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The Scimitar: The Reman Answer to Every Other Ship

    Submitted by Telak on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 20:00

    Scimitar

    Massive predator of a ship commanded by Shinzon. Its brief contact with the U.S.S. Enterprise-E would leave a lasting impression.

    Romulan Romulan icon  Ship Ship  - Scimitar Class
    Staffing requirements: Command Command Command
    Ship Equipment: Cloaking Device , Tractor Beam
    Special skill(s): Special Download Any Tactic.  Special Download Engage Cloak.
    RANGE: 9  WEAPONS: 13  SHIELDS: 12

    Characteristics: Affiliation Romulan affiliation, Cloaking Device, Tractor Beam, Romulan ship.

    Rule hint for this card

    OTF-Conversion-Rules:
    If you play OTF this card replaces the backward compatible 2E card Scimitar, Predator from Second Edition - ST1E compatible Second Edition - ST1E compatible (the 2E card is no longer valide in OTF).

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jun 8th, 2010.
     

    		Scimitar
    The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for Scimitar:
    - Shinzonimage (16 V 8) from Chain of Command Chain of Command
    - Shinzon, Reman Leaderimage (ST2E 8 C 92) from To Boldly Go To Boldly Go - ST1E compatible
    - Shinzon, Romulan Praetorimage (ST2E 1 S 370) from Second Edition Second Edition - ST1E compatible

    This Card-Review article was written by Austin Chandler, Staff Writer and was published first on "The Continuing Committee (trekcc.org)" at Oct 22nd, 2009.

    Flagship of the General Shinzon who led the Reman forces. You'll want this ship to lead your forces as well once you see what it can do for your deck.

    The Scimitar... or what I like to call the Romulan version of the Dominion Battleship. This ship is huge. Three Command personnel are required to staff this thing. Good thing that the Romulans have so many Admirals or Commanders to download with Assign Mission Specialists or Assign Support Personnel. They need them to get this ship staffed quickly.

    Looking at the card, we really enjoy the look of the vessel. It's sleek (what a great picture grab) and is popping out of the frame coming for you. It looks like it just wants to attack the nearest ship on the spaceline. The attributes on this vessel show how it led the Romulan/Reman Fleet into battle during the Dominion War: 9 RANGE, 13 WEAPONS, and 12 SHIELDS already make this thing quite formidable. Throw in the Matching Commander bonuses of other cards, and this beast is ready to lead your deck into a war for the spacelines.

    The best news on this card is the pair of special downloads. The first one functions to download any Tactic. Yes, any Tactic. It makes you appreciate what would happen if Picard went down the warrior path. The second download is for Engage Cloak, which has so many uses for a cloaked vessel to use against an unsuspecting opponent.

    This is the best addition to the Romulan Fleet since the D'deridex Advanced -- may all of us salute the Praetor Shinzon and his Flagship!

    Card Combos:

    • Scimitar + Shinzon + Captain's Log = WEAPONS of 16 and SHIELDS of 15. That means you only need another D'deridex around to damage a Borg Cube.
    • Scimitar + Shinzon + Defiant Dedication Plaque = Gives you 11 RANGE on this vessel. Nothing can outrun you.
    • Scimitar + Shinzon + Divert Power = If you don't need stat points elsewhere, use Shinzon to tweak them to your benefit.
    • Scimitar + Engage Cloak + Nelvana Trap = Forget just using Engage Cloak to be able to increase your movement, use Nelvana Trap to really hurt your opponent. This Second Edition card is placed onto a mission and allows you to do the following: You can take a Romulan Vessel off of your Engage Cloak(s) to place it at the mission where Nelvana Trap is and where your opponent just moved to. You may then engage in glorious underhanded battle against the enemy.
    • Scimitar + Captain's Log + Shinzon + Tactical Console + Download Tactic: Maximum Firepower = This gives you WEAPONS of 25 in battle. Enough to damage a Borg Cube or blow up almost any other ship in the game.