Battlestar Galactica Game Thread

[Ranmilia]

Don't do it!  You have so much to live for!  Come down from there and let's take a relaxing vacation together.  Caprica is really nice this time of year.

[Nitori]

Discard engineering-1 to move to FTL control, activate it

[Yakumo]

d8=7, no population loss.  AndrewRogue is the Mission Specialist, I am PMing him three destinations and he will choose one.

[Yakumo]

Andy chose Remote Planet - Distance 2, lose 1 Fuel and destroy 1 Raptor.

You have reached the Sleeper Phase!  Your second loyalty cards will be PMed to you shortly.  Please confirm in the thread that you have received them.  An update with the crisis will happen later when I have a bit more time.

[Stelas]

Received.

[Lady Door]

Received.

[Nitori]

Received.

[AndrewRogue]

.devieceR

[Yakumo]

Turn 16 - Current Board

President Baltar decides that the fleet's jump calculations must be good enough by now, and goes to FTL control to directly order the fleet to jump.  All of the civilian ships are able to make the jump successfully.

The d8 roll was 7, no population loss for the jump.  AndrewRogue picked the Remote Planet destination as the Mission Specialist.  The Mission Specialist card is discarded.  Both Cylon Attack crisis cards are also discarded due to the jump.  All ships are removed from the board, Apollo is relocated to the Hangar Bay.  Distance 4 has been reached, you have entered the sleeper phase.  There are now either two Cylons or one very unlucky and ticked off Cylon with both Cylon loyalty cards.

The press have been hounding Admiral Agathon since the jump, demanding to know what went wrong that allowed a civilian ship to be destroyed by the Cylons.

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Crisis: Admiral Grilled


Current Player Chooses:

Politics/Leadership skill check, Target=9

Pass: No Effect

Fail: -1 Morale and the Admiral discards 2 Skill Cards

OR

-1 Morale

After Crisis: Activate Raiders(no effect), +1 Jump Prep

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Fleet Status

Distance Traveled: 4

Food       06/08      Vipers         0 Active, 7 in Reserve, 1 Damaged
Fuel       04/08      Raptors        3 in Reserve
Morale     08/10      Jump Prep      1/5 (Cannot Jump)
Population 09/12      Cylon Boarding None

Galactica  (1 Damage)
FTL Control - Occupied by Admiral Helo(Stelas) and President Baltar(Nitori)
Weapons Control
Command
Communications
Admiral’s Quarters - Occupied by Chief Tyrol(AndrewRogue)
Research Lab
Hangar Deck - Occupied by Apollo(Lady Door)
Armory(DAMAGED, CANNOT BE ACTIVATED)
Sickbay
Brig

Colonial One
Press Room
President’s Office
Administration

Space

Cylon Locations
Caprica
Cylon Fleet
Human Fleet
Resurrection Ship - Occupied by Starbuck(Sir Alex)
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Turn Order(current player in bold, skill card hand size in parentheses, play order with checks starts with the player after the current player)

Nitori - President Gaius Baltar(8)
Stelas - Admiral Karl "Helo" Agathon(1)
Lady Door - Lee "Apollo" Adama(2)
Sir Alex - Kara "Starbuck" Thrace(3)
AndrewRogue - "Chief" Galen Tyrol(7)

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Action Queue

==> Nitori: Choose Crisis Result

[Yakumo]

Please disregard the error where I forgot to move Nitori, he is in FTL control. <_<

[Ranmilia]

Good news, everybody!  I'm not a Cylon!  That means you'll let me back on board, right?  Right?  .... guys?

More importantly though, that means one of you IS now a Cylon.  Hello, buddy!  Welcome to the winning team.  Let's plan.  Don't blow your cover yet, unless you see a REALLY juicy opportunity (and there won't be many of those without ships on the board or some better crisis cards, sigh).  Be careful with sabotage.  Learn from my mistakes, it may be better to go limp and play positive but weak, rather than outright sabotaging checks. 

If you're Nitori/Baltar:  Baltar will of course be using his OPG loyalty check on the Admiral as soon as he gets an action, which thankfully is an entire turn cycle away unless the meatbags get frisky with Executive Orders.  Unless there's some big advantage to be gained from an accusation, it would probably be better to claim Helo's clean and keep suspicion high.  Maybe.  Even though they'll have a guaranteed human admiral, there isn't much we can really do about that anyway, and a Cylon president sowing dissent can be mighty fine, depending on what quorum cards you have.  Arrest Orders are particularly good.  BE CAREFUL about President Chooses crisis cards though, remember that Helo's OPG can reverse your choice, so that isn't a good avenue to soft reveal.

If you're Stelas/Helo:  Baltar will be checking you once his turn rolls around, but you go right after him so that isn't a big deal.  I don't know how likely it is that you'll be able to survive as Admiral to a jump, but prooobably you should stick around at least until you can get a juicy hit with your OPG?  Like, don't blow it here and reveal, that seems kind of weak unless you have a really good reveal that you think will do more damage than your OPG.

If you're LD/Apollo:  You get a free action whenever vipers come out, and there's nothing anybody can do about it.  Maybe Launch Scouts for us, or just reveal?  Your OPG isn't very useful to us unless a big attack hits.  I'll be in touch if this happens.

If you're Andy/Tyrol:  Your OPG can basically autofail a skill check for us and that's great.  I can't think of anything else you can do that's great for us though so maybe just tank a check, sabotage a check and get over here.  Use your best judgment.  Unfortunately force-failing my Super Crisis isn't that good, so don't sit around waiting for that.

Semper Pi, robot friend.

[Nitori]

Take the check

[Stelas]

## Toss in my card, making the failure a bit of a moot point. Oh well!

[Nitori]

Play 2 cards

[Ranmilia]

## Play 1

Don't worry guys I got this

[AndrewRogue]

##Play: 1

Solid help, but that is all. My hand is getting a bit more situational.

[Nitori]

also oh right this is my turn, draw a Tactics card

[Lady Door]

So guys. I only have 2 cards left. I'm going to play one that is nominally helpful, but, uh. I'm shortly going to be quite useless.

##Play 1

[Yakumo]

Turn 17 - Current Board

Admiral Agathon snaps at the reporters to stop harassing him about how to do his job, and his attitude coupled with the lack of answers lead to a very unflattering report in the nightly news.

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Politics/Leadership check, Target=9

Two cards are played from the Destiny Deck.

2xPolitics-1 Consolidate Power
Politics-2 Consolidate Power
Politics-4 Investigative Committee
Leadership-5 Declare Emergency

Tactics-3 Strategic Planning
Piloting-2 Evasive Maneuvers
Piloting-4 Maximum Firepower

13-9=4 FAIL!

-1 Morale.  Stelas' hand is empty so he cannot discard.

Jump Prep increases.



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Fleet Status

Distance Traveled: 4

Food       06/08      Vipers         0 Active, 7 in Reserve, 1 Damaged
Fuel       04/08      Raptors        3 in Reserve
Morale     07/10      Jump Prep      2/5 (Cannot Jump)
Population 09/12      Cylon Boarding None

Galactica  (1 Damage)
FTL Control - Occupied by Admiral Helo(Stelas) and President Baltar(Nitori)
Weapons Control
Command
Communications
Admiral’s Quarters - Occupied by Chief Tyrol(AndrewRogue)
Research Lab
Hangar Deck - Occupied by Apollo(Lady Door)
Armory(DAMAGED, CANNOT BE ACTIVATED)
Sickbay
Brig

Colonial One
Press Room
President’s Office
Administration

Space

Cylon Locations
Caprica
Cylon Fleet
Human Fleet
Resurrection Ship - Occupied by Starbuck(Sir Alex)
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Turn Order(current player in bold, skill card hand size in parentheses, play order with checks starts with the player after the current player)

Nitori - President Gaius Baltar(7)
Stelas - Admiral Karl "Helo" Agathon(5)
Lady Door - Lee "Apollo" Adama(1)
Sir Alex - Kara "Starbuck" Thrace(2)
AndrewRogue - "Chief" Galen Tyrol(6)

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Action Queue

==> Stelas: Move/Action

(yes yes I forgot to update the jump track on the board, too minor to bother fixing for this turn)

[Yakumo]

Oh, I forgot to mention.  Stelas' draw exhausted the Piloting deck, the discards have been shuffled to form a new deck.

[Stelas]

The sad thing is, that wasn't even me.

## Reveal.

[Stelas]

Oh right. Discard 1 Leadership, 1 Tactics card.

[Stelas]

I actually feel a little bad about that burst of luck. Just a little.

[Yakumo]

Turn 18 - Current Board

A series of explosions rock the Galactica.  Admiral Agathon's charred corpse is found among the wreckage, and President Baltar and Chief Tyrol are badly injured and have to be rushed to Sickbay.  As the next in the chain of command, Apollo takes over as Admiral of the fleet.

Stelas reveals his loyalty card.  You Are A Cylon: Can Damage Galactica.  Action: Reveal this card.  If you are not in the "Brig", you may draw up to 5 Galactica damage tokens.  Choose 2 of them to resolve and discard the others.  He damages FTL Control and the Admiral's Quarters.  He discards down to three cards, discarding Leadership-1 Executive Order and Tactics-1 Launch Scout.



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Fleet Status

Distance Traveled: 4

Food       06/08      Vipers         0 Active, 7 in Reserve, 1 Damaged
Fuel       04/08      Raptors        3 in Reserve
Morale     07/10      Jump Prep      2/5 (Cannot Jump)
Population 09/12      Cylon Boarding None

Galactica  (3 Damage)
FTL Control(DAMAGED, CANNOT BE ACTIVATED)
Weapons Control
Command
Communications
Admiral’s Quarters(DAMAGED, CANNOT BE ACTIVATED)
Research Lab
Hangar Deck - Occupied by Admiral Apollo(Lady Door)
Armory(DAMAGED, CANNOT BE ACTIVATED)
Sickbay - Occupied by Chief Tyrol(AndrewRogue) and President Baltar(Nitori)
Brig

Colonial One
Press Room
President’s Office
Administration

Space

Cylon Locations
Caprica
Cylon Fleet
Human Fleet
Resurrection Ship - Occupied by Starbuck(Sir Alex) and Helo(Stelas)
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Turn Order(current player in bold, skill card hand size in parentheses, play order with checks starts with the player after the current player)

Nitori - President Gaius Baltar(7)
Stelas - Karl "Helo" Agathon(3)
Lady Door - Admiral Lee "Apollo" Adama(4(+2 variable))
Sir Alex - Kara "Starbuck" Thrace(2)
AndrewRogue - "Chief" Galen Tyrol(6)

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Action Queue

==> Lady Door: Choose Variable Draw
        Lady Door: Move/Action

[Lady Door]

Well... $@*&#!

#Draw 2 Leadership