Galactic Destiny

15 September 2007

Day Game: Galactic Destiny

Kris, Chris, Lisa and Tom played Galactic Destiny by Golden Laurel Entertainment

Instead of "Attack Vector" we settled on "Galactic Destiny" today. It turned out to be a really fun game. There's opportunity for lots of negotiation. General we, as the Republic Senate, passed taxation laws with the exception of one nonaggression pact.  Violating the nonaggression pact allowed one of my senators to pick up a lot of Corruption. Unfortunately the next turn saw a judicial purge which cleaned out most of the corrupt politicians. This also weakened the Ke'ras infestation. Lisa won on turn 5.

We did a few things wrong--we didn't slow up the game looking for the rule. I looked them up later. Here's what I found:

• You can make deals with other players at any time. These can be to trade money for influence, anything. Other players hear the deals going down and can make counteroffers. Deal making interrupts all play. It's Propositions that can only be made during the Senate phase.
• An assassin that has Shadow counters rolls the extra dice given by the Shadow counters but doesn't add them--they are treated as separate assassination attempts against the target.
• You can trade money for influence, and vice-versa, at a 3:1 ratio at any time.  (We didn't do this wrong, just no one did it.)
• The Party affiliation of a senator is not used for Campaigns at all. It does have the effect of making the senator cost 2 money less when the party that buys him is his party.
• When a Senator has 3 Corruption points, they can be traded in at any time.  You don't have to wait until the Senator has 5 Corruption points.  When the Senator has 5 Corruption points you must make the trade for Shadow points.
  

Pretty fun game overall. We should try it again!

Dinner

Kris made homemade pizza.

Evening Game