Questions tagged [battlestar-galactica]
Battlestar Galactica is a 3-6 player game based on the Sci-Fi TV series, published by Fantasy Flight Games. It is a mostly cooperative game featuring a "hidden traitor" mechanic. Players select characters and work together to save humanity, but some portion of them are secretly Cylons, evil robots bent on destruction. (Playtime: about 3 hours.)
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Can Athena's once-per-game activate a Cylon location?
Sharon "Athena" Agathon (cylon leader) has the ability:
Resolute - Action: Once per game, activate any undamaged location.
Can I use this to activate a Cylon location while infiltrating ...
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Can you activate one viper twice with the command location?
The Command location has the ability:
Activate up to 2 unmanned vipers.
Then the rules say:
Each viper may be activated any number of times during a
player’s turn
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Battlestar Galactica (base game) Sympathizer explanation?
I recently purchased BSG the boardgame and, reading the rules, two questions aroused to my mind regarding the sympathizer mechanic.
With 4 and 6 players, after dealing the starting loyalties cards, ...
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Does Battlestar Galactica just poof out of existence the very instant Fuel drops to 0?
In my first (and so far only) session of Battlestar Galactica1, I played as a human, and an unfortunate string of events led to Fuel dropping to 1 while we had traveled measly 6 Distance.
On the next ...
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Iron will and negative pass-effects. Loophole?
Yesterday I played a game of Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game with all expansions. We got the crisis card "Reactor Critical" (from the Daybreak expansion), with a difficulty of 7, and the effects:
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What to do when all basestars are in the Cylon Fleet board?
The last time my group played BSG Board Game, we faced the following situation:
A player took a Crisis Card that activated Basestar Attack. But, at that turn, all the basestars were at the Cylon ...
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Allies Cards in Sickbay/Brig
Last weekend my group played Battlestar Galactica's Exodus Expansion using the Ionian Nebula option. In a determined moment of the game, an Ally Card was located at the Sickbay (it was Simon O'Neill, ...
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Player targeted by Executive Order card must obey the other player order?
The Executive Order card says:
Action: Choose any other player. He may move his character and then take 1 action OR not move and take 2 actions.
This does not state that the player targeted by the ...
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Is mandatory to play at least one skill card in skill checks?
When discussing an answer that I provided in another question (Battlestar Galactica: How to balance core game), the question arose of whether it is mandatory to play at least one card in skill checks. ...
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Do Cylon Leaders in Battlestar Galactica (Daybreak expansion) draw an extra card in sickbay?
I recently played a game of BSG with some friends and we ran into a situation wherein the Cylon Leader was in the sickbay and their turn came around. The sickbay states that you draw only one card, ...
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Combat super crisis cards during final jump in the Pegasus expansion
Can a combat super crisis card that has a civilian ship in its set-up evacuate a prepared civilian ship from the New Caprica board onto space around the Galactica?
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Battlestar Galactica: How to balance core game
I never saw the human team win and I would like making it a little bit easier for humans to finish the game without losing.
How can I balance that? Is there anywhere a new set of rules that balance ...
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How do I handle a late player for Battlestar Galactica?
I have a player that may be later for a start of a game. How can I incorporate them into a session of BSG?
I see two simple ways of doing this:
Create the character at setup time and "zombiefy" ...
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BSG Exodus: What happens with a damaged base star on launch raiders?
We played the Exodus expansion with the Cylon fleet option for the first time last night.
We had a situation where there was a single basestar on the main board, and we'd damaged it with the "can't ...
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In Battlestar Galatica Pegasus expansion, does the cylon team win if the cylon leader wins?
In the pegasus expansion, these points happen:
The cylon players win.
The cylon leader reveals his agenda
and he completed it successfully.
Did both cylons and cylon leader win the game OR did the ...
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Does "next" in line-of-succession mean "first remaining" in line-of-succession?
The rules for BSG state that "Should the President or Admiral be revealed as a Cylon, the next player in the line of succession for that title claims it".
However, because of the Administration ...
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What are some Battlestar Galactica Daybreak Human Strategies?
My group and I have recently acquired the Battle Star Galactica Daybreak expansion. We also have all the previous expansions and base game. To give context, the previous expansions made it very ...
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Is it required that someone is Admiral?
When starting a game of Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game, the three players selected Roslin, Tyrol, and Apollo. Per page 5 of the rules, none of us are the Admiral. Then we got a Crisis card that ...
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Do you get two actions when you return from space with Starbuck?
In Battlestar Galactica, "Starbuck" has a special ability that when she starts her turn in space, she gets two actions instead of one. This makes sense because as a snazzy pilot, she can out-manuever ...
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Battlestar Galactica: what is the most critical resource?
In the Battlestar Galactica basic game, what is the most critical resource between Fuel, Food, Morale and Population?
Does it change with the 6-player FFG optional rule where humans start with 8 Fuel,...
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Does the Battlestar Galactica game spoil the TV series?
I've watched the first few episodes of Battlestar Galactica, and a friend recently got the game. We love The Resistance, and I'm eager to try a similarly deceptive game with more going on than just ...
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Battlestar Galactica: why Pegasus sympathiser is better
I've heard the sympathiser in Pegasus Expansion is far more interesting to play than the one in the basic game. What makes it so different?
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Alternatives to the Sympathiser in Battlestar Galactica
I'm a big fan of Battlestar Galactica, but have an issue with games with an even number of players. For these games, the game recommends replacing a Cylon with a Sympathiser to help balance it.
For ...
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Is it possible for a 6-player game of BSG + Exodus to only ever have one Cylon?
The revised rules for preparing the Loyalty deck when using the "Exodus" expansion say that in a 6-player game, we should build a deck with an additional "You are not a Cylon" card (compared to the ...
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Help! I'm A Cylon!
A bit of backstory: I've only played the Battlestar Galactica game twice. The first time I was uproariously drunk, and a bit too delighted at getting to "be" Dr Gaius Baltar; all the inexperienced (...
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Cylon loyalty card abilities and the New Caprica detention location
If the Cylon loyalty card ability says "If not in the brig...", can the player then activate it when he reveals himself as a Cylon while in detention in New Caprica?
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Will Return to Duty get someone out of the Brig?
The other day, when playing Battlestar Galactica, we had all (bar the CAG) been brigged, and someone drew the crisis Return to Duty card.
Turn 5 Crisis: Return to Duty
CAG Chooses
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Battlestar Galactica: meaning of a Quorum card that destroys ships
I have a question regarding a specific Quorum card in Battlestar Galactica. I don't remember its title, but it has in its text something like "Destroy 3 raiders, a heavy raider, or a centurion token"....
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What happens to the president's quorum card hand when he loses the title?
Do they get handed over to the new president or do they get shuffled back into the quorum card deck?
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Which expansion to get for BSG Board game?
I've got the Battlestar Galactica board game and I absolutely love it. I'm thinking of getting one of the expansions for it but I'm torn between the Exodus and Pegasus expansions.
How do these ...
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You are a sympathetic Cylon
I'm still pondering over our Cylon's greatest loss in the last 6 player game we played.
In turn 3 the first Cylon player got executed by an Admiral Chooses crisis card (Kain-player resolved that one ...
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Use of Executive Order in Battlestar Galatica
As seen in this question ...Playing "Executive Orders" on self
Executive Order lets another player take 2 Actions if they don't move. From my understanding of the rules this means the ...
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New Cylon Leader Objectives
When playing with a cylon leader, a benign "humans win" objective generally unbalances the game. Also, the limited number of objectives makes it fairly easy to guess which the leader has.
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Does Consult The Prisoner move jump track again, after an auto-jump?
Here's the scenario:
The fleet is one away from
auto-jumping, i.e. at the -1 location
on the jump track
Consult The Prisoner is drawn during
the Crisis step
Current Player chooses to attempt the
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Strategy for succeeding at Crisis skill checks
I've played my first real BSG game last week with three players and the humans got wiped out before we even jumped once...
I did some calculations to figure out if things get easier or harder with ...
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Should the core Battlestar Galactica game adopt the revised Cylon Resurrection Ship?
In Battlestar Galactica, revealed Cylon players can use the Resurrection Ship location to pass their unrevealed loyalty cards to another player at the table. This can be necessary when one player has ...
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Reuse Quorum cards with "Give this card to another player"
Many quorum cards feature an effect that says "give this card to another player". That player then receives some kind of passive privilege (does not require an action) like determining the next FTL ...
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More conveniently randomizing the cardboard tokens
Since BSG takes up quite a bit of real estate on the table I found it to be difficult at times to a good random pick among the damage or ship tokens.
I've thought about using the dice. Put them in a ...
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Using weapons control on raiders
I just played my first game of BSG (solo using the official fully cooperative rules). I've got the german edition so my card names might be a bit off...
In my version the "weapons control" locations ...
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Quorum cards like "Inspirational Speech" - Difference between results
I just played my first game of BSG (solo using the official fully cooperative rules). I've got the german edition so my card names might be a bit off...
The card "Inspirational Speech" says something ...
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Playing "Executive Orders" on self
I just played my first game of BSG (solo using the official fully cooperative rules). I've got the german edition so my card names might be a bit off...
The green skill cards 1 and 2 say something ...
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Paying Costs you Cannot Afford
Sometimes you get a crisis card that has a choice, such as "-1 Food OR Current Player Discards 3 Cards". In situations where you cannot afford the cost of the latter, are you forced into the former? ...
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Battlestar Galactica vs. Shadows over Camelot
I've seen these games compared very often, with steadfast advocates on each side. link1 link2 link3 I'm mainly concerned with:
depth of strategy
suitability for new players (length of time to ...
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Political Prowess someone else's activation?
In Battlestar Galactica, there is a card (Political Prowess) whose text reads thusly:
Play before making a skill check triggered by a location. Do not make the skill check; instead, it ...
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What is the most damaging thing a cylon can do in BattleStar Galactica on a turn he is revealing himself?
What I have seen people do is try to brig a player making a final attempt to sway someone to help. The best success I have had in a game was grab the admiral position for a turn with a character ...
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Do events that occur "After the Activate Cylon Ships step" occur on revealed Cylon turns?
Revealed Cylons can choose to enact Crisis cards from Caprica. At least one of these cards - Fulfiller of Prophecy - says something along these lines:
After the Activate Cylon Ships step, return to ...
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Why does BSG's "Assign Vice President" card not affect succession?
In the Battlestar Galactica game, the quorum card "Assign Vice President" can be given to a player, and causes that player to be the only viable target for the "Administration" location that picks a ...
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Aftermarket Cases for Board Games
So I've picked up the Battlestar Galactica: Exodus expansion, and now have the base game, the pegasus expansion, and the exodus expansion. It has reached the point where it is near impossible to fit ...
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"Best of the Best" and Heavy Raiders?
There is a card in the Battlestar Galactica: Exodus expansion called "Best of the Best". It says:
Play before a piloted viper makes an
attack. Instead of rolling the
attack, roll the die and ...
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Anastasia "Dee" Dualla Once-Per-Game Ability Timing
The text on Anastasia "Dee" Dualla's once per game says:
Once per game, before making a Skill check, look at the top 3 cards of any Skill deck (even outside your Skill set), and add all of them to ...
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