Matthew Klure
United States
Oceanside
California
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A good friend of mine is moving to Australia in a few weeks and thus we have been squeezing in as many epic gaming sessions as possible before he goes. We had a solid Saturday of TI3, and last night was a 5 player game of BSG with a few additions from the Pegasus Expansion.
Note: this is not going to be a play by play since I did not take any notes to refer back on, more of a visual session with pics.
We did not use New Caprica, sympathizers or Cylon leaders.
We tried doing a random shuffle of Character cards to each person, which was a different setup then we normally go for, the results were:
Myself(Matt K) : Tom Zarek - President
Matt C : Starbuck
Daniel : Ellen Tigh
Mike : Chief Galen Tyrol
Todd (only first time player) : Admiral Helena Cain - Admiral
My setup:
Game started off pretty easy, I was not a Cyclon, though with Zarek's ability I really wanted to be. Our first jump was a 3, so we got started fast, and our second jump was a 2. Up until the loyalty cards were passed out in sleeper phase it felt as if perhaps all 5 of us were humans, no one was doing anything to indicate traitorous deeds. This was a first for our group, especially since we had yet to play a game where the humans won.
Here some pics of the board events during the first 2 jump pahses:
After the loyalty cards were out more conversation broke out about who the Cylons might be. Mike then tried to reveal out of turn, essentially ruining the element of surprise, he was going to be one of the targets for a toss in the brig as it was, the airlock on Pegasus had been destroyed, so this did not ruin too much since he only revealed during Daniels turn who plays before him. We tried and failed to get him into the brig. So we know something bad is coming.....
Chief Tyrol (mike) does his formal reveal and jumps to Resurrection tossing Starbuck into the brig as his ability.
Then Todd, Cain reveals as the second Cylon immediately following Mike to resurrection. It turns out Tyrol was a cylon the entire time, but never did anything really bad until after sleeper phase. Cain thought he was human until the sleeper phase changed him, hence the reason he choose a 3 than 2 jump track and got us off to a good start.
At this point I am thinking it is going to be an uphill battle for us to make it, and it was.
On each turn the three humans went in a row doing our best to limp the fleet along and pass crisis cards. The Cylons chose to focus on pulling 2 crisis cards and playing one, making sure to toss the Jump Track cards in the dis-card pile, and were even able to back our track up 3 spaces.
Because Helena Cain was a FRAKKIN TOASTER, I was both President and Admiral, and thus was "the decider" as GW would say. This also lead to a quandary for the Cylons as many of the crisis cards they pulled, I got to decide on. They tried to double up on the Heavy Raider ability and managed to move the invading cylon track up 2 notches, but we were able to kill it off before he vented out human butts.
Nearing the end, resources are low......
Trying to make the final jump, things are not looking good, too many Cylons, too many Civilian ships in danger, do or die time!
As you can see above, the game came down to the wire, we needed at least two jump track crisis cards to get us to a safe roll for early jump. After my turn we get one. Starbuck plays a scout card, wins the roll and pulls the top Crisis card to check it. Turns out it was another major fleet event and would of ended the game for us right then and there, so being a good human he tosses it to the bottom and draws the next card. It is a "Current Player Chooses" totally keeping the Cylons out of the decision, it is also a Jump Track card. Starbuck chooses to go to sickbay and lose some cards so we can move the track along. Ellen Tigh fed up with all of Cain's Frakking Toaster antics rushes to the FLT room and hits the switch, rolls an 8, and wins the game. First Human Victory in our play experience, and it was our good friend who received the honors of throwing the winning dice roll.
Without Further Adeu your Human Winners!
From the Left, Tom Zarek, Starbuck, Ellen Tigh
And your loser Cylons:
From the Left Chief Tyrol, Helena FRAKKIN Cain.
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Daniel Grant
Australia
Sydney
New South Wales
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EPIC Game!!!
That was probably one of the best BSG games I've had. And topped off with a Chargers win at that! A great final game night with my gaming buddies.
We should figure out how to play this on Vassal so we can have a long-distance game.
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John Ibarzabal
Brazil
Campinas
Sao Paulo
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Man, for a minute you scared me.
When I read: friend going down under... I swear I thought your friend had a fatal disease or something, and it was a sort of farewell game before he died! 
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Jarratt Davis
Australia
Adelaide
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Moving to Australia? What on earth for? He lose a bet or something?
Brilliant session report btw! 
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Pieter
Netherlands
Maastricht
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How the frak can Fuel be at 6 so close to the end?
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Matthew Klure
United States
Oceanside
California
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Flyboy Connor wrote: How the frak can Fuel be at 6 so close to the end?
I think I played a quorum card that gave us back some fuel, and I think we had a lucky jump card that gave us a number 2 jump and only cost 1 fuel.
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Posted Tue Dec 6, 2011 9:08 pm
