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(http://www.startrek.com/article/first-look-uss-hathaway-for-attack-wing-wave-20)



A decent release

The ship has a good ability to take a second action from the action bar, at the cost of an Aux token. It has a 180 arc and plenty of green so this ability will be worth it. It can also make a good home for Chekov if he isn't on Voyager


The skill 7 Riker is pretty cool. He has a talent slot and gets +1 attack die if shooting at a target with a larger hull and +1 defense die if defending from a ship with a larger hull. Almost makes me want to put him on the Delta Flyer with some cool weapon upgraded, get that little ship up to 6 attacks easy

Improvise, 5 point talent, disable the talent and any number of upgrades to reroll 1 attack or defense die for each upgrade you disables (not including the talent). Not bad if you have one of those fed build built around enabling stuff. Also not bad for a last ditch effort to take someone out. Though without a fleetcaptian or Kirk I think 5pts is a little much.

Wesley Crusher is Shinzon for Tech, though each tech is limited to no more than 4 points each. I feel like Wesley is is a little over priced. He could see some play time in OPs after Fleet Captains go away, but before that I don't think he is worth it at 5 points.


Worf is pretty cool. He is 5 points but he is only a disable and he takes away an attack, BS, TL, and allows full defense dice against a scan token. I can see him making it into some fleets. The feds a a few ways to keep using disables effectively.

Geordi is pricey at 5 points. Makes all tech -1 point and you can disable him to get +1 defense for each tech (max +2). Nice not thrilling, but nice. Personally I like the Geordi from the E better, but this one has some uses.

Standard 5 die torps with BS conversion, time tokens, nothing new here.


Navigational Station, a 4 point tech that you can disable to an evade as a free action. I can see this being useful in a Ransome build, but otherwise, meh.


Warp Jump, 5 point tech, at start of combat phase discard to take your ship off the table, after everyone has shot put it back on the table can't be within 1-3 of another ship and cannot attack. We have seen this from 8472 and Borg so nothing new. They have uses, a good candidate to put under Wesley or Quark for one of those sticky situations. However with Wesley you do have to invest more points in a Fleet captain or Geordi to get Warp Jump down to 4 points


In all a good pack. Lots of 5 point cards, some more useful than others, but I can at least see a use for everything in this back as opposed to some other releases (cough, Rotarran, cough )

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Decent is an understatement, more cards for federation to produce more mini dred's. Releases like this really make my Klingon side rage. In a positive tone the pack does follow the episode well.

While I agree Wesley is a little high his ability is great, you have access to 3 separate strategy's in one go. plenty of great federation tech even without a -1 sp and lower or even cross faction for 3.


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This is another "Must Have" for the Federation. I think I found the Captain for my Delta Dread.

On the Wesley Crusher thing- so if I have the Fleet Captain that makes tech upgrades -1 SP, then it applies to the tech under Wesley? If I combine that with the Geordi from this pack, they would be -2 SP, and thus, I could use up to a 6 point tech upgrade under Wesley?

I thought you couldn't do this (WORF rulling and such) after the Quark ruling and it was extended to Shinzon? That basically, the cards are not in play (they are face down underneath a card) and therefore do not benefit from any other fleet/card upgrades until revealed?

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That would be the best way to keep Wesley and Quark from getting totally broken. Over all, I am very pleased with this one.

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Why is the included mini so damn small? Didn't they learn with the TOS(sable) Enterprise?

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I don't know why people constantly complain about the size of the constitution and constellation models. If you're concerned about scale they are not the ships to worry about. They are about the right size when put next to the Galaxy Class model. It's the Miranda and Defiant classes that are too big.

Personally I am happy as long as the model looks cool on the table and the Hathaway certainly does. I had picked up some micro machines for my other Constellation class and Stargazer, I may not even use them now because the Hathaway looks so good. You can find the .icros machines pretty cheap on eBay these days, but when you are playing the smaller models actually work better because they don't bump other ships and range finder as much.

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I am really pleased with the general changes to the models. its a sign of Wizkids paying attention. I am not a fan of the change to the Romulan ships, but its more a personal thing (the older models are my favorite shade of green).

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I'm glad that I am not the only one that isn't fond of the new Romulan ships . I like the dark green over the translucent look.

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