The Resistance! ...2! [Concluded]

**LazyMcCrow** · 02-13-2013, 11:31

The Empire must fall. Our mission must succeed. By destroying their key bases, we will shatter Imperial strength and liberate our people. Yet spies have infiltrated our ranks, ready for sabotage. We must unmask them. In five nights we reshape destiny or die trying.

We are the Resistance!

The Resistance is a party game of social deduction. It is designed for five to ten players, and has no player elimination. The Resistance is inspired by Mafia/Werewolf, yet it is unique in its core mechanics which increase the resources for informed decisions, intensify player interaction, and eliminate player elimination.

Players are either Resistance Operatives or Imperial Spies. For three to five rounds, they must depend on each other to carry out missions against the Empire. At the same time, they must try to deduce the other players’ identities and gain their trust. Each round begins with discussion. When ready, the Leader entrusts sets of Plans to a certain number of players (possibly including himself/herself). Everyone votes on whether or not to approve the assignment. Once an assignment passes, the chosen players secretly decide to Support or Sabotage the mission. Based on the results, the mission succeeds (Resistance win) or fails (Empire win). When a team wins three missions, they have won the game.

The first game of Resistance seemed to go down pretty well with you Orgahs, and I'm keen to run another; to see if it meets with the same sort of success.

While it's possible to play with just 5 people, I'm of the opinion that above 7 is preferable, so this game will have between 8 and 10 players.

There are a few variant options as discussed at the end of the first run through, but the general consensus was to keep the game vanilla for now, until folks are more familiar with the format.

Before signing up, please take a look at the rules.

Resistance Vs Spies & Mission Data

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SIGN UPS:
1) BSmith
2) autolycus
3) Jarema
4) Darth Feather
5) Makrell
6) HopAlongBunny
7) B_Ray
8) Ishmael
9) Double A
10)

Reserves

**BSmith** · 02-13-2013, 13:01

In!

**autolycus** · 02-13-2013, 13:02

In!!

**Jarema** · 02-13-2013, 14:01

you can bet that I am in!

**Darth Feather** · 02-13-2013, 16:44

In of course

**B-Wing** · 02-13-2013, 17:37

First game was awesome, highly recommend trying this. I'd like to give other players a chance to try this one out, so please put me on the reserve list.

**edse** · 03-15-2013, 17:13

Autolycus was lucky when he picked the second team. If there are no spies on that team the resistance is very likely to win if they use the same strategy as in this game (same team-same team+1)

**HopAlongBunny** · 03-16-2013, 00:46

Originally Posted by edse

Autolycus was lucky when he picked the second team. If there are no spies on that team the resistance is very likely to win if they use the same strategy as in this game (same team-same team+1)

Good point. It would make it a bit more tricky if each new team had to include at least one different member.

**LazyMcCrow** · 03-16-2013, 01:15

Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny

Good point. It would make it a bit more tricky if each new team had to include at least one different member.

I'm not sure which side that sounds unfavourable to, but it seems a little forced. I think the first 'variant' I would try - if any - would be the one where the Mission 'Leader' gets to choose the team members AND which Mission they are going to attempt:

eg.

THE MISSIONS:
1st Mission Team: 3 Members
2nd Mission Team: 4 Members
3rd Mission Team: 4 Members
4th Mission Team: 5 Members*
5th Mission Team: 5 Members

*This Mission requires a minimum of 2 MISSION FAILS orders for it to fail.

Any Team Leader can propose the Team and the mission they are going on - Each Mission can only be picked once - and the 5th Mission can only be attempted after two Missions have been successful.

But maybe vanilla works best in this forum setting - I don't know yet :)

**BSmith** · 03-16-2013, 01:55

Yeah. Keep it vanilla for a few more rounds. If there are indeed balance issues (and not just luck issues) then they should become apparent after a few more.

**B-Wing** · 03-19-2013, 02:08

Well I'm definitely glad we gave the game a deserved second chance, and I think it's got promise. I apologize for not making more effort toward the end, but I think all us spies felt like it was too late by then.

I agree that if a spy should get the chance to sneak through Mission 1, it's best to take it. Darth Feather, I regret arguing against your earliest team suggestion, was actually trying to make it sound plausible while simultaneously establishing some distance between us, which I figured would be critical later on. The fact that the spy team cannot communicate privately is a uniquely challenging aspect of Resistance, and I think we should keep it that way. My suggestion would be to try a game in which Mission 5 requires two fail orders while Mission 4 only requires one. That might favor the spies too much, though.