Wesley's STCCG card of the day #226

Hi, folks,

how about a choice that is no real choice ?

PORTAL GUARD

Dilemma, planet, uncommon.
Unless at least one Away Team member has CUNNING >7 OR Honor, the entire Away Team must abort mission and beam up or die.
"Portal 63 is the last remaining protector of the Tkon empire, which went extinct 600,000 years ago. Challenges those who awaken him."

Yep, great choice. Either you abort the mission and beam up or you die and then abort the mission. Well, I still have to see a player choose the second option voluntarily.

But first, the requirements: CUNNING > 7 or Honor. For Feds, we have 26 rares, 7 uncommons and 1 common that can make it past these requirements unscathed. Klingons have 10 rares, 2 uncommons and 2 commons, Romulans 5 rares, 4 uncommons and 3 commons. Non-aligned can boast 2 rares, 10 uncommons and 1 common. To me, these figures look pretty good. In fact, they make up about 50% of all cards. Now this gives me a probability of about 1 in 16 to hit a four-person away team. Or 1 in 64 for a six-person team. Not really a good chance to hit.

Now the effect. Normally, when I get hit, I beam back up and try again next turn. Unless something nasty like a Temporal Rift happens to me in the meantime. So the best I can get playing this Dilemma is some delay. At a chance of 1 in 16 or worse. Right. Right?

There must be something better I can do. Atmospheric Ionization can really prove an away team decimator here. Like getting rid of everything but three personnel. That is, if I can over come that 1 in 16 probability and hit. Natch.

And Distortion Field does only prevent beam-downs but no beam-ups. So again, a good idea is lost. Rats.

But the new timing rules now give me a chance to act. Just after the Dilemma hits (yeah, right, in that 16th game), I could play an interrupt that stops the opponent's away team. Like Rogu... wait, that one only works on a ship, and I cannot attack either as it is not my turn. Maybe Barclay's Transporter Phobia. Could kill one personnel. What an effort. So where's the use? Evades me. Next.

Favorite combo(s):

- You betcha!

Ratings for : PORTAL GUARD

Wesley's rating:                1.0001
Cole's rating:                  4.0
Conner's rating:                ---
Data's rating:                  6.5
Hal's rating:                   3.3
Heather's rating:               6.0
Jack's rating:                  5.7
John's rating:                  5.0
Q's rating:                     3.0
Ranger's rating:                ---
Ray's rating:                   ---
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AVERAGE RATING:                 4.3

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