{"id":9494,"date":"2018-09-24T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/?post_type=articles&p=9494"},"modified":"2020-02-16T18:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T00:49:42","slug":"is-it-time-to-abandon-battlestar-galactica-the-board-game","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/articles\/is-it-time-to-abandon-battlestar-galactica-the-board-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Time to Abandon Battlestar Galactica (The Board Game)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game (BSG)<\/strong> is not my favorite game, it\u2019s definitely in my top 10. Like several of the others, it\u2019s a long game and there\u2019s just something I love about being taken to another world for hours on end.<\/p>\n

Regardless, Battlestar Galactica is definitely one of the greatest board games ever. If a board game is that good, people will find a way to play it.<\/p>\n

If you frequently visit BoardGameGeek, you\u2019ll notice that their forums can be pretty active. What you might not have noticed is that many games have a Play by Forum section. Dedicated gamers don\u2019t like to let distance or lack of time stop them from playing, so they look for new opponents and ways to play. Thanks to Fantasy Flight Games\u2019 generous cooperative stance with the BSG community, as long as you own a copy of the game, you can play it in the forum with other game owners.<\/p>\n

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is one of the most played games on BoardGameGeek’s forums<\/a>. Since March 2009, over 600 games have been verifiably played this way. That doesn’t count the harder to quantify number of variant games, which stray too far from the original rules. The only game that came close is A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) with 460 plays. Most other games on the forums had fewer than 10 plays.<\/p>\n

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