This is kinda covered in the stickied first game, but we need a thread for all the awesome moments in our games.

So to start it off:

One 6 person game where I was Roslin, and my buddy was Adama. We were into the sleeper phase with no revealed cyclons and we both had our titles still. It also happened that we were both cyclons. Now even here we are looking pretty good, but it got better. One of the humans accused another of being a cylon, being absolutely certain he had found the cylon, and of course since the accused was actually a human , the counter accusations flew. After a number of loudly shouted "You are a cylon!!!" we ended up throwing both of them in the brig. At this point the game was pretty much over thought the humans didn't know it yet, between the president and the admiral we switfly ended the game by lack of population.

The best part is that after the game we learned the reason the human looked like a cyclon is because he accidentally put a negative card into the deck when only he had access to that color, and because of the secrecy he couldn't even admit it. Win for the cylons!

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One of my new favorite moments happened just this past weekend. We were in a close game, most of the resources were around 3 except population which was still high. Both Cylons were already revealed, and the humans got another jump icon to push the jump track into the space where they could FTL jump for the last time and win on the next human player's turn. Luckily me (a Cylon) and the other Cylon were sitting next to each other so we would both get our turns before the humans could jump, but even with two Cylon turns in a row the odds didn't look in our favor.

Morale was the lowest resource (it was at 3), so the other Cylon chose a Crisis (using Caprica) that was resulted in -1 morale. So that took morale to 2. So then my turn. The last hope for us Cylons. I draw my two Crisis cards (also using Caprica). Nothing that looks like it will win the game outright for us, but I choose the one that gives us a slim chance (I can't remember the name of it), but it is a skill check of around 8, with the fail being "-1 morale. Then flip over a civilian ship token and destroy it."

Even though the test is only an 8, the humans fail it, so morale drops to 1 and we go to destroy a civilian ship. We know that at least 1 of the civilian ships has a morale icon on it, but we can't remember how many there are like that. Regardless, it's our only hope to pull one of those ones. I tell my Cylon friend to point out which one I should grab since we always joke with this guy that he has absolutely ridiculous luck. He points to one, then changes his mind and points to another buried one. I grab that one and turn it over. It's the population/morale one!! Morale drops to 0, Cylons win!!

We can't believe it! No one else can either. We start turning over the other civilian ship tokens to see how many actually have morale on them. Turns out there is only 1 out of the 12 that does!! To be fair, 2 tokens had been destroyed during the game, but this guy still guessed the right ship we needed against 1 in 10 odds! If we had pulled ANY other ship, the humans win with an FTL room jump. That pretty much proves that this guy does in fact, have ridiculous luck.

Good times (at least for us Cylons!).

In a three player game President Baltar looked at my loyality cards after the sleeper phase and accused me of being a cylon, which I wasn't. The third player (Helo, admiral) believed him and they threw me in the brig. Then Baltar used his Quorum card to throw the admiral in the brig as well. Several rounds followed where we tried to get out, then finally Helo managed to pass the test and Baltar played the second "Brig"-Quorum card. Baltar didn't reveal himself till Helo got out again, then he left Galactica, in fear of being put into the brig himself.

In the meantime cylons had boarded Galactica, a fleet attacked our ships and our resources had taken quite a loss. We had played rather well before getting to Kobol and nearly all our resources were above the starting level, when things went downhill. It was a close thing, but with "Brute Force" the centurion was killed one space before it destroyed Galacitca, and by jumping the lfeet with a -3 population loss we evaded the rmeaining cylons. It was a close game till the end, but with all resources in teh red (and two on "1!) the humans managed to win this game. It wa the funniest game, I've ever played!

Short, but sweet...

I think every game group has had this one... when a Cylon pulls the FTL to take population down by -3...

Specifically, in one game, Zarek was President and played as if he was a Human the whole game. He played Investigative commitee many times, EO'd pilots, etc etc etc... mostly, he always argued against Crisis Decisions that would lower resources... but because he was so good at arguing against morale, food, and fuel drops, we naturally didn't peg him to be a Cylon. It was his strategy to let population naturally get down to 3, then jump the fleet at -3 on the jump track. Humans lost at 7 distance...

Heartbreaking game, but lesson learned as no one is letting that happen again.

pre-sleeper phase in a 5 player game. I was Starbuck, and a cylon.

I was sitting in a viper at the rear of the ship on top of 2 of our civilian ships and about 5 raiders were coming around the starboard side towards me. By the turn before mine, they were on top of me. I knew if they activated I might get shot down denying me two actions on my turn so the turn before mine I used my once-per-game ability to ditch a crisis card that would activate the jump marker and raiders, a double plus. Instead I got a crisis card that activated basestars and no jump marker, perfect. On my turn I move to communications and moved two more civilian ships to the rear of Galactica, where the raiders were waiting to kill them, and then I revealed to send the ship's other pilot, Boomer, to the brig.

The next turn was Helo's who moved to communications at the behest of the other players. However, instead of moving two of the civilian ships out of danger, he moved two more into danger!

A double reveal, first and only time I've seen it happen.

See my post about the combination of a revealed and unknown unrevealed Cylon. This game is priceless!!!

We have had a couple of memorable revelas in the last couple weeks. Both cases where some give an executive order and the target does something bad then reveals themself. Definately bumps up the paranoia factor when the person you help out suddeny turns on you.

Recently we had a 6-player game going (with me as Tigh), and I was a cylon from the very start (second cylon card popped up during sleeper face, and he quickly revealed). We were playing with a mix of experienced and new players, and people were making all kinds of silly decisions. On his very first turn someone made a boneheaded decision to go get cards instead of deal with more pressing dangers, like the two basestars. Eventually, Adama got brigged so I became Admiral, then promptly took the presidency from Roslin, also in the brig, since "she wasn't even using her presidency effectively and we needed those frakkin quorum cards). As admiral, I kept choosing 1-distance destination cards, and finally just whittled down the fuel to 0. It was only after we lost on account of Zero fuel did I need to reveal myself

RudyHuxxxtable said:

Wow...it sounds like your friends are terrible at this game.

Gaius Frakkin Baltar said:

Yea it was one of those unfortunate situations for the humans where the two actual experienced players wound up cylons. We've played since and it's been MUCH closer. It was one of those games where everything went right for the cylons and the humans were inexperienced or silly.

Funny game last night. 4 players. We jump to 4. President Baltar becomes a symp. I'm Admiral Adama and I gain his title. I look at my loyalty card. Cylon. I look at the quorum cards he hands me. Two arrest orders. Sweet.

Cylon base star wrecks the Admirals Quarters. I make my move. Chief to the brig! Starbuck runs to repair Admirals Quarters. Starbuck to the brig! Admiral-President Adama never reveals himself as he holds the humans in the brig while Baltar keeps nailing them with bad Crisis cards. The final blow came when Baltar played the Crisis Card that recalled all Vipers to the Galactica. Next Cylon attack ended the game.

Played 3 games last night, a 4 player, a 5 player, and a 6 player. The 4 player game was one of the shortest ones ever. I was playing as Zarek and was the last player. As is becoming depressingly common I started as the Cylon. Eight crisises and I won the game. There were still 4 cards left in the destiny deck and the humans never jumped. There were 4 or 5 Cylon attack cards that came up and a couple crises that didn't have jump icons.

I think that was our fastest game ever, only 1/2 hour-45 minutes total.

Battlestar Galactica Files: star date 4.14.2009

Players (in order):
Jason – Bill Adama
Nick – Tom Zarik
Nathaniel – Boomer/ Sharon
Tyler – Helo/ Karl Agathon
Jon – Laura Roslin

Admiral Adam made quick work of the Cylon fleet that threaten Galactica so the Humans had some time to recoup their looses. Boomer got in a raptor and tried to scout out where to travel to next but damaged the raptor in the process destroying it. Unsure of the other players but had trust in the EX Helo, President Roslin elected Helo as the new vice president of the colonies. With little Cylon threat the Admiral and Boom kept scouting for new locations and keep failing and loosing raptors. When the feet did job the Admiral choose to go to Ragnar Anchorage in order to refuel and rebuild some ships. Vice President Helo was worried about the presidence terminal illness effecting her duties, so with the help of Tom Zarik he ran for election as president and won.

The follow weeks to come consisted mostly of food problems some moral issues and more failed scouting missions. But then a Traitor was accused and seeking to prove his worth Boomer elected to go to brig seeing as how she could probly be a Cylon in the sleep vase any ways. Problems came when A large Cylon ambush jumped in and attacked our civilian ships. They quickly took out three ships. , and not wanting to loose any more the admiral gave the order to jump the ship early…leaving another three ships behind. Unfortunately the ship had to go threw another jump cycle. No one wanted to get Boomer out because we all knew she was going right back in, so most of the actions consisted of give president Helo orders to do presidential things like give speeches. The ship jumped and everything changed.

Now not knowing who to trust the admiral knew they needed a moral boost. He ordered President Helo to give some speeches. He tried but failed. On Zariks turn he tried the same thing, giving the president an executive order. President Helo didn’t like the actions of the admiral, so with is presidential powers he placed an arrest order on him and threw him in the brig, dirty Cylon. When Tom Zerik came to his defense the president got suspicious again and ordered another arrest and put Tom Zerik in the brig too! Boomer couldn’t do anything about this because she was in the brig too, although she was already there on suspicion of Cylonage. Leaving no one else to command the president accepted the title of Admiral.

Now overtaken with a strong feeling that she might be a Cylon former President Roslin Straps a bomb to her self and blows up part of Galactica! Dirty Cylon! Oh no Helo made a bad choice. Good thing he is the President and the Admiral to deal with this all. On the following three turns Adam, Zarik, and Boomer all try despartly to get out of the brig, but some how the president/admiral seemed to keep lying down negative cards! Not to mention that the destiny deck was no helping at all. Even if Zariks ability to lower the difficulty it was no use. A full turn later Zarik makes it out and the helps Boomer get out. They wanted the formal Admiral to get out but he wasn’t going to be a use to stop the crazed President/admiral because he was too emotionally attached to him! So Boomer got out and activated the admiral quarters but failed both times to throw The president in the brig.

Finally President/Admiral Helo made a cunny move putting Tom Zarik back in the brig and reviled that he was a Cylon. At this point Moral and Population where so low it looked like there was no light at the end of the tunnel. How ever The presidency title and Admiral title passed to Boomer seeing as she is the only human not in the brig. She instantly pardoned Zarik and got to work on shooting down some raiders. In the following turns Nuclear mussels hit Galactica, Boomer attacked some more raiders and Adam stayed in the brig!

Having no choice Galactica had to force a Jump even though it could mean the death of the fleet. But luckily they rolled an 8 and took everyone with them. All they had to do was jump one more time and they would be safe! But the killing blow came when a bomb blew up Colonial One. After that it only took a easy crisis of accusing each other to lower the moral past the breaking point.

The Humans had lost with a count of 5 crisis cards away from a win.

(Note: Human resources where increased by one in this game)

Sorthlador said:

The President title should have gone to someone else since the brig has nothing to do with it, but nice session report!

We just had the worst human loss that I've ever had or the best cylon win, not due to the game (i.e. nasty crisis cards), but instead to the cylon players pretty much directly. It was a 6 player game.

Basically everything was going fine by the sleeper phase. Humans were in the blue in all resources. We had been jumping slowly though, and to confirm our suspecisions at the sleeper phase we had a cylon sympathizer and our admiral revealed as a cylon. For the first round still no big deal, they did some damage but we handled it fine. Here is where it started going wrong.

The revealed cylon accidentally let slip that he had both cylon cards. The humans were very worried, we knew that we were all human now but one of us would become a cylon. I was a human president at the time and I decided that to limit the damage done to the humans i needed to munipulate the cylon into giving his card to the person that I could best deal with. So with two arrest orders I threw the human just clockwise of the cylon in the brig. Keeping in mind that there were no cylon ships and no major problems so far, the logic was that the remaining unbrigged human(the rest of us were already in the brig) would be given the cylon card then with the help of an excutive order I could in turn brig him before he did any damage. So far so good, the situation seems under control, except the cylon doesn't do what i expect, he doesn't make anyone a cylon but instead slaps down a deployment. Still the humans think not such a big deal there is still the human admiral out of the brig he can bust us out and we'll just deal with one of us being a cylon later.

Then on the unbrigged humans turn, he takes the presidency from me. The humans in the brig go ballistic, accusing him of peverting the game by playing as a cylon on the expectation that he would become a cylon. The idea being that even though he is human if he plays to gain all the power than the cylon will make him a cylon.

Despite the revealed cylon never giving over his other cylon card, the one human out of the brig continues to play on the cylon team, stopping anyone getting out of the brig. The remaining humans, including me, alternate between disbelief and anger that he would not only play as a cylon but also not even get a cylon card by the end of the game. And with the human on their side the game inevitably ends after 30 painful minutes with one human-helping-cylon out and the other three all in the brig.

At the end the three brigged humans are pretty much completely fed up with the game and not a little upset at our buddy human for not only betraying us so badly but not even being on the winning side by the end.

Except that there is one final revelation. ....The unbrigged human was a cylon.... The revealed cylon did not have both cylon cards, he was acting. The humans were stunned, we have been playing this game a lot, over 20 games for us all and we had never been so totally fooled. Normally we took just about anything said with a grain of salt and had not seriously screwed up before. The revealed cylon officially gave the best acting performance that we had ever seen. He somehow convinced 3 experienced humans without a shadow of a doubt that he had both cylon cards. And we completely fell for it and it lost us the game.

This was the first time when the game itself and random luck played pretty much no role in the game. The cylon players had resoundly defeated the humans, or if you prefer the humans defeated themselves.

Thats so awesome, I'm soo going to try that next time I'm a cylon.

But President, WHY THE FRAK WOULD YOU THROW A HUMAN IN THE BRIG!!!!!!

Okay i can get MAYBE to stop two cylons in a row. but not when theres two people already in the brig!?? what the frak was that.

lol it was a little while ago, so I have trouble remembering, but I'll admit it wasn't the smartest move. I was too focused on containing the cylons and underestimated how nasty it could get quickly.

Does anyone have any more really good "Humans are awesome" stories? It's easy to come up with "So-and-so was a Cylon, we never suspected, we lost horribly" stories, but Humans win at least some of the time. Or so it's claimed.

So hit me. Tell me what kinds of strategies or tricks the humans have used to win the game with the maximum amount of style. The most style would naturally come against more experienced players, so "Trick the Newbie" stories are not so fun.

Great reads! I have two (one an accident and one deliberate):

1) My first game (6 player) with some relative noobs (and amazingly in alphabetical order). We 'luck' out and no one is a Cylon in the first half. So we cruise and since no one really knows what happens with the Symp we don't slough off any resources into the red. So, obviously, B (the Symp) becomes a Cylon. I start looking around and I'm 100% certain C is a Cylon and D is not. R (after me) makes a couple of misstatements which makes me think he's the other Cylon. Well, E reveals herself so I'm now positive, R is ok and C is the cylon. Well, then, frak it all, R declares he's a Cylon. BUT, but, I say, I was certain C was the other one. Comes around to C and WHAM, he's a Cylon too! Apparently our card-mistress screwed up and had too many cylon cards in the game. I wanted to continue (I'll still win, frak it!) but D's too depressed.

2) I played Roslin and was a Cylon from the get-go. By now, I know the rules and am also telling everyone what happens in the game. With my power I purposely choose jump points to get to the sleeper phase quicker and to make me look good (I'm helped in this because when I hand a crisis card to the girl next to me to place on the bottom she accidentally sees its a basestar and says "you can't be a Cylon!") Though I loudly tell everyone that if we don't have any resources in the red then the Symp will be a Cylon, I'm still able to convince the Admiral to spread damage around (also made me look human). Esp. on the jump where if we lose a fuel we go into red, but he chooses not to. So, of course, R (the Symp) is a Cylon. E then reveals and throws W in the Brig with her reveal card. I make a feeble attempt at getting W out of the Brig and then convince the Admiral to throw C into the brig too because he's obviously the one tanking our skill checks. Comes around to W again and he gets out of the brig only to pull a crisis card which puts him back in. By the time it comes back to my turn, I've got a stack of skill cards because I refused to 'waste' them getting people out of the brig. Then I brig the Admiral leaving the only player free on the ship to be the unrevealed Cylon (with a stack of green cards ready to tank Brig checks). It was easy after that (and boring).

Am I the only one who doesn't want to be a Cylon? It's too easy.

Sort of a good human story.

We started out the game by pulling three basestars in a row. That meant every single raider was on the board. To make matters worse one of the basestar cards jammed the Communications Center so we couldn't move civies out of harm's way. Even worse the Basestars kept firing at us and had damaged both FTL and the Hangar Deck (including Helo who had just appeared). Nearly eveyone was in Sickbay, half our vipers were damaged, all civies were in play but couldn't move, and no one could launch, but we perservered and with a little teamwork ("frakkin XO the chief, then Starbuck!") and smart moves (in moving the Cylons) we suceeded losing only three civies and two vipers destroyed Sometimes there's nothing prettier than seeing Starbuck kill off 11 raiders(4 max firepower cards) and the Admiral nuke a Basestar and three raiders all in one turn.