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'{{notability|Products|date=March 2015}} {{Infobox Game | name = Battlestar Galactica: <br /> The Board Game | image = [[File:Battlestar Galactica The Board Game, Cover Art.jpg|center|250px]] | caption = Cover of ''Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game'' | designer = Corey Konieczka | publisher = [[Fantasy Flight Games]] | date = 2008 | genre = [[Board game]] | language = English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Chinese | players = Base game: 3-6 players (additional possible with certain expansions) | ages = 10+ | setup_time = Base game: 10 minutes (+ 5 minutes with expansions) | playing_time = Base game: 120–240 minutes (first time could be double) | random_chance = Some | skills = [[Bluffing]], [[Cooperative|Co-operative Play]], [[Deductive reasoning|Deduction]], [[Dice|Dice Rolling]], [[Negotiation]], Hand Management | website = {{Official website|https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/battlestar-galactica/}} | footnotes = }} '''''Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game''''' is a board game created by ''Corey Konieczka'' and first published by [[Fantasy Flight Games]]<ref>[https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/battlestar-galactica/ Fantasy Flight Games - Battlestar Galactica The Board Game]</ref> in 2008. 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! Players must attempt to expose the traitor while fuel shortages, food contaminations, political unrest threatens to tear the fleet apart, and still get closer and closer towards reaching their goal. 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 their final hyperjump, the Humans win the game. But if the Cylon players reveal themselves at the right moment and bring down Galactica, the Humans have lost. 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. Expansion packs can increase or alter the character options. 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. ==Base Game== The basic game is set in the first season immediately following the destruction of the Twelve Colonies. There are two "teams" in the game, the humans and the Cylons. The game starts like the series, with the humans trying to reach Kobol. Initially, the Cylons are game mechanics thrown at the humans in the form of crisis cards during each player's turn. As the game progresses, it becomes obvious that one or more players may in fact be a Cylon and is trying to prevent the humans from getting to Kobol by secretly subverting their efforts to get past the challenges presented in the crisis cards. Secrecy is a big part of the game. Designed for 3 to 6 players, each player chooses to play as one of ten characters, each with their own skills, abilities and weaknesses, while trying to help mankind reach Kobol. Characters available include William Adama, Lee Adama, Kara Thrace, Saul Tigh, Sharon Valerii, Gaius Baltar, Galen Tyrol, President Laura Roslin, Tom Zarek and Karl Agathon. The human team wins by making FTL jumps until reaching Kobol, then making a final jump. During that process, they have to deal with regular crises and keep several resources (food, fuel, morale and population) from running out, while also keeping Galactica from being destroyed by Cylon ships or boarded by Centurions. Half way to Kobol, the 'sleeper agent' phase ends, and some players that were human at the start of the game might find out that they are a Cylon. This aspect of the game means that human players might want to be careful about how well they are doing in the game prior to this phase, as other players might notice a sudden change in play style. The Cylon team wins if the any of the resources run out, Galactica is destroyed, or if a boarding party can "vent the oxygen to space" from the battlestar and kill the crew. ==Expansions== As well as the original base game, which is set during the Fleet's search for Kobol in the first season, there are three major expansions, Pegasus (2009), Exodus (2010), and Daybreak (2013), which incorporate elements from later seasons. '''Pegasus''' The Pegasus expansion, released in 2009, adds elements from the second season. These focus on the Battlestar Pegasus, her crew, and the discovery, settlement and invasion of New Caprica, as well as additional options for Cylon players. * The Pegasus is represented by an additional game board with new actions players can perform, including executing characters by putting them out of an airlock. Executing a Cylon forces them to reveal themselves, but executing a human reduces the morale of the fleet and forces that player to choose a new human character. (If there are no human characters left, the humans immediately lose the game.) The Pegasus can also fight Cylon ships, and take damage in place of the Galactica. * Four new human characters are included: Admiral Helena Cain, Anastasia "Dee" Dualla, Louanne "Kat" Katraine and Ellen Tigh. The expansion also introduces "Cylon Leader" characters; players may choose to have a player openly be a Cylon from the beginning of the game, and that player is able to infiltrate the human fleet, effectively playing as a human until they leave the Fleet. Such a player gets a secret agenda which they must fulfil to win, rather than simply making the humans lose; this might be an agenda which is sympathetic to the human cause, depending on the total number of players. * The other major change is the end of the game; instead of reaching Kobol, the Fleet eventually finds New Caprica. A new board representing the colony is added, and the players are stranded there until Galactica returns. To win, the humans must unlock civilian ships and launch them into orbit to join the Galactica; any ships and personnel left on New Caprica when the Fleet jumps are destroyed or killed, and if those losses reduce any Fleet resources to zero, the humans lose. '''Exodus''' The Exodus expansion, released in 2010, adds a number of options drawn from the third season. Aside from additional characters and cards representing situations from that season, there are also three optional additions to the game: * Conflicted Loyalties replaces the standard loyalty cards ("You are a Cylon" and "You are Not a Cylon") with one or both of two new sets, each specifying an individual goal that a player must fulfil. Personal Goals can be possessed by humans or Cylons, and revealed for some benefit if certain conditions are met. If unfulfilled at the end of the game, a Personal Goal reduces a resource, possibly causing the humans to lose. Final Five Goals identify a player as one of the Final Five, with specific agenda. Final Five players, while technically Cylons, are treated as human or Cylon based on their other Loyalty cards, since the Final Five may side with either faction. * The Cylon Fleet adds a new board which tracks progress of the Cylon Fleet pursuing the Colonial Fleet. This replaces the random attacks provided by cards in the base game and instead shows players the Cylon Fleet growing ever closer. To balance this, this option also adds a new title of "CAG", giving one player additional control over the human fighters, and a limited number of Mark VII Viperss, which are faster and harder to destroy than the Mark II model. * The Ionian Nebula replaces Kobol with the Ionian Nebula. It also adds a number of allies - characters not directly controlled by players, but who may aid or hinder them - and introduces trauma in the form of tokens. These tokens affect the behaviour of allies, the outcome of trials among the humans or Cylons, and may even directly cause the character to be executed. The game culminates in the Battle of the Ionian Nebula. The four new characters in the Exodus expansion are: Felix Gaeta, Callandra “Cally” Tyrol, Tory Foster and Samuel T. Anders. '''Daybreak''' The final expansion, Daybreak, was released in 2013, and adds elements from the conclusion of the series, including Starbuck's mission in the Demetrius, the mutiny aboard Galactica, and the addition of the Rebel Basestar to the Fleet. It also has an optional new endgame, "The Search for Home", in which the Fleet's final destination is Earth rather than Kobol, New Caprica or the Ionian Nebula. Daybreak adds four new human characters: Sherman "Doc" Cottle, Romo Lampkin, Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza and Lieutenant Louis Hoshi; four new Cylon Leaders: D'Anna Biers, Athena, Simon and Aaron Doral; and four alternate versions of existing characters, representing the changes they have been through: a more political Lee Adama, post-presidency spiritual leader Gaius Baltar, married father Karl "Helo" Agathon and a more dangerous Tom Zarek. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/battlestar-galactica/ ''Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game'' official site] * [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica:_The_Board_Game ''BattleStarWiki'' site: The Board Game page] * {{bgg|37111|''Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game''}} {{BattlestarGalacticaTopics|state=expanded}} [[Category:Fantasy Flight Games games]] [[Category:Science fiction board games]] [[Category:Battlestar Galactica| ]] [[Category:Board games introduced in 2008]]'