Session Report 4 February 2009

We had 7 this week and split 4 & 3. Steve, Mike, Ben T & I played Battlestar Galactica again and I continued my run of never being on the winning side, although I'm no longer worried about being a Cylon all the time as I've now been human 3 in a row.
This was a 3 player game with me as Laura Roslin, Mike as Boomer, Steve as Tom Zarek (that's 3 times I think, I wonder what affinity Steve has with shady politicians) and Ben as Colonel Tigh. So I was president and Ben was Admiral.
Things went well for the humans in the early part of the game with no Cylons to disrupt progress, so much so that a certain human saw fit to create a bit of dissention themselves. This was Tom Zarek who decided he wanted to be president and so went to Administration and called an election to take the office from me. He won of course, being a politician he had the right mix of skills for the check and I didn't because I was also a politician and all my cards supported the check. So Zarek became president, but the problem was that on my turn, I moved to Administration and held another election, but now I held the cards that I couldn't use on the previous check and so won the office back. We had now played quite a few of our good cards and it was just as well there were no cylons about. Later in this phase I had the chance to look at Zarek's loyalty card and he was human, but the cylon detector must have been malfunctioning.
Just before the jump which triggered the sleeper phase, a crisis occurred that could have dropped one of the resources (food I think) into the red and we discussed whether we should let it drop so insuring that the sympathise would support humanity, we decided not (big mistake). The sleeper phase arrived, Boomer was the sympathise and headed off to the cylon fleet where she spent her time on the Caprica location hitting us with crises, which soon resulted in nearly all the available cylon ships congregating around Galactica, after that is, she gave her 2 remaining loyalty cards to Tigh, so there I was, knowing I was human, but looking at an Admiral with 4 loyalty cards, the problem was neither he nor Zarek did anything that convinced me that they were definitely a cylon and although I had the Arrest order Quorum card and could throw either of them in the brig, I knew that if I made the wrong choice, the situation could be even worse.
Eventually we got to the situation where we were 1 away from Kobol and at -3 on the jump track and 2 fuel left, we would be OK if we didn't lose more than one fuel, we had plenty of population, and could have jumped again at -3 after reaching distance 8. I thought we had a good chance but it turned out that both of the destinations drawn (as revealed afterwards) lost us 2 fuel, so the Cylons won again.
It was revealed after that although Tigh had 4 loyalty cards, it was Zarek who was the Skinjob.

Battlestar Galactica 160 mins.
Posn.	Player
1=	Steve H
1=	Mike
3=	Dave D
3=	Ben T

Over on the other table, Dave, Ben & Simon played Tinners' Trail and Galaxy Trucker.

Tinners' Trail 60 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave C	88
2	Simon	76
3	Ben C	74
Galaxy Trucker 70 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Ben C	64
2	Dave C	14
3	Simon	9