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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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omnis_audis - Oct 30, 2010 11:26:15 pm PDT #7967 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

BSG

7 PB
Destiny Deck: R2, R3
Helo: No Play
Tigh: Nothing to play
Chief:No Play
Apollo: Y1
Boomer: R5 with love
Zarek:
Running Total: -11 out of 7
FAIL

Mr Prisoner? Any last wishes?


omnis_audis - Oct 31, 2010 12:05:05 am PDT #7968 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Xbox info. When I signed on tonight, it seems there will be a price increase in Xbox Gold membership effective Nov 1st. They are offering 15% discount if you buy two years before Nov 1st.


Laga - Oct 31, 2010 1:00:42 am PDT #7969 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

BSG

I don't hgave the cards. I play nothing.


DeathQuaker - Oct 31, 2010 4:24:39 am PDT #7970 of 26134
Illigitimi non carborundum

BSG

Are we dead yet?


Kalshane - Oct 31, 2010 5:47:01 am PDT #7971 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

Frak! Of course I wasted all my blue cards on the last crisis.

Grrr. I thought we were going to somehow pull this out. I have to say, I think this was the most brutal game yet, considering how many times Team Human managed to pull away from defeat only to lose in the end anyway.


megan walker - Oct 31, 2010 5:55:04 am PDT #7972 of 26134
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

BSG

I'm actually surprised we lasted this long after that disastrous pull of three 1 distances.


omnis_audis - Oct 31, 2010 9:50:20 am PDT #7973 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

BSG

Tigh Is drunk. This is never a surprise. But the level of consumption has surprised everyone on the bridge. Everyone noticed a huge change in demeanor with that last attack on the unidentified ship. Frak that broken FoF transponder! And so he drinks. More and more. And shows up on the brig barely able to stand. The President can do nothing. Being an NCO, he still feels the pressure of Chain of Command. He doesn't understand, HE is Tighs commander now.

In the drunken stupor state, Tigh is feeling unusually paranoid paranoid. Since the Fleet killed that last Basestar, there has been no enemy contact. But the Admiral thinks they are hot on the heels of the Fleet. They are not. They have noticed how tenacious the Fleet has been. Easily killing Basestars is not something they like. And the inability to land a boarding party has vexed the Toasters for some time. They have held themselves at bay to regroup. But paranoia is a powerful thing, and when fueled by booze, it reaches new heights.

That leaves the Fleet vulnerable. When the Admiral makes decisions without thought, thoughtless actions result. As one of the Gods of Kobol, it saddens me to report to the rest of the council, that our beloved Colonialists have failed just shy of their destination. It seems our President finally was showing some balls, and came over to Galactica to have a talk with the Admiral. But before he could do that, the Admiral flew to FTL control, pushed out the poor Ensign that was filling in on the 3rd watch. The Admiral punched in some random numbers to the control pad, sent the drunken coordinates to the Fleet with urgency. Before anyone had the chance to object to the coordinates, the order to jump was given.

It is with heavy heart that I report to the Council, I could not intervene in time. Our lovely humans were so close. Alas. Instead of jumping into the orbit around Kobol, they jumped into orbit of the star that warms Kobol. A low orbit. One that burned the fleet, almost instantly.


7 PB
Destiny Deck: R2, R3
Helo: No Play
Tigh: Nothing to play
Chief:No Play
Apollo: Y1
Boomer: R5
Zarek:No Play
Running Total: -11 out of 7
FAIL Result: -1 Population, which drops it to zero.

End of Game Summary - Round: 9.2-Zarek

Player Locations and cards
Boomer: Cylon Fleet;4 Cards
Zarek: Press Room;6 Cards
Helo: Sector 5;2 Cards
Tigh: FTL Control;0 Cards
Chief: Communications;3 Cards
Apollo: Caprica;3 Cards

Sectors
Sector 1: Empty
Sector 2: empty
Sector 3: empty
Sector 4: Civilian A, RSV
Sector 5: Helo, Civilian B,C, RSV
Sector 6: Civilian D, RSV

Resources:
Fuel: 4
Food: 1
Morale: 2
Population: 0

Viper Reserves: 3
Damaged Vipers: 0
Destroyed Vipers: 1
Raptors Reserves: 0
Raptors Destroyed: 4

Other
Nukes: 1
Jump Track: 3
Distance Traveled: 8
Galactica Damage: Admiral's Quarters
Boarding Party:

Deck Counts
Yellow: 8
Green: 8
Purple: 3
Red: 4
Blue: 3
Destiny: 8


omnis_audis - Oct 31, 2010 9:56:11 am PDT #7974 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

bsg

Some quick points of interest:

29 jump icons

18 non jump icons

longest jump streak = 7 in a row

longest non jump streak = 3 in a row (twice), second time was at very end.

Only 5 crisis cards put bad guys on the board.

The next crisis card did not put bad guys on the board, but 3 of the following 4 would have!

Y'all lucked out with "33". (Billytea can explain if you like)

Only 10 more Crisis cards that were not used or buried.

13 crisis cards were buried (either by Scouting or by Cylons with two crisis cards to pick from.)

Everyone started out human.

One of your Cylons was both a sympathizer AND a Cylon

Next crisis card was a jump advance, and was a skill check you could have passed, and destiny would have helped even!

3 Quorum Cards were played, 8 were drawn that were not played.

All your raptors were destroyed

The civilian ships in the air right now:

  • A is a decoy in sector 4
  • B has Population AND Morale in sector 5
  • C & D are both one population ships.

We never had a boarding party.

You had excellent luck shooting at Basestars.

Neither of the Cylons used Once-Per-Game abilities.

Humans had very forgiving die rolls (sorry, spreadsheet doesn't keep a log of those, so can't give specific details).

Investigative Committee was used the majority of the time, a total of 13, out of 28 that had a skill check. That is about 54% of the time.

Cylon #1 revealed in 4.4, Cylon #2 in round 4.6

On one of the jumps, where Helo got to pick, two of the three choices were the same card.

All in all, a very close game. There were several times when I thought it could have gone either way. Team Human really came through in the end. Well, almost. But the fact it came ONE CRISIS CARD away from winning, is about as close as you could, unless you went for the suicide jump.

What started FOUR MONTHS ago with the sorting hat: Laga "Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue" Jun 25, 2010 2:04:51 pm PDT Has ended today.

When the dust has settled, and talk of a new game comes up, I remind the table of a volunteer for GM: megan walker "Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue" Jun 11, 2010 7:48:49 am PDT


megan walker - Oct 31, 2010 10:10:16 am PDT #7975 of 26134
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

BSG

Still happy to volunteer to GM. Thanks, Omnis, for doing it this time around.

Everyone started out human.

I had suspected this, but wasn't sure about Apollo. Good to have it confirmed.


Laga - Oct 31, 2010 10:10:17 am PDT #7976 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Excellent game everybody. So interesting we all started out human.

Thanks, omnis.