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Shap'ng-Tsai
Jade Rebellion - South China
Seas
Once per turn
before you give this ship an action, roll a d6. On a
5 or 6, this ship may be given the same action
twice. This ship gets +1 to her cannon rolls against
English ships.
Type
- Ship
Collector's Number -
024
Piece Ratings:
4
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale 1 being the worst.
3 ... average. 5 is the highest rating.
Date Reviewed - 04.19.06 |
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Katsura-Chan
Jade Rebellion - South China
Seas
This ship may move and shoot using the same move
action. Once per turn, you may reroll any die roll
you make for this ship; you must use the second die
roll result.
Type
- Ship
Collector's Number - 025
Piece Ratings:
4
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale 1 being the worst.
3 ... average. 5 is the highest rating.
Date Reviewed - 04.19.06 |
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Shap'ng-Tsai
This guy - looking unfeasibly handsome for a South
China Seas pirate by the way - is a retread of good
old Capitan Gaston St Croix from the Crimson Coast.
He provides a repeat action (which 99 times out of a
100 means a second round of moving and shooting!)
plus a special bonus of +1 against the poor old
English.
This is neat, because most of the ‘roll 5 or 6 for
an extra / repeat action’ characters are 5 points
just for that ability alone, so the +1 against
theEnglish is a nice addition. It’s a shame we don’t
see a few more of these characters with specific +1s
against other named factions thrown in. There are
one or two others, but the English seem to be the
most popular hate target. I guess that’s because
back then we ruled the waves, huh?
My rating – One of the essential Jade Rebel named
crew. 4/5
Katsura-Chan
This is a new named crew type, which basically rolls
two pre-existing abilities into one named character.
You might think this is a bit feeble in terms of a
lack of imagination on the part of the designers. On
the other hand, you might think it’s rather good,
because you get a pair of abilities in one
character, rather than two separate crew - thereby
saving yourself a precious cargo slot.
In this case, it’s the the ‘move and shoot’ ability
twinned with the ‘re-roll any dice once per turn’
ability.
Ordinarily, these abilities would cost you 3 points
each (unless you used the re-roll ability of a 0
points limit ransom character) - so 6 points for
Katsura-Chan is bang on the money.
All sounds good, I hear you say – what’s the
downside?
Well the downside is that the strength of combining
two abilities into one character is also its
weakness. Because if you happen to get hit by a ship
with a crew/cargo eliminator ability (or lose a
boarding action), instead of losing either your
captain or your re-roller, you now stand to lose
both in one hit!
My rating: Overall, another essential character for
the Jade Rebels – 4/5
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