My wife will be along as well - should be a fun little party.
On Mar 20, 10:31 am, Mark Tyler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
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