Card Of The Week #18

Card Of The Week #18 - EPIDERMAL PLATES

Nominated by: Keith May

DATE:

Mon 2nd Jun 1997

TEXT:

EPIDERMAL PLATES
APOCALYPSE / C1
EQUIPMENT / CYBERTRONIC
ATTACH
GIVE TO ANY NON-BROTHERHOOD DOOMTROOPER. ARMOR. The warrior's base A rating is doubled. Modifiers to A are applied after this doubling. A warrior may only have one piece of ARMOR.

USES:

This is probably the most useful piece of equipment you can hope to find, short of the all-powerful PERSONAL ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES, BRAINWAVE BOMB, and a scant handful of others. The _doubling_ of the warrior's Armor rating will make most warriors very hard to kill, not to mention what happens when you bestow one on some already super-armored personality! Keep in mind that you still gains benefits from fortifications and other such modifiers as well. This card is truly incredible in any deck, excluding, of course, Brotherhood.

COUNTER MEASURES:

PERSONAL ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES, especially if you can drop a LOOT THE DEAD right afterwards. HEIST will also work quite well. Other than that, just try to get rid of it : AGE OF CATASTROPHE (perhaps a bit extreme), ANNIHILATION (definitely extreme, unless you are way behind), FAULTY SUPPLIES, etc.

COMBOS:

SUPERIOR QUALITY, HEIST (so you can steal it back if it gets stolen), and any other cards you can use to prolong the life of equioment, as well as anything you can use to bring it back (most notably, GIFT OF FATE).

RATING:

SUMMARY:

Potential to greatly increase A without an increase in V. You can't use it on Brotherhood warriors. DEFINITELY bad if your opponent can swipe it... but that chance is probably not TOO great.

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