The next official card preview is up, and this time it's an Accelerator Gate.
It's a pretty fun location, and certainly one that's going to get a lot of use. For a cost of 1 it adds a +1 income and 1 mining location that allows you to respond to the attack of the region in which it is located by warping a friendly ship to the region and activate any of it's commands that it could normally activate. When played on the home region it's limited, but you can play it multiple times in a turn if you're targeting an outer region.
All in all as a location it's cheap but doesn't pay that much in return. You're definitely only playing this card for it's special ability.
The big problem I see is that it only lets you move one ship so that's either going to have to be a big ship or your fight is going to have to be pretty even. It'll also work as a nice deterrent if you've got something nice floating around another region, and that's where I suspect it's greatest use will be.
It does bug me that you warp to the gate and not from it, but that's just me.
With the release of the set being planned for a month or so away it's time to buy more pages for the card folder and get the credit card ready for when they go up for preorder. The game could really do with an expansion around now, our games have gotten a bit stale and trailed off somewhat. What we need are exciting new cards.
posted @ Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:09 PM