Frakkin' Toaster!
Man, it's been a while since I've posted on here, huh?
So, okay. Last Saturday I played a badass game of the Battlestar Galactica Board Game and it got me to thinking. The game has some very tight loyalty/betrayal mechanics and I really want to dissect them a little bit, maybe come up with some tips and tricks. Here's a quick rundown of the game I played, then we'll get on to that other stuff.
Yeah, that's right. I wanna talk about it and it's my Livejournal. You can skip down if you must.
I was William Adama, and I was a Cylon (with Six's card "send one player on Galactica to the brig"-nice.) from the very beginning. I like Adama as a human, less as a Cylon. Know why? Because throwing people in the brig fraks the humans, that's why. We weren't very far in before the Cylon Detector crisis card gave Chief a look at my loyalty card. He immediately announced my nature to the table and we went back and forth. What was really rough though, was when Baltar looked at Chief's cards (after the sleeper agent phase) and announced that Chief was human and I was a frakkin' toaster.
You know what? I still made it. I played it cool and kept up the line. The both of them were obviously humans, that left 2 more humans and a Cylon who would have to be pretty dense if she didn't realize they were telling the truth. So she backed me, but she did so subtly. You see, if I was telling the truth, then both Cylons were known and there was no reason not to trust her. It gave the two undecided people enough doubt that they stayed out instead of backing them or us. So... my fellow Cylon wound up with the presidency, played the Quorum card that sent somebody straight to the brig, and then revealed herself.
Then the basestars caught up. Since the first part of the game was heavy and jump track symbols and very light on fleet attacks, the humans got totally hosed. Especially since I'd already used all the nukes. ;)
I swear, I've never seen so many civilian ships destroyed.
Let's do the tips in a separate post. This is just a big dumb "let me tell you about my game" rant.
So, okay. Last Saturday I played a badass game of the Battlestar Galactica Board Game and it got me to thinking. The game has some very tight loyalty/betrayal mechanics and I really want to dissect them a little bit, maybe come up with some tips and tricks. Here's a quick rundown of the game I played, then we'll get on to that other stuff.
Yeah, that's right. I wanna talk about it and it's my Livejournal. You can skip down if you must.
I was William Adama, and I was a Cylon (with Six's card "send one player on Galactica to the brig"-nice.) from the very beginning. I like Adama as a human, less as a Cylon. Know why? Because throwing people in the brig fraks the humans, that's why. We weren't very far in before the Cylon Detector crisis card gave Chief a look at my loyalty card. He immediately announced my nature to the table and we went back and forth. What was really rough though, was when Baltar looked at Chief's cards (after the sleeper agent phase) and announced that Chief was human and I was a frakkin' toaster.
You know what? I still made it. I played it cool and kept up the line. The both of them were obviously humans, that left 2 more humans and a Cylon who would have to be pretty dense if she didn't realize they were telling the truth. So she backed me, but she did so subtly. You see, if I was telling the truth, then both Cylons were known and there was no reason not to trust her. It gave the two undecided people enough doubt that they stayed out instead of backing them or us. So... my fellow Cylon wound up with the presidency, played the Quorum card that sent somebody straight to the brig, and then revealed herself.
Then the basestars caught up. Since the first part of the game was heavy and jump track symbols and very light on fleet attacks, the humans got totally hosed. Especially since I'd already used all the nukes. ;)
I swear, I've never seen so many civilian ships destroyed.
Let's do the tips in a separate post. This is just a big dumb "let me tell you about my game" rant.