She's Back!

by Johannes Klarhauser, Ambassador

22nd July 2011

Yesterday's card, Sela (Supervising Operative), allows you to download two Capture cards when you play her. While this is a nice effect, it may not be enough to convince players to use this version of Tasha Yar's daughter over previous incarnations. Two downloads are not too shabby, but what really useful cards are there to grab from your deck? To help you make that decision, let us have a look at Sela's ride.

The Goraxus has the regular attributes of a D'deridex-class warbird, meaning it is decently equipped to deal with smaller vessels without resorting to cards that pump its Weapons or Shields higher than the printed value of nine. The Range of seven, though, is not on par with other classes, as it lacks the crucial ability to move back and forth between Romulus and a two-span planet mission without helper cards (Special Modifications, Astrometrics Lab, or even The Reman Mines can help easily).

However, this matters little if you look at the ship's gametext. You get to capture a random personnel aboard the losing ship – in addition to any effects the Maneuver card used to begin that engagement provides (if any; the order on the Goraxus also gives you the option of beginning an engagement by simply discarding a Capture card from hand)! So this brings us right back to Sela and the question about what capture cards to download.

Here is a deck suggestion that uses Sela to download The Enterprise Incident, a seldom-played card from Call to Arms. With a cost of four counters, the event is rather expensive to play, but it not only allows you to capture a personnel with a specific skill (Leadership), it also allows other ships to join that engagement! Throw in a cheap Bird-of-Prey with an Intelligence personnel aboard, and you should be ready to successfully battle even the big guns like Borg Cubes and the U.S.S. Defiant.

So we have a ship and an Engagement card that can net us two captives (one Leadership, one random personnel) with every victorious shootout in space. Not bad, but let us find some more synergy here. Since The Enterprise Incident is expensive, why waste four counters playing it? We will take Standing Your Ground to keep the costs down – we have Sela as the corresponding commander of the Goraxus in the deck anyway, and by using three copies each of Standing Your Ground and The Enterprise Incident, we have fuel for six engagements that could potentially result in twelve captives over the course of the game.

But why stop there? Since we are targeting Leadership personnel anyway, we might as well build a dilemma pile around Dignitaries and Witnesses, which requires three Leadership to overcome, and try to lock out our opponent on that skill. Tal'Aura (Impatient Senator) can go in our deck, too, to assassinate Leadership personnel hiding on planets; Far-Seeing Eyes can remove anything from the deck that gives our strategy headaches (like Rescue Captives, Admirals or Generals, skill cheating interrupts, etc.); and if we use Keras (Creature of Duty), piloting the Gal Gath'thong (Pride of the Praetor) as our wingman, we can add Insult to injury by forcing the opponent to ditch even more cards any time we move that ship.

Of course, this is only a rough draft. Sela and the Goraxus really open up the door to some combolicious fun – try and see what you can do with a joint Tal Shiar/Obsidian Order fleet!

This deck is currently eligible for the following family or families of achievements:

• Romulan Player
• Limited Resources
• Unbroken I

Decklist

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Missions Headquarters 1 S 195 •Romulus, Seat of Power Planet 8 U 62 •Near Polaris, Survey New World 1 S 200 •Sensitive Search Space 21 V 14 •Alpha 5 Approach, Transport Crash Survivor 1 U 186 •Military Exercises

Draw Deck (56) Event 22 V 12 1x •Alvera Tree Ritual 0 VP 7 1x At What Cost? 4 R 51 3x Far-Seeing Eyes 0 VP 38 3x •Getting Under Your Skin 1 R 90 2x How Would You Like a Trip to Romulus? 0 VP 30 1x •Indebtedness 22 V 14 1x •Klingon Tea Ceremony 4 U 67 1x •Power Shift 1 U 106 2x •Prejudice and Politics 4 C 73 3x Standing Your Ground 3 R 61 3x The Enterprise Incident 4 R 78 1x •The Perfect Tool Personnel Romulan 4 R 165 1x •B'Etor, Romulan Conspirator 12 R 106 1x •Charvanek, Neutral Zone Commander 1 S 356 1x •Cretak, Supporter of the Alliance 23 V 51 1x •Donatra, Honorable Commander 1 U 359 2x •Hiren, Romulan Praetor 18 V 42 1x •Kalenna, Sentry 22 V 44 1x •Karina, Hindering Analyst 12 R 107 1x •Keras, Creature of Duty 4 R 169 1x •Lursa, Romulan Conspirator 4 C 170 1x Mareth 14 C 105 2x Nevala 17 V 77 2x Ptol 13 U 100 1x •Rekar, Tool of the Tal'Shiar 4 C 172 1x Relam 1 C 366 2x Sabrun 24 V 39 3x •Sela, Supervising Operative 4 C 175 1x Setek 1 R 369 1x •Shinzon, Capable Commander 12 U 109 1x •Tal, Alert Subcommander 1 R 372 1x •Tal'Aura, Impatient Senator 4 U 176 1x •Tamarith, Reformist 4 C 177 1x Taul 10 R 102 1x •The Viceroy, Advisor to the Praetor Ship Romulan 17 V 89 1x Bird-of-Prey 7 R 120 1x •Devoras 12 R 122 1x •Gal Gath'thong, Pride of the Praetor 24 V 53 2x •Goraxus, Lying in Wait

Dilemma Pile (24) Dual 10 R 2 1x An Issue of Trust 6 P 2 3x Dignitaries and Witnesses 17 V 6 1x He Wasn't Nice 22 V 4 1x Healing Hand 23 V 6 1x Inequitable Exchange 17 V 9 1x Occupational Hazards 22 V 8 1x Pitching In 3 U 23 1x Restricted Area 3 U 26 2x Secret Identity 1 U 53 1x Temptation 18 V 6 1x The Captain's "Guest" 4 R 27 2x The Dreamer and the Dream Planet 6 P 6 1x Hard Time 1 S 33 1x Kolaran Raiders 10 C 12 1x Necessary Execution 14 R 16 1x Sylvia 4 R 30 1x Whisper in the Dark Space 1 S 17 1x Command Decisions 4 R 28 1x Tsiolkovsky Infection 7 R 15 1x Where No One Has Gone Before

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