BSG

I play a Y4

BSG

Destiny: Y4, G1
Baltar:

R1, Y3, Y2
Helo:

P1, P1, G3, G4
Starbuck:

Y4
Chief: 0 cards
Adama:

Positive: 10
Negative: 14
Running Total: -4

BSG

Ok crew, this gets complicated. First up: normally a Briggening needs to reach 7, but thanks to the arbitrary arbitration of the Chief, it's down to 4. That means I need to cough up 8 points. Here goes:

XO-2
DE-3
SP-3

I believe that gives us:

Leadership: G1, G2, G3, G3, G4
Tactics: P1, P1, P3
Politics: Y2, Y3, Y4, Y4
Piloting: R1

Tally: 18 - 14 = 4.

Dr Gaius Frakking Baltar, you may be a magnificent bastard, but you are no longer welcome in my Office. GET OFF MY SHIP!! And onto my other ship. Oh, now there's an idea. Billy? Let's get some bumper stickers made up for Colonial One, saying "MY OTHER CAR IS A BATTLESTAR".

See how I can just boss him around like that? That is because he must respect my Command Authoritah! And let me tell you, Command Authoritah is a beautiful thing. Not only is it a major turn-on, it lets me do this:

I use my OPG to pick up all the cards played into this check. Even the little red one.

Right, that brings my hand to... 22 cards. I feel like I should be taking a pill, or shouting "By the power of Greyskull!" or something.

If that doesn't provoke a Crisis, I just don't know what will.

BSG

Well, I think we now know how El Hippo has been feeding that ego, he must be binge eating... Food Shortage!

Details to be mailed.

BSG

Heh. I was hoping to get to spend more of these cards on it, but at least I get some use out of five of them. I choose the discard option.

In addition to the five cards I'm now obliged to toss, I'll need to add another seven in order to get my hand back to 10 cards. For the Food Shortage I will discard:

G1, G1, G2, G3, P1

Then I will discard:

Y1, Y1, Y1, Y2, Y2, Y2, R1

End-of-round Summary
Round 5.5 - Adama

Locations and Hands
Baltar: Brig; 3 cards
Helo: Hangar Deck; 5 cards
Starbuck: Caprica; 6 cards
Chief: Admiral's Quarters; 6 cards
Adama: President's Office; 10 cards

Sectors
Sector 1: 1 Basestar, 2 Raiders
Sector 2: Empty
Sector 3: Civilians 1
Sector 4: Civilians 1
Sector 5: 1 RSV, Civilians 1
Sector 6: 1 RSV, Civilians 1

Resources
Fuel: 3
Food: 3
Morale: 6
Population: 12
Viper Reserves: 6
Damaged Vipers: 0
Raptors: 2
Boarding Party: 2 at Start

Other
Nukes: 2
Jump Track: 2
Distance Travelled: 6
Galactica Damage: 0

(Please check with your data, to make sure there is nothing out of whack. If any discrepancy, please contact me immediately.)

Note: Both Food and Fuel are now at only 3.

Cards are on the way to the fish.

BSG

I'm actually amazed I almost made it to my next turn before getting brigged.

You dare throw me, Gaius Baltar, in the Brig? I'm Gaius Frakkin' Baltar! Don't you know who you're dealing with? Stand back and tremble as I proceed to write nasty things about you in my diary! "Dear, Diary. You wouldn't believe what happened to me today. That total daggit-fra...[Baltar's pen slips off the page due to his overly-furious writing and stabs his thigh, puncturing the artery.]

[Wakes up in a vat of goo.] Well, frak.

Move: None

Action: Reveal Cylon card.

I discard G1, G1, Y1, Y1 to reduce my hand to 3.

For those interested, my Cylon card was "Damage Galactica."

BSG

For those interested, my Cylon card was "Damage Galactica."

I'm writing a song to commemorate this occasion. "Here we go something something, dum de dum dum". Still working out the details. I do have a final line though, "POP goes the weasel!"

Incidentally, I'm playing another game at boardgamegeek, where there was an attempted briggening of Baltar at the exact same time as we were doing this one. In that game, however, Baltar was human and it was the Cylons (Helena Cain and Ellen Tigh) who were trying to brig him. It was quite the epic struggle - including interrupts, the two teams played a total of 70 points between them. In the end, Baltar remained free by just one point, after Destiny made a weak showing of only 3 points in favour.

We're still frakked there, but at least we're not prison-frakked.

BSG

Helo, what do you think for your turn? Your reroll makes it a good time to go Centurion-hunting. An SP would give us a 75% chance of getting one of them.

Other balls in the air: we are under attack, and if we don't kill a basestar before our next jump, Thirty Three gets shuffled back into the Crisis Deck. That'll also reshuffle any Crises that got buried on scouting missions. I think Starbuck buried one (so we probably want that one back), and I buried two (which we'd rather not see again). If we can spare the time to blast the basestar then we may as well, but it's probably not our first priority.

On that jump thing, we really want to ensure we jump at least 2 Distance, so it'd be good to scout the Destination Deck beforehand. Your turn's a good time for this too. I can scout if we want to do that first.

It'd be nice to build up our Food stores too, which means working the Quorum. I'd need to go rummaging for that. Chances of success - uncertain. There's a fair chance of getting something else worthwhile though, like Mission Specialist or some Brutal Force for a Centurion.

I reckon that if you want to park yourself in the Armoury and go all "Guns don't kill robots, I do" on the Centurions, that'd be a good choice. If you XO me I'd scout the Destination Deck and hit up the Quorum for goodies and treats.

End-of-turn Summary
Round 6.1 - Baltar

Locations and Hands
Baltar: Resurrection Ship; 3 cards
Helo: Hangar Deck; 5 cards
Starbuck: Caprica; 6 cards
Chief: Admiral's Quarters; 6 cards
Adama: President's Office; 10 cards

Sectors
Sector 1: 1 Basestar, 2 Raiders
Sector 2: Empty
Sector 3: Civilians 1
Sector 4: Civilians 1
Sector 5: 1 RSV, Civilians 1
Sector 6: 1 RSV, Civilians 1

Resources
Fuel: 3
Food: 3
Morale: 6
Population: 12
Viper Reserves: 6
Damaged Vipers: 0
Raptors: 2
Boarding Party: 2 at Start

Other
Nukes: 2
Jump Track: 2
Distance Travelled: 6
Galactica Damage: 0

(Please check with your data, to make sure there is nothing out of whack. If any discrepancy, please contact me immediately.)

Baltar has been sent his Super Crisis Card. Cards to be sent to Helo anon.