OK!

I finally had a chance to play a few rounds of the very popular BSG boardgame (rated No. 19 on BGG) at a gameclub meeting on Saturday. I am sure some of the info below is incorrect! You can read some more info on BSG game at the BGG site.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111

so...very basically, AIUI the BSG game is called a semi-cooperative game. The humans win by preserving the BSG, fuel, food, morale, population and reaching earth. The Cylon players win if the human players run out of any resource above before reaching earth. At the start each player is a human and part of the BSG and it's accompanying fleet. Early on, each player is given a loyalty card that tells the owner if they are a human or a cylon spy (IIRC, we played a basic game and 2 out of 6 players could end up as Cylons). This card/info is never revealed to other players during the game.

The fun part of the game for the human players is trying to avoid cylon attacks and to uncover the cylon spies onboard BSG (not an easy task against a good cylon player or terrible human players). Anyone can be a suspected Cylon spy! The fun part for the cylon players comes in trying sabotage the human efforts to reach earth while remaining undercover or by directing cylon attacks against the BSG if the player is revealed as a cylon.

Overall, all of us found the game mechanics rather clunky and confusing and felt the gameplay could be streamlined. However, this is outweighed by the game-induced paranoia in trying to uncover the cylon spies on BSG. Fortunately, for my sessions the games played out very well with good participants and very close game endings (2 wins to humans, 1 win to cylons).

Overall, I would rate the game a 7.0/10 (this may change as I become more familiar with the game). Check it out!

Thanks for the review.

Thanks for the review Patrocles.


Wheels

I used to play boardgames all the time when I was growing up and even through college but the advent of PC gaming pretty much tore me away permanently from that platform.

Thanks!

I was able to play a few more sessions of BSG last weekend. Now that I am a bit more comfortable with the game system I bumped up my personal rating slightly.

I was told that there is a Pegasus Expansion available. The only comment I was able to hear from two persons at the meeting both stating they liked the expansion in that it speeded up the gameplay without sacrificing the game experience.
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43539

PM,
I find myself enjoying boardgaming for the camaraderie and gaming face-to-face with my opponents/teammates. However, imho, for sim gaming (FPS, flightsims, racing games) nothing comes close to computer games!

Oooh, if I had that expansion I would want to play as Admiral Helena Cain. I always wanted to be a hot looking beatch.

Funny, I just watched TNG "Ensign Ro" last night. Smokin'

The board game sounds fun, too bad I only have my 8 year old son to play board games with.

You sure you cant draft your wife to play as well? Sell it as "quality family time" to her.

Sounds like you need a few people to make it interesting.

I will force her to watch the show at some point. I tried to make her watch "33" and she hated it.

Oh man. If she didn't like "33" then I dont think she'll like the rest of BSG at all.

Oh well, there are other sci-fi movies and shows I'm sure you can try!