Fraser McHarg: Too hot to game

After coming back to town from two weeks at the beach (and low posting skillz) we have now hit a spell of very hot weather – a pity we are not still at the beach where it is a) somewhat cooler and b) conveniently close to the ocean.

A spell of “very hot” weather includes the second hottest day on record when it reached 45.1C (113.2F) and a record heatwave, with three consecutive days over 43C (109.4F) including an overnight “minimum” of 30C (86F).  This is a bit much, even for the inhabitants of a sunburnt country.

As we have no air conditioning, which seems to shock some of the Northern Hemisphere readers of Melissa’s blog, this meant that even the relatively passive activity of board games was not really an option.

To make matters worse, for me at least, I got back to work to find my two regular gaming colleagues were not at work for the week.  One had decided it was too hot to travel so was working from home and the other had a week off.

Thus no regular card games at work and the thought of dipping sweat all over games at home was not entirely appealing.

We cancelled our regular games night because it was too hot and I think we only managed to play a couple of games of Mystery Rummy to complete continue our series of grudge matches and had one person over one night to play a three player game of Le Havre, which was about all I could manage at home.

Since work’s air conditioning was working properly during the hot hot hot week, I felt compelled to stay for a Gamers@Dockers session where I played a five player game of BattleStar Galactica in comparative coolness.  Things started well for the humans with all but one of the crisis cards for the first three or four times around the table being jumps and only one Cylon Ambush, apart from the one the Admiral deliberately flew us into!  Baltar brigged the Admiral for that indiscretion.  Fun and hilarity ensued but a short time later we had reached the half way point with everyone except Baltar and the President being in the Brig, all the indicators were firmly in the blue, four different people had been the Admiral and then Baltar revealed himself as a toaster. 

Helo and the Chief finally executive ordered Boomer out of the brig, but what did she do instead helping them out of the brig?  She set off a series of bombs across the Galactica revealing herself as the second Cylon.  Madam President scurried back to Colonial One which was not the best of ideas since Boomer still had one bomb left, Madam President survived, but no so Colonial One.

The masses of Cylon Raiders that had been missing the Human Fleet during the first half of their journey started appearing during the second half and the rag tag fleet started to suffer the death of a thousand cuts.  Everything started to drop down to critical at one stage there were three centurions on board and Galactica had suffered four hits.  Needless to say the Toasters were Triumphant.

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