Me and my friends have been playing BSG for quite a while, and every now and then there are some effects that work in game play that are just funny to us.

For instance, giving someone an exec order to leave sickbay before their turn. We call this the "Get Outta Bed!" order.

Similarly, launching vipers from Command so Apollo can get out of sickbay into one of them. (We tie a rope to his foot in sickbay and hitch it to the back of one of the vipers before they launch.)

A brigged player using strat planning to help cylon missiles attacks (holding a big bullseye out their jail window)

Starbuck going from her viper to the Press Room to hold two press conferences about how someone crashed a viper into the Press Room.

Lastly, if anyone from the designers are interested, here's a destination a friend came up with for the next expansion.

Puppy Planet

Effect: -1 fuel. Then the Admiral chooses either +1 morale; or -1 morale and +1 food.

2 Distance.

rowanalpha said:

Hah! I saw that card on Board Game Geek. The image makes it even funnier

www.boardgamegeek.com/image/434745/battlestar-galactica

Maybe not what you're looking for, but I thought this was amusing...

We played over Christmas break and I was the Cylon. Due to a poor play on my part, my wife figured out who I was right away but I got her sent to the brig anyway. Then we failed a crisis and the current player (the one after me) got sent to the brig. Then when it became my turn again, I revealed myself and sent the remaining player to the brig. So I escaped but everyone else was in the brig!

Good times...

edosan said:

That's funny. I did something similar in my last game too. I was the cylon admiral and I accidentally sabotaged a skill deck without thinking with a green card when the skill check was for blues, reds and purples. Then we saw two green cards, two red cards and a treachery card. I quickly accused the two pilots of being cylons and acted really loud and obnoxious. I knew I would be putting one cylon ally in the brig but I knew that would be better than putting blame on me, plus Galactica would be screwed without its pilots. We actually stopped playing for about 15 minutes to try and work out who the culprits were. I convinced the table that two red cards had already come out of the destiny deck so they had to have come from pilots.

It worked until they decided to execute one of the pilots who turned out to be human. They tossed me out the airlock and my cylon friend revealed. In the end the humans won by a thread. Each resource was at around 1 or 2. It was a GREAT game. I love it when it goes down to the wire like that.

edosan said:

We actually played a five player game a couple of months ago where we had four people in jail and the only person who wasn't was the cylon leader who was running around fixing Galactica.

Being the cylon and keeping everybody in the Brig is always fun.

But the greatest moment in Galactica history has to be this:

Three players (Thomas, Tobias and me). Tobias was the admiral. After the sleeper agent phase, I knew I wasn't a cylon but one of the others had to be. So I figured, let's toss the Admiral into the brig so I can at least steer Galactica to safety. Plus I randomly chose him to be my enemy of the day.

So I activate the Admiral's Quarters, and we start the skill check. We all throw in cards. Then the cards are revealed, the skill check failed. Nothing out of the ordinary there. But then I took a closer look... Nearly half of the cards counted positive towards the skill check. Even the destiny deck and me together couldn't have add that many cards - and Thomas had opposed the skill check valiantly.

This is the following conversation:

Me: "Tobias, did you just throw in cards that HELPED the skill check?"

Tobias: "Uh..."

Me: "You know you have to make it FAIL, right?"

Tobias: "I got a little confused..."

Me (turning towards Thomas): "Gentlemen - we're lucky."

"Why?"

"The Admiral is no cylon. He's just an idiot."

That actually went on for another half an hour or so.

"Sir, please sign this arrest order." - "It says here that I am to be brigged..." - "Yes, Admiral." - "...okay."

or (since only the President threw in cards to make the check fail):

"Sir, the president wants to talk to you." - "Yes?" - "Admiral? Would you PLEASE stop signing arrest orders for yourself?!" - "But... but..."

...I still laugh.

We once had our president in detention on New Caprica. Since there is no rule against playing quorum cards from jail, she did so liberaly. And she would always begin her turn with "Centurio, would you please hand me that microphone?"

One of my friends was playing Saul and forgot about his drawback.

When he was reminded he'd have to discard his last card, he yells "**** my alcoholism!" and begins to chug the bottle of beer he'd been drinking.

I think the funniest result we had was a 3 player game when one of the other players naming no *stenun* names decided to brig everybody but him. He wasn't a cylon and he gets really paranoid. Anyway he succeeds in getting us all brigged. His very next crisis card. *player one is brigged* Bugger. Every player in the brig all together. Needless to say we lost.

One funny moment I remember is this My girlfriend was a cylon (one You are a cylon and one You are NOT card). Friend of mine, playing Doctor G. Baltar and being human decided to put her into Cylon detector Her face became pale as she gave him her loyality cards. He gave those cards back and said "o.k., she's not a cylone". To her relief, she thought he was the second cylon and he covered her. But he wasn't. He just looked at the first card and just part of the second one (i don't realy understad how) and he thought that both cards are the same ) I, being Cylon thought that both her and him are therefore humans (only 2 cylons in play) and I searched the other to players for my "cylon teammate"

Now Imagine face of my friend (and mine as well) when she revealed her-self as a cylon in crucial moment Geez Wonders happen