I am happy to report that rumors of me missing tonight's game night to attend a ward talent show were greatly exaggerated. Denee is not interested in going to the ward thing so she may even join me tonight for gaming at GPP. I will likely stay in the lighter to medium length games zone tonight. I know previously Bob showed some interest in Showmanager so I will bring that along. I would also like to give Medieval Merchant a try sometime.
Some of you Battlestar Galactica the Boardgame fans may be interested in my brief session report from last night's game with my family. We had a six player game with me, wife Denee, daughter Alison, son-in-law Mike, son Ben, and daughter Megan. We hoped to finish the game in 2 hours or so but it lasted almost 3.5 hours. Despite the game length, everyone seemed to have a pretty good time except Denee (human). She made the mistake of reminding Ben to shuffle the skill cards right after she placed her two cards on the stack. Everyone interpreted that to be something a cylon would say. So then Ben (human) threw Denee in the brig where she sat until late in the game when Alison (human) gave her a presidential pardon. Denee might have put BSG in the "never play again" category were it not for an amazing comeback victory by the humans. The humans made their final jump with Fuel = 1, Food = 1, Morale = 1, Population = 4. Mike and I were cylons from the start but neither of us revealed ourselves until after the sleeper phase. The sympathizer was human because the food was in the red zone. I have myself to blame for that because in trying to act human, I encouraged us to get at least one resource in the red zone before the sleeper phase. Denee suspected I was a cylon right after our first jump. I was the Admiral and drew two destiny cards and played the one with a "1" distance. Somehow I was able to convince the others that both the cards I drew were "1"s but Denee was not fooled. Unfortunately for Denee, her credibilty was in question as she sat in the Brig. Later on our second jump, I drew two "3"s so that was my chance to "prove" I was human by playing a "3". Of course that "3" also cost us three fuel, but no need for me to tell the others about the other "3" which had a less severe penalty. I managed to avoid suspicion until I exercised William Adama's special ability to retrieve all played cards from a skill check into my hand. I got thrown in the brig for that. Unlike Denee, I was able to escape the brig on my next turn by revealing I was a cylon. Mike also revealed himself and we thought we had the game in hand. We played our super crisis cards and then camped out in Caprica drawing two crisis cards per turn and playing the worst one for the humans. The only way the humans managed their amazing victory was by consistently giving the president (Alison) executive orders which allowed her to play out of turn and to draw and play more Quorum cards than normal. She was able to implement food rations and give inspirational speeches which raised the morale and food levels just enough to avoid certain doom. I have to say that the amount of accusations and disimination of misinformation was very fun. I would rate BSG similar to Shadows over Camelot. SoC has the edge in being shorter and more newbie friendly, but BSG has in edge in providing more meaningful activities for the players to do. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "utah county boardgamers association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ucboardgamers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
