Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game
Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game provides a unique gaming experience. Unlike most games where players win individually, Battlestar Galactica is a cooperative game, with the added complication that one or more of the players is a secret Cylon traitor – your entire side will win or lose, and you might not even be certain who is on your side until the game ends!
Each player is secretly assigned his or her loyalty at the start of the game. Players will either be loyal to the humans, or to the Cylons. Humans and Cylons have specific and conflicting winning objectives. The human players win by reaching Kobol, but the Galactica will be be threatened by a host of challenges along the way. Only through the cooperation of the humans will the ship (and fleet) survive. The Cylon player(s) wins by either destroying the Galactica with attacks from the Cylon fleet, or, through sabotage, by reducing one of the necessary resources (Food, Fuel, Population, or Morale) to zero.
Either all of the humans win together, or all of the Cylons win together…but both sides must figure out who they can trust in order to achieve victory.
Players' identities are secret and no one will know for certain at the beginning of the game who they can trust. Keep your eyes open and watch how the other players play. Can you trust them to watch out for Humanity’s interests? Or are they Cylons bent on destroying Humanity?
If your gaming group enjoys highly-thematic political intrigue, and can handle some good-natured infighting and backstabbing, you'll enjoy Battlestar Galactica.
If you like playing a game where there is a continuous challenge, and victory is always a very close call, Battlestar Galactica is for you.
If you're a fan of the hit Sci Fi Channel show, and want to simulate the twists and turns on your game table, then Battlestar Galactica is the game you have been waiting for!
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It’s great to have a group of friends around being suspicious of each other while being cooperative at the same time. The fact that there is a possibility of not having a Cylon during the first round of loyalty card dish out and people are still paranoid is one of the few things that make this game great. Friends WILL turn on each other.
Excellent game that truly tries ones wits. Its great to see average ordinary people lie through their teeth. Thats why I say good friends only really. Have seen people take this personally as the lie si he point of the game but sometimes it takes a lot of good lying to pull it off. This does not sit well with poor losers or people who can’t seperate the game from their relationships.
That’s a great game for real gamers. You start in a cooperative way but with someone that you don’t know who spoiling the party. The Adversarial phase is also great and you need a lot of tatical to survive. For sure is good to know the television serie (I am a fan, sure). Great game to spend a lot of hours!
This game gets me, as a person… Ok that was weird, but seriously, I’ve introduced to many people to board gaming through this game, I don’t dare say its the Catan of a new generation…but, its the Catan of a new generation.
This is one of my favorites, I love hidden traitor games and this one has wonderful gameplay. Only downside is it can be hard getting some people to sit down for a 3 hour game.
One of the best game ever from FFG