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Pirate Piece of the Day

He'e (USA)
SS #001
 

Piece Ratings: 1.90

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


Date Reviewed - 04.14.09

 
Cadet-Captain Mike Name: He'e (USA)
Card: SS #001 (Rare)
Points: 18
Masts: 5
Cargo: 1
Moves: S
Guns : 4S,3S,3S,3S,4S
Hit %: 217 (S), 0 (L)
Ability: Sea Monster. When you give this sea creature a shoot action, you can choose to make only one cannon roll. If you do and the shot hits, eliminate two masts from the target and then place the ship next to this sea creature; this sea creature can immediately initiate a boarding party, but neither is considered to be rammed.

The USA's second sea monster suffers from awful speed and uninspiring "cannons," and has a brand-new ability What is it good for?

The ability allows you to give up your five attacks for one attack that does double damage, followed by an S move and a boarding action. Or, to look at it another way, you can give up your S-move to ram and board in favor of one attack that does double damage, followed by an S move and a board. Why would you want to do this? Giving up the full shoot action to gain a board might be worth it if you're trying to pillage a small gold ship in a hurry. You have room for one treasure if you win your boarding action, which is small, but it's a nice change from the last sea monsters we saw (in the OE release), which had no cargo at all. But the ability seems to limit you more than you gain from it. When I use sea monsters, it's ramming and boarding all the way, shooting only if the enemy is careless enough to leave a target within range.

With a sea monster, crew is obviously not an issue. But if you hope to get this seagoing slowpoke into the action before our sun runs out of fuel, you must follow it around with a cheap, fast ship with Jerky Johnson on board for an extra L move. Say you use the Chesapeake (7 pts) with Jerky (4 pts); that runs He'e's total working cost to 29 points, and there's no way you can justify that outrageous price tag, no matter what you do.

It was nice of WK to give the Americans another sea monster. But this one is the pits, mostly due to her lack of speed. The other red, white & sea-blue critter, Champ, is kind of average by most standards, but he's twice as fast as He'e, costs a bit less, is better armed, and has a more useful ability. As a big fan of the USA, it pains me to say this, but the English squid Lusca has lost the title of "worst sea monster in the game" to this curious conglomeration of cephalopodic crud.

Goldship rating: 1.0 / 5
Gun Ship rating: 3.0 / 5
Boarding rating: 3.3 / 5
Value for points: 1.9 / 5

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