care for another game of Poker ?
The catch is to guess where your opponent will be placing his or her outpost. Or to play six outpost raids :-).
The latter strategy might not be that effective as you'll lose 10% of your deck to gain one truly effective Dilemma, so let's concentrate on the psych play with one or two outpost raids.
Likely candidates? Let's consider two missions: Diplomatic Conference and Evaluate Terraforming. The first one is a big point thing that has hard requirements and needs personnel from multiple affiliations to solve. So the only way to do it from your outpost is to use a Neutral one, play Fed crew, beam down, play Klingons, beam them down too (only one affiliation at a time at a neutral outpost!) then finally bring in the Romulans (your order may vary) and then solve the mission. Considering you need seven or eight crew to cope with the mission and the more common Dilemmas, this is not a very likely starter mission.
Now take Evaluate Terraforming. 35 points, Geordi+Medical or Med+Bio+Exobio, both not too hard for any decent bridge crew deck and both combinations tend to provide valuable skills towards possible Dilemmas. So this looks like a typical hiding place for a Betazoid gift box or a Horga'hn. Hmm. As people want these early, wouldn't this be a good outpost location?
And there's the big strategy. When the missions are on the table think "Where would I place my outpost if I had her missions ?" That is the likely location, so put it there. Prime candidates are low-to medium point planet locations that can be done with one crewmember (artifact gainers) or a low-point space mission that seems to attract a lot of seed cards (that Cryosatellite plus contents).
But whenever you seed the Raid, make sure you place some other Dilemma before it that requires several crew to pass. Shaka and Hologram ruse qualify. Just to avoid redshirting away your prime problem.
Wesley's rating: 8.5 Cole's rating: 6.6 Conner's rating: 6.5 Hal's rating: 6.5 Heather's rating: 9.25 Jack's rating: 9.0 John's rating: 6.5* Lore's rating: 7.8 Movar's rating: 9.0 Ray's rating: 1.5 Serge's rating: 6.0 Tony's rating: 7.0* ---------------------- AVERAGE RATING: 8.0
These differentiated between "at outpost"/"not at outpost" which was not intended. Ratings have been averaged.
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