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Today we're going to look at some of the upgrades from the Valdore expansion. We've already covered why Donatra is a fantastic captain. Passive abilities, in theory, are strictly better than abilities requiring an activation as they use up none of your action resource. If you look at your one action per ship per turn as a resource, then you should get to why passive abilities are just so much better than abilities requiring an activation.
Tactical Officer is a 3 pt romulan crew upgrade with the
following ability: When removing your target lock from an opposing ship
in order to reroll your attack dice, you may re-roll each attack die an
additional time.
An important thing to note is that you can't reroll a
reroll unless you have text that explicitly allows you to do so. It
doesn't come up very often, but people sometimes forget this
particularly rule. Tactical Officer lets you play around with rerolls if
you've already taken target lock. Don't use Tactical Officer on a ship
with secondary weapons- that should be obvious. Tactical Officer is
great if you like using target locks. Often, I find that Target Lock is
the absolutely last action I'll take. If you're not going to get shot
up, Target Lock is great- otherwise, I typically go for something else
to hedge my bets.
Tactical Officer is a fantastic passive ability that
is situational- you need a target lock to use the ability. No real
issues here, all passive abilities are situational- Donatra needs a
friendly at range 1 to activate. Just remember that these 3 pts will not
always be online, unless you're taking a target lock every turn.
Is Tomalak the least played Romulan captain in the
game? My goodness is he terrible. He's essentially Range 3 scan. Your
Valdore doesn't come with scan, and Tomalak is a great way to get the
basic ability, with non of the token shenanigans. He's also skill 3, so I
guess he hasn't figured out how to translate his ability into a scan
token. I've never seen him played in a competitive match.
So the question for today is- which one of you
wonderful people can come up with an innovative use for Tomalak? I
haven't thought too hard about it, but maybe you guys are just wrecking
face with an amazing Tomalak build. Let me know!
