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It's especially hard given you can't see the game board or anything. Basically we take turns in order. On your turn you can take an action; the turn ends with a Crisis Card, which is where the key action takes place. Crisis Cards do three things:
1. Present a crisis, which can cost resources (humans lose if a resource falls to 0) or create other choices and challenges.
2. Activate Cylon ships, which try to reach and destroy civilian ships (while Galactica and her vipers try to defend them).
3. Possibly advance the jump track. Reaching the end of the jump track means the fleet jumps. Humans win by making a series of jumps.
The game's basically a race. The humans are trying to make jumps to reach Kobol before they lose all of a key resource or lose some other way.
Finally, and most importantly, it's a team game - humans vs Cylons. However, the Cylons are hidden. They can try to sabotage things from within as long as they remain undetected - then they can throw trouble at the fleet openly. That's really where the fun is - trying to work out who's secretly working against you. (Game 1 was awesome for that.)
There's a bunch of other fiddly stuff (we have nukes!), but that's the framework.
BSG
End Of Turn Summery
Round 1.1 - Boomer
Locations and Hands
Boomer: Press Room; 2 cards
Zarek: Administration; 2 cards
Helo: Stranded on Caprica; 1 cards
Tigh: Command; 2 cards
Chief: Hangar Deck; 2 cards
Apollo: Sector 5; 2 cards
Sectors
Sector 1: 1 Basestar
Sector 2: 3 Raiders
Sector 3: Empty
Sector 4: Civilians A B
Sector 5: Apollo, 1 RSV
Sector 6: RSV
Resources
Fuel: 8
Food: 9
Morale: 9
Population: 12
Viper Reserves: 5
Damaged Vipers: 0
Raptors: 4
Boarding Party:
Other
Nukes: 2
Jump Track: 1 (Red)
Distance Travelled: 0
Galactica Damage: none
ETA
fixed minor errors that bt mentions in a few posts.
hopefully got that right. Boy. It might be easier to track it with the board open. Not sure. Gotta find it. On to Laga's turn here. I'll e-mail you the card draw here.
BSG
Two small corrections: there should be an RSV in Sector 5 along with Apollo. Also, we're just at 1 (Red) on the jump track.
BSG
Yes. Hmm. Curious. the nifty spreadsheet isn't showing Apollo in the Board Status tab.
Ah, and I just found how to advance the Jump Track in the spreadsheet.
I fixed the summery post, so as folks wake up, they should get an accurate idea of the board. Laga has her card draw. She's packing today. And I have to drive out to Riverside, and hopefully get my California Drivers License today, so not sure when I'll be posting.
With that, I should probably go to bed.
Oh, haha, there's a board. Here I was assuming it was all being done here and that's why I was so confused. That makes MUCH more sense.
Sounds like fun!!
Oh, haha, there's a board. Here I was assuming it was all being done here and that's why I was so confused. That makes MUCH more sense.
Hee. There is a board with the game, which is in the public domain and can be seen here: [link] We don't have the game physically set up anywhere though. (Well, players might do that at home to keep track of things if they want.) All the action takes place in this thread, and the moderator (omnis_audis) keeps track of the whole state of play in a spreadsheet created for the purpose.
This game seems incredibly complicated! But as I'm not playing I suppose it doesn't matter that I can't figure out what the heck you all are doing or how you are playing. Haha.
It didn't really fully makes sense to me until I played the actual physical game with ND and omnis.
We don't have the game physically set up anywhere though.
Naturally, I have it all set up with my hand out and everything. Meara should get a kick out of that when she's here on Friday.
All the action takes place in this thread, and the moderator (omnis_audis) keeps track of the whole state of play in a spreadsheet created for the purpose
Yes, but I am strongly thinking of setting it up as a double check type of thing. First I need a surface to put it on (dining room table is still not set up), then I have to get to the game chest and dig the game out. I was hoping to do that before the game started, but with my level of procrastination, that would have been unfair to the players, who were chomping at the bit to get started. That was the fastest character pickings I've ever seen!
