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Lifeboats is a game where players attempt to get as many of their sailors and officers from leaky lifeboats to the safty of the islands in the distance.

If you don't want to read the rules, this video will basically explain the game, but the setup will all be randomized.

The board is very simple. At the top are 3 islands of length 2, 2, and 3. At the bottom is where the 7 lifeboats start [6 players + 1 black boat]. The boats start a distance of 3 "steps" from saftey. Once a boat has moved forward 3 times, it unloads its passangers to saftey and players who have people on this boat will score.

Each island scores differently, and each type of person also scores differently, depending on if you reach an officer or a sailor. Left to right [With Officer then Sailor] the scoring is:
Island 1: 8/6
Island 2: 6/4
Island 3: 7/5


Each player will be given 2 officers, and 4 sailors as well as one boat. The 7 boats will be randomly placed at the bottom of the board. The officers and sailors will also be randomly placed.


Each turn has 3 phases. If this is the beginning of a new round, the start player passes to the next player. Since this game is based on voting, there needs to be a contingency for ties. The start player breaks ties, whether or not he is involved in them.

One boat is given a leak. Players vote on which boat will get a leak. A leak simply is a water spot that takes up one capacity on a boat. Two things can happen after a boat is given a leak. If there is an empty spot left, the leak is simply placed in it. If there is not an empty spot, a second vote must take place: People on the boat decide who to throw to the sharks!
This second vote only involves those on the boat that is in trouble. In this case, voting is WEIGHTED based on the value of the pawns on the boat. Officers get 2 votes, while sailors get 1.

Finally, in either case, if the number of leaks on the boat outnumbers the number of people on it, [Not counting empty spaces. For instance, 2 leaks and 1 person = Out numbered], that boat sinks and all the people on it are eaten by sharks.

Players vote on which boat will move forward one space. If a boat moving forward reaches the end, [3 steps] its complement of passangers disembarks and the boat is removed.

Starting with the start player, each player must choose one of their people in any one boat and leave it. Only one pawn may leave any one boat. If this rule precludes you from having to jump a boat, then you are skipped.
Once the last person has jumped a piece overboard, he then chooses any other boat to enter [As long as it is NOT the boat he left]. The chosen boat must have capacity to fit another person, and there is no limit on how many ENTER a boat during this phase. Play passes backwards around for re-entering boats. That is, the start player will re-enter LAST.

After these 3 phases, the start player passes to the next player, and you do it all over again!

Each player is given 3 "Captain" cards at the beginning of the game. At ANY point for which a vote is called, and the player is involved in, a player may choose to play a captain card. Two things can happen
Then the player has "pulled rank" and makes whatever decsision is to be made arbitrarily.
All captain cards are lost and no rank is pulled. Players involved forfeit their vote for that round.

Either way, the card is used and you only get 3 for the entire game!

Finally, if the game is a tie, then the winner is the player whose boat reaches saftey first. [This is the only importance of having a boat be "yours". Everything else is cosmetic]

Anyone interested can sign up. Each phase will also have a deadline of 48 hours.






2 Captain Cards

Player	Boat
Officer	Orange
Officer	Red
Sailor	Green
Sailor	Black
Sailor	Orange
Sailor	Red

2 Captain Cards

Player	Boat
Officer	White
Officer	Purple
Sailor	Green
Sailor	White
Sailor	Red
Sailor	Purple

3 Captain Cards

Player	Boat
Officer	Yellow
Officer	Red
Sailor	White
Sailor	Black
Sailor	Red
Sailor	Yellow

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3 Captain Cards

Player	Boat
Officer	White
Officer	Black
Sailor	Black
Sailor	Yellow
Sailor	Green
Sailor	Yellow

3 Captain Cards

Player	Boat
Officer	Orange
Officer	Red
Sailor	White
Sailor	White
Sailor	Orange
Sailor	Yellow

3 Captain Cards

Player	Boat
Officer	Green
Officer	Black
Sailor	Green
Sailor	Orange
Sailor	Purple

Island 1	Island 1	Island 2	Island 2	Island 3	Island 3	Island 3
	White
		Orange
Green			Black	Yellow	Red	Purple

* = officers

Green	Boat
CYB	ANI
ROB*	BB
ROB	LEAK

White	Boat
CYB*	BB*
CYB	CJ
THI	CJ

Orange	Boat
ANI*	CJ
ROB	LEAK
CJ*	ANI

Black	Boat
	BB*
ANI	THI
BB	ROB*

Yellow	Boat
THI*	BB
BB	THI
CJ

Red	Boat
ANI*	THI
ANI	CYB
THI*	CJ*

Purple	Boat
CYB*
CYB	ROB
	LEAK

/in please

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/in SO HARD.

Robotnick2 wrote:SO HARD.

Kinky.

Very

Anyone that knows me IRL will know that I'm SO dirty minded

/in =D

/in pleze

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That's six. Game start?

Yeah I'm just going to have to get everything set up and then we can start.

Player order and information on everyone's pieces is at the bottom of the first post. Information on each of the boats is on the next post.

I am going to have a hard time choosing which of you to ally with, because I like all of you (Cybele <3, ani <3, gandalf <3) robonick is gay! =D Thian I don't know, but I don't want to be mean.

So, I'm going to come up with some sort of Nic-for-Nac strategy.

In terms of progressing a boat, I'm fine with Black, White, or Orange since they have the majority of us in it. =P

I don't know the strategy for this, it just seemed like mini-survivors over and over and looked fun, lol.

I think I meant Tic-for-Tac... what's it called? X_x

tit for tat

It's the leak phase first. I think we should put a leak in either the purple, yellow or green boat. Start the game off nicely. Thoughts?

You're right!

Green it is! ^_^

I think the Green Boat is best.

Three votes and the start player is all we need, technically.

I wonder if it will work better if you pm me the votes so that everything, including playing the Captain Cards, is all done simultaneously.

I kind of assumed we'd send it by PM cuz of the whole captain card thing. But ya, voting Green ^_^.

IMO, if you don't get a PM within like 10 minutes of the inthread vote, I'd consider the Captain card not being used.

hi, im here. I just got the pvt green is fine with me so far. but I want to give the game rules a look over, I haven't played this but seen it being played. ill have to get a bit more indepth tomorrow with this.