BSG Pegasus expansion!

new.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=596

Looks like you can choose to play as a Cylon now, too. Cooool. Hope this doesn't bloat the near flawless base game.

Will an open Cylon Leader be able to vent the last remaining humans into space, giving the toasters control over the galaxy?

Th real question: Will we finally be able to toss the damn Cylons out of the airlock?

There it is then, both of my wants for two expansions bundled together- Pegasus and New Caprica.

Admiral Kane better be a playable character. And Hot Dog.

woohoo!

Michael Barnes wrote:

There it is then, both of my wants for two expansions bundled together- Pegasus and New Caprica.

Admiral Kane better be a playable character. And Hot Dog.

Agreed. If this is clever, it won't try to force the IMHO very tight, fully realized gameplay in the original into anything else. I think that game is almost perfected--adding *different* gameplay elements is the only thing that would really help the game IMHO. Take for example, the Pegasus--having rivalry between the ships and having different goals for both crews would create a completely different tension on top of annihilation by the Cylons.

Glad to see they aren't just doing a "add more cards!" expansion. I just don't see that being a super fruitful avenue of expansion because I like the original so much.

I don't understand all the clamoring for a release date. It's coming out in the fall, and even as little as a month ahead of time FFG usually never gives a more accurate release date than that.

It did make me a little sad, though, since it means the Cosmic Encounter expansion is coming out even LATER than fall. :'-(

HEAD A SPLODE

So, the last picture, are those plastic Base Stars to replace the cardboard ones in the base game? If so, I may have to buy it for those alone because I'm a glutton for plastic. They don't mention anything about them in the release, but they do look like the other plastic ships in the game in terms of detail and style.

LvT

Wow! The expansion has the potential to be really cool. It's a painful reminder that BS:G could at times be excellent (New Caprica), and at other times suck ass. *cough*seasonfinale*cough*

-Will

I just don't ever want to see the interior of a Basestar in a BSG game. All those pink lights, the Design Within Reach furniture...

It'd be pretty cool if they had a "Fat Lee" character you could play though.

I'm very, very glad they didn't do the "more cards" expansion that they could have and they've actually added significant game material. I do hope that it doesn't interfere too much with the core game, which is practically perfect as far as I'm concerned.

I hope the New Caprica board has some violent insurgency style actions available to the humans. Perhaps some sort of suicide attack. And maybe a law and order level/track the cylons have to keep on top of.

-Will

New Caprica could have been a game unto its own, using the same mechanics but putting the Cylon player(s) in charge of watching some dials for a change.

Michael Barnes wrote:

Admiral Kane better be a playable character.

Well of course she will. Her ship is a main feature of the expansion, she's on the box cover, and she even trades friendly banter with Adama in the preview. That's a done deal to me.

I really like the sound of this... I'm one of those BSG fans who feels that, as great as the game often is, sometimes it can get kind of dull and tedious if there aren't enough Cylon attacks, or if they mostly come at ineffectual times (when the fleet is about to jump, anyway). Yes, the game is about more than that, but without the added pressure of the Cylon ships attacking, it loses a fair amount of excitement and tension. But now with Cavil's ability to place basestars as an action, and his one-time ability to take two actions (placing two basestars, possibly), that should help keep things crazy in space. And hopefully the humans will have some new abilities to help deal with that.

Seven new characters... So who do think they'll be? Assuming they're going only as far as season 3 (early), I'm guessing the following:

Cavil
Admiral Cain
Anders
Gaeta
Six (or Caprica Six)
Ellen Tigh
Kat

Some of those seem like locks (Cavil and Cain, duh), but a few are definitely "iffy", especially when there are others like Leoben, D'Anna, Tory, Doc Cottle and Romo Lampkin (if they go that far) who could make good characters. I think it's also possible that they could make another role for Sharon Valeri, that's not "Boomer", or rather, one that definitely is "Boomer", a known Cylon from the start of the game (if that's even how the Cylon Leader characters work, which I think will be the case). I suppose there might be one more Pegasus character involved, considering the focus on that, though after Cain I don't really think of any of the other Pegasus characters as being that notable, so I kind of hope that's not the case.

Apparently, this has been named as being the "first expansion" to BSG, so presumably there will be at least one more. **SPOILER** If they're generally following the series as it played out, I could see a future expansion having entirely new roles for characters like Anders, Tigh, Chief, Starbuck, etc.