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Pirate Piece of the Day

El Picador
 

Piece Ratings: 3.13

Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst.
3 is average.
5 is the highest rating.


Date Reviewed - 04.10.08

 
Cadet-Captain Mike Name: El Picador (Spain)
Card: SM #SS-015 (Common)
Points: 5

Masts: 2
Cargo: 2
Moves: S+S
Guns : 3S,3S
Hit %: 100 (S), 0 (L)
Ability: No ability

From the beginnings of this game until the DJC release, El Picador was the cheapest ship a Spanish player could get in a pack. That made her a common selection in fleet builds. She no longer holds that title, but she's still an effective little gold ship.

"Effective" does not mean "great," of course. Her speed is just average, and her cargo is quite small. But what do you want for five points, La Monarca? Well, you can get La Monarca for only three more points and have one of the game's best gold ships. But the whole point of el-cheapo ships is that you use them when you don't have enough points for something good. She still compares favorably with other 5-point ships of other factions.

Bottom line: if you're building a Spanish fleet and you have five points left, you'll get full value (and then some) from this ship.

Goldship rating: 2.7 / 5
Gun Ship rating: 2.3 / 5
Boarding rating: 2.0 / 5
Value for points: 3.4 / 5
Draco Starcloud El Picador

Once in a while, a ship will come along that's designed to be decent but cheap. This is one such ship.

Her name means "The Bullfighter," which I feel is highly inappropriate since there's nothing about her that I feel encourages bigger things to come attack her.

To keep her cost down, she has no ability. Not even a negative ability like "English get +1 to cannons rolls against this ship" like some other small boats get.

Her best feature, aside from her cost of 5 measley points, is her S+S speed. She only carries two gold though so she'll need to make a lot of trips to justify her cost. Her cannons are also very average, two 3S.

If you have extra points to spend and no generic crew you can assign, give El Picador a chance. Valuewise, she's perfect. In terms of usefulness, she's below-average.

I give El Picador a 2.5/5.
Vladsimpaler Continuing PotSM Spanish week is an old friend, El Picador

El Picador, 5 points, Spanish
Masts: 2
Cargo: 2
Speed: S+S
Cannons: 3S 3S
Abilities: n/a
Flavor Text: "The Bullfighter" was named after the story of a famous matador who went to sea after losing his leg in the arena. His spirit is said to inhabit this ship, bringing much courage to her crew.

If there's so much courage aboard, why is this ship so, well...average? Think about it for a second...in PotSM, many of the Spanish ships were slow, lumbering monsters. Expensive, too. This ship was sort of the support ship for them. When you put this ship into context, it seems a lot better than it normally would be.

El Picador is strictly an average ship. It's very bland. However, it makes a very good support ship. For 10 points, one could have a moving and shooting, S+S+S moving support ship. Which is really good!
Actually, what makes this ship even better is that it could be brought in via Contessa Anita Amore, a 0LR+5 character. Again, not bad. Only El Algeciras has more bang for the buck. If you want, you could pair this ship up with something like El Garante, which gets +1 to its cannon rolls for each ship within S.

Although this ship seems strictly average, I have to give it slightly above average marks, because of the amount of flexibility.
It receives a 3.5/5 from me. Although it may seem average, there's definitely nothing average about it.

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