Rake's

[Susanna]

I agree, rakes are very useless. Demolish your Village Inns and replace them with something better.

I disagree. In my current game filthy polish gentleman are cluttering the campaing map and keep stealing techs. I already lost three of my own gentlemen in duells.
The situation would be hopepless without some rake help!

Susanna/Calapine

[Feanaro]

I disagree. In my current game filthy polish gentleman are cluttering the campaing map and keep stealing techs. I already lost three of my own gentlemen in duells.
The situation would be hopepless without some rake help!

A gentleman who is good at dueling could do the same thing, though there are admittedly few of those.

Rakes have their uses but they are annoyingly limited.