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 Tamwulf wrote:
I have no idea what set that guy off, or if he started having technical issues. I felt overall that his videos where good, but could use some improvement. I know I tried to be constructive in my criticisms- something most people on the interwebz are not. But if you are putting yourself out there on the interwebz and giving an opinion on a subject, you have to have some thick skin to do that.

Ah well. I'm not sure what happened. I hope it's a technical issue and not a "someone kicked sand in my man-gina! I'm hurt! Wahhhhhh!"

What is this in reference to? the Shipyard not doing anything for the next 36 hours?

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:

 Tamwulf wrote:
I have no idea what set that guy off, or if he started having technical issues. I felt overall that his videos where good, but could use some improvement. I know I tried to be constructive in my criticisms- something most people on the interwebz are not. But if you are putting yourself out there on the interwebz and giving an opinion on a subject, you have to have some thick skin to do that.

Ah well. I'm not sure what happened. I hope it's a technical issue and not a "someone kicked sand in my man-gina! I'm hurt! Wahhhhhh!"

What is this in reference to? the Shipyard not doing anything for the next 36 hours?

Yes. I should have quoted an earlier post.

It'd be really cool...

And I agree, the Ferengi are soooooo Close! my D'kora swarm almost kicked the crap out of a small 10 point game... Bok's Maruadrer was the last to go down, and it was sudden death: If my opponent went one way, I won, if he went the other, he won... We flipped dials, and he had me.

I am not on the FB, but from what I can tell David made the announcement around 2:30 PM est yesterday. So hopefully that means previews will resume around 2:30 AM est

You know, I've been pondering this, perhaps 'aim to improve' was a statement of his intentions to do better, just very poorly worded?

Could be. Personally I don't think he needs to improve much. I just want to see the cards, he could save himself a lot of headache by just posting pics and letting people discuss. But if that's not his style I guess it won't work for him.


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Someone on BGG told me David revealed on his podcast the last 4 are Kazon, Bajoran, Ferengi, and Vulcan. In the other blinds stets a new class was introduced (Yeager, Gavroche). I wonder if we will see a new class for this blind set. All 4 of these factions need at least one more release. Hopefully we get the previews up and running soon.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sGnDLFvD_p8&feature=youtu.be

Bajoran 18 point ship with only one possible build. Disappointing

Best I can figure is a blind was the best place to release this pack. The cards are too needed by the Bajorans for it to be a limited prize ship and there really isn't enough in it to be a retail release. So I'm glad it's released, but it is going to be tough to keep it alive in an OP.

For those of us who can't access Youtube from work, mind explaining the cards? Pretty please?

Corpsman913 try this

http://comatoes.github.io/staw-utopia/set-viewer.html#blind_interceptor8

So what happened this time No preview today I guess

Kazon banana in bronze. Lots of attacks. That's about it.

A solid, middle of the road ship for a blind. It is a bit irksome that you can't max out some of the bonuses form upgrades due to a lack of card upgrades with the pack (an issue that you will encounter only during blind play). It's funny that the ship loses the scan action, but considering it's ability, I can see why they did it.

I really like Photonic Charges ( 4 attack dice, if you hit, place an Aux Token on the ship). What kills the card is range one. Really? A range one discard on a ship that gets bonuses for shooting at range 3?

RESULT ! Love the ship and the upgrades This brings a lot to Kazon. Outside of OPs we can finally have a Cullah that we saw on screen, give him First Mage and he is skill 8

Stolen Technology can work well with Masking Circuitry, cloak then copy your opponents Interphase Generator But otherwise it is totally worth it to pay 3 points for +1 Defense with Cullah, after all people pay 4 points for Paris.

The crew, great for Kazon. I'll take an extra action for 3 points.

The weapon wouldn't be my first choice, but what is nice about it is the retail 4 die Photonic Charges was unique, this one isn't.


This is a good pack, the only down side is now I want to repaint all of my Kazon ships to match.

Can't copy interphase generator as its not an action header card

Ah thanks, I missed that on the first watch through. That kinda screws it over for most of the good tech then. But hey it is 3 points for Cullah to get an extra defense die, cheaper than Paris

I am not a huge fan of discard cards, especially ones that are price comparatively. The Photonic Charges from the previous Blinds (if memory serves) are 4 dice range 1-2 and they are a disable not a discard. I can see that card getting play out of the blind, but then never again.

The Miniature looks fantastic though!

Na, the text of the Photonic Charges are the same on both RiF blind and the new one, 4 die, disable, range 1, and +4pts on a non Predator class. The big difference is the RiF one is unique and this one is not. You might be thinking of the 3 die Photonic Charges that came with the Nistrim Raider, that one is range 1-2.

My big issue is that at range 1 I would rather just roll 5 dice with a Predator. Giving an Aux token is nice but, 5 dice, plus saving the 4 points for the weapon seems a much better deal

If you watch the episode where these charges are from it would make more sense if they were range 2-3. The Kazon attacked Voyager from a Nebula before they could identify them.


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The +4 dice on a non Predator class is really stupid because the one ship that could really use this is the Raider The one that comes with the Raider has the same issue, 3 dice at range 1 for free is still better than paying for a weapon.

Damn, foiled by faulty memory again!

I still am wondering why the Kazon, Bajorans, Ferengi, and Species 8472 are all their own factions, rather than being Independent.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ajokBQPewa4

The Vulcan booster. He has the kazon list at the end. Pointed it out to him on Facebook, so did two other guys a minute later and he threw a temper tantrum at "this is why this community sucks"
Seriously going to message wizkids and ask that they pick a more mature preview person.
#bringbackteri

This guy does come across as a bit of a douche. I'm fond of Trueflight Silverwings reviews on you tube myself.

The blinds are all nice so far, but nothing that I've gone OMG I have to have that.

I like the pack, more stuff for Vulcans is cool. Though I feel like each time I watch one of these I'm being lectured.

Well, hey, we only have to suffer one more preview from "OMG! Did you just kick sand in my man-gina?!?! I hate you and everyone else like you! I'm gonna go tell my mom..."

This ship just screams "Combat Vessel Variant!" to me. And yet it can't take it (CVV is Suurok class only, and this ship is a D'Kyr class. More the pity).

Two cards that could really help this ship: Power Grid +2 (if you are supposed to place a Aux Token on your ship, disable this card instead), and Auxiliary Control Room +3 (At any time, disable this card to remove 1 aux token from beside your ship). T'Pol would be a good crew for this card too.

A card that really bugged me about the Vulcans was the Aft Particle Beam. Range 1-3, disable, throw 3 attack dice out your aft arc for 1 point. Yea, you read that correctly. 1 point. Now they get the same card, only it's 4 attack dice and it costs 3 points. Almost any other faction would die for that kind of card, and here the Vulcans get it. This ship can actually throw more attack dice out it's then it's forward firing arc.

That last ship better knock my socks off, because right now, the best ship in this blind is the Bioship Omega. Gotta hand it to Wizkids, they have covered a very, very broad spectrum from the worst ship (Interceptor 8) to the best ship (Bioship Omega), with everything in between. I look at this Vulcan ship a lot like the Klingon, Romulan, and Kazon ship- OK in the blinds, but will be much better outside of the OP when you can put other cards on them (or use their cards on other ships).

 Tamwulf wrote:


A card that really bugged me about the Vulcans was the Aft Particle Beam. Range 1-3, disable, throw 3 attack dice out your aft arc for 1 point. Yea, you read that correctly. 1 point.

The crazy thing is that Feds & MU get this card for 2pts, what the Why does everyone and their moogie get torpedoes for the same cost and Aft Partivle Beam is 1 point for Vulcans and 2 for the only 2 other factions?

 Tamereth wrote:
This guy does come across as a bit of a douche. I'm fond of Trueflight Silverwings reviews on you tube myself.

Amen.

Really enjoy TS's videos, very well presented and very comfortable style.

Shipyard bloke certainly did come back to facebook to explain that yes, his 'aim to improve' comment was indeed directed at 'the community'... Thing is, if you're standing in front of a crowd of a few thousand and get heckled by 3 people, then tell the rest of the crowd they all suck, you can expect to be heckled by the entire crowd...


I really hope he starts manning up and taking this on instead of temper tantruming further, or I'm going to start developing a serious dislike.

Tamwulf wrote:

I really don't want to see another Bird of Prey style Klingon ship. Give us some more D3, D5, and D7's!


None of these could compete with other ships in the blind. As for B'rels there are alot of them still unaccounted for, I would put it past them. HOPE NOT HOPE NOT......PLEASE NO B'REL's

So, I know this happened a while back, but it's kind of hilarious that we were talking about how an ENT-Era Klingon coulding compete with the other blinds... and we got a Bajoran Interceptor.

Do we know what the last faction is going to be?

 Corpsman913 wrote:

Tamwulf wrote:

I really don't want to see another Bird of Prey style Klingon ship. Give us some more D3, D5, and D7's!


None of these could compete with other ships in the blind. As for B'rels there are alot of them still unaccounted for, I would put it past them. HOPE NOT HOPE NOT......PLEASE NO B'REL's

So, I know this happened a while back, but it's kind of hilarious that we were talking about how an ENT-Era Klingon coulding compete with the other blinds... and we got a Bajoran Interceptor.

Do we know what the last faction is going to be?

Yes- it's a Ferangi ship. Not sure what kind. I read somewhere a C6 or something? I have no idea; I'm not an expert on Ferangi.

We didn't get a B'Rel, we got the better K'Vort, but it's still a Bird of Prey style ship. In this round of blinds, it's pretty close to the bottom for good draws in a OP using these blinds.

During the OPs, I agree. I was just laughing because some one told you that they D3, D5, and D7s wouldn't be able to stand up to the others in the Blinds so far... and along comes the little bitty Bajorans... LMAO

After seeing the Bioship, if someone would have suggested an Interceptor I would have laughed too But boom there it was .

One thing that just hit me is these blind bricks are meant to be used for a whole year, maybe there are some scenarios after the Cold War that a small more maneuverable ship will be more valuable then and giant flying plant

Last blind ship posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=596&v=7TQLyAfarVQ

Nuunk's Marauder. Yep, it's another Marauder (or D'Kora class if it matters to you).

Initial impression: Uh, what?. The ship itself, 3/1/4/3, places it squarely in a niche held by many, many other ships. The ship ability: A scan token for an Aux Token. Uh, what? Oh! It's so you'll take the over priced Captain Nunnk to get a free [BS] if you have a [scan] on your ship! Genius! And if you do that, you won't be able to use any of the other cards in the pack. Unless I'm missing something here. You can't take a free action if you have no actions, and by taking this action, you get an aux token, so if I use the ships ability, do I still get an action? Or do I get to perform the action first, and then use the ship ability to get an Aux Token? But as I've already used my action, I don't have any more actions... OK, I'm probably reading way more into this and over complicating it. Ah well.

The rest of the pack: The Kidnap card is cool, except if it doesn't fit on your ship, you just paid 5 points to discard, and lowered all your shields to discard an enemy crew upgrade. Uh, what? Geodesic Pulse... well, I guess, umm... nah. It's an Uh, what? too. Omag- yeah. Uh, what?

Side Note about Kidnap: It's interesting to note that Jeri Ryan was "involved" with some kind of kidnap plot thing with her (ex)husband at the time. Something about dominatrix style sex (he was into it, she wasn't), and he wanted to get back at her for saying how weird he was in bed or something. I dunno. Just thought it was funny to see her on this card.

Ok, finally, the good stuff. "... this card revolutionizes the game more than Upgraded Phasers ever did..." Do I really want to go back and quote what he said about Upgraded Phasers? Nah. Apparently, Weapon Ports is the card that will change the game more than the way Upgraded Phasers changed the game. That's a high bar that he set right there. Just think what would happen if you had Upgraded Phasers AND Weapon Ports on the same ship? /mind blown. For all my sarcasm, it is a good card, but making it a Ferengi card? Uh, what?

Stay tuned for a future "Rank the Blinds!" by Tamwulf.