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Spreading Fear

by Michael van Breemen

For an affiliation that has the hatched warriors in the Jem'Hadar and the tactician/slimy Vorta, they don't really get a lot in the way of engagements that's strictly their own with their own peculiarities. That is, until now. This three cost, three decay engagement event requires the Dominion player to place a card of their choice on this card to start the engagement. If they win, you get to randomly select opponent's personnel based on the number of Vortas involved, then you pick whom you want to die out of those people. Needing to pick off that lone thorn in your side might behoove you to stock more Vortas than before to help make sure that your target is locked on, so to speak. After all, you're stocking Vortas anyway to staff your Dominion ships, you have access to 9 and 10 Weapon ships already, couple that with a kill-oriented dilemma pile and you could be sitting pretty, picking off people at will. What's nice about this event is the fact that, until you decay it completely, you can use it whenever you want.

Seven different Vortas (including the non-unique Tholun) + Spreading Fear: "No, Mr. Kahless, I expect you... to... die..." **cue evil laughter among cohorts and the obligatory pinky smirks all around**

However, if you're not interested in the odds of chance and prefer a more sure thing –

Set Up (with Infiltrator present) + Vorta of your choice + Spreading Fear: "I don't know how I could have ever gotten so lucky as to pick you, Mr. Data. Maybe it's just my luck with androids, since your brother Lore died the turn before..."

While it won't turn the game's head on its ear, it does give the Dominion some other kind of options to play with in terms of engagements. That and it gives them something to do with those VR Headsets besides watching Baywatch...

September 17, 2004