BSG Season 21 - Only going forward since we cannot find reverse

[Trinitrotoluen]

I wonder if heavies getting activated is better than getting shot at with 3 raiders. I mean, even 10 failed to do any sufficient damage. Now, on the other hand, you get a visitor.

To be fair, that abysmal Raider result was very unlucky for our Toasters.

By the way, what happens when multiple heavies can board on the same turn, like it would be after 2 more activations? Will they all get removed and a lone centurion appear?

If all 4 heavies can get aboard Galactica, they would spawn 4 boarding parties. Each boarding party is tracked separately and multiple boarding parties can share the same spot on the track.

Action queue:
=> Kingepyon: play cards
=> Eternaly_Lost: play cards
=> RepBentley: play cards

 

[randakar]

I wonder if heavies getting activated is better than getting shot at with 3 raiders. I mean, even 10 failed to do any sufficient damage. Now, on the other hand, you get a visitor.

Not yet. It goes to Echo due to this crisis, but it doesn't board yet.
It would, if my crisis has a heavy activation or the cylons activate heavies, though.
Unless we jump first..

 

[Kingepyon]

1 card

 

[Eternaly_Lost]

Randy, how much more help do you think this needs?

Should I incom this?

 

[AtreyuAtreides]

I preloaded 3 weak 1 strong man. Just a head up

 

[unmerged(281782)]

To be fair, that abysmal Raider result was very unlucky for our Toasters.

True, they shot as if they were toasted. forgive me my terrible pun

If all 4 heavies can get aboard Galactica, they would spawn 4 boarding parties. Each boarding party is tracked separately and multiple boarding parties can share the same spot on the track.

I see, thank you.

Not yet. It goes to Echo due to this crisis, but it doesn't board yet.
It would, if my crisis has a heavy activation or the cylons activate heavies, though.
Unless we jump first..

Yes, sorry, somehow thought he was in Echo already.
Yeah, you can escape this, unfortunately. But at the cost of Admiral's execution and likely -3 pop. What a delicious dilemma.

 

[randakar]

Randy, how much more help do you think this needs?

Should I incom this?

I have the check itself mostly covered. What it needs is help against Cylon and (possible) DD interference.
Whether you should invcom - it's your call, really. If you do I'll ## preload play exactly the same cards. But .. well.
Thing is, investigative committees are pretty strong cards, and we do have a cylon with a Super Crisis in his hand in the game.

Yeah, you can escape this, unfortunately. But at the cost of Admiral's execution and likely -3 pop. What a delicious dilemma.

Oh, absolutely.
There's a reason I've dumped a lot of cards into the past and current skill checks.

 

[Eternaly_Lost]

I preloaded 3 weak 1 strong man. Just a head up

Given that Preload

0 cards

 

[Trinitrotoluen]

[B]POL/LEA/TAC = 12[/B]

Tactics-1 (Launch Scout)
Tactics-2 (Guts And Initiative)
Leadership-2 (Major Victory)
Leadership-3 (Declare Emergency)
Tactics-5 (Critical Situation)
Tactics-4 (Critical Situation)
Leadership-4 (At Any Cost)
Tactics-3 (Strategic Planning)

Piloting-1 (Evasive Maneuvers)
Piloting-1 (Evasive Maneuvers)
Engineering-5 (Scientific Research)

24 - 7 = 17 PASS!

No effect.

Heavies move, +1 Jump Prep

 

[randakar]

Overshoot by 5 .. close enough.
Having a safety margin on these kind of checks is good play, and given the counter-cards it could definitely have ended up worse.

@TNT - if that preload would end up with me discarding my only SP before I can use it, please discard something else, ok? ;-)

edit:
actually, let me restate it:

## Preload: On my turn,
- Move to FTL, discarding my lowest non-SP card for the move. (I don't really care which ;-) )
- Activate FTL, playing SP on the roll (if possible).
- Choose Helena Cain if/when I get executed
- Resurrect at Pegasus CIC.

 

[Trinitrotoluen]

Randakar draws Leadership/2 and Tactics/3

Turn 27

[b][u]Player Status[/u][/b]
[i]Bolded player has the turn.[/i]
1. RepBentley : Lee Adama [7] OPG used
[b]2. jacob-Lundgren/Randakar : Admiral Saul Tigh [1+5+0N][/b]
[color=red]3. Kingepyon: Chief Tyrol [2+1S] 
4. glasszon: Sharon "Boomer" Valerii [4] OPG used[/color]
5. Eternaly_Lost: President Laura Roslin [8+7Q] OPG used


Destiny Deck [10]

[b][u]Fleet Status[/u][/b]          [b]Distance[/b]       4/8

[b]Food[/b]       [COLOR="red"]03/08[/COLOR]      [b]Vipers[/b]         5 Active, 0 in Reserve, 3 Damaged
[b]Fuel[/b]       [COLOR="lime"]05/08[/COLOR]      
[b]Morale[/b]     [COLOR="lime"]06/10[/COLOR]      [b]Raptors[/b]        3 in Reserve
[b]Population[/b] [COLOR="lime"]07/12[/COLOR]      

Cylon Boarding [ ] - [COLOR="yellow"][ ][/COLOR]    - [COLOR="DarkOrange"][ ][/COLOR] - [COLOR="red"][ ][/COLOR]    -          [COLOR="Red"] [ DEATH  ][/COLOR]
Jump Prep      [ ] - [COLOR="wheat"][ ][/COLOR]    - [COLOR="yellow"][ ][/COLOR] - [COLOR="DarkOrange"][X] 3p[/COLOR] - [COLOR="red"][ ] 1p[/COLOR] - [COLOR="Lime"] [ *JUMP* ][/COLOR]


Reserve   Civs  1
Active    Civs  8
Destroyed Civs  3


Ships and Resources Remaining
-- 1 Pop            x5
-- 1 Pop & 1 Morale x0
-- 2 Pop            x1
-- 1 Pop & 1 Fuel   x1
-- Empty            x2
-- Galactica Food Damage Token
-- Galactica Fuel Damage Token
-- Galactica 
-- Basestars x 0
-- Raiders x 14
-- Heavy x 0
-- Boarding Parties x4

[b]Galactica[/b]  (0/6 Damage)
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]FTL Control[/i] 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Weapons Control[/i]
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Command[/i]  
[i]Communications[/i] 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Admiral’s Quarters[/i] 
[i]Research Lab[/i] 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Hangar Deck[/i] 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Armory[/i]   
[i]Sickbay[/i] 
[i]Brig[/i] 

[b]Pegasus[/b] (1/4 Damage)
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Pegasus CIC[/i] 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Airlock[/i] 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Main Batteries[/i] randakar: Admiral Saul Tigh
[COLOR="Red"]*[/COLOR] [i]Engine Room[/i]

[b]Colonial One[/b]
[COLOR="Lime"][i]Press Room[/i][/color] 
[COLOR="Lime"][i]President’s Office[/i][/color]  Eternaly_Lost : President Laura Roslin
[COLOR="Lime"][i]Administration[/i][/color] 

[b]Cylon Locations[/b]
[i]Caprica[/i]  
[i]Cylon Fleet[/i] Kingepyon: Chief Tyrol, glasszon: Boomer 
[i]Human Fleet[/i]  
[i]Resurrection Ship[/i] 

[b]Off-ship:[/b] 
RepBentley: Lee in a Viper in Delta

Main Board

\      BRAVO   |   CHARLIE    /  
 \             |             /
  \            |  Basestarx2/
   \           |           /
    \          |          /
     \         |         /
      \        |        /
       \       |       /
        \      |      /
         \     |     /
          \    |    /
           \   |   /
A           \  |  /           D
L            \ | /            E
P             \|/             L
H             /|\             T
A            / | \            A
            /  |  \       Raider    
Heavy      /   |   \      Heavyx2
          /    |    \     Viper(Lee)
         /     |     \    Civviex2
        /      |      \
       /       |       \
      /        |        \
     /         |         \
    /  Civviex3| Civviex3 \
   /           |           \
  /    Viperx2 | Viperx2    \
 /  Raiderx2   |   Heavy     \
/    FOXTROT   |   ECHO       \

Cards in play:

1 Basestar in Charlie cannot launch fighters and has structural damage (+2 to attack rolls)

SUPER CRISIS: Lured Into A Trap

3. Special Rule - Dangerous Repairs are Necessary: Keep this card in play until after the fleet jumps. Any character in 
either the "Engine Room" or "FTL Control" locations when the fleet jumps is executed.

CRISIS: Jammed Assault

3. Special Rule - Communications Jamming: Keep this card in play until the fleet jumps. 
Players may not activate the "Communications" location.

CRISIS: Cylon Swarm

3. Special Rule - Massive Deployment: Keep this card in play until the fleet jumps. Each time a basestar launches raiders 
or heavy raiders, it launches 1 additional ship of the same type.

Accept Prophecy

Action: Draw 1 Skill Card of any type (it may be from outside your skill set).

Keep this card in play. When a player activates "Administration" or chooses the President
with the "Admiral's Quarters" location, increase the difficulty by 2, then discard this card.

Randakar:

ASSIGN CHIEF OF STAFF

Action: Draw 2 Politics Cards and give this card to any other player. Keep this card in
play. Before cards are added to a skill check, this player may discard this card to make 
all Politics Cards count as positive strength.

Randakar's preload for this turn:

TNT, preload for my turn:

## Move to FTL, discarding whatever lowest card I have for the move
## Activate it. Play SP on the roll if I have one.
## Choose Helena Cain for my new character when I get executed.

Therefore a Trust Instincts-0 is discarded for the move and SP-3 is added to the roll.
7 (+2) is enough that nobody is left behind.


Action queue:
=> Randakar: choose destination
GM: resolve execution

 

[glasszon]

Grab some popcorn and wait for the fireworks, no crisis this turn due to execution, time to plan out our moves

Edit: Just saw the Helena Cain part, I guess our Cylons can resign. Bringing her in after an execution is going to be game over especially given the pop roll. Good game guys.

 

[AtreyuAtreides]

That was a pretty crazy situation, but nothing like the one in the last game where if we didn't get that one crisis the humans would have lost completely.

 

[randakar]

We're going to:

[b]Remote Planet

Distance 2
Lose 1 fuel and destroy 1 Raptor.[/b]

Definitely better than that other destination .. too much distance is bad for us, too.

Grab some popcorn and wait for the fireworks, no crisis this turn due to execution, time to plan out our moves

Edit: Just saw the Helena Cain part, I guess our Cylons can resign. Bringing her in after an execution is going to be game over especially given the pop roll. Good game guys.

I actually suggested throwing Tigh out of the airlock earlier, but EL pointed out that execution is automatic upon jumping.
It was quite a gamble though .. this could only work if we would manage to get enough prep before this turn.

Game isn't entirely over yet, we still need to cross 2 distance on the next jump. Which may or may not be a blind jump

 

[Trinitrotoluen]

Randakar discards his remaining hand.
Executive Order-1
Declare Emergency-4
Declare Emergency-5
Strategic Planning-5

and shows us a lot of "You Are Not A Cylon" cards to the surprise of everyone involved.

The "Assign Chief of Staff" Quorum Card also gets discarded.

The Humans lose 1 morale due to the execution.
Helena Cain is placed at CIC or Command (randakar please choose) and gains the Admiral Title.

Due to the execution of the current player the turn is ended. Additionally a lot of crisis card effects are gone after the jump.

 

[randakar]

## Resurrect at Pegasus CIC, please.

edit: There goes a crazy strong card draw down the drain. Figures ..
At least there was a Strategic Planning in there

 

[Trinitrotoluen]

Kingepyon draws Politics/1 and Treachery/1

Turn 28

[b][u]Player Status[/u][/b]
[i]Bolded player has the turn.[/i]
1. RepBentley : Lee Adama [7] OPG used
2. jacob-Lundgren/Randakar : Admiral Helena Cain [0+0N]
[b][color=red]3. Kingepyon: Chief Tyrol [2+2+1S] [/b]
4. glasszon: Sharon "Boomer" Valerii [4] OPG used[/color]
5. Eternaly_Lost: President Laura Roslin [8+7Q] OPG used


Destiny Deck [10]

[b][u]Fleet Status[/u][/b]          [b]Distance[/b]       6/8

[b]Food[/b]       [COLOR="red"]03/08[/COLOR]      [b]Vipers[/b]         0 Active, 5 in Reserve, 3 Damaged
[b]Fuel[/b]       [COLOR="red"]04/08[/COLOR]      
[b]Morale[/b]     [COLOR="red"]05/10[/COLOR]      [b]Raptors[/b]        2 in Reserve
[b]Population[/b] [COLOR="lime"]07/12[/COLOR]      

Cylon Boarding [ ] - [COLOR="yellow"][ ][/COLOR]    - [COLOR="DarkOrange"][ ][/COLOR] - [COLOR="red"][ ][/COLOR]    -          [COLOR="Red"] [ DEATH  ][/COLOR]
Jump Prep      [X] - [COLOR="wheat"][ ][/COLOR]    - [COLOR="yellow"][ ][/COLOR] - [COLOR="DarkOrange"][ ] 3p[/COLOR] - [COLOR="red"][ ] 1p[/COLOR] - [COLOR="Lime"] [ *JUMP* ][/COLOR]


Reserve   Civs  9
Active    Civs  0
Destroyed Civs  3


Ships and Resources Remaining
-- 1 Pop            x5
-- 1 Pop & 1 Morale x0
-- 2 Pop            x1
-- 1 Pop & 1 Fuel   x1
-- Empty            x2
-- Galactica Food Damage Token
-- Galactica Fuel Damage Token
-- Galactica 
-- Basestars x 2
-- Raiders x 16
-- Heavy x 4
-- Boarding Parties x4

[b]Galactica[/b]  (0/6 Damage)
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]FTL Control[/i] 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Weapons Control[/i]
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Command[/i]  
[i]Communications[/i] 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Admiral’s Quarters[/i] 
[i]Research Lab[/i] 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Hangar Deck[/i] RepBentley: Lee 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Armory[/i]   
[i]Sickbay[/i] 
[i]Brig[/i] 

[b]Pegasus[/b] (1/4 Damage)
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Pegasus CIC[/i] randakar: Admiral Helena Cain
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Airlock[/i] 
[COLOR="Lime"]*[/COLOR] [i]Main Batteries[/i] 
[COLOR="Red"]*[/COLOR] [i]Engine Room[/i]

[b]Colonial One[/b]
[COLOR="Lime"][i]Press Room[/i][/color] 
[COLOR="Lime"][i]President’s Office[/i][/color]  Eternaly_Lost : President Laura Roslin
[COLOR="Lime"][i]Administration[/i][/color] 

[b]Cylon Locations[/b]
[i]Caprica[/i]  
[i]Cylon Fleet[/i] Kingepyon: Chief Tyrol, glasszon: Boomer 
[i]Human Fleet[/i]  
[i]Resurrection Ship[/i] 

[b]Off-ship:[/b]

Main Board

\      BRAVO   |   CHARLIE    /  
 \             |             /
  \            |            /
   \           |           /
    \          |          /
     \         |         /
      \        |        /
       \       |       /
        \      |      /
         \     |     /
          \    |    /
           \   |   /
A           \  |  /           D
L            \ | /            E
P             \|/             L
H             /|\             T
A            / | \            A
            /  |  \            
           /   |   \     
          /    |    \      
         /     |     \    
        /      |      \
       /       |       \
      /        |        \
     /         |         \
    /          |          \
   /           |           \
  /            |            \
 /             |             \
/    FOXTROT   |   ECHO       \

Cards in play:

Accept Prophecy

Action: Draw 1 Skill Card of any type (it may be from outside your skill set).

Keep this card in play. When a player activates "Administration" or chooses the President
with the "Admiral's Quarters" location, increase the difficulty by 2, then discard this card.

Action queue:
=> Kingepyon: turn

 

[Kingepyon]

We should have activated basestars

Move to Caprica
Play super crisis:

SUPER CRISIS: Fire All Missiles

Skill Check: TAC/PIL = 22

PASS: No Effect

FAIL:  Draw 2 Civilian Ships to destroy.

CONSEQUENCE: Damage Galactica twice.

 

[randakar]

## 0 cards

Since I don't have any..

 

[AtreyuAtreides]

What's the plan? Should I throw everything into this? Any support?