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Apollo, on your turn you get a choice with your card draw. My Press efforts bore modest but not spectacular results, so if you wanted to draw Politics it'd likely still be helpful. The only downside is that XOs live in Leadership (Chief Tyrol's in position to work one), but if you were planning to unleash a Max Firepower on the raiders in Sector 6, you wouldn't need one this turn anyway.

Generally, you're a great player to have XOs in your hand. Say we get an attack card. Your Alert Viper Pilot ability means that you can hop one of the new vipers and take an action as soon as the ships are deployed. If no one else has played an XO that turn, you have that option, which means we could pull some viper activations (or move the civvies or fire at the basestars etc etc) immediately.

BSG

Again with the food. Didn't we hear this song last game?

I can take the card hit without losing too much if we take option 2, but I won't be able to help much with any crisises.

I have about a 1/2 hour left in the library. We're still pretty poor in the card department but I'm worried about food now too. Please discuss and I'll log back in tonight from my parents' house with my decision.

Going dark again until this evening. Don't worry brave citizens, I have a plan! (but do please post your opinions)

I'm hopping in here to post for Megan Walker, who is incapacitated--she says "I guess the radiation on Caprica has finally gotten to Helo"--i read these last several posts to her, and none of it made any sense to me, but she said it did to her.

So, she says as her input on the food situation: "I have no appetite for food right now, so can't make a good decision regarding it"

BSG

Things on Caprica have not been going well. This radiation sickness is not pretty. If this continues, communication may be difficult, but I'm hoping for the best.

BSG

Please discuss and I'll log back in tonight from my parents' house with my decision.

I don't have strong opinions either way. We've managed to build up some skill card resources over the last few turns, so if Zarek and the Chief think they can discard cheaply, that's ok. If we take the -2 penalty, 6 Food is still pretty manageable. It might give us another option for ensuring a human sympathiser too.

So basically I'll happily go along with whatever the players losing cards prefer.

Things on Caprica have not been going well. This radiation sickness is not pretty. If this continues, communication may be difficult, but I'm hoping for the best.

Ugh. Sorry to hear that, I hope you get better soon. We have dreaded lurgi over here too. Baby Boomer has a chest infection, and he's being generous with it.

BSG

If the food situation grows dire I'm pretty sure some of the civvies are hoarding and there's a good chance (with a little help in the strategic planning department) that I can convince the council to help me distribute the food more evenly.

If things get really bad I have this recipe for something called long pig.

I choose option #1. So be it.

BSG

"Civilians don't want to live on crackers, let alone a thimble of water a day. But if the President's recipe is what I think it is, they'd frakkin' well better get used to it."

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Really, I just wanted to get "thimble of water a day" in there somewhere.

BSG

If things get really bad I have this recipe for something called long pig.

Be sure to work that into your next Inspirational Speech.

If the food situation grows dire I'm pretty sure some of the civvies are hoarding

There's a Crisis Card in the Pegasus expansion, called Food Hoarding in the Fleet (President's Choice). If you decide to end the hoarding, you risk destroying one of the civvies.