BSG

I pass on interrupts.

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BSG

OK, we have passes and we have CO's. So let's get these rolls a rolling.

We need a 5-8 to damage a Basestar from Galactica. And the roll is: 7! Oh look! That Basestar has "Structural Damage". That means:

While it remains, all attacks against the basestar gain +2 to their die rolls.

Oooh! Shiny! Ain't that sweet. Oh, and look at that, the orders said:

to fire twice at the Basestar in Sector 3

That means we get another shot, with a +2 on the die. Let's see what action #2 rolls for us: 5! and we get to add 2 to it, which makes 7!! Critical Hit! Since a Critical hit counts as TWO hits, and the first shot counts as one hit, and you need three to destroy a basestar, dude! Y'all just destroyed a Mother Ship without using a nuke!! Frakkin' A! That's awesome!

That brings us to the next phase. Crisis Card. Yikes. After all that good. I swear, the deck was shuffled at the start of the game.

Water Shortage (b)
Presidents choice. Mr. Tyrol, the decision is now yours. E-mail to be sent shortly with the details.

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BSG

Y'all just destroyed a Mother Ship without using a nuke!!

Weeeell, that's better than we did for sure. We used plenty of nukes to destroy your mother planets.

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I'm leaning towards option 2 since it only ends up being 4 skill cards.

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BSG

We have to run out of the crisises eventually. Yikes.

What do the rules say about required discards if one of the players don't have enough cards? If we can pick option 2, I'm leaning towards that as well.

Poor Tigh, just can't keep a hand.

For the next turn, do we want to jump early?

We'll be risking 1 population, but after me the two Cylons are up, which means no jump prep for the next two turns. I don't know how many crises can drop us down the jump track, but I'd hate to have that happen yet again.

On the other hand, if they hit us with attack cards, it will be that much longer before we can jump away.

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What do the rules say about required discards if one of the players don't have enough cards?

It's permitted. There are occasions where it's not, e.g. Moving between ships, but you can choose a discard option from a crisis card even if you can't make all the discards.

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BSG

Wow. For once the die was in our favor.

I'm leaning towards option 2 since it only ends up being 4 skill cards.

I agree. We would spend at least that many cards on a skill check to save food.

Tigh will still have 3 cards, so at least he could still play one and not have to discard.

We have to run out of the crisises eventually. Yikes.

There are actually over 30 left in the draw pile. Very few affect the jump track, but we always seem to get the one card we don't want so who knows.

Re: jumping. I'd like to see where we are after this raider activation. And, while we don't advance on the jump track during cylon turns, we don't have the activation phase either. Isn't that right? Does that apply to cylon attack cards as well?

Note also that if we don't use FTL Control, we have a 50/50 chance of jumping automatically on Chief's turn.

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BSG

I'm tempted just to discard all my cards now just to make things easier for future game tracking. *wink*

I discard a G2, P1, P2

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BSG

I discard my lone G4 card.

Alternate to jumping early, I could (provided I draw one) XO someone to scout the Crisis deck and have them bury the next crisis if it doesn't have a jump advance.

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BSG

Excellent. We have the discards. Now let's start the firefight. Let's start with Sector 6. Raider #1 will attack one of the RSV's there in sector 6. We need a roll of 5-7 for damage, or 8 for destroy. Let's hope we keep it low. Here we go with the die roll. :: blows on die :: 3!
Excellent. Sector 6 is still safe.

Now, let's see about sector 5. Here we have 2 raiders against a RSV and Helo. By law, they will attack the RSV first. So let's hope for the first roll to be low to keep Helo safe. Raider #1 attacks RSV and rolls a 5.

At this point we will pause to see if anyone wants to play an EM red card to save that poor RSV. To note, the RSV is DAMAGED, not destroyed. And we still have the 2nd Raiders attack.

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