Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Rez
Game night with a couple of easy going new players. Before they showed up, a quick exhibition game of the new Star Trek cooperative game, which is pretty good, if a little brutal at times. You have to manage three different missions on the surface while worrying about the encroaching klingon warbird that’s bearing down on you above, all before you run out of time. It manages most of its challenges with die rolls, but the dice are unique by being labeled 1-5 and then 7, with the 7 forcing you to take damage when you roll them. It’s a bit of a mess, and we kept getting waylaid by non-essential missions that prevented us from leaving, but after we realized we were stronger together than alone, we started tearing through the missions, and won the game with a commendation.
Battlestar Galactica was on the table again. We played the most basic game, only adding the new 0 and 6 cards from the newest expansion (mostly by accident), and teaching them the ropes. There was a lot of space battle in this game, and while I spent the first turn getting the presidency (because I want power), we mostly struggled to tamp down crises in the beginning, while our population dropped to 4 before the sleeper agent phase. Then, when this flipped, two of us were sent to the brig. I managed to escape easily, but the other player spent about six rounds there, first because I refused to help him, then because the card flops just weren’t working. I figured that the cylon was one of two new players, but just could not tell because they were both helpful, so at the fourth player’s suggestion, I helped get both of them in the brig, because either way, at least they couldn’t hurt us. The true cylon used a special card to leap out, but didn’t reveal right away, and further attempts to get her in were unsuccessful, while our poor ally spent the entire time just sitting in prison. The cylon FINALLY revealed, but it was too late, we were already on the winning trajectory, and we finally busted the last human out of jail and jumped to Kobol. I apologized profusely to the new player, hoping that he was, in fact, having fun, despite the fact that he had done nothing important for the last half of the game. Both players had a good time though, which was good to see, because this game can be such a friend blender, and these people were only acquaintances. But I won again!
Somehow I also ended up playing a few minutes of Rez, which was fine.
Game night with a couple of easy going new players. Before they showed up, a quick exhibition game of the new Star Trek cooperative game, which is pretty good, if a little brutal at times. You have to manage three different missions on the surface while worrying about the encroaching klingon warbird that’s bearing down on you above, all before you run out of time. It manages most of its challenges with die rolls, but the dice are unique by being labeled 1-5 and then 7, with the 7 forcing you to take damage when you roll them. It’s a bit of a mess, and we kept getting waylaid by non-essential missions that prevented us from leaving, but after we realized we were stronger together than alone, we started tearing through the missions, and won the game with a commendation.
Battlestar Galactica was on the table again. We played the most basic game, only adding the new 0 and 6 cards from the newest expansion (mostly by accident), and teaching them the ropes. There was a lot of space battle in this game, and while I spent the first turn getting the presidency (because I want power), we mostly struggled to tamp down crises in the beginning, while our population dropped to 4 before the sleeper agent phase. Then, when this flipped, two of us were sent to the brig. I managed to escape easily, but the other player spent about six rounds there, first because I refused to help him, then because the card flops just weren’t working. I figured that the cylon was one of two new players, but just could not tell because they were both helpful, so at the fourth player’s suggestion, I helped get both of them in the brig, because either way, at least they couldn’t hurt us. The true cylon used a special card to leap out, but didn’t reveal right away, and further attempts to get her in were unsuccessful, while our poor ally spent the entire time just sitting in prison. The cylon FINALLY revealed, but it was too late, we were already on the winning trajectory, and we finally busted the last human out of jail and jumped to Kobol. I apologized profusely to the new player, hoping that he was, in fact, having fun, despite the fact that he had done nothing important for the last half of the game. Both players had a good time though, which was good to see, because this game can be such a friend blender, and these people were only acquaintances. But I won again!
Somehow I also ended up playing a few minutes of Rez, which was fine.
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