 0 trauma
Cally: Sickbay; 8 cards, 0 trauma
Starbuck: Hangar Deck; 5 cards, 0 trauma

Main Board Sectors
Sector 1: Empty
Sector 2: 1 Basestar, 4 Raiders
Sector 3: 1 Basestar, 4 Raiders
Sector 4: Empty
Sector 5: 2 RSVs
Sector 6: 2 RSVs

Resources
Fuel: 0
Food: 3
Morale: 1
Population: 9

Viper Reserves: 1
Damaged Vipers: 3
Raptors: 2
Boarding Party: 0

Other
Nukes: 1
Jump Track: 2 (Red)
Distance Travelled: 9
Galactica Damage: Pegasus, Armoury, Command, FTL Control, Weapons Control


billytea - Aug 14, 2013 7:51:10 pm PDT #20709 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

Congratulations dead Cylon, commiserations humans. A few details of upcoming attractions: I'd just reshuffled the Tactics deck. Scouting for Fuel was second from the top, and would have been picked up by Starbuck on her turn (unless that last raider had hit the Hangar Deck).

The next nine crisis cards all contained raider activations.

The next three crisis cards all lacked jump icons. The third one, which would have been Cally's next card, was the attack card Heavy Assault (which places two basestars and immediately activates them). The fifth crisis card was another attack card, Jammed Assault. The fleet would have been able to jump on that turn, before drawing it.

The next two crisis cards both threatened Morale. My assessment is that the crew would have got through both of them, especially with no Cylon to spike.


omnis_audis - Aug 14, 2013 7:52:56 pm PDT #20710 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Well I guess it doesn't matter who is what title now. So we finally bite the bullet AFTER the toaster is boxed. How ironic, no?

Wow. I'm impressed we lasted this long. Fun times, y'all!

And BillyTea, once again, thank you for all you do in keeping us on track. You ran a great game.


Polter-Cow - Aug 14, 2013 9:47:43 pm PDT #20711 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

BSG (Roslon-from-beyond)

Holy crap, what a game. I can't believe that after taking Morale down 3 points in 2 turns, I wasn't able to kill you within the next round...or the next several...and then I ended up BOXED...right before winning on Fuel. Never underestimate the power of a shitload of Raiders firing on Galactica. Thanks for the assist, Cally! (I forget, does Pegasus hang around for Crossroads? Or did taking the shield ship out accomplish nothing in the end?)

It sounds like the space attack would have destroyed the ship hardcore, even if they survived the skill checks. Brutal!

Thank you so much for everything you do, billytea! You're the best GM a guy could ask for.