Battlestar Galatica, Guild Wars 2
Some people were excited to play Battlestar Galatica, and I was one of them! It has been a while! It was the base game, although pretty much everyone knew the rules for the expansions and we kept talking about them, because why not? Why not talk endlessly about a game we aren't actually playing.
Anyway, we used a variant that got rid of the sympathizer, because everyone hates the sympathizer, and had just a disaster of a first jump, with two deployment cards flipping and losing a skill check that would have bumped us up on the jump track, which really put into focus who was a potential Cylon. After getting down to 4 (4!) population, we jump, and then continue to get banged around in space. Someone I trusted got to check a Cylon card and managed to find one, but we let him stay running around for a little while because he was a pilot, but eventually he was brigged.
Then I started to put together some info, and called out the last Cylon, confident I had enough information to brig him, since he had been less than helpful and he had to be a Cylon if our current brigged mate was a Cylon. My first brig attempt failed because he used his once-per-game (maybe the first time I saw someone actually use Chief's once-per-game), but after a miscalculation on the Cylon's part where he was caught in a lie about what he had in his hand during a check, we brigged him, and hoped that maybe they would sit there quietly while we tried to get through space with exactly one population.
They didn't, they revealed, and the crisis deck HATED us, so we ended up losing, even though we should have lost a long time ago. It was a little frustrating just going through the motions, because none of our decisions mattered, really. Why do we have to spend 45 minutes just to lose the game? We found the Cylons! I don't know, it's my least favorite part of the game, when you are spinning your wheels trying to get past the crappy difficulty curve of the game. But hey, I caught the Cylons!
Also played some Guild Wars 2, did the daily quest, mostly by just running around like a lunatic around a zone. One of the objectives was kill 30 ambient critters, you know, squirrels and rats and stuff, and I felt like a psychopath. "I need to find another rabbit to viciously murder!"
Some people were excited to play Battlestar Galatica, and I was one of them! It has been a while! It was the base game, although pretty much everyone knew the rules for the expansions and we kept talking about them, because why not? Why not talk endlessly about a game we aren't actually playing.
Anyway, we used a variant that got rid of the sympathizer, because everyone hates the sympathizer, and had just a disaster of a first jump, with two deployment cards flipping and losing a skill check that would have bumped us up on the jump track, which really put into focus who was a potential Cylon. After getting down to 4 (4!) population, we jump, and then continue to get banged around in space. Someone I trusted got to check a Cylon card and managed to find one, but we let him stay running around for a little while because he was a pilot, but eventually he was brigged.
Then I started to put together some info, and called out the last Cylon, confident I had enough information to brig him, since he had been less than helpful and he had to be a Cylon if our current brigged mate was a Cylon. My first brig attempt failed because he used his once-per-game (maybe the first time I saw someone actually use Chief's once-per-game), but after a miscalculation on the Cylon's part where he was caught in a lie about what he had in his hand during a check, we brigged him, and hoped that maybe they would sit there quietly while we tried to get through space with exactly one population.
They didn't, they revealed, and the crisis deck HATED us, so we ended up losing, even though we should have lost a long time ago. It was a little frustrating just going through the motions, because none of our decisions mattered, really. Why do we have to spend 45 minutes just to lose the game? We found the Cylons! I don't know, it's my least favorite part of the game, when you are spinning your wheels trying to get past the crappy difficulty curve of the game. But hey, I caught the Cylons!
Also played some Guild Wars 2, did the daily quest, mostly by just running around like a lunatic around a zone. One of the objectives was kill 30 ambient critters, you know, squirrels and rats and stuff, and I felt like a psychopath. "I need to find another rabbit to viciously murder!"
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