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    (2) Hard of Heart

    Planet Planet Dilemma

    Randomly select two personnel. Unless those personnel have Geology and Cunning > 11 or Strength > 13, those personnel are killed.

    "Are you as brave with mortoe as you are with a phaser?"

    Characteristics: "killer" dilemma, "randomly select" dilemma.

    Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Sep 4th, 2016. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
     

    Hard of Heart

    This Card-Review article was written by Ross Fertel and was published first on "The Continuing Committee (trekcc.org)" at Aug 30th, 2016.

    Hard of Heart should look familiar. The bottom half is pretty much Ardent Predatorimage and the costs match. The main difference between this and Ardent Predator is the type, with you being able to play this on a planet.

    Is this new? Not at all. Decipher had dilemma ‘siblings’ going as far back as Call to Arms, with A Bad Endimage and Don't Let It End This Wayimage being pretty much copies of each other. Then designer Evan Lorentz said that they were specifically not a dual dilemma because that would be a little too good, so they were split. 

    So a new thing for the Committee then, right? Not at all. As recently as Lower Decks and as far back as The Undiscovered Country, there have been dilemma sibling. The first time the committee has made a ‘sibling’ of another dilemma? Nope. The Twentieth Anniversary Collection featured a dilemma sibling as well. And Hard of Heart is not alone in this set; the dilemma on the other side of the expansion sheet is another sibling of a very popular dilemma.

    So why make these versions? It happens often enough in games that you get a dilemma that you would love to play but don’t have the appropriate icon. Well, now you do. In fact, if you play with no dual dilemmas, there is an achievement you can get! Granted, it is risky, particularly if you have one to spend on dilemmas, making it a fifty-fifty shot, or somesuch. Well, there’s Unexpected Difficultiesimage, Uninvitedimage, and all those other dilemma tricks we’re been using since the beginning of time to cheat your way when you get desperate for salvation.

    So here are a few sibling dilemmas to look at. This is not exhaustive; the eight costers from Necessary Evil (Whisper in the Darkimage,Tsiolkovsky Infectionimage) aren’t in there as those are situational. Feel free to use what you want, but if you succumb to temptation and put in a dual, you lose out on the achievement!

    With just a little bit of restraint and some support from your deck, you'll be able to surprise your opponent and yourself!

    by Ross Fertel, Relative Writer