On sunday 14th April 2019. The game designer Andrea hosted a BGS game at Wings of Prague Con with some new & prototype ships.
Here you can see him right beside our 2019 LL member Mike.
Myself owns a copy of the BGS base game, but never played before a game. So this was my premier flight and I had the honor to fly those ancient Cylon pancake. The performance of those ships was so excellent that they gave two ships to me to balance it a little bit against the colonial ones.
On the right side you can see one of the paper heavy raiders.
A stilish dice tower for shooting.
Other fighters saw their premier flight at Prague:
The Mark VII Viper with an additional cannon with limited shots, the Blackbird stealth fighter and some paper raptors. One of them with a backward firing gun.
Our starting position.
A good view on the miserable statistics of the museum raider: attack - 8, sturdiness - 11, acceleration - 3. At all those raider are FTL capable.
Mission goal was to prevemt the colonials from scanning some moons.
Honza's unescorted raptor was surrounded by Markus raider and my flying pancakes.
Due to the high speed of all actors and some ugly dice rolls my vintage raiders weren't able to score with the first shots. (...at all they promised me a bonus for the next shooting.)
Andrea explains the game.
Don't know what he told Rob, but the WingCo did his best with those complicated tiny lines ond small six-cornered movement cards.
...but don't worry Rob. Same here. thos cards looked all equal to me.
Tim & Paul, veterans of last year's con premier game were ready for movement.
Mike supported with explaing the rules to Thomas.
Paul did some tricky maneuver with his raptor and surprised the raider with an excellent rotation.
Rob landed his viper Mark VII on an asteroid.
It's a fact: No flames in space, but if you know our WingCo, be shure he arranged something with gin & oxygen in his cockpit before he created a nice little crater on this asteroid.
Can't give you a more detailed report of the game, because it was my first one.
I was busy with maneuvering my pancake & adjusting the controls. Never pilotet a raider before so I can't thell you much about the differences.
At all I will buy one of those ancienet raider, to habve one in my collection.
Does anybody know if we won the game?
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