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Scavenge FAIL
Jan. 18th, 2010 01:04 amFriday night, we played some Shadake. The party headed to Ython to try to find another ship for the realists and a way to stop the invasion of Morpheus, and basically failed.
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Jan. 18th, 2010
dwarven bravado
Jan. 18th, 2010 02:10 amToday we played some D+D, after a very very long gap. After a somewhat silly but not entirely unsatisfying battle, we were faced with an insurmountable foe -- but fortunately, we'd been given a one-use weapon to destroy her. Unfortunately, it had been given to Ed who forgot to write it down on his sheet and thus was deleted from the space-time continuum.
But the GM let us use it anyway since we hadn't used it on anyone else, so all was well.
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Afterwards, I headed over to Jurann's for gaming night, missed out on a game of Dominion, but got to play two games of Battlestar Galactica, which is... interesting. It starts out as a cooperative game, but maybe from the beginning and certainly halfway through half the players turn traitor. Interestingly, the 'cylon sympathizer' is either a cylon sympathizing with the humans, or a human sympathizing with the cylons, depending on how badly the humans were doing before you got to the halfway point. So there's some incentive for an early cylon to avoid weakening the fleet *too* much... two cylons vs two humans is a much closer match than three humans vs one cylon!
It also does a good job of giving the cylons overwhelming military force (occasionally) without actually destroying Galactica too quickly -- usually, you can jump out before you're destroyed, clearing the board.
In the first game, I took Gaius Baltar and was an extremely ineffective president of the colonies -- we were almost overwhelmed before even leaving Caprica (you start in combat), losing half our viper fleet to little effect, and my shining moment as president was when I gave an inspirational speech (that only worked because Starbuck encouraged me) that lifted morale juuuust high enough for the 'cylon sympathizer' to make me a human fighting ineffectually on the cylon side. The cylons won when the replacement president -- a cylon -- got to decide three times in a row to let the fleet's food run down instead of discarding a few cards from his hand, and everyone starved to death.
In the second game, I was playing Chief Tyrol. We warped out of Caprica almost instantly, taking no damage of any sort, and... I was put in the brig, accused of treason. I rotted in the brig for a few turns, then (with the help of LOTS OF LUCK) managed to free myself just in time to... become a cylon sympathizer. AGAIN! This time, the other cylon revealed himself, and together we tried VERY VERY HARD to destroy the galactica. At one point we'd destroyed all the vipers, and the ship was 66% dead, with eight raiders and two basestars firing at it unopposed after blowing up the majority of the civilian fleet, and two centurion squads on board, when Tigh managed to repair the FTL drive and jump out -- only to have the humans lose from a lack of morale due to failing a 'low supplies' crisis.
It was a lot of fun, though. Even though humanity lost both times.
But the GM let us use it anyway since we hadn't used it on anyone else, so all was well.
( game summary )
Afterwards, I headed over to Jurann's for gaming night, missed out on a game of Dominion, but got to play two games of Battlestar Galactica, which is... interesting. It starts out as a cooperative game, but maybe from the beginning and certainly halfway through half the players turn traitor. Interestingly, the 'cylon sympathizer' is either a cylon sympathizing with the humans, or a human sympathizing with the cylons, depending on how badly the humans were doing before you got to the halfway point. So there's some incentive for an early cylon to avoid weakening the fleet *too* much... two cylons vs two humans is a much closer match than three humans vs one cylon!
It also does a good job of giving the cylons overwhelming military force (occasionally) without actually destroying Galactica too quickly -- usually, you can jump out before you're destroyed, clearing the board.
In the first game, I took Gaius Baltar and was an extremely ineffective president of the colonies -- we were almost overwhelmed before even leaving Caprica (you start in combat), losing half our viper fleet to little effect, and my shining moment as president was when I gave an inspirational speech (that only worked because Starbuck encouraged me) that lifted morale juuuust high enough for the 'cylon sympathizer' to make me a human fighting ineffectually on the cylon side. The cylons won when the replacement president -- a cylon -- got to decide three times in a row to let the fleet's food run down instead of discarding a few cards from his hand, and everyone starved to death.
In the second game, I was playing Chief Tyrol. We warped out of Caprica almost instantly, taking no damage of any sort, and... I was put in the brig, accused of treason. I rotted in the brig for a few turns, then (with the help of LOTS OF LUCK) managed to free myself just in time to... become a cylon sympathizer. AGAIN! This time, the other cylon revealed himself, and together we tried VERY VERY HARD to destroy the galactica. At one point we'd destroyed all the vipers, and the ship was 66% dead, with eight raiders and two basestars firing at it unopposed after blowing up the majority of the civilian fleet, and two centurion squads on board, when Tigh managed to repair the FTL drive and jump out -- only to have the humans lose from a lack of morale due to failing a 'low supplies' crisis.
It was a lot of fun, though. Even though humanity lost both times.