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Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:42 pm
by WeAreBack
When using Construct Starship which engineer do I need to build a Klingon Empire Outpost, Alliance Outpost,Imperial Outpost and Terran Outpost?

Am I matching the affiliation of the card, or the faction printed on the card?

According to the glossary:
Two cards are of matching affiliation if their affiliation icons are the same. For example, if you have a Romulan/Cardassian treaty in play, your Cardassians match your Nor, but your Romulan and Non-Aligned cards do not (they are, however, compatible). If a site refers to a matching personnel, it means matching the affiliation of that facility. See loses affiliation.
Sounds like this an odd situation where a [Fed] can build a Terran Outpost. Oddly, this would then qualify as a [MQ] facility for the purposes of other cards, like Rebellious servants or Raid opposite Quadrant.

And because the facility has been downloaded, it could even be in the [1E-DQ] or [1E-GQ].

Does this make sense?

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:20 am
by Takket
wow........ well i was recently looknig at a Kolinhr deck with Vulcans and thought about tossing in some mirror stuff to use Rebellious Servants but figured it was too much trouble........

but what you are proposing here sure makes sense to me. i don't see any rules issues with it. Matching means same affiliation so any [Fed] engineer can download a [Fed] [MQ] facility and you can build facilities in any quadrant, you just can't REPORT to them.... but RS gives a location for the download so you don't need the facility to be in its native quadrant to allow the report.

i think this works unless i'm missing something.... curious what others think. let me know so i can throw this in my deck lol

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 6:37 am
by WeAreBack
Yes, and so you could download Mr. Siskoor Smiley, build one of their ships, then have its crew or away team complete a mission in "another quadrant".... potentially even their home [MQ] quadrant and download an artifact.

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 6:48 am
by SudenKapala
Neat! But given the wording of Raid opposite Quadrant, they do have to travel across a "quadrant border", correct? You can't say that the quadrant is 'different' from the facility just because of the facility's [MQ] icon... correct?

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:19 am
by winterflames
The outposts in question stipulate a faction icon on them for a play condition... just wanted to point that out...

And from my reading yes, different is different from where the facility actually is.

Edit: sorry, just realized the construct starship mention in the title... don't know if that changes or add a play condition.

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:19 am
by patrick
Construct Starship says "at an appropriate location". Doesn't that also include the quadrant?

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:55 am
by 9of24
winterflames wrote:The outposts in question stipulate a faction icon on them for a play condition... just wanted to point that out...

And from my reading yes, different is different from where the facility actually is.

Edit: sorry, just realized the construct starship mention in the title... don't know if that changes or add a play condition.
This is correct. When you download a card you must still meet all requirements to play the card. So you to download Terran Outpost with Construct Starship, you would need a [Fed] ENGINEER as required by Construct Starship and a [TE] ENGINEER as required by Terran Outpost.

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:20 am
by Armus
Of course, Assign Support Personnel + Ensign Chagwiza (or Stoichkov) can get you what you need in the Alpha Quadrant easily enough...

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:49 pm
by winterflames
patrick wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:19 am Construct Starship says "at an appropriate location". Doesn't that also include the quadrant?
No. It does require either the HQ's specified location or the Outpost's matching icon and no other facilities present.

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:22 pm
by Takket
9of24 wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:55 am
winterflames wrote:The outposts in question stipulate a faction icon on them for a play condition... just wanted to point that out...

And from my reading yes, different is different from where the facility actually is.

Edit: sorry, just realized the construct starship mention in the title... don't know if that changes or add a play condition.
This is correct. When you download a card you must still meet all requirements to play the card. So you to download Terran Outpost with Construct Starship, you would need a [Fed] ENGINEER as required by Construct Starship and a [TE] ENGINEER as required by Terran Outpost.
Ah, you're right............
When a card is downloaded into play, you must obey all normal requirements for playing that card, whether stated in the rules or the card's game text.
So that squashes the idea of doing this in a Kolinahr deck because there are no Vulcan [Fed] [TE] ENGINEERs. Although you could jump through some hoops to get First Officer Spock in play and have him download the Classic Tricorder which would give him ENGINEER........

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 6:04 pm
by 9of24
Takket wrote:So that squashes the idea of doing this in a Kolinahr deck because there are no Vulcan ENGINEERs. Although you could jump through some hoops to get First Officer Spock in play and have him download the Classic Tricorder which would give him ENGINEER........
It would need to be one ENGINEER that is both [Fed] and [TE] . You could have a [Fed] ENGINEER and a separate [TE] ENGINEER.

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 6:20 pm
by Takket
correct... but I'm trying not to break Kolinahr by playing a non-Vulcan.

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 6:25 pm
by 9of24
Commander T'Pol is an ENGINEER with [TE] who is also a Vulcan. Taurik and Vorik are [Fed] ENGINEERs who are Vulcans

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 3:08 pm
by WeAreBack
What about Klaestron Outpost? if I download it using Construct Starship, I imagine that I could download it to any mission with a [Car] icon (other than a homeworld) if I had a [Car] Engineer present (because it would be downloaded in " [Car] mode") and that I could download it anywhere with a [Fed] icon (other than a homeworld) if I had a [Fed] Engineer present (because it would be be downloaded in " [Fed] mode").

Re: Matching for Construct Starship & Faction Facilities

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 6:49 pm
by Takket
WeAreBack wrote: Wed Aug 17, 2022 3:08 pm What about Klaestron Outpost? if I download it using Construct Starship, I imagine that I could download it to any mission with a [Car] icon (other than a homeworld) if I had a [Car] Engineer present (because it would be downloaded in " [Car] mode") and that I could download it anywhere with a [Fed] icon (other than a homeworld) if I had a [Fed] Engineer present (because it would be be downloaded in " [Fed] mode").
You need a Klaestron ENGINEER to build this outpost. So that is Ilon Tandro or Orren Ran