Guise Knights

So a couple of weeks ago I sat in on a friend’s inaugural run of the Battle Star Galactica board game (also known to some as Shadows Over Caprica for its similarities to Shadows Over Camelot.) Both games are from the fine folks at Fantasy Flight.

I came into this game fond of Shadows Over Camelot, but somewhat ignorant to BSG. I didn’t watch the original series and I’ve not watched this latest iteration. I have several friends who’ve gotten sucked into it and I plan on watching it at my leisure. So when we started the game I had an interesting point of view: game I’ve never played based on a show I’ve never seen.

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Let’s be open about this: We’re geeks.

We wear t-shirts with robot lovin’, binary code, 1337 5P34K, and high-level math humor. We pride ourselves on reading the instructions and knowing loopholes to the rules. We bow before the golden gods of Nintendo, Blizzard, Sony, and sometimes the evil Microsoft overlords. We know our stuff, and when it comes to games, we have (more…)