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BSG
End of turn summary.
Round 2.3 - Roslin
Locations and Hands
Boomer: Hangar Deck; 2 card(s)
Adama: Command; 4 card(s)
Roslin: President's Office; 6 card(s)
Baltar: Communications; 2 card(s)
Apollo: Sickbay; 3 card(s)
Sectors
Sector 1: Empty
Sector 2: Empty
Sector 3: Empty
Sector 4: Empty
Sector 5: Empty
Sector 6: Empty
Resources
Fuel: 6
Food: 8
Morale: 9
Population: 12
Viper Reserves: 5
Damaged Vipers: 3
Raptors: 4
Other
Nukes: 1
Jump Track: 1 (Red)
Distance Travelled: 2
Galactica Damage: None
BSG
Are we there yet? I'm hungry and gotta pee. Is there a rest stop around here to stretch the legs?
BSG
Sorry I didn't realize it was my turn already. I'm looking at locations to decide my move but I'm open to input from other humans.
BSG
OK I've decided. Since we're not directly under attack I'm going to attempt to build my hand. Baltar
moves
back to the Research Lab and and for my
action
I draw one Purple card.
I'm off to work in a bit. I should be back around 11:00 board time.
In MyBrute news...
Covenborn appears to be having an identity crisis, take a look at these two opponents -
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and
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And here's Ill Omen in the toughest fight of his career so far -
[link]
And here's Peeeeeeeeev's new record for damage in a single attack -
[link]
Conquer Club....
Why is it that half the random strangers I play with bitch when I attack them? If you don't want to be attacked, or lose, don't play the damn game.
Most often it seems to happen when I'm just making attacks to pass time on the way out of a game I'm losing. Sorry dude, but I'm going to attack somebody. I don't care how much the game is lost, I'm not going to just lie here and wait for you to roll over me.
And frankly, if I attacked the other guy, he'd whine too, so it's really choosing between two (or more) people who don't want to be attacked. TOO BAD!
Why is it that half the random strangers I play with bitch when I attack them?
Everybody I've ever played RISK against bitches when they get attacked. Even when they know it's coming.
Everybody I've ever played RISK against bitches when they get attacked. Even when they know it's coming.
I don't get that, it's the point of the game (as long as people don't gang up explicitly, which I hate), what else would you do?
I don't get that, it's the point of the game (as long as people don't gang up explicitly, which I hate), what else would you do?
::pulling on balaclava::
This is thread hijack! The Masters of Eurogame Hijinks will now pontificate about game design theory! No one attempt to stop us and everyone gets out of this thread unharmed!
The MEH decrees RISK a poor and uninteresting game because you are right -- there is nothing else you would do. Leaving aside the sheer randomness of the combat system, whining in RISK is amplified because losing positions get established very quickly, it is very difficult to engineer come-back wins without poor play by someone else (which usually elicits accusations of game-throwing), and there is only one possible route to victory.
Teh MEH sees oppression where players who find themselves on the wrong end of a couple unlucky dice rolls or bad RISK card draws have little recourse other than whining or quitting. That is NOT GOOD design.
Throw out your Ameritrash, Gamers! Rise up and embrace the Eurogame! Balanced design, inherent breakaway brakes, and multiple paths to victory can be yours! Eurogames are meeples! EUROGAMES ARE MEEPLES!
::run off thread::
