We started to play the BSG scenario this afternoon but had to quit just as the shooting started because my buddy got called into work.
I played the toasters and my friend played the Humies. He immediately slammed the throttles full forward and hooked to the left. I hung back because I knew the Raptor had to come in and scan the planets. (And because the scenario doesn't let the Cylons use their FTL drives to do micro-jumps across the map).
I don't know why I enjoy minis games that involve a lot of manoeuvre and spatial relations because I'm really, really bad at it. Put a rock out anywhere on the map and I'll somehow find a way to crash into it. Here are the manoeuvre cards I cleverly planned for my two Raiders. You'll note that the one on the left is now steering right for an asteroid. I'm THE BEST PILOT EVER!!!!
I somehow managed to miss the asteroid with no-name Cylon but then manage to send Scar crashing through a different field one turn later. You can see him just overlapping the edge as the No-Name pilots exchange long range fire. Thankfully I drew a zero damage chit.
Damage is determined by drawing a chit when you get hit. You keep the damage secret from your opponent so they never know how badly they've hit you unless you suffer a type of crit that requires you to inform them. I took 3 damage (hull can take 16 dmg before the ship goes boom) and whiffed on my shot.
You use cards to plan your move and then everyone reveals their first card. Each ship moves and then has a chance to fire. Then each player reveals their second move card (usually a bluff unless you're overboosting or rotating so that you're no longer facing your vector of movement. You can spin and face sideways and strafe as you drift along in your original direction of movement, etc), ships move and those that didn't fire after their first card can fire again.
Here's everyone's movement plans for the next turn when things are about to get interesting. Starbuck has a special ability that allows her to change her speed after seeing everyone's card.
Starbuck slammed on the brakes and here's where everyone ended up.
Scar shot up Starbuck but she couldn't return fire against him as he was just out of her firing arc. Instead she and No-Name tag teamed my No-Name pilot. I lucked out and only took 8 points of damage (against Starbuck, that was very, very lucky). My No-Name shot up his.
And that's when we had to stop.