Are we talking about the playable ones?
and
are both only theoretically playable, so they are both at the very bottom.
in general and each specific flavor of
in particular really bore the brunt of Design's caution in DS9 Block, but -- unlucky for them -- they have
not gotten subsequent boosts whereas most of the rest of DS9 Block has.
However, I have to award the title Worst Affiliation to
. You can certainly make an argument that they're more playable than a couple of others, but they are also just about the
blandest,
boringest affiliation in the game. They have
one interesting piece of flavor, and that's
Organ Theft. (They also have the very situational
Boarding Claw and the situational-far-past-the-point-of-uselessness
The Phage.) Even Organ Theft doesn't do much to make Vidiians play differently, as it's just an overcomplicated
Crell Moset. The whole rich, exciting drama of the ancient and dying Vidiian race is almost completely absent from their implementation, and the way to win with Vidiians is the same way you win with everything in the DQ: spam personnel (probably with help from the Equinox) and blitz to 140 ASAP. They don't have the Voyager single-ship dynamic or Hirogen hunting or Kazon armadas. They just spam and solve.
may be less strong, but they're a lot more interesting to run, with all their rules and their latinum schemes and their conferences and their cross-quadrant cargo runs and just general antics. Ditto the Maquis, a faction with weak power but really intriguing flavor. ("I'm irritating, but if you come into my house I'm gonna be a lot more than just irritating" is just a terrific idea, and it's nicely implemented on a lot of the cards. Also,
Learning Curve is more fun than it looks.)
right now are just cards of a different color -- and not very good ones. They are, in my eyes, The Worst.
Hopefully they'll get some help soon.
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