Subject: Wesley's STCCG card of the day #380

Hi.










Um,

Is this thing on? :)

Well, if you haven't guessed already, it's Allen, not Wesley. (and if you
hadn't guessed by this point, you've really got to get out more). (Of
course, those on the newsgroup probably have no clue who I am. But that's
OK - as long as you know it isn't Wes, you're OK.  Puff is bouncing these 
messages to the group for me, since my access is FUBARed.)

Anyways, to the point. Wesley is off on his well-earned vacation, but he
drive-by emailed me some COTDs to keep us busy. And since I get to mail
them, I also get to do the new openings, and fiddle here :-) (Wes, hope
you don't mind - you did say I could finish them :) If you're a COTD
purist, just ignore my notes - they'll be in []s..

But on with the show: <activating the Emergency Wesley Hologram>

...

Hi, folks,

I might be gone but my image is still around to cause COTDs and 
similar trouble like:


Internet Expansion IV, 7th place, by Stephen Hopkins

SESKA
Personnel, non-aligned, IE4
Integrity 4
Cunning 10
Strength 5
ENGINEER, Treachery x2, Computer Skill, Greed.  May espionage any
Federation mission, Staff Star (+).
"Ensign Seska, a physically altered Cardassian, infiltrated the
Maquis and later betrayed the crew of the USS Voyager."

Oh yeah, a non-aligned treacherous Engineer. Great stuff. Or so
you might say. Well, Seska's skills are nothing to write home
about but she is a living Espionage card and this of course helps
you a lot.
First, use her in an Espionage deck. You don't need to stock two
or three Espionage vs. Fed cards, instead one Seska will do the
trick everywhere. And as you're playing Espionage, you won't have
to worry much about Dilemmas, after all you should know what you 
seeded. 
But there's an even better idea. Don't just throw her into an 
Espionage deck, no, play the best missions of two affiliations
with just a single affiliation in your crew. The only catch is
you cannot use Federation as your crew affiliation. Which is a
small fact I really like as the Feds have the best skills and
the enhanced mission selection options with Seska give the other
affiliations a slightly easier time thus balancing the affiliations
another bit more. 
I really like her for her balancing effects and for the much 
simpler way to espionage against people (although Mot can confirm
it's already easy to be espionaged against ;-) ). But the real 
power of Seska lies in the fact that she's a two to three card
advantage in an Espionage deck. And you know the importance of
card advantage ;-)


Favorite combo(s):

- Seska + Romulan crew + opponent playing Feds ;-)

[Here's a stray thought - to attempt a mission, you must have one
personnel of the correct affiliation. Espionage cards allow you to use a
different affiliation. But here's a non-aligned personnel that lets you
espionage Fed missions. Which to my mind means that there's no need for an
aligned personnel. One step closer to the mythic Non-Aligned deck?]

Ratings for : 

Wesley's rating:                6.5
Allen's rating:                 6.0
Cpt. Targ's rating:             *
Data's rating:                  *
Dr. R'Mor's rating:             *     
EHCCGPP's rating:               *
Hal's rating:                   *
Humuhumunukunukuapua'a's rtg.:  *
John's rating:                  9.0
Jon Walker's rating:            7.0
Jono's rating:                  6.0
Locutus' rating:                8.5
Mot's rating:                   9.0
Nanite's rating:                7.0
Picarde's rating:               5.0
Ranger's rating:                5.0
Rothspar's rating:              6.6
Sirna's rating:                 5.0
Tebok's rating:                 7.0
Tony's rating:                  7.9
Worf's rating:                  7.0
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AVERAGE RATING:                 6.8

[* means that I have a rating with an email address, but no way to match
up nicknames. If you're one of them, drop me a quick line so I can get it
right for next one. Your score is still put in for the average, of
course. Address is agould@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca]

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LLAP,

Wesley Crusher
Temporarily immortal STCCG Lord (on vacation)

"A couple of lightyears can't keep good friends apart"

and

Allen Gould
The mortal STCCG Lord's temp. :)
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