Super game with problems in fine tuning

Whoever liked already games like Scotland Yard, the popular werewolf game and others is the right place.

Battlestar Galactica is a game about teamwork, mistrust, betrayal and intrigue. Up to 6 players are desperate to escape from the Cylons, and to come to Kobol. If they come up with sufficient resources successfully to Kobol, they have won. Unfortunately, depending on the number of players, one player or two, a traitor and works against the rest. And even better, in the middle of the game, there is an escalation phase in which one, so far a good man, suddenly still can become a Cylon.

The game is largely based on the uncertainty of who is now because of the traitor. Accusations and distrust determine what happens, and it is thanks to the original mechanism for the Cylon relatively easy to act against the rest, without betraying itself. Is the greatest feeling that the players realize that there is a traitor, but not what. This is made possible Mechanismuss covert polls. Everything in this game offers possibilities of covert sabotaging. Votes are held on different colored voting cards, each player face down can contribute any number. In addition, always 2 maps are provided from a stack that contains every color in random order repeatedly. This vote batch is then mixed and uncovered. Depending on the vote are colors for or against, and there are color cards with values ​​from 1 to 5. If a dependent of the vote total reached for the vote to be successful. Thus, it is to keep the Zylon problem repeatedly, however.

Space battles, a pinch of politics and ongoing resource scarcity complete the game. And when it runs so Richti bad for people who Zylon may unmask, and resettle the Zylonenmutterschiff. He can indeed hardly participate in the Galaktika the action yet, but control the Cylon fleet, and cry out all sorts disasters.

Conclusion:
Ultimately a very successful game that is lots of fun. However, it suffers from a few little things. So with us, people have never won, now in 5 games. And with already eased rules, where you have more resources than usual. The possibilities of the Cylons to win simply too diverse and it is ultimately too easy to make the players Galactica life hell. Sticking point is, above all, Brig, where you can vote via special skill or individual characters and the president send in single player. Free to get only a vote. The Brigspieler itself may, however, contribute only one card. Cylons on the mothership, however, may also each contribute a map, and thus it is when the / the Cylon has managed more than one player in the brig to throw almost impossible to get out again. Depending on the nature of choice also extends a player already in the brig to decide the game, since only the politicians among the characters the right colors have a character to pick up reliably from Brig. Along with the Super Crisis Card the Cylon with which you can trigger absolutely disastrous events for the players makes this a, at least in my opinion, obvious advantage for the Cylons to the people. From this balancing problem apart, but it's a very very good game.