Guys, I wish I could be there tonight -- I enjoyed last time, but I am struggling with a sinus infection and do not have enough energy.
Enjoy! I want to bring Bloodbowl sometime -- I realize it is a 2player game, but boy is it fun, and it could be done with 4 or even 6 if everyone is willing to work in teams. Anton On Mar 20, 12:58 pm, Sylvus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
