I keep seeing sprinter drives and loyal pilots recommended for Rebel to "make up" for the inefficient movement action. I see the temptation however I don't think the fix is leaning in and doing the inefficient action more. Rebel's advantage is that their ships are an extremely action efficient threat even in small quantities. In my mind the puzzle of rebel is leveraging this battle action efficiency without canceling out that efficiency by doing a bunch of extra inefficient move actions. Instead I'd recommend: Railgun Arrays: Small quantities of rebel ships in a threatening spot are very dangerous and demand the opponent answer it. Unfortunately destroying small quantities of ships is relatively cheap. Railgun arrays (kind of) make it twice as expensive for the opponent to respond. Loyal Engineers: Movement actions for rebel can be thought of as expensive. If you invested so heavily in getting them to where they need to be maybe it's less "expensive" to repair them where they are rather than using more "expensive" move actions to bring more ships in. Loyal Keepers: Rebel battle actions are so efficient that it is often a missed opportunity to spend aggression pips on securing. Relics let you continue to play the court without spending your aggression pips on non-battle actions.
Just had a game where the Rebel had Galactic Rifles and it was kinda ridiculous that they could start the game blasting the neighbors of their A and B systems with 5-6 skirmish dice. So that's also a Lore card to keep an eye out for
Since Galactic Rifles’ ability is not technically a battle (it is its own new action), Rebel doesn’t add extra dice. The same would apply if you had Gatekeeper and Galactic Rifles because Gatekeepers only add dice to battles, not new actions like what Galactic Rifles does.
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I keep seeing sprinter drives and loyal pilots recommended for Rebel to "make up" for the inefficient movement action. I see the temptation however I don't think the fix is leaning in and doing the inefficient action more. Rebel's advantage is that their ships are an extremely action efficient threat even in small quantities. In my mind the puzzle of rebel is leveraging this battle action efficiency without canceling out that efficiency by doing a bunch of extra inefficient move actions.
Instead I'd recommend:
Railgun Arrays: Small quantities of rebel ships in a threatening spot are very dangerous and demand the opponent answer it. Unfortunately destroying small quantities of ships is relatively cheap. Railgun arrays (kind of) make it twice as expensive for the opponent to respond.
Loyal Engineers:
Movement actions for rebel can be thought of as expensive. If you invested so heavily in getting them to where they need to be maybe it's less "expensive" to repair them where they are rather than using more "expensive" move actions to bring more ships in.
Loyal Keepers:
Rebel battle actions are so efficient that it is often a missed opportunity to spend aggression pips on securing. Relics let you continue to play the court without spending your aggression pips on non-battle actions.
Good points! What do you think of Signal Breaker/Seeker Torpedoes, to keep your ships alive for longer where they are?
Just had a game where the Rebel had Galactic Rifles and it was kinda ridiculous that they could start the game blasting the neighbors of their A and B systems with 5-6 skirmish dice. So that's also a Lore card to keep an eye out for
Since Galactic Rifles’ ability is not technically a battle (it is its own new action), Rebel doesn’t add extra dice. The same would apply if you had Gatekeeper and Galactic Rifles because Gatekeepers only add dice to battles, not new actions like what Galactic Rifles does.
@@snoopymate25 Good to know, thanks!
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