That’s true. I wouldn’t mind permanently being the last to pick and take a boring character with matching colors.
I also think a busy season for most took a bit of a toll on the dialog and play - there wasn’t enough conversation for collaboration and for avoiding errors.
Anyway, I can take this as a puzzle to lose by as least as possible, it’s good practice for not taking bad things so seriously. But I think we should call it. And that you shouldn’t care so much, it hurts you more than me. It’s on us to be masochists.
Fun, yes, but it is a soul crushing kind of fun. And as I was human in #27 I know that feeling; but we had a good run, despite the almost sure loss. For me, BSG shines the brightest when there is tension. In the situations where it gets lopsided this tension disappears.
I agree with a lot of what has been said above. The tricky thing with removing any uncertainty is that it removes a core part of the game, part of which it the tension I find fun. I am not sure there is any good way to fix it that doesn’t cause more problems than it solves.
I mean the last game I ran was so close. And we’re it not for a few well timed plays by the Cylons, humans win. Rowe using the Human Fleet to jettison a 3 distance jump (and the unfortunate reality that the next two jumps were two, and the 3 after that all 3) was perfectly played. That, plus luck on the deck, made the difference.
And the fortune of the damage tokens helped. Losing the hangar at a key moment was brutal.
I wonder if the mods can come up with some setup rules that are more fair but keep the mystery. Maybe we can leverage nuetral forum mod benevolence to tip the balances back towards nuetral while keeping the mystery metagame intact for the players.
Good game! I think the free distance crisis and free prep crisis really forced our hand to act early - I would have revealed on the first one if I had enough cards to make a difference, luckily for us Jorn was in a much better position to throw that one.
Was also really lucky drawing the 6PP from the CoP cards. If it wasn’t for that our existence on Galactica would have been considerably more dangerous. If the game had gone a little bit longer, and if Jorn had an XO on his turn I would have suggested making him president. God emperor Faust.
I’ll leave it to our esteemed council of DMs on what they want to do about the two-Cylon problem! Thanks everyone and thanks for running this @Knightsaber!
Oh, yeah… Remember me saying Morale wasn’t the worst thing to lose at the start? I started with Inspirational Speech.
What Mutiny did I finally draw? Well… An unplayable one.
Good game Cylons & thanks KS! Maybe the initial loyalty deal could rely on the discretion of the game runner. It seems that humanity might have a chance if neither the Admiral or President is one of the pair, pre-sleeper phase.