President AND Admiral? |

Michael Commorato

(mercom)

United States
Staten Island
NY

A situation arose where a player had to give his Presidency title to any other player.
He chose to give it to the current Admiral.

Can this be done?
Can one character be Admiral AND President?

(Please keep in mind this was a 2-Player game but clearly could've happened with more players)

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Jeff Jarvis

(Jarvis)

United States
Nashville
Tennessee

Yep, no reason why they can't be. That's one of Tigh's abilities. He can declare martial law and have both (assuming Adama doesn't have it).

Granted, it's usually not a great idea to have both. There are a lot of "president/admiral discards..." and you can really penalize yourself that way.

Jeff

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Jiing Lin

(Jiing)

Taiwan
New Taipei City

I don't see the rules forbid this situation - one character is not only Admiral but also President.
So I think the answer is "Yes".

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Craig Cowley

(cmc8)

United States
Oregon

I held both titles for most of one recent six-player game (I was also an unrevealed cylon).;)

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Will

(Yargo)

United States
Fresno
California

cmc8 wrote:

I held both titles for most of one recent six-player game (I was also an unrevealed cylon).

Very nice!

That would be one reason why the humans don't like to see one person with both, it gives them a lot of power. The quorum cards, they can choose on crisis cards for president and they choose destinations, and they control nukes, etc.

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(ackmondual)

United States
SoCal

mercom wrote:

A situation arose where a player had to give his Presidency title to any other player.
He chose to give it to the current Admiral.

Can this be done?
Can one character be Admiral AND President?

(Please keep in mind this was a 2-Player game but clearly could've happened with more players)

Sure, why not? We call them "pradmiral" or "assident", but the former is preferred by a lot more. All Hail Pradmiral Baltar !!! arrrh

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Ken

(perfalbion)

United States
Crystal Lake
Illinois

ackmondual wrote:

Sure, why not? We call them "pradmiral" or "assident", but the former is preferred by a lot more. All Hail Pradmiral Baltar !!! arrrh

We just call them "Skinjob Brig-bait."

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kevin hoffer

(kevhoffer)

United States
Los Angeles
Unspecified

Okay, if I can't get my group to call them "Shogun", then it's going to be "Skinjob Brig-Bait" now. That's fantastic. Although that does sound fairly Spongebob-ish.

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