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IRW Belak


(https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1433322/blind-booster-previews)



Video
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0B0ZhGp4k)


I'll just cover the highlights. FYI, blinds are going up to 40 points starting with Temporal Cold War

The Ship is a D'Deridex 30 points When defending you may reroll 1 BS, if cloaked you may reroll all BS when defending.


The captain Lovok, skill 3, 2 points, may reroll blanks when attacking, but if you do take an Aux token. Ticks me off that Worf does this for free, but the D'Deridex and the Valdor have plenty of green so no biggie. He does't have a talen slot but may take the Tal Shiar talent.

Tal Shiar talent, 5 points ouch, During the planning phase, discard to look at one ships dial within range 1-3, then place a BS beside your ship as a free action. May only be taken by a Romulan Captain.

Tallera, 3 points crew, target a ship at range 1-2, roll and attack die, on a hit or crit discard this card and 1 crew on the target ship This is a great one, you only discard it if it works and goes through cloak and shields.

Modified Cloaking Device, 5 point tech, If you take a cloak action you may only be TL by a ship within range 1 AND you can roll full defense dice against an enemy scan.



Now the star of the pack

AFT DISRUPTOR EMITTERS, weapon 2 points, 3 attack dice, disable to make this attack against a ship that is NOT in your forward arc. This is great for Romulans, we have plenty of ways to boost this up, Donatra, Valdor ship, Captian Valdor. I want three of this pack just for this card

Holy god... I wants it... Annoying that its yet ANOTHER D'dedrix, but the Romulans never really had a lot of ships, so it makes sense. If it had a firepower of 4 I'd love it.

But after Disruptor Emitters rocks!

The ships ability isn't bad, and Modified cloaking device isn't bad, but the point cost is a meh.

Still wish they gave the romulans a Type 8 phaser array but hey they Finally Finally gave them an Aft Disruptor emitter.

Holy crap a very defensive ship for the roms. I swear if I hear another Romulan hate debate from anyone I will slap them.


Lovok and Mendak are going to be BFF. Geez


I can't type today several edits lol

skiman94 wrote:
Still wish they gave the romulans a Type 8 phaser array but hey they Finally Finally gave them an Aft Disruptor emitter.

Who knows one may be in the works. The MU D'Deridex got one (well similar) and there is another retail D'Deridex scheduled for march of next year.


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 Rune Stonegrinder wrote:
Holy crap a very defensive ship for the roms. I swear if I hear another Romulan hate debate from anyone I will slap them.


Lovok and Mendak are going to be BFF. Geez


I can't type today several edits lol

And it does have 2 tech slots so throw on a couple IG and it is a very defensive ship.

I am liking Lovok not as good as Worf but Romulans do need some more non-action dice quality, so I'll mtake it.

Mendak throws Lovok a battlestation, Then rerolls all blanks and them modify's yikes that will be hell on a Generic Reman Warbird. Add upcoming scorpion fighters

Scimitar 38
Salatrel 3
Interphase 3
Interphase 3

Reman WB 36
Lovok 2
Mendak 4
Interphase 3 or Advanced Cloaking 4

Scorpion Fighters 20

112 0r 113

room for a resource or crew etc, playing against romulans is going to be ugly soon

That is a nice list, but it looks like we may all have to rethink how we build our fleets. The Temporal Cold War instructions recommend a 90 point build and a 40 pt blind. It will be tough to cram two Reman Warbirds in 90 points. It is also going to be tough to cram two ships and fighters into 90 points.

Now this will all depend on the venue. Some may choose not to use the blinds.


Now that I think about it fighters may be tough to squeak in. It is easy to spend 50 points on a ship, but I don't like the idea of spending 40 points on a squad of fighters. What makes them great is that they are super tough for 20-24 points, but if you have to drop 40 points on them that is going to be less effective. This may be a great thing to mess up the effectiveness of fighters.

Unfortunately someone could still make a list of 2 Constitutions and 2 fighters with some room to spare. 2 keldons and 2 fighters is possible but pretty bare bones, facing an opponent with a couple disruptor pulse weapons could wreck it though.

This may take some thinking

I never intended for that to be a Blind OP event list. I was just considering at 120 with fighters Romulans are approaching BS level

 Rune Stonegrinder wrote:
I never intended for that to be a Blind OP event list. I was just considering at 120 with fighters Romulans are approaching BS level

Gotcha

How's this then

38 Scimitar
03 Salatrel
03 Massacre
02 IG
02 IG
02 Romulan Helmsman


30 Valdor
02 Lovok
05 Fleet Captain (tech)
04 Admiral Mendak
02 IG
03 Advanced Cloaking
02 Romulan Security Officer
02 Romulan Helmsman

20 Scorpion Fighters

120


You could do two Reman WB but it doesn't leave many points for extras. The loadout on the Valdor above gets Lovok up to a skill 8 which could be fun.

yeah Roms are gonna be ugly

Still want two things from the Romulans: Mid level point cost ships, and some free-action generating cards. Not disappointed with what we have, but I could appreciate those two things being added.

And I actually had a 2 Ships 2 Fighter build with the Enterprise D a while back.

I'm just happy to be returning to the blind boosters. I dislike paying into a tournament to walk away empty handed...

I guess this might be the 2nd Blind booster?

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1433862/mystery-faction-blind-booster



Looks hot but still needed to be a smaller SP ship to make use of the mega weapon


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another question, everytime I see folks talking about the new blinds it sounds like there are 10 different ships and not 5 ships 2 of each, like the last blinds. anyone know something I don't?

Hey guys I updates the title so we can just keep posting all of the blinds here. No need to create too many threads on the same thing.


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 Rune Stonegrinder wrote:
I guess this might be the 2nd Blind booster?

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1433862/mystery-faction-blind-booster



Looks hot but still needed to be a smaller SP ship to make use of the mega weapon


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another question, everytime I see folks talking about the new blinds it sounds like there are 10 different ships and not 5 ships 2 of each, like the last blinds. anyone know something I don't?

I think this is a pretty good one. I can see this going for big $$ on ebay. Lots of people will want multiples of these for the cheap generic upgrades. The Captain is great for 1 point and the Ship has an awsome ability. Spinning someone 90 degrees could wreck with their plan.

The only thing that worries me is that if there is a Bioship, there may be another Borg Sphere. Giving 8472 another ship is great for that faction, especially all those cheap upgrades, but I don't really thing the Borg need more. We'll see though, they are a lot more tame with the new rules.

Any thoughts on my Question?

Is the new blind 10 ships or 5 (2 of each)

Everything I have heard has said, 1 brick with 10 different ships to be used for all OPs for the next year. So Starting with Temporal Cold War you will have a year to collect these 10 ships.

 Rune Stonegrinder wrote:
Any thoughts on my Question?

Is the new blind 10 ships or 5 (2 of each)

Probably only five. It's what they have used in the previous OP's. A "brick" of blind ships is five ships twice. Expanding a blind brick to 10 ships... wow. I'd try and play in as many OP's as I could to collect them all, but ugh. And what 10 ships would they use?

So we have a Romulan D'Drex, Species 8472... I bet we see a Klingon big ship (not a Bird of Prey)- maybe a Vorcha? Ship number four I'd like to see a Galaxy Class ship, and the final ship? Dominion haven't been getting much love lately...

A Borg Sphere in a blind... ugh. There is a lot of Borg hate still left over from the pre-nerf. Another Borg ship... I dunno. Would be interesting.

 Tamwulf wrote:

Probably only five. It's what they have used in the previous OP's. A "brick" of blind ships is five ships twice. Expanding a blind brick to 10 ships... wow. I'd try and play in as many OP's as I coud to collect them all, but ugh. And what 10 ships would they use?

The guy doing the previews says there are 10 different ships in the brick.


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 Tamwulf wrote:

A Borg Sphere in a blind... ugh. There is a lot of Borg hate still left over from the pre-nerf. Another Borg ship... I dunno. Would be interesting.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that there isn't a Sphere, but I didn't expect a Bioship either. The only thing smaller is a scout cube, but thst is awfully small compared to a Bioship. They could do another assimilated ship and there is that Probe from the 1st half of Voyager's Dark Frontier.

Assimilated Vessel would seem more seem likely.

 Rune Stonegrinder wrote:
Assimilated Vessel would seem more seem likely.

Of course I won't cry , if they don't get one at all. I think there are 13 factions, so with 3 ships that would leave 3 on the outside. I think Bajorans is a safe bet to be excluded, you would be hard pressed to make one of their ships 40 points in faction. Ferengi would be scrapping without some kind of Combat Vessel Variant upgrade. I can see Kazon anf Vulcans making it their big ships are 26 points, give them a decent captain and they will be alright.

This is a good opportunity for the Dominion to get a 2nd Battle Cruiser and Hirogen a 2nd ship.

I would love a second Hirogen ship. I could also get excited about a firepower 4 or 5 ship for the Independents. Aside from the Soong, are there any?

There is a tone of stuff from Voyager they could do to fit that bill, the Hierarchy, the Think Tank, and they could always do a 2nd Krenim Ship.

But nothing released except for a borg reject captained by evil data... *Sigh* Patience is a virtue I am learning through gaming...

Take Officer exchange Dominion/Romulans

30 IRW Belak
01 Gul Evek
05 Disruptor Beams
04 Advanced Cloak
02 Romulan Helmsman

Cloak then reroll all your defense dice , yeah I know it isn't faction pure but could be fun.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BUrcuygImY8

Another Galor, however an interesting ability

Gul Jasad I like this captain he is now a new main stay for my cardies

Aft weapons array goes down to 3sp....I need 3 of these please

Glinn is a ok card

Concentrated firepower is just awesome there is potential of 3 galors to have 5 attack (dukat), 6 attack (Macet) and 7attack (Jasad) nice

High energy subspace is ok but costly I'm opinion however is a great way to get battlestations for a galor

I like this pack a lot. The Cardassians are getting a great collection of low coast very effective captains. Which is great, their not up to snuff with the big wigs in the federation but can push around the nobodies.

Talking to the FLGS, there are 10 ships in each brick (bit surprising!). That's a lot of OP's to play in to get all of them. Not sure I'm gonna be able to pull that one off. So.. TO THE EBAYS!1!2111!
What we have seen so far:

D'Drex (Romulan)
Bio Ship Omega (species 8472)
Galor Class (Dominion)

That leaves seven more ships to reveal. Federation will be one. There is just no way they couldn't have one. Klingons too. My pure speculation:

Fed
Klingon
Vulcans
Independent
Bajoran
Borg
Mirror Universe

It's a crap shoot on the last 3- Bajoran, Borg, and Mirror Universe. I'm not sure there is another Bajoran ship they could use. Borg- I'd laugh if we got a new Cube, but not a Tactical Cube. Maybe an "Exploration Cube" or something? If I had to make a bet though, I'd say it's going to be an assimilated vessel. Mirror Universe seems like a safe bet. Vulcans just seem to be the faction of Blinds, with half their ships coming from blinds. They had what, two retail releases and then two blind ships? Or was it a blind and prize? Anyways, I can see them throwing another ship in there for them.

Other possibilities: Ferengi. With the upcoming release of Quark's Shuttle, they now have 4 ships (kinda like the Vulcans!). Adding one more would pretty much flesh out the faction. 4-5 ships seems to be the point at which a faction really comes into it's own for ship pure and fleet pure. Note how Species 8472 is really going to jump onto the table with the release of the Beta and the Omega.

The left field, ship out of nowhere would be a Xindi ship. Not too impossible to imagine, as they had what, 4 races but Wizkids could only do 3 ships for the Temporal Cold War? Leaving one more ship out there. Another "ship" would be Klingon Fighters.

Well a Vor'cha of some kind seems to be coming. At the end of the Dominion blind video David teases by panning over the back of a Vor'Cha. So it is eieither for Klingons or MU. My bet would be Klingons, I don't remember a MU Vor'Cha but that doesn't mean there isn't one.

Oh, it was done in the translucent green like the T'Ong

looked black to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiGCWpeTu9c

Not the galaxy some were hoping for but definitely a game changing card or two

Yep the Ugraded Phasers are awesome and every faction needs similar cards. Mr baldrick there is an addition crit for torpedo boats