1. (activate raiders)
2. Setup:
3:00 - 2 Civilians
5:00 - 1 Viper
7:00 - 1 Viper
11:00 - Scar
3. SPECIAL RULE - Personal Vendetta: Keep this card in play until the fleet jumps or Scar is destroyed. Whenever raiders are activated, activate Scar twice. Scar can only be destroyed on a roll of 7 or 8.
(Ironically, Scar can't be placed due to component limitations.)
It's... a total massacre. The death toll soars beyond counting, and it is doubtful whether humanity even has the numbers to continue. Gaeta, you must pick two civilians from each area to sacrifice.
Civilian A was the Zephyr.-2 population. Civilian B was the Daru Mozu.-1 population, -1 fuel. Civilian C was the Olympic Carrier.-2 population. Civilian D was the Astral Queen.-1 population.
As Galactica views the wreckage of the Fleet, they are dismayed to realize that their losses have been far too high. Even if they somehow managed to find Earth, there would not be enough people left to populate it. Before the might of the implacable cylon horde, the remaining humans have no choice but to face their fate.
The Population resource has been reduced to 0. Everyone reveals their loyalty/agenda cards:
Six: Prove Their Worth - The humans have won and at least 5 raptors/vipers are destroyed or damaged.
Gaeta: You Are Not a Cylon x2 You Are Not a Cylon - Personal Goal Card
Political Intrigue - Action: Reveal this card if the President is in the "Brig." Then, if distance is 6 or less, shuffle one "You Are Not A Cylon" card into the Loyalty Deck and draw a new Loyalty Card. If you are a human player and this card has not been revealed by the end of the game, lose 1 food.
You Are a Cylon - Can Make Players Draw Treachery Cards
Action: Reveal this card. If you are not in the "Brig," each human player discards 1 random Skill Card and draws 1 Treachery Card. Then you draw 2 Treachery Cards (after you discard down to 3 Skill Cards).
Anders: You Are Not a Cylon x2
Cally: You Are Not a Cylon You Are Not a Cylon - The Final Five
Examiner Executed - If this card is examined by another player, it is immediately revealed. The player who examined this card is executed. Then reshuffle this card with any other Loyalty Cards you possess.
Helo: You Are Not a Cylon x2
The Cylons have emerged victorious! Congratulations to lodwilk and El Skid!
The final board state:
Round 5 - Admiral Felix Gaeta
Player Status
lodwilk - [CYLON] Gaius Baltar [4 cards]
jdarksun - "Caprica" Six [3 cards]
-> El Skid - Admiral Felix Gaeta [11 cards] [OPG USED]
antherem - Samuel T. Anders [4 cards]
Rius - Callandra "Cally" Tyrol [9 cards]
stever777 - President Karl "Helo" Agathon [7 cards, 4 quorum] [OPG USED]
Destiny Deck [12]
I was tempted to, but when I realized Gaeta was next in succession and could take the admiral title I just had to. Plus he could have really screwed you guys with an forced FTL jump at -3 at take the lower roll.
Baltar was a cylon from the beginning. Aside from a couple missteps (including some close shaves with Cally threatening to shoot him), he managed to blend in and hide his true intentions very well. During the sleeper phase, he also drew the other loyalty card. This forced him to reveal early, but he got off quite an effective reveal and set up Gaeta as a cylon president with the ability to become Admiral as well. Gaeta proved to be an excellent choice; despite having four loyalty cards, his Coup was widely supported by the human players.
Still, at this point the humans were doing very well. At 5 distance, all of their resources were doing very well. (Helo had actually passed up a second 3-distance card in case he turned into a cylon during sleeper.) At the third jump, Gaeta had a choice between a 2-distance card and Misjump; he misunderstood how Misjump works, and accidentally jumps the humans to 8 distance. Almost everything he did after becoming a cylon was actually quite pro-human; he never had the opportunity to pull off any real sabotage. The Crossroads phase drops quite a bit of morale, but the humans are still in good shape. Even with a well-placed cylon mole, I was pretty convinced that the humans would be walking away with an easy, anti-climactic victory, with maybe a little complication from Six's secondary victory condition.
Then things quickly started going downhill. The crisis deck, after being shuffled by Thirty-Three, was absolutely brutal. 3 of the top 6 cards were cylon attack cards, and none of them had jump prep. The humans had lost some civilian ships already, all of them low-value. This may have lulled them into a minor sense of false security, as almost all of the remaining civilians were extremely valuable. Population may have appeared to be the highest resource, but it was actually very vulnerable.
7 CAC's were seen this game in total, out of about 28 crises - quite a bit higher than likely. 2 of those were scouted away. (One of them by Gaeta!) The hostile crisis deck, some unlucky die rolls, having very few piloting cards lying around, and Helo's mistaken decision on an early crisis (Rescue the Fleet) all contributed to a shockingly swift loss.
All in all, this has been a very surprising game, and a pleasure to run. I'd appreciate any feedback you might have on the house rules and how I ran things, as it would be helpful for my next game. Thanks again for playing.
For your edification, the next five crises:
Network the Computers
Current Player Chooses
11 - Politics, Tactics, Engineering Pass:(+1 jump prep) Fail:-1 Population and place 1 centurion at the start of the Boarding Party track.
OR -1 Population and reduce the Jump Preparation track by one.
(activate raiders) (+1 jump prep)
Bomb Threat
Current Player Chooses
13 - Politics, Leadership, Tactics Pass: No Effect Fail:-1 Morale and draw a civilian ship and destroy it.
OR
Roll a die; on a 4 or less, trigger the Fail condition of this Crisis.
(activate raiders) (+1 jump prep)
Truth and Reconciliation
President Chooses -1 Morale and the President must choose a character to send to the Brig. OR
The President discards 2 Skill Cards; then the current player discards 3 Skill Cards.
3. Special Rule - Relentless Pursuit: Keep this card in play. If the fleet jumps before a civilian ship or basestar is destroyed, reshuffle this crisis into the deck.
Terrorist Investigations
Current Player Chooses
12 - Politics, Leadership Pass: The current player looks at 1 random Loyalty Card belonging to any player. 6+: No Effect Fail:-1 Morale
I must admit I'm disapointed I never go to use my Build A Nuke skill card to sabotage a check. That -6 would have been brutal.
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El SkidThe frozen white northRegistered Userregular
I had a funny time of things once I became a cylon. Decided to play it safe and play a positive card on the check where destiny screwed with things, and get fingered by Helo as tanking the check! Never got the chance to take a turn when I could jump us at -3 pop, or an SP where I could nuke the fleet (which was REALLY too bad ). My last scout, I really did draw a Cylon Attack card- but with all the ships already on the board it would have meant 2 extra vipers for the humans at five and seven o'clock in exchange for a useless heavy raider and a basestar activation, so I figured I'd gamble and dump it. Good choice, as it turns out!
Thanks for running, Tmoiy- and I'm very glad that we didn't get to that string of +2/turn jump preps that was coming up!
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El SkidThe frozen white northRegistered Userregular
Oh, and thanks for toasterizing me there, lodwilk. Very appreciated
If I hadn't been given that Final Five loyalty card at Sleeper I absolutely would have shot Baltar on my first turn afterwards. I was already pretty sure and became even more so when he asked for an XO right away.
That FF card made me pause, though, and it made me greedy. I wanted the President to examine me since it would be cute and funny; I completely failed to remember how destructive a Presidential Reveal could be.
It would have been crazy hilarious if you managed to pull that gambit off. It's too bad that Baltar had both cylon cards, so he couldn't really afford to dick around with his OPG.
Damn, Stever, Helo as the sixth character? I could never make that pick, lol.
What was this comment about, Rius?
I think I'm missing the point and didn't wanna ask during the game.
You know, looking all confident and everything...
You had me feeling pretty stupid for taking the Presidency from you.
Nice play.
Haha yeah, I laughed when I saw you'd done that. Being god-emperor was great, but your ability was going to stop me from really doing anything spectacular with the title. It's EXACTLY what I would have said if I was human, if it's any consolation :P
Damn, Stever, Helo as the sixth character? I could never make that pick, lol.
What was this comment about, Rius?
I think I'm missing the point and didn't wanna ask during the game.
You know, looking all confident and everything...
If you'd been a Cylon it would have taken forever for you to be able to do anything.
El SkidThe frozen white northRegistered Userregular
Though if you're admiral and a toaster, you can make horrible decisions for a LONG time without fear of reprisal, and reveal on the turn you come back without anyone really being able to do anything about it...
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1. (activate raiders)
2. Setup:
3:00 - 2 Civilians
5:00 - 1 Viper
7:00 - 1 Viper
11:00 - Scar
3. SPECIAL RULE - Personal Vendetta: Keep this card in play until the fleet jumps or Scar is destroyed. Whenever raiders are activated, activate Scar twice. Scar can only be destroyed on a roll of 7 or 8.
(Ironically, Scar can't be placed due to component limitations.)
The raiders fire.
5:00
5 - Hit! Viper damaged!
6 - Hit! Viper damaged!
Two civilians destroyed!
7:00
1 - Miss!
8 - Hit! Viper destroyed!
7 - Hit! Viper damaged!
Two civilians destroyed!
It's... a total massacre. The death toll soars beyond counting, and it is doubtful whether humanity even has the numbers to continue. Gaeta, you must pick two civilians from each area to sacrifice.
Not that I'm bitter.
Not at all.
I'm not, really! :P
Oh, I'm outta here for my B-Day dinner.
(I'm old, ya know.)
Don't make the new Prez look bad while he's gone!
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
We just went out on the 30th for it.
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Don't forget to count the one I buried early on.
Edit: have we not drawn or encountered a Cylon Attack card after every jump?
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
Civilian B was the Daru Mozu. -1 population, -1 fuel.
Civilian C was the Olympic Carrier. -2 population.
Civilian D was the Astral Queen. -1 population.
As Galactica views the wreckage of the Fleet, they are dismayed to realize that their losses have been far too high. Even if they somehow managed to find Earth, there would not be enough people left to populate it. Before the might of the implacable cylon horde, the remaining humans have no choice but to face their fate.
The Population resource has been reduced to 0. Everyone reveals their loyalty/agenda cards:
Six:
Prove Their Worth - The humans have won and at least 5 raptors/vipers are destroyed or damaged.
Gaeta:
You Are Not a Cylon x2
You Are Not a Cylon - Personal Goal Card
Anders:
You Are Not a Cylon x2
Cally:
You Are Not a Cylon
You Are Not a Cylon - The Final Five
Helo:
You Are Not a Cylon x2
The Cylons have emerged victorious! Congratulations to lodwilk and El Skid!
The final board state:
Player Status
lodwilk - [CYLON] Gaius Baltar [4 cards] jdarksun - "Caprica" Six [3 cards] -> El Skid - Admiral Felix Gaeta [11 cards] [OPG USED] antherem - Samuel T. Anders [4 cards] Rius - Callandra "Cally" Tyrol [9 cards] stever777 - President Karl "Helo" Agathon [7 cards, 4 quorum] [OPG USED] Destiny Deck [12]Fleet Status
DRADIS:
\ | / \ Basestar | Basestar** / \ | Heavy x2 / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \|/ /|\ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ / Civ G | Civ F \ / | \ / Raider x10 | Raider x6 \ / | \ ** Critical HitSpecial Rule - Communications Jamming: No player may activate the Communications location.
Locations:
Thanks for playing, everyone!
Thanks to Tmoiy for taking the time to host this for us. You rock man.
Baltar was a cylon from the beginning. Aside from a couple missteps (including some close shaves with Cally threatening to shoot him), he managed to blend in and hide his true intentions very well. During the sleeper phase, he also drew the other loyalty card. This forced him to reveal early, but he got off quite an effective reveal and set up Gaeta as a cylon president with the ability to become Admiral as well. Gaeta proved to be an excellent choice; despite having four loyalty cards, his Coup was widely supported by the human players.
Still, at this point the humans were doing very well. At 5 distance, all of their resources were doing very well. (Helo had actually passed up a second 3-distance card in case he turned into a cylon during sleeper.) At the third jump, Gaeta had a choice between a 2-distance card and Misjump; he misunderstood how Misjump works, and accidentally jumps the humans to 8 distance. Almost everything he did after becoming a cylon was actually quite pro-human; he never had the opportunity to pull off any real sabotage. The Crossroads phase drops quite a bit of morale, but the humans are still in good shape. Even with a well-placed cylon mole, I was pretty convinced that the humans would be walking away with an easy, anti-climactic victory, with maybe a little complication from Six's secondary victory condition.
Then things quickly started going downhill. The crisis deck, after being shuffled by Thirty-Three, was absolutely brutal. 3 of the top 6 cards were cylon attack cards, and none of them had jump prep. The humans had lost some civilian ships already, all of them low-value. This may have lulled them into a minor sense of false security, as almost all of the remaining civilians were extremely valuable. Population may have appeared to be the highest resource, but it was actually very vulnerable.
7 CAC's were seen this game in total, out of about 28 crises - quite a bit higher than likely. 2 of those were scouted away. (One of them by Gaeta!) The hostile crisis deck, some unlucky die rolls, having very few piloting cards lying around, and Helo's mistaken decision on an early crisis (Rescue the Fleet) all contributed to a shockingly swift loss.
All in all, this has been a very surprising game, and a pleasure to run. I'd appreciate any feedback you might have on the house rules and how I ran things, as it would be helpful for my next game. Thanks again for playing.
For your edification, the next five crises:
Current Player Chooses
11 - Politics, Tactics, Engineering
Pass: (+1 jump prep)
Fail: -1 Population and place 1 centurion at the start of the Boarding Party track.
OR
-1 Population and reduce the Jump Preparation track by one.
(activate raiders)
(+1 jump prep)
Current Player Chooses
13 - Politics, Leadership, Tactics
Pass: No Effect
Fail: -1 Morale and draw a civilian ship and destroy it.
OR
Roll a die; on a 4 or less, trigger the Fail condition of this Crisis.
(activate raiders)
(+1 jump prep)
President Chooses
-1 Morale and the President must choose a character to send to the Brig.
OR
The President discards 2 Skill Cards; then the current player discards 3 Skill Cards.
(activate basestars)
(+1 jump prep)
1. (activate raiders)
2. Setup:
3:00 - Civilian
5:00 - Viper, Civilian
7:00 - Viper, Civilian
9:00 - Basestar
Current Player Chooses
12 - Politics, Leadership
Pass: The current player looks at 1 random Loyalty Card belonging to any player.
6+: No Effect
Fail: -1 Morale
(activate heavy raiders)
(+1 jump prep)
Thanks for running, Tmoiy- and I'm very glad that we didn't get to that string of +2/turn jump preps that was coming up!
If I hadn't been given that Final Five loyalty card at Sleeper I absolutely would have shot Baltar on my first turn afterwards. I was already pretty sure and became even more so when he asked for an XO right away.
That FF card made me pause, though, and it made me greedy. I wanted the President to examine me since it would be cute and funny; I completely failed to remember how destructive a Presidential Reveal could be.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
Nice narrations.
TOASTER EL SKID!
You had me feeling pretty stupid for taking the Presidency from you.
Nice play.
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
What was this comment about, Rius?
I think I'm missing the point and didn't wanna ask during the game.
You know, looking all confident and everything...
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Haha yeah, I laughed when I saw you'd done that. Being god-emperor was great, but your ability was going to stop me from really doing anything spectacular with the title. It's EXACTLY what I would have said if I was human, if it's any consolation :P
If you'd been a Cylon it would have taken forever for you to be able to do anything.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
I kinda viewed that as a nice way to keep away from any trouble, esp if I were a Cylon.
Also, I love being Admiral no matter which side I'm on.
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1