Battlestar Galactica, Hey That's My Fish, Lemonade Stand
A night specially for Battlestar, pretty good. Okay, first, a warm-up game of Hey, That's My Fish, but then Battlestar!
Because it was mostly new players, it was the base set, and while I missed some of the things I was used to (Treachery Cards, 0-power cards, etc.), I had included some crises from the expansion and I don't think it was too terribly unbalanced. We were doing alright to the halfway point, when someone I thought might be a Cylon used his power to effectively clear another player. Then, the game was cut in twain to me, and I figured the Cylons were among two groups. Of course, I was wrong, but I was able to say, "Hey, don't give that guy an Executive Order, he's going to reveal if you do." And then I was right!
The lone revealed Cylon continued to act like a jerk to most everyone, and the other players all acted human. However, most of us were acting more human than the others, and it became clear that the other Cylon was doing a bad job of fooling us, and the revealed Cylon was getting angry because he thought the human team was doing quite well and he really wanted help. Eventually the last Cylon revealed, right when the thought the humans were home free, and then...we just never drew any jump cards. Like, five or six crises with no jumps in a row. It was poor luck, and the humans lost. Phooey. But luckily, our compatriots at the other table managed to pull of an unlikely victory for the humans, so at least it was evenly split.
Then I played a game in a bar, which went as well as it usually does, but the game was kinda fun, Lemonade Stand. It's a simple press-your-luck game involving selling lemonade. You prepare your lemonade and hope it doesn't rain. During the game we played, it always goddamn rained.
A night specially for Battlestar, pretty good. Okay, first, a warm-up game of Hey, That's My Fish, but then Battlestar!
Because it was mostly new players, it was the base set, and while I missed some of the things I was used to (Treachery Cards, 0-power cards, etc.), I had included some crises from the expansion and I don't think it was too terribly unbalanced. We were doing alright to the halfway point, when someone I thought might be a Cylon used his power to effectively clear another player. Then, the game was cut in twain to me, and I figured the Cylons were among two groups. Of course, I was wrong, but I was able to say, "Hey, don't give that guy an Executive Order, he's going to reveal if you do." And then I was right!
The lone revealed Cylon continued to act like a jerk to most everyone, and the other players all acted human. However, most of us were acting more human than the others, and it became clear that the other Cylon was doing a bad job of fooling us, and the revealed Cylon was getting angry because he thought the human team was doing quite well and he really wanted help. Eventually the last Cylon revealed, right when the thought the humans were home free, and then...we just never drew any jump cards. Like, five or six crises with no jumps in a row. It was poor luck, and the humans lost. Phooey. But luckily, our compatriots at the other table managed to pull of an unlikely victory for the humans, so at least it was evenly split.
Then I played a game in a bar, which went as well as it usually does, but the game was kinda fun, Lemonade Stand. It's a simple press-your-luck game involving selling lemonade. You prepare your lemonade and hope it doesn't rain. During the game we played, it always goddamn rained.
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