Card Extra

Bodyguards from Evan Lorentz (11/1999)

A powerful defensive card against opponents bent on personnel battle, Bodyguards allows each of your SECURITY personnel with OFFICER or Leadership (plus "bodyguards" Amat’igan, Telak, Maihar’du and Krozh) to exclude your most valuable CIVILIANs and V.I.P.s from the battle. In addition, if you keep any Leadership (or Defense drones) in the fight, this incident lets you arrange your combat pile in any order. On the defense, you can make sure you move characters with vital skills toward the end of your pile, where they won't run the risk of being mortally wounded by an opponent with a smaller combat pile. On the offense, you can use this to stack your strongest personnel and those with unique battle-related abilities close to the front, to be sure you get to use them before your opponent's combat pile runs out.

Combos:

• Bodyguards + Talon Drones: Assimilate as many personnel as possible by putting your Talon Drones at the top of your combat pile.
• Bodyguards + Captain Kirk or Jodmos: Maximize the use of these personnel's "can't lose" stun skills in each battle they're involved in.