Battlestar Galactica

BGG Rank: 118

Players: 3 - 6, Recommended: 6+, Best: 6+

Playing Time: 180 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.25 / 5

Mechanisms: Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Hidden Roles, Once-Per-Game Abilities, Role Playing, Semi-Cooperative Game, Team-Based Game, Traitor Game, Variable Player Powers, Variable Set-up, Voting

Category: Bluffing, Deduction, Movies / TV / Radio theme, Political, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Spies / Secret Agents

Family: Components: Multi-Use Cards, Components: Polyhedral (not D6) dice, Components: Standees, Digital Implementations: VASSAL, Misc: Dice Tower Hall of Fame, TV Shows: Battlestar Galactica

Designer: Corey Konieczka

Artist: Kevin Childress, Andrew Navaro, Brian Schomburg, WiL Springer

Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games, Edge Entertainment, Editrice Giochi, Galakta, Game Harbor, Giochi Uniti, Heidelberger Spieleverlag

Category: Worker Placement Tag: Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is an exciting game of mistrust, intrigue, and the struggle for survival. Based on the epic and widely-acclaimed Sci Fi Channel series, Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game puts players in the role of one of ten of their favorite characters from the show. Each playable character has their own abilities and weaknesses, and must all work together in order for humanity to have any hope of survival. However, one or more players in every game secretly side with the Cylons. Players must attempt to expose the traitor while fuel shortages, food contaminations, and political unrest threatens to tear the fleet apart. After the Cylon attack on the Colonies, the battered remnants of the human race are on the run, constantly searching for the next signpost on the road to Earth. They face the threat of Cylon attack from without, and treachery and crisis from within. Humanity must work together if they are to have any hope of survival…but how can they, when any of them may, in fact, be a Cylon agent? Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is a semi-cooperative game for 3-6 players ages 10 and up that can be played in 2-3 hours. Players choose from pilots, political leaders, military leaders, or engineers to crew Galactica. They are also dealt a loyalty card at the start of the game to determine if they are a human or Cylon along with an assortment of skill cards based on their characters abilities. Players then can move and take actions either on Galactica, on Colonial 1, or in a Viper. They need to collect skill cards, fend off Cylon ships, and keep Galactica and the fleet jumping. Each turn also brings a Crisis Card, various tasks that players must overcome. Players need to play matching skill cards to fend off the problems; skill cards that don't match hinder the players success. Fate could be working against the crew, or there could be a traitorous Cylon! As players get closer and closer towards reaching their Earth, another round of loyalty cards are passed out and more Cylons may turn up. If players can keep their up their food stores, fuel levels, ship morale, and population, and they can keep Galactica in one piece long enough to make it to Earth, the Humans win the game. But if the Cylon players reveal themselves at the right moment and bring down Galactica, the Humans have lost. Official Site, Rules & FAQ: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=18&esem=4 Unofficial FAQ for really tricky questions: http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Battlestar_Galactica_FAQ

Average Playing Time	4-8 hours
Best Player Count	5 Best
Collection	Hannes
Difficulty	Standard
Played	Played
Recommended Player Count	4 Players, 5 Players, 7 Players
Special Mechanisms	Traitor

Players: 3 - 7, Recommended: 7+, Best: 7

Playing Time: 180 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.64 / 5

Game description from the publisher: The Battlestar Galactica, humanity's last beacon of hope, falters and crumbles. A tenuous solidarity between human and Cylon wavers under overwhelming desperation and doubt. For those seeking the promise of peace, a single vessel guards the future. The Demetrius, guided by unknown forces, plots a course through the stars – a course for home. Many would oppose this vision of the future. In this desperate time, both human and Cylon are driven to take matters into their own hands. For some, this means risking everything. For others, this means mutiny. Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak Expansion brings humanity's plight to its gripping climax. With two supplemental game boards, twelve new character sheets, thirty new Crisis cards, twenty-five new Skill cards, and much more, Daybreak invites players to undertake desperate missions, struggle under the constant threat of mutiny (through the addition of a Mutineer card in the Loyalty deck that can affect either human or Cylon), and bargain with Cylon Leaders driven by motives of their own! Daybreak also includes rules and components for an optional Battlestar Galactica experience titled "The Search for Home", featuring a new endgame and a new game board for the Demetrius, the sewage processing ship that becomes the fleet's best hope of salvation.

Players: 3 - 6, Recommended: 6+, Best: 6+

Playing Time: 180 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.56 / 5

Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to announce Exodus, the second expansion for Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game! With three new options to add to your game, Exodus is a great way to expand on the accusations and mistrust that runs rampant in Battlestar Galactica. You can choose to add any combination of the three new options included in Exodus. Crave more white-knuckle space dog-fighting? Incorporate the Cylon Fleet option. The Conflicted Loyalties option introduces new Loyalty Cards that will test even the most trustworthy allegiances. Finally, relive the emotional turmoil of the hit television series with the Ionian Nebula, which pits players against the various conflicting personalities aboard Galactica. The Cylon Fleet option keeps the pressure intense by introducing the Cylon Fleet game board. This board makes sure that every Crisis Card drawn will result in some sort of enemy ship activity. Once the Cylon Pursuit Track reaches the end, the Cylon ships will transfer over to the main game board, surrounding Galactica. There’s little time for rest between assaults, so get out there and protect those civvies, fighter jockeys! Alliances are put to the test in the Conflicted Loyalties option, where the new Final Five Loyalty Cards up the stakes and introduce penalties for revealing your fellow humans’ Loyalty Card. In addition, new Personal Goal Loyalty Cards present players with an incriminating task to undertake. If they don’t fulfill their goal, then they will cause Galactica to lose a resource at the end of the game. Will you raise suspicion by completing the damaging task, or will you lay low and hope your failures won’t condemn the rest of your crew? Finally, with the Ionian Nebula option, familiar faces populate the fleet as allies, and can be encountered by visiting locations on Galactica. But beware! The Cylons can influence these non-player characters, compelling them to produce negative effects when encountered. Manage humanity’s conflicting personalities carefully... or infighting will leave you vulnerable!

Players: 3 - 7, Recommended: 7+, Best: 7

Playing Time: 180 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.31 / 5

The first expansion for Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game, Pegasus adds two new supplemental game boards featuring the Battlestar Pegasus and the planet New Caprica, seven new characters, two plastic Basestars, as well as new Destination, Crisis, Loyalty, Quorum, Super Crisis, and Skill cards. The new Pegasus board can be used by itself or together with the New Caprica board to create the game you desire – the Pegasus alone for the additional firepower she provides, or add the New Caprica board to simulate the rebellion on the new human colony, bringing the game to an epic level. New rules introduce the ability to play as a new character type – the Cylon Leader, with a new Treachery Skill card type. From the Box: "On behalf of the officers and crew of the Pegasus, it's a pleasure to see you all. Welcome back to the Colonial Fleet." - Admiral Helena Cain The arrival of the Battlestar Pegasus heralds a new era in the lives of the Galactica crew and the Colonial government, bringing badly needed manpower and firepower to humanity's ongoing fight against the Cylons. However, under the command of Admiral Cain there is no place for compassion or mercy. Now brutal necessity and hard choices erode humanity's moral compass. The Cylons, in turn, are changing as well. The more they are exposed to humans, the more their individual agendas begin to guide their actions. In a time of suspicion and desperate need, the line between right and wrong grows less and less distinct. The Pegasus Expansion for Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game brings players the next chapter in the popular Syfy series. In addition to more Destination, Crisis, Super Crisis, Loyalty, and Skill Cards, this expansion introduces many new card types such as Treachery Skill Cards, representing the underhanded methods used to sabotage humanity's struggles. New characters in the expansion allow players to play as Cylon Leaders, who can win or lose based on their own mysterious motivations. New gameboards allow characters to explore both the Pegasus and New Caprica. Finally, with the New Caprica Objective Card and board, humanity will be subjected to Cylon rule, and must defend themselves from their oppressive overlords until Galactica can return to attempt a daring rescue. "We fight 'em until we can't." - Kara Thrace Expands: Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game

rnijholt rated: N/A/10

I very much like the theme of the game (not too big of a fan of the television show), but this just would not hit the table: not enough fans in my group, plus I would need a bigger group for a better game.

NinjaPirateAssassin rated: N/A/10

Punched but never played. Moved and the new group already has a copy, so it'll never see play.

passif rated: N/A/10

Plus Broken Token insert. Contains Base game and all expansions.

bigcheese rated: N/A/10

Cooperative. 3+ players.

SGHughes rated: N/A/10

Battlestar Galactica --

Melsana rated: N/A/10

Played 1 time. Last Played: Dec 6, 2008 I'm a fan of the show, so it was fun to get an opportunity to try this game. It did not disapoint, and would be a game I would love to try again.

bunglebb rated: N/A/10

3-6

kaylex rated: N/A/10

Played a demo at GenCon '08. Never watched the show, so I couldn't get into the game.

mschemen rated: N/A/10

Played once. It was great.

Aging One rated: N/A/10

Acquired 2008.

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