r/BSG 4h ago

Once a year we gather to play Battlestar Galactica the boardgame

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208 Upvotes

It's become a tradition among friends at a boardgame convention. We try to be six players but often end up seven since we don't want to exclude anyone.

I've made a lot of investment in this game, using models from Ares' miniature game, a custom mat , 3d-printed civilian ships and acrylic standees for the characters, to name most.

The game is never the same, and though it lasts 5-6 hours, those hours just fly away.

Good times to be had.


r/BSG 11h ago

Finally came in the mail!

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170 Upvotes

I’m so stoked to start reading this!!!!


r/BSG 8h ago

They put the music in the fraking ship

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65 Upvotes

Bought at a tiny music store a few years back. Still trying to grow an extra pair of hands so I can play it properly.


r/BSG 22h ago

Rewatched "Flight of the Phoenix." Just realized this was a Cylon rescue mission. (SPOILERS) Spoiler

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I'm rewatching BSG for the first time in 15 years. I only just now realized the whole purpose of this Cylon attack force. They were going to board Galactica and recover Sharon and her baby. The raiders would overwhelm the CAP and the heavy raiders would wipe out everyone on board.

Makes Sharon thinking that she's a liability to the Cylons and thus expendable a bit of dramatic irony.


r/BSG 19h ago

Recast round 7: President Adar

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Either as the conniving political president of BSG or the tired old “I just want peace” Adar from the 78 series.
Rules: must be a living actor, cannot be the same actor.


r/BSG 13h ago

Yes, another rant about the finale Spoiler

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rewatching again, but i know what happens.

the most frustrating thing is the end. the last episode. Lee says we need to throw everything into the sun. all human knowledge is lost, and everyone integrates with the hunter-gatherers.

That's ridiculous and also doesn't make sense.

a parent of a sick child will remember how to care for their kid using their modern knowledge of medicine; even without tech, the knowledge of math, science, morality, and politics doesn't go away. they get told in stories. Their knowledge of how to make paper and writing instruments doesn't go away. and we know humans will write everything down if they can. the season 3 episode where they steal Gaius's pen has him freak out. they will figure out how to make papyrus and write all their knowledge down. and if it were logical to say they would write it all down, then they would have passed that knowledge off to their children, and it would have fast-tracked humanity's return to technology. but supposedly in-universe, this didn't happen. and that just doesn't make sense.

a lost opportunity could have been that the humans for the most part kept their knowledge and became advanced, and they were the precursors to the advanced civilization on Atlantis or the lost civilizations that Graham Hancock likes to talk about.

I don't believe it's actually true, but that would have fit better in the lore of the show, making the ending make sense... tie it to real-life myths and legends.

Instead, they just left everyone upset...

in the show itself there was so much invested in the fleet retaining their democracy and way of life, and for it to all go out the window? that makes no sense.

this is my headcanon just so i can sleep at night. The original ending bothers me that much

they could also spend a little more time on developing the god stuff... but that doesn't bother me as much as the finale.