Are you man or machine? Group Let's Play of Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game!

Can only help a little, unfortunately.

Gaius understands the people's pain but can contribute no cards.

Translation: I am banging a cylon in my head that doesn't exist but does. Don't bother me.

Only a Cylon would know about the hot, leggy Cylon in my head!

But she's not actually a Cylon!

Says the cylon that says we're all cylons.

Says the nano-augmented mod.

Apollo donates one piddly card to the pile.

I smell crossover fanfic!

Er, Chief contributes one card.

Boomer cannot contribute

I'll contribute 2 cards.

Time to sort!

positive
Pol - Consolidate Power 1
Pol - Consolidate Power 3
Lea - Executive Order 2
Lea - Declare Emergency 3
Lea - Declare Emergency 5
14

negative
Pil - Maximum Firepower 5
5

14 - 5 = 9, PASS! The fleet learns to deal with it.

Raider activates, attacks the Unmanned Viper: 3, a miss.

Jump Prep stays at -3.

Turn 8, President Gaius Frakking Baltar








Character Locations and Current Hand Size
Destiny Deck: 6 cards
Boomer: Bow (in viper), 2 cards
Admiral Helo: FTL Control, 5 cards
President Baltar: President's Office, 5 cards
Apollo: Port-Bow (in viper), 2 cards
Chief: Command, 4 cards

Board Status
Galactica: 5/6, Armory damaged
Colonial One: Rocking
Civilian Ships: 12/12, 5 in play
Raptors: 4
Vipers: (4 in play, 2 in reserves, 1 damaged, 1 destroyed)
Resource Dials (Fuel, Food, Morale, Population: 7, 8, 9, 11
Jump Prep: [start] [X] [X] [-3] [-1] [auto]
Boarding Party: nonexistent
Distance: 1

Ship locations
Bow of Galactica: 1 Basestar, 1 Manned Viper (Boomer), 1 civvy
Port-Bow: 1 Unmanned Vipers, 1 Manned Viper (Apollo), 1 Raider, 1 civvy
Port-Aft: 1 Unmanned Viper, 1 Basestar
Aft: 2 Civvy's, 1 heavy
Starboard-Aft: Nada
Starboard-Bow: Civvy


Gaius, what is thy bidding?

Could ...

Could none of us be Cylons yet? With an extra two YANAC cards in the mix, it's very possible ...

Not necessarily. The cylon might just be reclusive, waiting for the right moment to screw people over. I'd say we shouldn't get comfortable.

Oh, certainly not.

Gaius is going to stay in his office and draw a Quorum card.

Sent. Want another?

That's a euphemism for something, I just know it.

I'll tell you when the game's over.

Gaius gets on to the loud speaker and gives a quick speech.

"Hello, I'm your President, Gaius Baltar. I know times are tough, but in these times, we need people to look up to. People like Lieutenant Sharon Valerii. In recognition of her defense of the colonial fleet, I, President Gaius Baltar, hereby give her the position of Vice President. Let's all give her, Vice President Valerii, a round of applause. This is your President, President Gaius Baltar, signing off."

So I use Assign Vice President and draw two Pol cards.

Action: Draw 2 politics cards and give this card to any other player. Keep this card in play. While the player is not President, other players may not be chosen with the Administration location.

So, only Boomer can be nominated as President.

Crisis in a few hours, you're gonna like it!

Crisis Step

All of this has happened before, and will happen again.

Galactica must have some sort of tracking device on it. Maybe in CIC? Something that looks like an iPod stereo?

Cylon Attack!

Thirty-Three

1. Activate Raiders
2. Setup: Bow: 1 Basestar. Starboard-Aft: Civvy. Aft: Civvy. Port-Aft: Civvy, Viper. Port-Bow: Civvy, Viper.
3. Special Rule: Relentless Pursuit. Keep card in play until a civilian ship or basestar is destroyed. If this card is in play when the fleet jumps, shuffle it back into the Crisis deck.




Alright! First the lone Raider is activated: Rolls a 1. Whiff.

Now, the setup asks for 1 more basestar, but since the two in the game are out, you are reprieved. (I have played a game once with the cardboard basestars from the base game and the plastic ones from the expansion. Didn't end well) All your working Vipers and 9 of the 12 civvy ships are on the board, however.

There are 9 of these cards in a deck of 70 Crises in the base game. Sometimes you can go half a game with just the beginning setup, and other times they just keep coming.


Baltar, what would you like your crisis draw to be?

Turn 9, Lee "Apollo" Adama, daddy's boy







Character Locations and Current Hand Size
Destiny Deck: 6 cards
Quorum Hand: 3 cards
Boomer: Bow (in viper), 2 cards
Admiral Helo: FTL Control, 5 cards
President Baltar: President's Office, 6 cards
Apollo: Port-Bow (in viper), 7 cards
Chief: Command, 4 cards

Board Status
Galactica: 5/6, Armory damaged
Colonial One: Rocking
Civilian Ships: 12/12, 9 in play
Raptors: 4
Vipers: (6 in play, 0 in reserves, 1 damaged, 1 destroyed)
Resource Dials (Fuel, Food, Morale, Population: 7, 8, 9, 11
Jump Prep: [start] [X] [X] [-3] [-1] [auto]
Boarding Party: nonexistent
Distance: 1

Ship locations
Bow of Galactica: 1 Basestar, 1 Manned Viper (Boomer), 1 civvy
Port-Bow: 2 Unmanned Vipers, 1 Manned Viper (Apollo), 1 Raider, 2 civvy
Port-Aft: 2 Unmanned Vipers, 1 Basestar, 1 civvy
Aft: 3 Civvy's, 1 heavy
Starboard-Aft: 1 Civvy
Starboard-Bow: 1 Civvy



Apollo, what will your split draw be?

Two political, again. Hopefully I'll grab another committee.

Where you going to go, what you going to do?

Step one, fire at the raider in my square:

8 kills it.

Step two, launch a scout with Tactics - Launch Scout 1.

I believe a 7 is a good result.

Raider dead. What do you want to look at, Crisis or Destination?

I just looked over the rules, and found out I've somehow incorporated Starbuck's Piloting trait into this game. You still get the Movement and Action steps when Piloting, not two actions. It's just for your Action turn you can choose to shoot at stuff.

So, you can choose to kill the Raider dead, or launch the scouting party. I'll let either roll stand, but will only let you do one or the other.

Alright, so the only time where this rule was violated was when Boomer tried and failed to shoot the Basestar in her space. I think that's a wash, and I'll be more vigilant moving forward.

Whoops. In that case, I'll move one right (to the section with the Basestar) and look at the top of the destination deck.

I'll take a Piloting for my crisis draw, s'il vous plait.