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Breen CRM114

    Submitted by KaiserK on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 12:54

    Breen CRM114

    Powerful disruptor often brokered by Hagath. Guaranteed to cut through reactive armor up to 15 centimeters and shields up to 4.6 gigajoules. Quick recharge. Expensive, but well worth it.

    Equipment Equipment

    Reports to your Breen or arms dealer. At start of battle, kills up to 5 Rogue Borg present. Once each turn, this Away Team may attack a landed ship or facility on same planet (damaged=Tactic flip).

    Characteristics: disruptor, Hand weapon.
    Requires: Rogue Borg, Arms dealer, Breen species.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    This Equipment card may report wherever your Breen or arms dealer is present, and only where your Breen or arms dealer is present, even when reporting by using another card (e.g., Devidian Door, Security Office). A Breen or arms dealer need not be present to acquire a Breen CRM114 seeded at Search for Weapons.

    Using this disruptor to damage a planet facility or landed ship is a special kind of attack (battle), requiring a leader in the Away Team and subject to all normal attack restrictions. The attack automatically succeeds; place one damage marker on the target from your Battle Bridge side deck (no damage is applied if you aren’t using the side deck). Cards involved in the attack are “stopped” and your opponent is allowed to counter-attack there normally. See once per turn.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    		Breen CRM114

    This Card-Review article was written by Kathy McCracken and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Nov 11th, 1999.

    Just as Intruder Alert! attacked the nuisance of Rogue Borg "pinging," by letting you download and protect Intruder Forcefield, this powerful hand weapon gives you a strong defense against Rogue Borg slaughter. A typical slaughter attack now is four or five Rogue Borg Mercenaries and a Crosis, with Lore in play for STRENGTHs of 20 or 24 each, easily annihilating almost any crew. The Breen CRM114 can kill 5 of them at the start of battle, and you get to choose which ones if there are more than 5. Your opponent will now have to commit at least twice as many Rogue Borg to an attack to get the same effect, and unless he has a lot of Crosis cards, it's not likely that one of them will survive.

    Its other use is no less daunting. Finally, a way to attack and destroy a landed ship (or a planet facility, without an armada of ships in orbit). It requires a Battle Bridge side deck, since the only way to damage the ship or facility is with damage markers. Use high HULL loss markers for best effect.

    Combos:

    • Breen CRM114 + Intruder Alert!image: Keep those pesky Rogue Borg off your bridge once and for all.
    • Breen CRM114 + Hagath: You'll need an arms dealer to report the weapon, and the Non-Aligned Hagath can work with anyone.
    • Breen CRM114 + Photon Torpedo x3: It will take three turns and three attacks, but it will eliminate that landed ship that's keeping you from completing your Patrol Neutral Zone missions, or the Colony where your opponent is racking up points.