Being a look back at cards from the Star Trek CCG, and what I thought of them back when they were fresh and new... in EPISODE order. The Romulan ship from "Contagion"...
PICTURE: I've always liked the Haakona, with its grand swooping posture, even though the contrast on the image is a little off. Certainly the most dramatic regular D'deridex pic in the game at 3.8.
LORE: Taris is mentioned as matching commander, and the backstory is given, but there's not much here to keep us interested. A basic 3.4.
TREK SENSE: It's just like a regular D'deridex except for the matching commander and an attribute change, so that's pretty much all we have to explore here. Compared to the baseline model, we have a ship with +1 Shields. That's it, that's all. Given that the ship was in shambles because of the Iconian computer virus, it's hard to gauge its actual strength, but if a point had to be added somewhere, I might have put it in Range instead ("responded to..."). It's all so arbitrary. 2.9 because of that choice. In a later expansion, this would have been a great ship to give a Neutral Zone bonus to, perhaps.
STOCKABILITY: The big Romulan ships can make a good big gun armada, but only at the cost of plenty of staffing. With many Romulans falling into the Support Personnel and Mission Specialist categories, it shouldn't be that hard to keep a steady supply of staffers on the ships, though. And since each D'deridex has its matching commander downloadable through Ready Room Door, they can all be boosted to higher levels. For the Haakona, that means an optimal 10-12-11 with Plaque and Log (a little more with Velal around), and a fairly versatile commander. Not bad, but if you're only gonna use a few of the ships available, would the Haakona be necessarily included? The answer is no. Other D'deridexes have more attribute changes from the universal model (which can be Spacedoored, so it isn't a wash), while other ship classes usually have more interesting features (from Phase Cloaks to downloads). It'll fall on whether you want Taris or not, basically, or perhaps on the fact that the WEAPONS have not been reduced to an 8 or a 7 like it has on several other ships of the line. Solid, but no fireworks. A 3.5.
TOTAL: 13.6 (68%) No surprises here.
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