Wesley's STCCG card of the day #136

Hi, folks,

still hungry ? Grumble... Guess I have no alternatives than present you another helping of your favorite posting series:

NEURAL SERVO DEVICE

Event, uncommon.
Plays on any non-aligned ship. Unless 2 SECURITY aboard, use ship and crew for one turn as your own. Discard event.
"Device which can be used to control a crew by activating pain causing im- plants."

Well, at least this one can be used on cards your opponent sometimes actually uses. Many STCCG'ers play at least one Husnock (though it's slow), especially if not using a Fed crew (only Holodeck for Klingons or Rommies).

Also, we might see one or the other Combat Vessel (8/8/6 for 2 staff) or Mercenary Ship (7/7/7 and a really crappy ability for 2 staff.)

The results are quite nice: You take that thing as if it were yours. What to do with it now ?

5) Move it somewhere your opponent does not want to have it. Two turns gained, but nothing else.

4) Have the crew run into some nasty Dilemmas they can't overcome.

3) Attack one of your opponent's ships. Probably damaging at least one of them if not both...

2) Move it somewhere sensible (location with opponent's ships) and start an auto-destruct sequence. One killed, perhaps some more damaged.

1) Move it just where your opponent wanted to go and solve the mission there.
Points + possible Artifact(s) + still the chance to do (2) after it !
And the probability of your opponent having 2 SECURITY isn't too high, too, as no Dilemma absolutely needs more than one of them (Yes, Chalnoth can be beaten by 3 SECURITY, but also by any 41+ Strength.) So even mega-team players will probably start moving with one Security.

Weakness: Still too few non-aligned ships. Otherwise it would have been a game-breaker.

Favorite combo(s):

Neural Servo Device + any mission of opponent + Auto-Destruct Sequence.

Ratings for : NEURAL SERVO DEVICE

Wesley's rating:                6.5
Lore's rating:                  6.7
Owen's rating:                  4.2
Ian's rating:                   2.0
Jack's rating:                  6.0
Jason's rating:                 4.0
Cole's rating:                  3.5
Mark's rating:                  5.0
Movar's rating:                 7.0
Serge's rating:                 6.0
Andrew's rating:                5.5
Ted's rating:                   4.4
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AVERAGE RATING:                 5.0

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