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    Not Easily TakenRalami

    (3) • Not Easily Taken

    Event Event
    To play this event, you must command a Federation Maquis Anthropology personnel. Plays in your core. While your Maquis personnel is attempting a mission with an event on it, he or she is attributes +1. While an opponent's personnel is attempting a mission with an event on it, he or she is attributes -1.

    "They were going to make a present of us to the Cardassian government."

    Characteristics: enhance your personnel attributes (other cards), manipulate opponent's attributes (personnel), plays in your core.
    Requires: Federation affiliation, Maquis Maquis related, plays / place on a mission.

    Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Dec 11th, 2011. One quality log by eberlems at Jan 2nd, 2012. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card a second time!
     

    (2) Ralami

    Federation Federation icon Personnel Personnel of Alien species.
    Icons: Maquis
    Red Dot Intelligence   Red Dot Medical   Red Dot 2 Security  
    Red Dot Treachery  
    Infiltrator. While you command a Federation Maquis ship, you may play this personnel on a planet mission with an event on it.
    INTEGRITY: -1   CUNNING: -1   STRENGTH: -1

    After her home on Valan III was threatened, she employed her considerable experience in espionage to disrupt Cardassian shipments in the Demilitarized Zone.

    Characteristics: event related card, Federation affiliation, Maquis Maquis related, Infiltrator, Alien species, ship related card.
    Requires: Federation affiliation, Maquis Maquis related, plays / place on a mission, planet mission.

    Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Jul 29th, 2017. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
     

    This Card-Review article was written by Matt Kirk and was published first on "The Continuing Committee (trekcc.org)" at May 30th, 2017.

    About a year ago, A Time to Stand split up the Maquis into two separate headquarters missions with fairly specific goals: Athos IV would continue to support the classic Maquis deck using For the Causeimage, while Quatal Prime, Quiet Mining Colonyimage implemented a new strategy, incentivizing players to use events that played on missions. "New Maquis" decks have been growing in popularity, and have been seen during the 2017 Regional season, even taking 1st place in the Romulus region under the command of Lucas Thompson. And while the Maquis' Phase II boost was more of a mechanical adjustment than an actual power boost, Quatal Prime now receives a few more weapons in their arsenal to wreak havoc on your opponent's missions.

    The new DMZ mission, Soltok IV, Transport "Medical Supplies"image, is exactly what the Quatal Maquis deck wants to see. With low-cost Maquis ships, it's not very difficult to start transporting those "medical supplies" on your second turn! Card advantage plays perfectly into the Quatal player's hand, freeing up precious counters to be spent on oppressive events like Outmaneuveredimage and Biogenic Weaponimage. Its requirements are also right in the Maquis' wheelhouse; Santos, Squad Leaderimage even has three of its four skills covered, and Treachery is plentiful in most Maquis decks.

    We finally get to see Michael Jonas, Crafty Mechanicimage on a personnel card, but perhaps not in a way you might expect in a Voyager deck. Instead, Art has been able to show us what Jonas might have been doing before he joined Chakotay's crew aboard the Val Jean. He avoids getting involved directly, instead preferring to boost his comrades' efforts by returning to his owner's hand when the fighting begins. This boost can be useful both in battle, but also in giving your Maquis personnel an edge in attempting missions. The boost lasts until the end of the turn, so if you can stack him aboard the Cosette, Reliable Raiderimage with Ro Laren, Apologetic Defectorimage, Hostiities Unleashed becomes a way to both deter your opponent and permanently give your teams boosted attributes.

    And then there's Ralamiimage, whose appearance marks an important development for both Quatal Prime and Athos IV - she's the first Maquis personnel to have 2 Security naturally! She's also got a great way to sneak into your opponent's missions as an Infilitrator, enabling an entirely different suite of chicanery for the Maquis; Undercover Resourceimage, Under Suspicionimage, and Misdirectionimage pair up beautifully with Not Easily Taken, paving the way for a new attribute denial Maquis dilemma strategy. Did I mention she was non-unique so you can infiltrate all of your opponent's planet missions?

    These three new cards give the Maquis access to a whole new catalog of disruption; skilled players will be able to exploit this in giving their opponents even more devilish nightmares during mission attempts. If you happen to sit down across from a Quatal Prime player this summer, be prepared for anything - these new additions give the Maquis a lot more bite than you might expect.

    by Matt Kirk, Second Edition Creative Manager