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BSG
Most of the time, like any other skill card (except it's a safe bet it'll be negative in most checks). However, when using them for their effect, there are these differences:
1. Some of them have an effect just like other skill cards - play this card for an action, play this as an interrupt, that kind of thing. However,
only revealed Cylons
may play them for their effect. (Revealed Cylons can't use the effects on any other colour of skill card.)
2. Some of them are called "Reckless skill check". We need to take a step back for these ones.
In the base game, there are two interrupts that can be played before a skill check: Investigative Committee and Scientific Research. Pegasus adds four more, but these interrupts all have an additional effect - they turn a check Reckless.
If a check is Reckless and any "Reckless skill check" Treachery skill cards turn up in it (from any source - Cylon, human, Destiny), they takes effect. If the skill check isn't Reckless, they have no effect. There's a risk, then, in playing a Reckless interrupt.
BSG
But there are only a couple characters who can even draw Treachery cards, right? Oh, but revealed Cylons can draw from any deck. Correct?
BSG
Correct. Only Ellen has it in her normal draw (being "Nothing but Trouble"). However, revealed Cylons have their pick of colours, and there are Crisis cards that can make people draw Treachery too. I was in one game where we drew some Treachery every turn for the first four turns.
BSG
I'm excited to see what characters we end up with. Are people responding in favor of adding the expansions?
BSG
I'm excited to see what characters we end up with. Are people responding in favor of adding the expansions?
People, orangutans, ferrets, we're building a broad-based coalition of the willing here.
in non-BSG news...
I'm so obsessed with Dominion, I've been pitting my toys against each other, trying different strategies.
Ratzo has played three games in a row drawing NO action cards and he has won. every. time.
The next game the centaur is playing with a witch so we'll see if ratzo's strategy holds up.
I'm so obsessed with Dominion, I've been pitting my toys against each other, trying different strategies.
Ha, awesome! I always have an itching to play.
Ratzo has played three games in a row drawing NO action cards and he has won. every. time.
Action cards are deceptive! They look so fun and cool, but Treasure is where it's at. Initially, like pretty much all new players, I bought lots of action cards to play with them, but then I learned that you have to balance your deck. Playing without ANY action cards doesn't seem as fun, though.
The next game the centaur is playing with a witch so we'll see if ratzo's strategy holds up.
Well, even if he uses up all the Curses, Ratzo will still have a shitload of money to buy Provinces. Of course he'll be drawing a lot of Curses too, so maybe it'll work.
The centaur won the next round and the treant won the round after that. I'm glad Ratzo's strategy didn't hold up, that would have kind of wrecked the game.
I suppose I should start reading the board again then.
re: Cottle - he's in Exodus, but not as a playable PC. He's a supporting character, used in one of the 3 variants in the box.
IMO, Exodus is mostly unnecessary complication - though the Cylon Fleet (replaces the random Cylon ship stuff on Crisis cards) is a fascinating alternative. They're ALWAYS there, lurking on their own board. Sometimes it does something like throws ships at you - sometimes it just lurks, gloating in the distance.
