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STAR TREK: TACTICS III STARTER CHARACTER CARDS Original Text STAR TREK: TACTICS III STARTER CHARACTER CARDS Original Text © 2013 WIZKIDS/NECA, LLC. TM & © 2013 CBS Studios Inc. © 2013 Paramount Pictures Corp. All Rights Reserved. PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS 1. From Adobe® Reader® or Adobe® Acrobat® open the print dialog box (File>Print or Ctrl/Cmd+P). 2. Under Pages to Print>Pages input the pages you would like to print. (See Table of Contents) 3. Under Page Sizing & Handling>Size select Actual size. 4. Under Page Sizing & Handling>Multiple>Pages per sheet select Custom and enter 1 by 2. 5. Under Page Sizing & Handling>Multiple> Orientation select Landscape. 6. If you want a crisp black border around each card as a cutting guide, click the checkbox next to Print page border (under Page Sizing & Handling>Multiple). 7. Click OK. © 2013 WIZKIDS/NECA, LLC. TM & © 2013 CBS Studios Inc. © 2013 Paramount Pictures Corp. All Rights Reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS Assimilator 84, 7 Ogla-Razik, 5 Scout 255, 6 U.S.S. Enterprise-D, 4 © 2013 WIZKIDS/NECA, LLC. TM & © 2013 CBS Studios Inc. © 2013 Paramount Pictures Corp. All Rights Reserved. U.S.S. Enterprise-D 101 U.S.S. ENTERPRISE-D Federation, Soldier RED ALERT! (Invulnerability) Planting a Command in the Collective: “SLEEP” HONOR AND COURAGE ARE OUR GREATEST When an opposing ship within 8 squares of U.S.S. Enterprise-D places ADVANTAGE (Willpower) an Assimilation token and actions resolve, roll a d6; on a result of - , give that opposing ship an action token. CAPTAIN PICARD (Leadership) WE HAVE ENGAGED THE BORG (Running Shot) CAPTAIN RIKER INTERVENES (Perplex) TAKE US TO WOLF-359, MAXIMUM WARP! (Phasing/ Teleport) You Will Only Defeat Him By Letting Him Go BOARDING THE CUBE (Close Combat Expert) Once per game, choose a keyword possessed by an opposing ship; when targeting opposing ships with that keyword, modify U.S.S. Enterprise-D’s attack value by +1 and, if the chosen keyword is Borg, Team Ability: When a ship using this team ability is Federation roll a d6 when an attack hits. On a result of - , damage dealt attacked by a ship with one or more action tokens, modify this ship’s by the attack is penetrating damage. defense value by +1. Uncopyable. ANTIMATTER SPREAD (Energy Explosion) REGISTRY: NCC-1701-D CAPTAIN: Jean-Luc Picard DOSSIER: During his first battle with the Borg, Captain Jean-Luc Picard was DEFLECTORS ARE HOLDING (Toughness) captured by the Collective and assimilated, becoming Locutus of Borg--leaving his first officer Riker to take command of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D and battle a new and formidable threat to the Federation that now had all of Picard’s knowledge and experience with Federation tactics... POINT VALUE: 125 © 2013 WIZKIDS/NECA, LLC. TM & © 2013 CBS Studios Inc. © 2013 Paramount Pictures Corp. All Rights Reserved. Ogla-Razik 102 OGLA-RAZIK Kazon, Warrior Proton Beam When Ogla-Razik makes a ranged combat attack targeting a ship marked with an action token, modify its damage value by +1. TRACTOR BEAM (Incapacitate) I AM YOUR EXECUTIONER! (Penetrating/Psychic Blast) TODAY, WE PROVE WE ARE WORTH OUR NAME (Pulse Wave) DEFLECTOR SHIELDS (Energy Shield/Deflection) CAPTAIN: First Maj Razik DOSSIER: Notoriously slow, the Predator-class warships flown by the Kazon were still quite deadly if they could lock and hold their particle beam weapons on a target. The nameship of the Kazon-Ogla and captained by its leader, the AN OGLA HAS NO HOPE FOR EXCUSES (Toughness) Ogla-Razik came into conflict with the U.S.S. Voyager during the initiation rite of a younger member of the sect. POINT VALUE: 75 © 2013 WIZKIDS/NECA, LLC. TM & © 2013 CBS Studios Inc. © 2013 Paramount Pictures Corp. All Rights Reserved. Scout 255 103 SCOUT 255 Team Ability: Borg When a ship using this team ability hits an Borg, Robot, Spy opposing ship, place 1 Assimilation token on the target. Assimilation Tokens: When a ship would be healed, it may instead remove 1 Assimilation token for each click of damage it would be healed. When action tokens are removed from a ship, roll a TARGET HELD FOR ANALYSIS (Incapacitate) d6 and on a result of - , remove an Assimilation token. STRUCTURAL WEAKNESS TARGETED (Penetrating/ Psychic Blast) DAMAGE REMAINS ACCEPTABLE (Toughness) Full Analysis Complete Scout 255 can use Probability Control, but only to reroll an attack roll made in an attack targeting a ship marked with an Assimilation token. Scout 255 modifies its damage value by +1 when targeting a ship with an Assimilation token. DOSSIER: Borg scout vessels venture far outside Borg territory in search of new races and technology to assimilate. Carrying less than a dozen drones, some scout vessels are destroyed before they can report back--while others manage to assimilate entire planets on their own and add them to the Collective. POINT VALUE: 50 © 2013 WIZKIDS/NECA, LLC. TM & © 2013 CBS Studios Inc. © 2013 Paramount Pictures Corp. All Rights Reserved. Assimilator 84 104 ASSIMILATOR 84 Team Ability: Borg When a ship using this team ability hits an Borg, Robot opposing ship, place 1 Assimilation token on the target. Assimilation Tokens: When a ship would be healed, it may instead remove 1 Assimilation token for each click of damage it You Will Be Assimilated--Or Destroyed Assimilator 84 can use Mind Control and Phasing/Teleport. When would be healed. When action tokens are removed from a ship, roll a it uses Mind Control, after actions resolve, deal each hit target 1 d6 and on a result of - , remove an Assimilation token. penetrating damage for each Assimilation token on it. OPPOSITION WILL BE ELIMINATED (Energy Explosion) YOUR WEAPONS ARE INCONSEQUENTIAL (Invulnerability) SUBSPACE CORE UNAFFECTED (Toughness) NEW DRONES AVAILABLE FOR REPAIRS (Regeneration) DOSSIER: The Borg Type 03 is a vessel dispatched by the Collective to assimilate densely-populated systems, usually after their defenses had been Your Defenses Are Irrelevant Assimilator 84 can use eliminated by a fleet of Borg cubes. But the Type 03 is a formidable vessel on Outwit, but may only counter defense powers. its own, armed with a wide array of beam weaponry and able to more rapidly assimilate new drones than a cube. POINT VALUE: 150 © 2013 WIZKIDS/NECA, LLC. TM & © 2013 CBS Studios Inc. © 2013 Paramount Pictures Corp. All Rights Reserved..
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