Posted: 10 August 2007 at 12:20pm | IP Logged

-The cry of "overpowered" is not a new one for games in general. Computer games, particularly MMOs, are now rampant with folks pining for the days that their Rusted Broad Sword was good enough to slay a giant. In Magic, these over-zealous harbingers of mediocrity ushered in the days of split tournaments because some cards were just "too hard" to counter. Even in Star Trek v1.0, every expansion illicited jeers from the crowds that longed for the days of Premiere and only Premiere (but Ore Processing is sooooo broken). Bah. 

And then there is the old stand-bys, pen and paper roleplaying games and board games. DnD, Axis and Allies, Risk, even Monopoly for gosh sake have all seen people point out winning strategies and things that are either over/under powered or that need atteniton to achieve some ethereal "balance" that makes the universe stable. What example do you have from Monopoly, you may ask? When's the last time you hit a hotel on Illinois Avenue? And does anyone even consider buying those green properties?

I say, instead of crippling cards that are powerful, we beef up cards that suck to level the playing field . Super-Powered GE for the masses, where everyone can play a strength 49 stack.

Janitors suck, but what if we issued errata that made them Cyber-Mage Automatons with the ability to "sweep" any stack out of play for one turn. Or, we could have them use their special "Clean Up on Aisle 20" ability where they can commandeer any stack of strength 20 or higher for their own use each turn. I think i prefer that to a nerf any day.

Bottom Line: Temporal Correction is a good card. There are plenty of other good cards in the game as well. Should any of them be "fixed" or banned? Decide for yourself and your play group. Me? I'm working on finding a magic marker to give my Nurse the ability to force the next player that coughs or sneezes to skip their turn. That'd be cool.....Lobo 

Posted: 10 August 2007 at 5:50pm | IP Logged

I agree with matchbox

the ship is moved to the terrain not played. just move one of your own ships with higher strength there to get rid of the ship.

Posted: 11 August 2007 at 12:33am | IP Logged

Tarquon wrote: The temporal correction works on cards played or in play against you. I agree, forcing a pirate to back off by moving a bigger ship there is a sufficient counterstrategy. Forcing the pirate to discard his ship stack seems extreme (to me) but that's the fine for temporal incorrectness.

Your correct about the second part about in play against you. I did'nt have temp in front of me to read that part. So i agree that the temp would work on the pirate.