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The more I think about Nunk the more I realize his ability is going to be just about useless. After you MOVE if an enemy within range 1-3 has a scan token beside their ship, place a BS next to yours. Knunk is going to move early so that sucks.

The Nistrim Raider has a similar ability, if attacking an enemy ship that has a Scan token beside it, you roll +2 Dice. Which sounds great but % 99.9 of the time people just choose not to Scan. There are few ways to force the opponent to scan, so really you are just getting Nunk's skill and talent slot.

Scan is the least used action in the game, so nunk's ability is next to useless. In a whole OP event I'd be lucky to use it once.

The tech and elite upgrades seem to be overpriced for what they do.

The weapon just means every one will take cardassian fighters instead of federation ones, as the shields on fed fighters are now useless! Having said that just take two sets of names fighters. At skill level 7 you get to shot first and kill Nunk before he ever shoots at you. Will be more of an issue once this card gets spread around a bit and people put it on a ship which isn't the blind booster.

I can see Galor Class Phaser Banks and Support Ship becoming more popular.

I don't think Weapons Ports will be as effective as we thought when first seeing it. The -1 defense die when disabled is big and it is still action taxing with having to enable it every turn. You can build for that but its more points. The Fed Upgraded Phasers with Type 8s is still more effective.

[scan] least used action? Wow. I see it in use all the time. One of our better players uses a Federation/Dominion build that hands out scan tokens like no tomorrow. There is the whole Fed Excelsior, Spock, and a couple other cards that really like scan tokens, and with the amount of mines I see all the time, [scan] is often the only thing preventing the almost auto damage every turn.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to go "Uh, what?" about this ship. The few times I have seen fighters, it's always been the Dom Fighters- something about Flanking Attack and Gaolor Class Phaser Banks. Sure, makes your fighters cost +30 SP, but you are throwing 6 attack dice (more often 7 for range 1 bonus) and adding +4 or +5 attack dice on the initial joust at range 3 when your fighters can't attack. I received a +10 attack dice surprise in Q2 from that little combo. I wish WORF would have ruled that the fighters needed to be within range of the enemy ship to use Flanking attack instead of just range 1 of a friendly ship and the enemy ship in your forward firing arc. The Fed Fighters are a little more durable then the Dom Fighters, but the Dom Fighters have the better upgrades.

The Weapon Ports negative effect (-1 defense die) can easily be countered by using an evade token, unless you are depending on your defense dice and an evade to stay in the battle. If I'm shooting at Fighters, I don't worry about converting my attack dice beyond one hit. [BS], [Target Lock], or an [action] to add attack dice or convert them is pretty useless against a Fighter stack. I'd rather have the other anti-fighter weapons from the other ships then use this card by itself. If Fighters were a huge threat in my meta, then I think I would go with the Fed Upgraded Phasers and the Ferengi Weapon Ports on two different ships. That should be about 4 stacks of a Fighter in one round of firing. Or a Cloaked Mine and Weapon Ports.

This is where we get back to metas being different in different areas comes up. Scan builds are not popular in my area because before Type 8s came out you couldn't get Excelsior high attacks. Spock is always useful but nost people around me would rather have Captain Spock. So these things do differ from area to area but as a whole scan is slightly less used than the other actions unless itnis a specific build.


-Tamwulf make sure your TO is using the most current FAQ. Galor class Phaser Banks caps at 6 dice even at range 1. It isn't an option if it is equipped to the fighter they can NEVER roll more than 6 dice.

Also I am almost certain that Flanking Attack was WORFed that the fighter must be in range to use its primary, so it has to be within range 1 of the friendly and 1-2 of the enemy.

Most of the Scan actions we see around here are from free-scan or free action builds. I have run scan ships before, but a TL is much more useful and reliable, though rolling -1 defense die when you have an agility of 1 sucks.