Saturday, November 28

Ars Cardboard reviews Dark Moon—a faster Battlestar Galactica board game

I was the only staffer working at the Noguchi-Masaki lunar mining outpost who knew the truth. Earlier in the night, I noticed Enver Ganon attempting to repair a heating duct, at which point he made a surprising fuss. He furrowed his brow at the pipe he'd been trying to repair, which the rest of the staff couldn't see because Ganon had used a standard, NM-issued safety gate that blocked our view of his hands.

Dark Moon
Designer Evan Derrick
Publisher Stronghold Games
Players 3-7
Age 12+
Time 60 min
BGG rank #928 overall
Price $35-$40 (Amazon, Cool Stuff)

"Dammit," he exclaimed, shaking his head quite a bit. "Dammit! The pipe is toast. We have to take another one of our shields offline."

Something about his over-acting felt wrong, and after we'd faced four system malfunctions, the staff was called together for a meeting—standard procedure after this many security and medical alerts. I was the one who suggested that we place Ganon into quarantine, assuming he had caught the mind-altering infection that had recently come to our outpost. I thought the rest of the crew would listen to me.

Read 24 remaining paragraphs | Comments

No comments:

Post a Comment