Wesley's STCCG card of the day #268

Hi, folks,

just printed a quick reference sheet of the QC card pics and found one that looks really good, mostly because I didn't expect something like this in this color:

SIROL

Personnel, Romulan, rare(?) QC
Integrity 7
Cunning 8
Strength 7
OFFICER, Diplomacy, Leadership, Navigation, ENGINEER, Treachery, Command Star (*).
"Commander of the Imperial Romulan Warbird Terix during the Pegasus incident of 2370."

If I hadn't seen the card, I'd have said "Okay, that one is definitely blue". Five skills and a solid attribute base, looks a good lot like a Feddie. And even more so the fact that you get a dual classification and none of the skills is really useless. Not like B'Etor's Greed or Data's and Riker's Music which are only useful in rare circumstances. And Wes' Youth isn't much better unless you're playing with something like Study Plasma Streamer or Investigate Legend (also QC).

And somehow Sirol's skills seem to integrate well with other Romulan cards to create a powerful theme. Diplomacy/Leadership/Treachery is also found in Sela and Diplo/Leader/Navigation gives you a Tebok. By the way, Tebok is pretty useless now. His three skills plus the lower attributes make him inferior in nearly every way. Also, you can forget about Tomalak (the real one) and Alidar Jarok. And even the valuable Sela only keeps her Youth and her femininity to put something against the onrushing contender for the #1 Romulan.

But if you take another viewpoint, how about letting him cooperate with the guys he just outsmarted? Pegasus Search is an ideal field for our Sirol with four(!) matching skills. Just add some Integrity in the form of a Doctor, a Scientist and a Security Officer (maybe three Soong-type Androids?) and a little extra support and you get a whopping 50 points.

Wormhole Negotiations is next, with the alternative Diplomacy and Treachery requirements. As you'll need replacements for a key card anyway, why not put them to a good use if you draw both?

Covert Installation is a one-man job for Sirol (seed some Artifacts and make your opponent believe they're Dilemmas ;-) ), and to round out the picture you can use Covert Rescue, Expose Covert Supply and Strategic Diversion.

Six missions and Sirol can play a good part in all of them. Sounds like a deck to me, and best, you don't need any skills besides the ones Sirol has. So replacing him is easy and you need these skills in multiples anyway for a few missions so getting Sirol and the replacement isn't that bad either.

With this card, the Romulans can now compete in a field that was until recently considered a pure Fed domain: Fast mission decks. Maybe dilutes the personality of the affiliation but makes Romulan a viable choice to play.

Favorite combo(s):

- Sirol + Sela + Alidar Jarok + Tomalak + three Soong-type Androids + the six missions mentioned above. Now who can stop this force?

Ratings for : SIROL

Wesley's rating:                9.0
Allen's rating:                 9.6
Cole's rating:                  9.0
Data's rating:                  8.0
Gowron's rating:                ---
Hal's rating:                   9.5
Jack's rating:                  9.0
Lakanta's rating:               ---
Nanite's rating:                9.0
Nouwa's rating:                 8.5
Picarde's rating:               8.5
Q's rating:                     7.0
Ranger's rating:                ---
Ray's rating:                   7.2
Tony's rating:                  8.9
Wa'Qah's rating:                ---
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AVERAGE RATING:                 8.6

You'll see a few new names up there with dashes for this card. I just took the opportunity of introducing them, you'll see more constructive comments from them tomorrow when I'm tackling something already in print

PS: Sorry for the delay. I'll make up for it on the weekend so expect an extra issue or two. Promised. Which I hope also means kept ;-) .

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