Receive Skills Step: Darian draws 1 Politics, 1 Leadership, 2 Tactics, and 1 Engineering card.
Movement Step: Darian moves to Command. Action Step: Darian plays Leadership 2 - Executive Order on Dracil.
Executive Order: Dracil moves to the fore (9 o'clock) of Galactica and uses his CAG action to move the unmanned Viper Mk. II in the port-quarter (5 o'clock) to aft (3 o'clock). He uses his bonus action to fire on the basestar.
Gaeta moves into position to help coordinate the Viper, giving Apollo the go-ahead to move out. The CAG orders a viper to watch over the civilians while he attempts to do damage to the enemy basestar without success. Meanwhile, Gaeta receives a message from a raptor ready to launch on a scheduled scouting mission...
Crisis Step: Scouting for Fuel
Current Player Felix Gaeta (Darian) must choose:
A) Skill Check [12] Tactics + Piloting
Pass: +1 Fuel
Fail: -1 Fuel and destroy 1 Raptor OR Roll a die. If 4 or lower, -1 Fuel.
After Crisis: Activate Raiders, Advance Jump Preparation
Unless Darien pulled some wicked tactics in his draw or someone is going to blow a once-per-game, I think going for the roll is probably our best chance.
Gaeta moves into position to help coordinate the Viper, giving Apollo the go-ahead to move out. The CAG orders a viper to watch over the civilians while he attempts to do damage to the enemy basestar without success. Meanwhile, Gaeta receives a message from a raptor ready to launch on a scheduled scouting mission...
Crisis Step: Scouting for Fuel
Current Player Felix Gaeta (Darian) must choose:
A) Skill Check [12] Tactics + Piloting
Pass: +1 Fuel
Fail: -1 Fuel and destroy 1 Raptor OR Roll a die. If 4 or lower, -1 Fuel.
Darian chooses option B, playing Tactics 4 - Strategic Planning to aid the roll.
Gaeta decides that the time is not right for a scouting run, deciding the fleet needs to work with the resources it has for the time being.
After Crisis: Activate Raiders, Advance Jump Preparation
Raiders advance from the starboard-bow (11 o'clock) to the starboard-quarter (1 o'clock).
Jump Preparation advances to Level 2 - Jump still unavailable. Turn 3: Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Stiles)
Receive Skills Step: Stiles draws 1 Leadership, 3 Tactics, and 1 Engineering card.
Galactica: No damage, no boarding parties. Pegasus: No damage.
Nuke Tokens: 2 remain. Quorum Cards: 1 in hand.
Ship Reserves: 3 Viper Mk II and 4 Raptors available, 4 Viper Mk VIIs damaged.
Characters: President Tom Zarek (Plutonium) - President's Office (7 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Felix Gaeta (Darian) - Command (5 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Stiles) - Communications (7 Cards, 3 Trauma, Arbitrator) CAG Lee "Apollo" Adama (Dracil) - Viper Mk II @ Fore (9 o'clock) (2 Cards, 3 Trauma) Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) - Pegasus CIC (3 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Allies: Tory Foster (Press Room)
Beneficial Result: Political Strategist - Draw 3 Politics Skill Cards. Antagonistic Result: Questionable Ethics - Discard 2 random Skill Cards.
Samuel T. Anders (Armory)
Beneficial Result: Athlete - Move all centurion tokens on the boarding party track one space towards the "Start" space. Antagonistic Result: Rookie Pilot - Choose two unmanned vipers in space areas to move to the "Damaged Vipers" box.
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace (Hangar Deck)
Beneficial Result: Skilled Pilot - Choose 1 unmanned viper to activate 4 times. Antagonistic Result: Risky Maneuvers - Activate the following Cylon ships: Activate Raiders
Conditions
Arbitrator - Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Stiles) - When a player activates the "Admiral’s Quarters" location, this player may discard this card to reduce or increase the difficulty by 3.
So....I have a lot of options open right now and would like to know what people think. I could...
-Activate communications and move the civilians.
-Have command be activated and escort the civilians to safety/launch a viper and move it over for additional protection.
-See where we're headed.
-Go say hi to Kara and see if I can't see what I can do in the Hangar.
-Go say hi to that Basestar.
What do you think? I'm thinking Kara could help with getting those civs out of danger, but if she's been drinking again and my crisis activates raiders we could be in for some trouble, what with only one viper being there.
Talk to Kara, and see what happens. If it works out, get some more vipers over there and escort one of the civvies off, and kick me an xo. If it doesn't, send one to Gaeta to activate command.
Movement Step: Stiles moves to the Hangar Deck. Ally Resolution: Stiles resolves ally Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, flipping over her Trauma token. The result is Antagonistic. Raiders are activated, advancing from the starboard-quarter ( 1 o'clock) to aft (3 o'clock). The next ally card is revealed, Saul Tigh.
Location: Command Beneficial Result: Executive Officer - You may choose another character to send to the "Brig". Antagonistic Result: Heavy-handed - You are sent to the "Brig".
Stiles will need to place a trauma token from his personal supply to Tigh, and then we can move on to the action step.
Ally Resolution: Stiles places a Trauma token from his supply face down to Saul Tigh's card. Action: Stiles plays Leadership 2 - Executive Order on Darian.
Executive Order: Darian activates Command to use the aft (3 o'clock) viper to escort both civilian ships to safety. He activates the location again to use the same viper to fire on the Raiders in his zone.
Dualla makes a visit to the Hangar Deck to see if she can provide some support. She learns that Starbuck's been out in space trying to help support the fleet, but it appears that all she's doing is riling the enemy up. Dualla opens a line of communication to Gaeta in command to rein Starbuck's actions in, and countermeasures against the Cylons are taken. Meanwhile, Saul Tigh reviews the situation and puts in a suggestion to the admiral...
Crisis Step: Declare Martial Law
Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) must choose:
A) -1 Morale, and Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) receives the President title. OR -1 Population, and Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) discards 2 Skill Cards.
After Crisis: Activate Basestars
Stiles, I will need to know what battlestar will be damaged, should the basestar attack hit.
Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) must choose:
A) -1 Morale, and Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) receives the President title. OR -1 Population, and Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) discards 2 Skill Cards.
Professor Phobos chooses option A, taking the Presidency and -1 morale.
The Admiral follows Saul's suggestion, taking control of the Presidency.
After Crisis: Activate Basestars
Basestar Attack: 4... anyone want to spend a Calculations? (I only need confirmations from all players that draw Engineering, in this case Darian and Stiles.)
Beneficial Result: Political Strategist - Draw 3 Politics Skill Cards. Antagonistic Result: Questionable Ethics - Discard 2 random Skill Cards.
Samuel T. Anders (Armory)
Beneficial Result: Athlete - Move all centurion tokens on the boarding party track one space towards the "Start" space. Antagonistic Result: Rookie Pilot - Choose two unmanned vipers in space areas to move to the "Damaged Vipers" box.
Saul Tigh (Command)
Beneficial Result: Executive Officer - You may choose another character to send to the "Brig". Antagonistic Result: Heavy-handed - You are sent to the "Brig".
Conditions
Arbitrator - Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Stiles) - When a player activates the "Admiral’s Quarters" location, this player may discard this card to reduce or increase the difficulty by 3.
Activate CAG to order 3 o'clock viper to shoot a raider.
So I have an XO. Any ideas who I should use it on? I could let Gaeta shoot down that last raider, then maybe get that 7 o'clock viper over here to concentrate fire on the basestar.
I'd gladly take the XO to try to clean up the raiders, or you could toss an XO at our newly appointed dictator, give her three actions in a row to take out the basestar. Dangerous if she's a Cylon, but she hasn't had a chance to prove herself either way, yet. (Other than grabbing power to avoid the loss of skill cards, of course.)
Movement Step: Dracil remains in the fore (9 o'clock) location. Action Step: Dracil uses his CAG Action to activate the aft (3 o'clock) location, firing on a Raider there.
Actually I think I'll just XO(1) Gaeta to activate vipers. It's Cain's turn next anyway, and if she is a Cylon, 3 actions is just too dangerous.
Edit: I do think it's worth it to activate adminstration on your turn maybe (since it only takes 3 for you to pass), but not worth using an XO's double action on. I *think* it's less efficient for the same person to be both admiral and president (can't nuke and use quorum at the same time for example).
Yeah, but it's still kind of shitty because it takes another turn after that, or a half-ass XO to move to the president's office. That, or someone else activates administration. Also, Zarek can mess with the difficulty of any administration or brig checks, not just the ones he initiates.
Anyways, one person making both the President and Admiral choices is pretty dangerous stuff. I think it was sort of fishy that Phobos immediately decided to take both titles without consulting the rest of us.
I agree, we're going to have to waste a turn plus cards to get the presidency back, all for just one population. I'm not sure I trust the good admiral.
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The question is, should I go try to shoot a basestar, or should I park myself on the raider space so they shoot me instead of the battlestar?
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Activate CAG to move 5 o'clock ship to 3 o'clock
Move to 9 o'clock and shoot the basestar
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Receive Skills Step: Darian draws 1 Politics, 1 Leadership, 2 Tactics, and 1 Engineering card.
Movement Step: Darian moves to Command.
Action Step: Darian plays Leadership 2 - Executive Order on Dracil.
Executive Order: Dracil moves to the fore (9 o'clock) of Galactica and uses his CAG action to move the unmanned Viper Mk. II in the port-quarter (5 o'clock) to aft (3 o'clock). He uses his bonus action to fire on the basestar.
Attack Roll: 3, Miss.
Gaeta moves into position to help coordinate the Viper, giving Apollo the go-ahead to move out. The CAG orders a viper to watch over the civilians while he attempts to do damage to the enemy basestar without success. Meanwhile, Gaeta receives a message from a raptor ready to launch on a scheduled scouting mission...
Crisis Step: Scouting for Fuel
Current Player Felix Gaeta (Darian) must choose:
A) Skill Check [12] Tactics + Piloting
Pass: +1 Fuel
Fail: -1 Fuel and destroy 1 Raptor
OR
Roll a die. If 4 or lower, -1 Fuel.
After Crisis: Activate Raiders, Advance Jump Preparation
Gaeta moves into position to help coordinate the Viper, giving Apollo the go-ahead to move out. The CAG orders a viper to watch over the civilians while he attempts to do damage to the enemy basestar without success. Meanwhile, Gaeta receives a message from a raptor ready to launch on a scheduled scouting mission...
Crisis Step: Scouting for Fuel
Current Player Felix Gaeta (Darian) must choose:
A) Skill Check [12] Tactics + Piloting
Pass: +1 Fuel
Fail: -1 Fuel and destroy 1 Raptor
OR
Roll a die. If 4 or lower, -1 Fuel.
Darian chooses option B, playing Tactics 4 - Strategic Planning to aid the roll.
Risk roll: 7+2 = 9, no effect.
Gaeta decides that the time is not right for a scouting run, deciding the fleet needs to work with the resources it has for the time being.
After Crisis: Activate Raiders, Advance Jump Preparation
Raiders advance from the starboard-bow (11 o'clock) to the starboard-quarter (1 o'clock).
Jump Preparation advances to Level 2 - Jump still unavailable.
Turn 3: Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Stiles)
Receive Skills Step: Stiles draws 1 Leadership, 3 Tactics, and 1 Engineering card.
Current Situation:
Jump Preparation: Level 2 - Jump unavailable.
Pursuit Track: Level 1.
Distance Covered: 0
Galactica: No damage, no boarding parties.
Pegasus: No damage.
Nuke Tokens: 2 remain.
Quorum Cards: 1 in hand.
Ship Reserves: 3 Viper Mk II and 4 Raptors available, 4 Viper Mk VIIs damaged.
Characters:
President Tom Zarek (Plutonium) - President's Office (7 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Felix Gaeta (Darian) - Command (5 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Stiles) - Communications (7 Cards, 3 Trauma, Arbitrator)
CAG Lee "Apollo" Adama (Dracil) - Viper Mk II @ Fore (9 o'clock) (2 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) - Pegasus CIC (3 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Allies:
Tory Foster (Press Room)
Antagonistic Result: Questionable Ethics - Discard 2 random Skill Cards.
Antagonistic Result: Rookie Pilot - Choose two unmanned vipers in space areas to move to the "Damaged Vipers" box.
Antagonistic Result: Risky Maneuvers - Activate the following Cylon ships: Activate Raiders
Galactica Space:
Fore (9 o'clock) - 1 Basestar, Apollo-piloted Viper Mk II.
Starboard-bow (11 o'clock) - None.
Starboard-quarter (1 o'clock) - 3 Raiders.
Aft (3 o'clock) - 2 Civilian Ships, 1 Viper Mk II.
Port-quarter (5 o'clock) - None.
Port-bow (7 o'clock) - 1 Viper Mk II.
Cylon Space:
Fore (9 o'clock) - None.
Starboard-bow (11 o'clock) - None.
Starboard-quarter (1 o'clock) - None.
Aft (3 o'clock) - None.
Port-quarter (5 o'clock) - None.
Port-bow (7 o'clock) - None.
Conditions
Arbitrator - Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Stiles) - When a player activates the "Admiral’s Quarters" location, this player may discard this card to reduce or increase the difficulty by 3.
-Activate communications and move the civilians.
-Have command be activated and escort the civilians to safety/launch a viper and move it over for additional protection.
-See where we're headed.
-Go say hi to Kara and see if I can't see what I can do in the Hangar.
-Go say hi to that Basestar.
What do you think? I'm thinking Kara could help with getting those civs out of danger, but if she's been drinking again and my crisis activates raiders we could be in for some trouble, what with only one viper being there.
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Move to Hangar Deck, encounter Kara Thrace.
Movement Step: Stiles moves to the Hangar Deck.
Ally Resolution: Stiles resolves ally Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, flipping over her Trauma token. The result is Antagonistic. Raiders are activated, advancing from the starboard-quarter ( 1 o'clock) to aft (3 o'clock). The next ally card is revealed, Saul Tigh.
Beneficial Result: Executive Officer - You may choose another character to send to the "Brig".
Antagonistic Result: Heavy-handed - You are sent to the "Brig".
Stiles will need to place a trauma token from his personal supply to Tigh, and then we can move on to the action step.
Play 2 Leadership - Executive Order on Felix Gaeta (Darian) with the suggestion of escorting the civilians away.
Activate Command again; order the aft viper to open fire on enemy raiders twice.
Not sure I like Saul looming over my shoulder here, but I'll do what must be done.
Ally Resolution: Stiles places a Trauma token from his supply face down to Saul Tigh's card.
Action: Stiles plays Leadership 2 - Executive Order on Darian.
Executive Order: Darian activates Command to use the aft (3 o'clock) viper to escort both civilian ships to safety. He activates the location again to use the same viper to fire on the Raiders in his zone.
Attack Roll 1: 1, Miss.
Attack Roll 2: 6, Hit.
Dualla makes a visit to the Hangar Deck to see if she can provide some support. She learns that Starbuck's been out in space trying to help support the fleet, but it appears that all she's doing is riling the enemy up. Dualla opens a line of communication to Gaeta in command to rein Starbuck's actions in, and countermeasures against the Cylons are taken. Meanwhile, Saul Tigh reviews the situation and puts in a suggestion to the admiral...
Crisis Step: Declare Martial Law
Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) must choose:
A) -1 Morale, and Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) receives the President title.
OR
-1 Population, and Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) discards 2 Skill Cards.
After Crisis: Activate Basestars
Stiles, I will need to know what battlestar will be damaged, should the basestar attack hit.
Pegasus will take the hit.
Sounds a bit cylony.
We have a lot more population than morale, too.
Crisis Step: Declare Martial Law
Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) must choose:
A) -1 Morale, and Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) receives the President title.
OR
-1 Population, and Admiral Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) discards 2 Skill Cards.
Professor Phobos chooses option A, taking the Presidency and -1 morale.
The Admiral follows Saul's suggestion, taking control of the Presidency.
After Crisis: Activate Basestars
Basestar Attack: 4... anyone want to spend a Calculations? (I only need confirmations from all players that draw Engineering, in this case Darian and Stiles.)
Oh, I'm sorry that I value human lives way more than the Fleet's delicate feelings.
Or is your problem just that I value human lives, eh?
After Crisis: Activate Basestars
Basestar Attack: 4, Hit. Airlock damaged.
Turn 4: CAG Lee "Apollo" Adama (Dracil)
Receive Skills Step: Dracil draws 1 Politics, 1 Leadership, 1 Tactics, and 2 Piloting cards.
Current Situation:
Jump Preparation: Level 2 - Jump unavailable.
Pursuit Track: Level 1.
Distance Covered: 0
Galactica: No damage, no boarding parties.
Pegasus: Airlock damaged.
Nuke Tokens: 2 remain.
Quorum Cards: 1 in hand.
Ship Reserves: 3 Viper Mk II and 4 Raptors available, 4 Viper Mk VIIs damaged.
Characters:
Tom Zarek (Plutonium) - President's Office (7 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Felix Gaeta (Darian) - Command (5 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Stiles) - Hangar Deck (6 Cards, 2 Trauma, Arbitrator)
CAG Lee "Apollo" Adama (Dracil) - Viper Mk II @ Fore (9 o'clock) (7 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Admiral-President Helena Cain (Professor Phobos) - Pegasus CIC (3 Cards, 3 Trauma)
Allies:
Tory Foster (Press Room)
Antagonistic Result: Questionable Ethics - Discard 2 random Skill Cards.
Antagonistic Result: Rookie Pilot - Choose two unmanned vipers in space areas to move to the "Damaged Vipers" box.
Antagonistic Result: Heavy-handed - You are sent to the "Brig".
Galactica Space:
Fore (9 o'clock) - 1 Basestar, Apollo-piloted Viper Mk II.
Starboard-bow (11 o'clock) - None.
Starboard-quarter (1 o'clock) - None.
Aft (3 o'clock) - 2 Raiders, 1 Viper Mk II.
Port-quarter (5 o'clock) - None.
Port-bow (7 o'clock) - 1 Viper Mk II.
Cylon Space:
Fore (9 o'clock) - None.
Starboard-bow (11 o'clock) - None.
Starboard-quarter (1 o'clock) - None.
Aft (3 o'clock) - None.
Port-quarter (5 o'clock) - None.
Port-bow (7 o'clock) - None.
Conditions
Arbitrator - Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Stiles) - When a player activates the "Admiral’s Quarters" location, this player may discard this card to reduce or increase the difficulty by 3.
So I have an XO. Any ideas who I should use it on? I could let Gaeta shoot down that last raider, then maybe get that 7 o'clock viper over here to concentrate fire on the basestar.
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Movement Step: Dracil remains in the fore (9 o'clock) location.
Action Step: Dracil uses his CAG Action to activate the aft (3 o'clock) location, firing on a Raider there.
Attack Roll: 8, Hit.
Dracil's bonus action to follow.
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Edit: I do think it's worth it to activate adminstration on your turn maybe (since it only takes 3 for you to pass), but not worth using an XO's double action on. I *think* it's less efficient for the same person to be both admiral and president (can't nuke and use quorum at the same time for example).
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Anyways, one person making both the President and Admiral choices is pretty dangerous stuff. I think it was sort of fishy that Phobos immediately decided to take both titles without consulting the rest of us.
Action Step: Dracil plays Leadership 1 - Executive Order on Darian.
Executive Order: Darian activates Command, ordering the aft (3 o'clock) viper to fire on the last Raider in the area.
Attack Roll: 7, Hit.
Second Command activation to follow, with second action to come afterwards.
And then Launch a Scout (strength 2) on the destination deck.