Galaxy Trucker

Since my no-baking period has just been doubled by my dentist, I want to take this time to talk about a game that I played for the first time about a year ago. This game has an uninteresting name and box art, nothing that should capture your attention, but if you know something about board games then the name of its designer, Vlaada Chvatil, will probably hint you about its qualities. Let me say that Galaxy Trucker is an easy, enormously enjoyable and completely unforgiving game.

Battlestar Galactica

The show. No, The Show! Seriously, I hold Battlestar Galactica close to my heart. Not only it's the best sci-fi tv series ever (never been a fan of Star Trek) but it is also a pretty well-known board game. Some really smart people sat down and thought about how to put the concept of BSG into a board game and still make it fun to play. And I dare say that they succeeded... To a point. I mean, 85% of the time, I won't turn down a round of BSG, but there is such thing as too much of it.

If anyone is unfamiliar with the premise of the show, well, the story goes like this: there are humans and cylons - evil robot. Robots destroy the planets where the humans live and they kill almost all humanity, except for a small fleet of spaceships that escapes. The cylons are chasing them, and unknown to humans, they infiltrated their ships as well. There are two kinds of robot: metal robot-looking ones and those who look exactly like humans. Sometimes they even think they are human, but they can be activated by the cylons and sabotage things on the ships, ultimately leading the humanity to its demise.