by Antistone
The main post of the thread has a spoiler section for every month
except September? Is that an error?
I was looking for clarification on (September)...
[o]After finding the paranoid soldier:
[o]:d6-1:If you have not used the Paramilitary Escort upgrade, the instructions say to select a military character (according to an algorithm).
1) Does this have to be a character you've "created" (played before), or just one you have a card for?
2) If it has to be one you've created, what happens if you've never played a military character? (Or if all the military characters you've played have already been lost?)
3) Can you select a character with the "Veteran" upgrade? (i.e. does the "Veteran" upgrade make someone into a military character, or does it only let them use the Military Shuttle Flight action
as if they were a military character?)
:d6-2: I'm not entirely sure whether the C4 equipment is supposed to:
A) Have all the same effects as the sabotage action, but without spending an action or a card
B) Let you perform a "Sabotage" as a non-action, but still discarding a card as normal
C) Be a pre-requisite for performing the Sabotage action at all (implying it can never be done without C4)
(A) seems the most intuitive, but since C4 can only be used at the location of a military base, and being at a military base allows you to spend an action to add an equipment sticker to any card in your hand, the ONLY advantage of the
normal Sabotage action (requiring a city card that exactly matches your current city) would be to preserve your supply of stickers, which seems like an odd result. (That is, as long as you haven't used all of the C4 stickers already, you could ALWAYS perform Sabotage for 1 action + any card, instead of 1 action + the exact right city card.)
Yet (B) seems extremely weak, and (C) seems like it ought to have been mentioned in the Sabotage action itself if it were intended.
Also, if (A) is correct, then... (end of month spoiler)
[o]The Parachute equipment says that if you show the card, you can Charter or Direct Flight to a rioting or collapsing city. I'm 99% sure that, in this case, you're still supposed to play a city card as normal to perform the Charter or Direct Flight.
So...on what grounds am I supposed to infer that using a Parachute also requires you to pay the normal card cost for the specified action, but C4 does
not? If neither of them have a clear indicator one way or the other, shouldn't the answer (whatever it is) be the same for both of them?
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:d6-3: I no longer have an objective to build military bases, and instead have an objective to destroy them. And new ones pop up automatically every game. That makes it seem like I'm supposed to view them as a bad thing. But, tactically speaking, it seems like they're still extremely useful?
Specifically, they still enable the actions: Build Roadblocks, Military Shuttle Flight (for military characters), Equip (with military stickers), Remove Faded Figure (for the Colonel character), and Quarantine in adjacent city (with the Local Pressure upgrade). Plus, having more of them around gives me more opportunities to fulfill the new objective.
Also, I don't see any new rules that would prevent me from building them, or from making them permanent using my end-of-game upgrades (until the ones created during setup use up all my stickers, of course).
So...it looks like I could easily get into a position where I'm building new military bases
solely so that I can destroy them (especially with the Operations Expert and the Soldier, who both have enabling combos for doing that). Am I missing something?
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