[?] Battlestar Galactica the board game

[John Crichton]

I assume the cylon player never officially revealed himself, which would let him keep on drawing and playing his full allotment of cards. For the right character, keeping everyone else in prison for a pretty significant length of time seems like a piece of cake. They probably would have escaped before the game ended, but not before the Galactica had lost so many resources that there was no point in continuing.

With the amount of cards available to the 3 humans compared to whatever the cylon player is drawing I can see being able to keep the humans locked up for a full turn and perhaps a bit more but not much longer than that without some very bad luck. Also, the human players will be building up their hands in the meantime making it easier to deal with threats for the next couple turns. Not a great situation to be sure but certainly not one where I would concede defeat!

 

[Mal Malenkirk]

I assume the cylon player never officially revealed himself, which would let him keep on drawing and playing his full allotment of cards. For the right character, keeping everyone else in prison for a pretty significant length of time seems like a piece of cake. They probably would have escaped before the game ended, but not before the Galactica had lost so many resources that there was no point in continuing.

Exactly. Everybody knew by then that the president was a cylon, but he technically still hadn't revealed.

When in the brig you can only play one card. The unrevealed cylon could play as many as he wanted. The human players were Chief, Starbuck and Adama. To get out you need to play tactic or politics cards... If you have the game, look up these three characters and chuckle. Chief was useless and the other two were drawing only 4 useful cards and could only put 2 in anyone attempt to break out of the brig! They were playing against Baltar who was drawing 3 hindering cards a turn and was helped by the destiny deck that was feeding 2/3 harmful cards.

After 6 turns with all humans in the brigs and the prospect of 3 more guaranteed turn (Chief and President were coming up), they cried uncle.

The president was using his turns to move civilian ships toward raiders. Being able to put in only 3 helpful cards against skill checks, the players had failed many crisis (especially anything that required politics, which they didn't have, or tactics, which they couldn't spare). Whenever the check had politic cards as negative, they also had to deal with Baltar's cards.

It really was a clusterf*ck. A very marginal situation but the cylon players still laughs whenever he thinks about it.

 

[John Crichton]

The president was using his turns to move civilian ships toward raiders. Being able to put in only 3 helpful cards against skill checks, the players had failed many crisis (especially anything that required politics, which they didn't have, or tactics, which they couldn't spare). Whenever the check had politic cards as negative, they also had to deal with Baltar's cards.

Like I said before, I would never had conceded. Make the toaster earn his victory. Someone will get out of the brig eventually and can turn the tide.