I like a four-person party no matter what age I'm playing with. Five is do-able but six feels like too many. I feel like turns take too long.

BSG (Helo)

That is a handy OPG and this may well be the best time to use it.

My issue with 4 is it puts a limit on player options (though 5E might be better with this). Someone wants to play a bard and it throws the whole party dynamic out of whack as suddenly you've got one of the four cornerstones uncovered. Whereas if you've got a group of 5 or 6 you can still make sure the baselines are handled.

The Pathfinder game I'm playing in has a party consisting of two paladins, an archer cleric, an inquisitor, an (archeologist) bard and a fey-blooded sorcerer. Having two paladins (of different deities with very different outlooks in regards to evil) makes for some fun RP moments and we had nice moment of awesome a couple sessions ago of the two of us marching down the middle of a rain-darkened street, my sword blazing and the other paladin (an Aasimar) manifesting her halo, calling out a challenge to a group of demonic cultists while the rest of the party snuck into position.

With more RP-heavy systems like World of Darkness, I prefer 3-4 players, though.

BSG

I have orders from Hoshi. He uses his OPG, Pokemon-style! (No, I don't know what it means either.) He cashes in his miracle token to activate three undamaged locations. So not the Airlock then.

Location 1: Pegasus CIC at Sector 1. Play Strategic Planning 4. Ah well, if it backfires it's only Baltar at risk.

Die roll: 4 + 2 = 6. 1 hit! Disabled hangar! On to the second move.

Location 2: Weapons Control at Sector 1. Everyone passes on interrupts.

Die roll: 4. Miss. That's one point off a hit. I'll pause in case anyone wants to play a Calcs to bump it up to 5.

BSG

Hoshi plays a Calculations 3. Gosh, how heroic. The miss becomes a hit! And it does... Structural Damage. That gives an extra +2 on further attacks against this basestar, which is too good a chance for Hoshi to pass up. He goes all Dutiful on it; he discards a Launch Scout 2 to activate Weapons Control again.

Die roll: 3 + 2 = 5. Hit! Basestar destroyed!

Hoshi still has one activation on his OPG.

Location 3: Activate Command, launch 2 RSVs into Sector 5.

You know, I would've thought you'd all have learned by now. You blow up my basestars, there will be retribution. Hoshi's crisis card is:

Raiding Party
Cylon Attack

Oh yeah. There are no raiders on the board, so the raider activation sees two of them launch from the remaining basestar in Sector 2. Then we add a bunch of ships. Finally, the jump track regresses to the Start.

That concludes Hoshi's turn. I Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Helo's cards are going out. Helo, when you're ready, please post your move and action.

BSG

End-of-turn summary:

Round 4.1 - Hoshi

Locations and Hands
Hoshi: Command; 6 cards, miracle tokens, 1 mutiny card
Helo: Research Lab; 7 cards, 1 miracle token, 1 mutiny card
Apollo: Quorum Chamber; 10 cards, 1 miracle token, 0 mutiny cards
Baltar: Pegasus CIC; 6 cards, 1 miracle token, 0 mutiny cards

Main Board Sectors
Sector 1: Empty
Sector 2: 1 Basestar, 2 Raiders
Sector 3: 1 Basestar, 3 Raiders
Sector 4: 2 Raiders, 2 Heavy Raiders, Civilian A
Sector 5: 2 RSVs, Civilians B D
Sector 6: 3 RSVs, Civilians C E F

Resources
Fuel: 6
Food: 6
Morale: 8
Population: 12

Viper Reserves: 2
Damaged Vipers: 1
Raptors: 4
Assault Raptors: 1
Boarding Party: 0

Other
Nukes: 2
Jump Track: 0 (Red)
Distance Travelled: 4
Galactica Damage: Airlock

BSG (Baltar)

In my personal life, I have had a very good news/bad news kind of week.

So this turn pretty much keeps that theme going, holy frak.

Hey guys - sorry to interrupt, but I have a gaming question! In Forbidden Desert, can you move more than once per turn?

The rules say "You may move your pawn to an adjacent, unblocked tile for 1 action per move."

Because none of the other action descriptions say "per move" I interpret this as meaning that you may only move once per turn. But other players have argued with me that this is not the case, and that you can move up to 4 times per turn, just like any other action.

I've searched the boardgamegeek and reddit forums on this game, and apparently I am the only one who has ever thought this rule was unclear! So what say you, Buffista gamers? Am I being dense and making the game unnecessarily extra-difficult? Or am I correct in my strict textual reading of the rules and everyone else should just suck it up and accept that we lost three times in a row tonight?

ooh I haven't played Forbidden Desert but when rules are unclear in other games I've played the owner of the game gets final say.

BSG (Helo)

I can launch and then play an XO. Is it time for nukes?