Battlestar Galactica: Season 6 - I wish this was Exodus

[randakar]

As an aside, since I won't ask for Strategic Planning on less-important rolls like launch scout unless it starts becoming important due to eg. losing too many raptors - If people wish to SP them anyway or have the option they better tell me.

Also, since I don't resolve anything fully until it's time to tell the players about it (including adding DD cards to skill checks, die rolls, what have you) I don't know what's coming any more than you do. So don't try to read anything about the current status of the game into my comments - I usually only have a limited amount of extra information available to me anyway ..

(This is on purpose. It keeps the tension higher )

Action queue:
=> Trinitrotoluen: State card play
=> GM: Process crisis, do turn update (including Kriszo moving ..) and execute the Launch Scout action on the Crisis Deck.

 

[Trinitrotoluen]

Hmm, one helpful card from the crisis deck was used during the last check. I assume that no one would want to sabotage by using only a single piloting - 1 card so one of the bad ones is also gone.

Still, there are quite a few cards committed already and I'd rather spend more now than wasting those and having to break out a player out of the brig later.

## play 1 weak card

 

[randakar]

Crisis result:

[b][COLOR="Yellow"]POL[/COLOR]/[COLOR="Lime"]LEA[/COLOR]/[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]TAC[/COLOR] = 10[/b]
[COLOR="Yellow"]Politics-1 (Consolidate Power)[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Tactics-1 (Launch Scout)
Tactics-1 (Launch Scout)
Tactics-1 (Launch Scout)
Tactics-1 (Launch Scout)
Tactics-2 (Launch Scout)
Tactics-2 (Launch Scout)
Tactics-2 (Launch Scout)
Tactics-4 (Strategic Planning)[/COLOR]

[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Engineering-1 (Repair)[/COLOR]

15 - 1 = 14 PASS!

No effect.

## Activating raiders - 3 raiders in Alpha move to Bravo!
## The Fleet does not gain jump prep!



Turn 3

[b][u]Player Status[/u][/b]
[i]Bolded player has the turn.[/i]

Jacob-lundgren -- Anastasia "Dee" Dualla [4]
Kriszo -- Kara "Starbuck" Thrace [5]
[B]Slinky[/B] -- Admiral Saul Tigh [0+5, 2N]
Jopi -- Ellen Tigh [1]
Eternaly Lost -- Felix Gaeta [3]
Trinitrotoluen -- President Tom Zarek [1, 1Q]

Destiny Deck [8]

[b][u]Fleet Status[/u][/b]          [b]Distance[/b]       0/8

[b]Food[/b]       08/08      [b]Vipers[/b]         3 Active, 5 in Reserve, 0 Damaged
[b]Fuel[/b]       08/08      [b]Raptors[/b]        4 in Reserve
[b]Morale[/b]     10/10      [b]Jump Prep[/b]      2/5 (Cannot jump)
[b]Population[/b] 12/12      [b]Cylon Boarding[/b] None

Reserve   Civs 10
Active    Civs  2
Destroyed Civs  0

Ships and Resources Remaining
-- 1 Pop            x6
-- 1 Pop & 1 Morale x1
-- 2 Pop            x2
-- 1 Pop & 1 Fuel   x1
-- Empty            x2
-- Galactica Food Damage Token
-- Galactica Fuel Damage Token

[b]Galactica[/b]  (0/6 Damage)
[i]FTL Control[/i] ~~ Eternaly_lost/Felix Gaeta
[i]Weapons Control[/i]
[i]Command[/i]  ~~ slinky/Admiral Tigh
[i]Communications[/i]  
[i]Admiral’s Quarters[/i] ~~ Jopi/Ellen Tigh
[i]Research Lab[/i] ~~ Jacob-lundgren/Dee
[i]Hangar Deck[/i]
[i]Armory[/i] 
[i]Sickbay[/i]
[i]Brig[/i]

[b]Pegasus[/b] (0/4 Damage)
[i]Pegasus CIC[/i]  
[i]Airlock[/i]
[i]Main Batteries[/i] 
[i]Engine Room[/i]

[b]Colonial One[/b] 
[i]Press Room[/i]
[i]President’s Office[/i] 
[i]Administration[/i] ~~ Trinitrotoluen/President Zarek

[b]Cylon Locations[/b]
[i]Caprica[/i]
[i]Cylon Fleet[/i]
[i]Human Fleet[/i]
[i]Resurrection Ship[/i]

[b]Off-ship:[/b]
[i]Delta[/i] ~~ Kriszo/Starbuck

\      BRAVO   |   CHARLIE    /  
 \             |             /
  \  Raider x3 |            /
   \           |           /
    \          |          /
     \         |         /
      \        |        /
       \       |       /
        \      |      /
         \     |     /
          \    |    /
           \   |   /
A           \  |  /           D
L            \ | /            E
P   Basestar  \|/   Civ x2    L
H   Heavy     /|\   Kriszo    T
A            / | \            A
            /  |  \           
           /   |   \
          /    |    \
         /     |     \
        /      |      \
       /       |       \
      /        |        \
     /         |         \
    /          |          \
   /           |           \
  /   Viper    |   Viper    \
 /             |             \
/    FOXTROT   |   ECHO       \

## Slinky draws 2 LEA 3 TAC
## Slinky moves to weapons control, plays 1 Launch Scout on the Crisis Deck
## Rolling die .. 1

1 raptor destroyed!

 

[randakar]

Crisis!

CRISIS: Cylon Virus 

Skill check: [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]TAC[/COLOR]/[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]ENG[/COLOR] = 13 
PASS: No Effect
FAIL: All characters in FTL Control move to Sickbay.
Then place 1 Centurion marker at the beginning of the Boarding Track. 

Post Crisis: Launch Raiders, NO JUMP PREP

Action queue:
=> Everyone: State card plays
=> GM: Process crisis

 

[Trinitrotoluen]

Not exactly my colors.

## play 0 cards

 

[Slinky]

Seeing how there was a lot of tactics cards played already, why don't we intentionally fail this?
If Jopi can XO Eternaly_Lost the only downside would be a Centurion on the boarding track and losing one XO card, otherwise we would lose a lot of cards and might fail this anyway. It will take at least a turn to destroy the centurion though, but with SP it's a 50% chance. So as long as Jopi has an XO, I think we should fail this.

Any thoughts?

 

[Eternaly_Lost]

Seeing how there was a lot of tactics cards played already, why don't we intentionally fail this?
If Jopi can XO Eternaly_Lost the only downside would be a Centurion on the boarding track and losing one XO card, otherwise we would lose a lot of cards and might fail this anyway. It will take at least a turn to destroy the centurion though, but with SP it's a 50% chance. So as long as Jopi has an XO, I think we should fail this.

Any thoughts?

That does sound rather reasonable, but only if Jopi has the XO. Otherwise I think it might be too much of a risk.

 

[randakar]

That does sound rather reasonable, but only if Jopi has the XO. Otherwise I think it might be too much of a risk.

You folks may want to preload what you want to do in case everyone decides to go for the check (or doesn't, as the case may be.)

 

[Eternaly_Lost]

You folks may want to preload what you want to do in case everyone decides to go for the check (or doesn't, as the case may be.)

I will be around for a few hours, but I do that before I leave if I need to. I do need to see what people are thinking.

 

[Kriszo]

If Jopi has the XO, we should auto-fail this

 

[randakar]

I will be around for a few hours, but I do that before I leave if I need to. I do need to see what people are thinking.

This is eminently reasonable

 

[Trinitrotoluen]

If Jopi has the XO, we should auto-fail this

I don't have a problem with that as the risk isn't too great. Some helpful soul should move to the armory fairly soon though if we go down this route.

I won't play any cards into this check in any event.

 

[Eternaly_Lost]

I don't have a problem with that as the risk isn't too great. Some helpful soul should move to the armory fairly soon though if we go down this route.

I won't play any cards into this check in any event.

I can do that when I am XO, then take a shoot at it. Then i can shoot it again on my turn if we need to.

 

[Kriszo]

Theoretical question (unrelated to the game, we played one real time and the question came up): if there is no heavy on the board, but there is a basestar, and there is a centurion boarding party on the track, if heavies activate, does the basestar launch a heavy, or only the centurion moves forward?

 

[randakar]

Theoretical question (unrelated to the game, we played one real time and the question came up): if there is no heavy on the board, but there is a basestar, and there is a centurion boarding party on the track, if heavies activate, does the basestar launch a heavy, or only the centurion moves forward?

Easy:

If there are no heavy raiders on the game board when heavy
raiders are activated, one heavy raider is launched from
each basestar. If there are no basestars in play, then nothing
happens.

That doesn't say anything about boarding parties, does it?
So the heavy raider still launches as normal.
(The current crisis'activation token makes the basestar launch 3 raiders, btw.)

 

[jacob-Lundgren]

I don't like auto failing but we overshot the last 2 checks by enough to make this one far more easy.

0 cards if no one else is playing.

 

[Trinitrotoluen]

I wouldn't say that we really overshot the last two checks. Both times one of the cards in the destiny deck was for us. If both cards had been negative then things could have turned out for the worse.

 

[jacob-Lundgren]

Assuming anyone has a declare emergency though it is not a big deal to play it slightly closer, especially checks with not so painful partial passes.

 

[Jopi]

I don't have an XO to play, don't know if I'll be getting one. These are not my colours, so I'll be playing 0 cards.

 

[Kriszo]

I could only contribute very little to this, and barring a miracle by the DD or someone havin some super-duper card, it would be a sacrifice in vain

##0 cards