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Activate Subcommands

    Submitted by stccgfaq.com on Mon, 01/12/1998 - 21:00

    Activate Subcommands

    The Borg have huge numbers of available drones which normally perform internal functions for the collective. When a task is pending, some of these drones are activated.

    Event Event
    Special icons: Borg-use-only

    Downloads one Borg Communication Borg drone, one Borg Navigation Borg drone, and one Borg Defense Borg drone. Discard event and draw no cards this turn.

    Characteristics: Affiliation Borg affiliation.
    Requires: Affiliation Borg affiliation, Drone, Borg species.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    This event may download a drone which has all three subcommand icons (e.g., Seven of Nine) as any one of the three subcommands. You must also download two other drones of the other two subcommands.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

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

    		Activate Subcommands

    This Card-Review article was written by Evan Lorentz and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Jan 12th, 1998.

    Basic Borg material. Like a Kivas Fajo - Collectorimage with an attitude, this card will jump start you into the game. Unlike Kivas, there's no risk of your opponent deriving any benefit from it. Stock plenty of them, to be sure you get the two or three you need early in the game. Later on, though you may not use them to get Drones, you'll find them invaluable for probing. With all three subcommand icons right there in the game text box, you'll probe successfully, no matter what the objective.

    Combos:

    • Activate Subcommands + Activate Subcommands + Activate Subcommands: A Borg Cubeimage more than ready to attack the Alpha Quadrant.
    • Activate Subcommands + any Borg objective: Probing made easy. "what're those new circle icons on Locutus of Borgimage for?". (At least it's one of the answers to that question!) This card contains a wealth of new icons: communication, navigation and defense subcommands; Borg affiliation icons; the expansion set icon (a small Borg cube appearing on all 130 cards in this set) and the mysterious new Delta Quadrant icon (which will come into play in a future expansion set).

    This enormous ship requires a minimum of seven Borg to staff it, but the WEAPONS and SHIELDS are well worth the extra staffing. Just be careful if your opponent sets his sights on that 45-point "bounty"!