Nice review although I'm not sure about the political correctness of nun spanking.
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Sylvus <[email protected]> wrote: > With Ran and Ed embarking on an epic two player war of attrition that > left Mark, Ben, Raphael, John and myself to play a game. We decided > we would let Ben choose from the wide assortment that we had available > to us and Ben narrowed it down to Ameritrash, Ameritrash, or > Ameritrash. > > So - with Ameritrash settled upon the choice then became Battlestar > Galactica. > > BATTLESTAR GALACTICA > > For the most part things went pretty quietly during the start. I had > my suspicions that John might be our Cylon but I wasn't entirely > sure. We had traveled 2 distance and we were about to Jump again when > I decided out of the kindness of my heart to issue an executive order > to Mr. Mark (Our President) who promptly decided to throw both Ben and > I in the Brig. Welp - guess I was wrong on who was the Cylon. > > We then warped again and John chose to move us a distance of 3. We > were on our way. > > New loyalties were distributed and John now found is latent > programming activated and rather openly (ie having revealed himself) > began mocking 2 of the three humans that were locked up. First order > of business was to take the Presidency away from Mark. I will let > others discuss just how "friendly" the destiny deck was for us. In > the end I think it took us almost 5 tries to strip it away from him - > and that is even WITH my characters ability to reduce the difficulty > by two. Multiple attempts to get out of the brig also failed. > > Luckily I could still do Presidency things from behind Bars so I > slapped some card on Ben that allowed for him to draw three cards the > next time we jumped. Galactica was completely surrounded by Cylon > bases and our civilian ships were in mortal danger - however after > several slow and agonizing turns we finally jumped (at the expense of > 3 population) and low and behold another 3 distance card was played > and we had met our goal. We just had to survive to the next jump. > > Even more slow and agonzing turns followed as Mark and John chipped > away steadily at our almost all of our resources. Raphael kept us > alive through constant executive orders being issued from the Brig and > I finally was able to pardon Ben from the Brig (isn't being president > nice). I believe we were down to one fuel when Raphael was finally > able to activate the Hyperdrive and warp us to victory. > > NUNS ON THE RUN > > I had purchased this game and the rest were willing to let me give it > a try. Mark had played before so he gave a quick runover of the rules > and I took the guards and we were off. I will admit at first I > thought that I was going to be slaughtered as I was able to catch > Raphella but afterwards seemed to be really struggling... That is > until Benina made some noice and I ran to find the source and ended up > catching both Benina and Markita at the same time. Suddenly I was > more than halfway to my goal. > > Alas for Raphella she was seen yet again and a quick burst of speed > found her yet again spanked and sent back to her cell. One more to > go... > > And that last soul would end up being Markita who was spaces behind > me but I did an abrupt 180 and there she was in plain sight. No > secret wishes filled tonight ladies! > > IN THE SHADOW OF (my patheticness) THE EMPEROR > > Lets just say there is a curse that hovers over any game that I play > with Ran - and that curse is to huliliate myself. I don't wish to > spend too much time going over what a pathetic job I did in this > game. What I learned however is the fact that I really shouldn't risk > trying to become the duke (or whatever they are called) of two regions > when I am essentially first in turn order. After several rounds of > having the majority only to have it lost as someone was able to play > after me - the slow dawning of realization that I was being an idiot > and should just work on one region came a little too slowly for this > addled brain. > > I believe it would be John that would capture first with 26 points, > Ran with 24, Ed with 22 and myself... well - behind that ;) > > -- > 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]<ucboardgamers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/ucboardgamers?hl=en. > > -- 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.
