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Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.

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Kalshane - Jul 02, 2010 3:00:48 am PDT #6303 of 26134
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

BSG

I'm good with losing the one Food. We're way too short on cards to be dumping them right now.

Ugh. Another basestar (I almost typed "bastard", which also works) activation. This could hurt.


billytea - Jul 02, 2010 3:17:22 am PDT #6304 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

Ugh. Another basestar (I almost typed "bastard", which also works) activation. This could hurt.

The good news is, the Chief's up next. His special ability lets him repair a location (if they hit anything more urgent than the Admiral's Quarters) and still take another action (say, give out an XO or activate the location he repairs). The biggest risk I see is if they hit the Hangar Deck and send Chief to Sickbay.

I think this was a pretty fortunate activation for us right now. It means the heavy raiders are still two activations away from boarding, and we're at least two raider activations away from risking any civvies. It guarantess our star pilot will get a turn before anything happens on that front. (Of course, if both basestars hit, I might change my mind.)

And we pulled another jump icon, so only two away from auto-jumping and leaving theam eating our tylium.

You know what? I just realised, that basestar hit us on Helo's turn. We forgot Helo's reroll ability. (No biggie, just something to remember next time.)


DeathQuaker - Jul 02, 2010 5:08:28 am PDT #6305 of 26134
Illigitimi non carborundum

bsg

Why don't you send me that sheet if you can, then? The macros might cause problems but the tabs and buttons shouldn't. I'll take a look at least.

Thanks. My friends really like the game and making it more accessible will be a good thing. If nothing else, maybe we can use it in a limited use kind of way, like enabling them to use a virtual quorum deck so they can play president.

One of my two friends is working on finding more blind-friendly games. She's planning on brailling the cards on some games they have and then donating them to the games library at GenCon. BSG is too complicated to do that, but some games all you need is some simple accessible text.


NoiseDesign - Jul 02, 2010 5:54:31 am PDT #6306 of 26134
Our wings are not tired

BSG

I say we ditch the food.


omnis_audis - Jul 02, 2010 9:44:21 am PDT #6307 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

BSG

I have Mr. President on the horn. He says he is busy, er, um, with an intern. But he dictated the following to me:

After careful consideration and listening to my cabinets recommendations, although we think the water shortage is due to a certain Admiral trying to sober up, we feel the food resource is more expendable than the card resource. So my executive order is to take the hit in our FOOD supply.


DavidS - Jul 02, 2010 1:53:50 pm PDT #6308 of 26134
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Quick drop in to share: Grim Fandango Converse hi-tops


omnis_audis - Jul 02, 2010 3:25:18 pm PDT #6309 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

BSG

OK, Now that we are all dehydrated, let's get the adrenaline flowing. It's time to activate those cute little double-Y ships. Remember, with a Basestar firing on Galactica, a roll of 4 - 8 is damage. We get two shots, one from each Basestar.

Basestar #1: 6! Hit!
Damage: Barney Jones hit the fuel tank. Fuel resource -1!
Basestar #2: 1! Miss!! Too bad no critical misses here. Dude! A one? That's pathetic. Can we have a do-over on that one? Please? Eh, didn't think so. Couldn't hurt to try.

That ends round 1.4. End of round summery to follow, along with card draw e-mail to the Chief.


Kalshane - Jul 02, 2010 3:50:46 pm PDT #6310 of 26134
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

BSG

Damage: Barney Jones hit the fuel tank. Fuel resource -1!

That's not an actual location on Galactica, so no repair needed, correct?


omnis_audis - Jul 02, 2010 3:54:20 pm PDT #6311 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

End of Round 1.4 - Tigh Summery

Locations and Hands

Tigh: Weapons Control; 4 cards
Chief: Hangar Deck; 1 cards
Apollo: Sector 5; 2 cards
Boomer: Press Room; 1 cards
Zarek: Presidents Office; 7 cards
Helo: Stranded on Caprica; 5 cards

Sectors
Sector 1: 2 Basestar, 5 Raiders, 1 Heavy Raider
Sector 2: 3 Raiders, 1 heavy raider
Sector 3: - mt -
Sector 4: Civilians A B C
Sector 5: 2 RSV, Apollo, Civilian D
Sector 6: 2 RSV, Civilian E

Resources
Fuel: 7
Food: 8
Morale: 9
Population: 12

Viper Reserves: 3
Damaged Vipers: 0
Destroyed Vipers: 0
Raptors: 4
Destroyed Raptors: 0

Boarding Party: none

Other
Nukes: 2
Jump Track: 3 (Blue -3)
Distance Travelled: 0
Galactica Damage: Admiral's Quarters


omnis_audis - Jul 02, 2010 3:57:27 pm PDT #6312 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

BSG

That's not an actual location on Galactica, so no repair needed, correct?
That is correct. There was a reduction in resource. I was being cute. No repair needed, but jumping will be interesting. Most jumps are about 1 fuel per distance. Y'all have gone distance 0, and have fuel 7, and you need to travel 8. Should be fun. Hope the Admiral makes good choices when it comes to jumping.