The Game


Babylon 5 was an incredible science fiction TV series that first aired in the late 90s. It had 5 successful seasons, several TV movies and a spin off series, Crusade. The series centered around the ambassadors of 4 major galactic powers, the "space UN" headquarters (space station: Babylon 5), and the men and women who ran this diverse city in space.

The CCG allows 3-7 players to recreate and retell their own possible Babylon 5 saga by allowing each person to either take on the role of one of the major political powers (either via their ambassador to B5 or their home faction) and attempt to dominate the other factions using diplomacy, intrigue, military, or access to fearful and deadly ancient powers. With several expansions, the CCG really is one of the best (if not the best) war/intrigue games ever made.

Monday, October 20, 2014

...a few extra turns and something of interest


  

We got a few more turns in on the lunch game:  Long story short, I'm a jerk.  I left one conflict uncontested and then dropped the above on it at the end of the turn... 21 opposition dropped with one card... lols.  The other card I generated support with Elizabeth Trent... after having Genius Loci hop into it, doing damage to everyone.  Tap a homeworld, and 19 influence.  Now they brought a bunch of stuff in, and I'm holding a planet (they don't follow the blog, don't tell them)... but if think I'm just going to build up fleets and try to hasten the Shadow War.  Unless it targets a card I hold, I'll probably even let them steal a little influence here and there.


As to the Saturday game, we ran out of time, but I feel confident that we'll have one this next Saturday.  Looks like three players for sure, maybe 5 if I'm lucky (I like the bigger games).

As a parting note, if you've not seen this, I recommend it highly for any B5 fans, unfortunately though some rough language, so its pulling gold out of slag... beware:







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