I had a game last night, where I was Gius Baltar and I had suspected Laura Roslin since the start of being a cylon.

Therefore after we had made 4 jump points and had been delt a 2nd Loyalty card I first checked to see if I had become a sleeper agent. I had not, but still suspected Roslin, so during my turn I used my once per game Action to see both her cards. BOTH were Cylon cards ... what luck! If we got her in the brig, things would go a lot better.

As I had taken my action, we resolved the Crisis card, and then I told the next player what I had learned. However here is where things get intresting ... as the player (Lee) was actaully the real life father of the guy playing Roslin ... so after some - "I'm not a Cylon" - "Yes you are" - debates, Lee decided that I am a trying to get Laura into the bring to cause problems, and that in fact I am in fact a Cylon!! Reason being because the chances in a 6 man game of one player getting both cards was remote.

So I get thrown in the brig ... the other players obvioulsy agreed with the theroy because they all made sure I went in there ... 2 more players go, and then BANG Roslin reveals herself ... this was at a time when we already had 2 basestars around us and a ton of trouble, and at least 1 space from being able to jump.

To make maters worse the next 3 Crisis cards were all against us badly ... all giving the Raiders and activation ... to sum up we lost 12 Population in 3 player turns and lost the game.

If only they had listened to me !! LOL!

During a playtest Session, Baltar used his "Cylon Detector" ability to look at another Starbuck's Loyalty cards. He quckly glanced at them and declared "Not a Cylon".

We knew that there was only 1 more unrevealed cylon, and I had plenty of reason to trust Baltar's declaration. A few rounds later Starbuck shocked us by revealing herself as a Cylon! We were all amazed and surprised... including Baltar. When questioned, Baltar said that he honestly misread Starbuck's cards.

Regardless of why it happened, this questionable play by Baltar turned our strategies upside down and got an innocent human locked in the brig.

In the first game we ever played we very early had a third negative card show up on a skill check "proving" that there was a cylon from the beginning. Two of our players (Starbuck and Chief) were acting very suspiciously and me (Tigh) and the 4th player (Roslin) decided to just lock them both up for a few turns to let them sweat it out. They both continued to act somewhat shady and accuse each other back and forth for many, many turns, so we were unsure who was indeed the real cylon. I knew I was a human and Roslin seemed to be going out of her way to do the most good/be the most honorable so I didn't suspect her. Things started to get bad for us since half our players were locked in the brig so we decided to help them get out. Instead, Roslin reveals herself as the cylon and uses her cylon card to put ME in the brig as well! So all 3 of us humans were stuck in the brig. None of us had suspected Roslin, who by the way was played by probably the most honorable person at the table! He had duped us all very, very well! We all felt like we had been just stabbed in the back as we pretty much had all put our trust in our President. Earlier the President title got moved to me and one of the other players activated that one location to get it moved BACK to Roslin because they trusted her so much!

After that, cylon Roslin had a few turns to really hurt us as we were still just trying to get all 3 of us back out of the brig. We did manage to almost make a comeback with good teamwork (since we could finally trust each other), but we had just got hurt too much in the process and our morale dropped to 0 to kill us.

I <3 this game.

Mattr0polis said:

How did that 'proof' come about? Did Roslin throw a bad card in that she obtained using Consolidate Power? Or was one of the other players hedging bets on the sleeper phase, so to speak?

Sinis said:

Actually, what happened was 3 engineering cards came up negative on the skill check, and Starbuck and Chief were the only ones who could and were drawing blue cards, and no, Roslin didn't use Consolidate Power or anything. That's why the fingers were pointing at those two players. Later one of those two said they just accidently put the wrong card down for the check, but they didn't want to say anything because we surely would NEVER have let him out of the brig if he had admitted to it. Like "oh I just accidently did that you guys, it won't happen again". Lol, yeah that has cylon written all over it.

The most memorable moment I have was when I was playing as Tigh. Due to the fact no one was playing Adama I ended up being the Admiral and drew a 'You are a Cylon' card on top of this. I instantly started jumping us to the worst places possible whenever we made an FTL jump. I easily staved off suspicion for the first couple of jumps by claiming I was drawing poor cards from the deck. Meanwhile I worked hard on my image of being a model 'human', even going as far to sacrifice cards to prevent us losing resources. The crux of the game came when we failed a crisis, I hadn't played any cards in and it was obvious that someone else was a Cylon. Everybody else started a witchhunt for the other Cylon player while I was given favoured status as being the only person people were 99% sure wasn't a Cylon. Humans lost that game by a pretty big margin in the end.

Kahadras

Mattr0polis said:

Lol! The path to hell really is paved with good intentions!

Sinis said:

Lol, too true.