 Got another lucky find today Pick this up locally just today. It's the Battlestar Galactica game by Parker Brothers the original Battlestar Galactica from 1978 I Always liked the way this show looked This particular spaceship The original Galactica I Just always thought was an impressive looking special effect Sometimes the show wasn't that great, but it looked great. I Never seen this game before it's in pictures of it recently So I was happy when I found it When I found it here locally today the back of the box It gives you some indication of How unusual the game board looks it doesn't give you much of an indication of how the game is played It is unusual So let's Let's open this up and take a look at the board. Now. This isn't an unusual board It's it's very it's very pretty But it's unusual and how How bare it is there's no Other than the grid and some background decorations There's no path. There's no stepping stones There's no text This isn't going to be like your typical monopoly clone here's the rest of the contents There was small stack of cards we have Four vipers different colors We have a spinner There's no rolling of dice. We have a spinner here that operates nicely And then we have this This is apparently the Cylon Raider The Cylon Raider At first I thought that this must be That there must be something missing. This is just the base that the The Cylon sits on but no this is it Now it turns out that there's a reason that this thing looks like Just an empty clip because that's what it is you see when one of the When one of the players captures the Cylon Raider with their viper They slide it in the top of it and you move around With the Cylon Raider attached to your base like so The instructions We've got a single sheet folded over like this The instructions are somewhat involved They're more complex than I would have expected with a simple Television related game like this But they're not overwhelmingly complicated and they do make sense Unlike that Bionic Woman game that we had a few days ago Now here's here's my understanding of how it works Each player starts out with his viper on his color-coded corner the Battlestar Galactic Launching Bay The other three players are your opponents The goal is to capture The Cylon Raider at the center of the board Each player starts with the stack of cards that come in their color Plus the evasive action cards are divided equally among the four players The player who spins the high number goes first Everyone leaves their launching bay and heads toward the center of the board according to the number that they spin Players can move forward backward left and right but not horizontally When a player lands on the Cylon Raider at the center of the board, they do not have to spin the exact number When they land on that space they attach themselves to the Cylon Raider and Head back to their launching bay at the Galactica Now here's where the competition begins the other players Can take the Cylon Raider away from the viper that possesses it if they land in a space next to that player They do not have to spin the exact number to land in that space once they reach that space They can begin a space battle each player spins the one with the high number gets to take the Raider The Raider is moved from one space to the other because vipers cannot occupy the same space and The winner of the space battle immediately spins to start heading home and The loser of the space battle will be sent to the nearest purple planet for minor repairs Where they will begin their next turn? Now when any player lands on a black hole, they can immediately move to any other black hole They do not have to spin the exact number to land on the black hole But when they shift to another black hole, they stay there their turn is over Now after they spin any player can choose to use one of their command cards There are three kinds turbo thrust laser torpedoes and force field If you choose to use a turbo thrust card, you can spin again. That's it When you use your force field card You can move any other players viper to the nearest purple planet Where they will stay until their next turn if they had the Cylon Raider with them They leave it in that space and the next person who can reach that space gets to take the Cylon Raider Now the laser torpedoes When you play your laser torpedo card You make a spin to determine how many blasts of your laser torpedoes you get to take This could be as many as six After you've determined how many blasts you're going to take You make another spin for each blast Again that could be anywhere from one to six this time You're looking at which color The arrow lands on if the spinner lands on yellow for example Any player whose viper is in the yellow quadrant gets blasted back to the battle Sarcalactica and if they have the Cylon Raider with them it gets left behind in the space now if any player was Parked on the yellow line between two quadrants say between Red and yellow if the spinner lands on red or yellow The player gets blasted back to their to their launching bay After command cards are played. They are discarded and they are not brought back into the game now This is where the evasive action cards come in Any player can use one of their two evasive action cards to protect themselves against any command card Once they've used that card They discard it and it's not used again. The evasive action cards cannot be used in space battles Well, that's it This game actually sounds like it could be a great deal of fun. It could go pretty quickly There's lots of carnage So yeah, I'm glad I picked this up. I think I'll hang on to it Battlestar Galactica