Romulan Cloaking Device
Equipment Reports only aboard your Romulan ship or to Sherman's Peak. While on your Romulan ship (or your ship with 2 ENGINEER aboard), ship has a Cloaking Device. Characteristics: Original Series , Cloaking Device. Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009. | |
This Card-Review article was written by Kathy McCracken and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Nov 20th, 2000.
The Romulan Science Vessel, while quite comparable to a Klingon K'Vort without the staffing requirement, suffers from one important deficit: no cloaking device. The Romulan Scout Vessel, likewise lacking, has been supplanted by the slower, but cloakable, Romulan Shuttle. Now you can add a cloak to either ship with a simple equipment card, and on the fly - the Romulan Cloaking Device reports only aboard a Romulan ship (or to Sherman's Peak), so there's no need to stay in port till one shows up in your hand.
True to the original series "The Enterprise Incident" story, the Romulan Cloaking Device can be used by other affiliations, but it's a little more trouble for them. Only ships can use it (the Treaty of Algeron later prohibited the Federation from using cloaking devices, and all the 24th-century Klingon ships have cloaks), it must report to Sherman's Peak, and it takes 2 ENGINEER to figure out how it works. But once you get past those minor difficulties, your Starship Enterprise or I.K.C. Gr'oth can fade from view right under your opponent's nose.
Combos:
- Romulan Cloaking Device + Science Vessel + Hidden Fighter: Download the ship and report the Cloaking Devoce aboard with your card play. Repeat as needed for a fast, cloakable armada that's incredibly easy to staff.
- Romulan Cloaking Device + Starship Enterprise + Captain Kirk + Sherman's Peak + Deep Space Station K-7 + Engage Cloak: Ship, captain, and cloaking device can all report for free at Sherman's Peak, but how much damage can one antique ship do to your non-Federation opponent? Maybe a lot, if he never knows just where you will pop up.