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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 5127286" data-attributes="member: 834">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.</blockquote>