Page 94 © 2011 ADB, Inc. — CAPTAIN’S LOG #43

STAR FLEET UNIVERSEVENUES

These are some new action cards suggested by players onour BBS.

Deep Attack: With this card, you can have one of your ships“slip behind enemy lines” and attack an enemy ship in the “mainbody” as if it were in the “screen,” i.e., you can use short-rangeweapons and other short-range attacks. (Several players sug-gested similar cards, none of them exactly like this one.)

Cloaked Decoy: Played after an attack damages (or coulddestroy) a cloaked ship, this card negates alldamage to that cloaked ship (the attack cardsare discarded) and moves the ship to theReserve Squadron. (Several players sug-gested similar cards, none of them exactlylike this one.)

Police Crackdown: Play this card infront of you, instead of an attack or formationchange. Remove the card at the start of yournext turn. As long as the Police Crackdownis in force, no Orion Pirate ships can attackor be attacked because they’re all in hiding!If the only ship(s) in a Screen is (are) OrionPirates, then that player does not have ascreen for that turn. If a player has only OrionPirate ships, then he has (in effect) no shipsfor that turn (although there are some cardsthat can be played even then, such as plan-etary fighters). (Several players suggestedsimilar cards, none of them exactly like thisone.)

Legendary XO: Play this card when it’stime to draw new cards, and you can sortthrough the discard pile and take whatevercards you want, up to the limit you wouldnormally be allowed to draw. You can draw a

replacement for this card, but you discard this card after pickingyour new cards — so you cannot get it back! (Andy Palmer).

Suicide Shuttle: Can be launched by any ship, only worksat short range, does 12 Damage Points if not shot down (by sixpoints of damage), can be countered like a drone attack (e.g.wild weasel, tractor, cloak). (Joe Turbyfill)

Updates: In a two-player game where each player gets twoattacks, the expert operations officer adds a third one. The HydranDN is a hybrid ship, and cannot be escorted like a carrier! Youcannot apply a carrier conversion card to a carrier.

A Thought: It was suggested that color versions of the cardspublished in Captain’s Log might be created (i.e., better art) andsold as a batch on e23. We might do that, or, we might find aprint-on-demand card place that could make actual cards in smallquantities. We are looking into this option.