I may have missed this in the rules, or it may have already been posted by someone else, but this seems a bit broken to me...

Is there anything that prevents "Appoint Vice President" from being played on a Cylon Leader? I was playing a game recently as Pres. Dr. Gaius Baltar and I received a cylon card at the sleeper phase. Having not known who to trust when I was human in the first half, I still had the Appoint VP card in my hand, so I played it on the infiltrating cylon leader after all the humans figured out that I was a cylon. Since the Admiral's Quarters was damaged and they could not vote in a new president except for the cylon leader (who cannot receive the title) it pretty much guaranteed me as president for the rest of the game. Granted, there are a few other ways to take my president title, specifically, execute someone who comes back as Tigh, execute me (they tried and failed and wasted a lot of cards) or get lucky and get a crisis that executes me or moves the title, but there's not much else that could be done about it. It seemed like a bit of a cheap move, but it is allowed, correct?

I'm pretty sure that there is something that says quorum cards that remain in play can't be played on a revealed cylon. It would be somewhere around the place where they say that you can't be president.

Skowza said:

I asked this question to FFG, and Mr. K says that you can't play it on a Cylon Leader, which is about as official as it gets. The card was obviously printed before Cylon Leaders existed. I imagine this will be in the hypothetical next version of the FAQ.

Thanks, we were planning on making a house rule against it anyway. The infiltrating leader didnt even want the VP title since he had a human-friendly agenda but didn't want to waste a turn returning to the Cylon fleet that late in the game. After all 3 humans ended up in the brig (Boomer never got out from her weakness) I didn't even need the President title but stayed unrevealed just to keep them from getting it back and so I could throw in more on skill checks. They eventually got out with help from my traitorous leader but I easily won all by myself and it seemed like a broken strategy. Our group plays a lot of different board games and we play all games with a strict "unless a card states otherwise" interpretation of the rules until a broken strategy forces a house ruling on something.