So,

I've been seeing a dominance by the humans v the cylons. I've only played 6 games, but the humans have lost only 1. And that was when I and the other pilot were both Cylons and revealed after the first jump (he revealed first so I thought, why the hell not and revealed also) with a massive Cylon fleet and no protection, the humans limped along for a bit, but ended up dying with no pilots.

However, the humans seem very resilient. Maybe too resilient.

Spamming the Pegasus Engines/FTL is very powerful. Coupled with the extra ablative armour that Pegasus supplies to Galactica I struggle to see the Cylons being a real threat to the humans on a regular basis. It seems too easy for the humans to limp along and then make that final FTL to victory.

So, I was thinking, when a human player is executed the humans lose a morale. But if the Pegasus is destroyed, they lose nothing especially if it occurs towards the backend of the game. Why shouldn't the Pegasus lose morale (1 or 2) when it is destroyed. It might make the human players really think long and hard about taking damage to Galactica, and provides a reason why Cylons would be trying to destroy the Pegasus as well.

Thoughts?

Are you playing with New Caprica?

If the Humans are winning, it may be because you're playing with Pegasus and not New Caprica. New Caprica is very unfriendly to the Humans.

But you're right about a Morale loss concerning the demise of Pegasus...unless it is destroyed after Galactica shows up to rescue the New Caprica survivors. Perhaps then it should add to Morale if it is destroyed in the final battle.

Brother Cavil said:

What, seriously? We stopped playing New Caprica months ago because it made the game too easy for the humans. It always boiled down to an EO fest to launch the civie ships.

If the humans are constantly using Engine Room to get jump tracks, their hands have to be pretty limited. Hit them with crisis cards to reduce their resources. If you reveal early, stay an extra turn at the Ressurection Ship to get an extra Super Crisis (or two, if time is on your side). If there are basestars during the cylon turn, fire and damage Pegasus it only takes four damage to destroy it, and the Engine Room is gone.

The Pegasus expansion did make it easier for the humans to win, but in our experience it only evened out the odds of either side winning. We've occasionally thought about having a Morale loss if Pegasus is destroyed, but we actually play with randomly drawn damage so that Pegasus didn't become a damage sink.