Johannes Klarhauser (Kaiser) |
Tournament Report - 2E Standard - Vandros IV Regional |
2012-05-12 - 12:15 PM |
(Skill) Tracking into the Wind |
Introduction |
I decided to play a TOS deck with 3 insurrectionable missions and a gimmicky dilemma pile with 3x Accelerated Aging and some weird walls. It failed miserably, but I can always blame James for jinxing me. |
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Round 1 | | Flo | ML (-30) |
This was essentially a mirror matchup, but Flo stalled me for ages at Investigate Maquis Activity. He removed Insurrection, Moral Choice and Pitching in with Oh Nothing Happened, and was done with his space mission fairly quickly while I struggled big time. Close to the timeout, I was ahead 35-30 when I completed IMA, but on his last turn, Flo played the Enterprise to tie the score, then completed a planet mission when all could play was Oracle's Punishment and Gorgan - unfortunately, Flo had heavy skill redundance and a Kirk OT to discard against my Enterprise-B. ML, 35-65 |
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Round 2 | | Ivan Pongraz | FW (+100) |
Ivan played Romulans with Donatra and Assess Contamination, but couldn't draw a ship for a very long time. He had already played three copies of These Are The Voyages on Ptol and still hadn't seen a ship, while I was already done with my first planet mission. Shortly after, I completed space; by this time Ivan had managed to load Survey New World with four dilemmas, so I used an Uninvited to pull an Outmatched. I then had enough people to double-team my last mission.
FW, 100-0. |
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Round 3 | | Tobias Rausmann | FL (-100) |
This one was over quickly, Tobias completed both his missions on the first attempt, as my dilemmas let me down big time. I didn't draw a single useful filter dilemma in two attempts, only walls that Tobias could either pass right away or use Kirk (Living Legend) against. Of course, it didn't help that I removed Moral Choice, Shocking Betrayal and Coolant Leak from my dilemma pile, as I didn't expect to see so many Fed decks (actually, I didn't expect anyone to bring Fed, but only Markus brought the affiliation I thought). FL, 0-100. |
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Round 4 | | Markus Eberlein | FW (+100) |
Markus played a ship destruction deck that used the suicide ship and a heavy consume dilemma pile . On my first mission attempt and Investigate Destruction, he put 8 under, but he was unlucky with his consumes and didn't get a single ACE, and I also managed to cheat around Molecular Reversion Field, so I escaped with no personnel killed and my ship still fully functional. Markus flew over his ship next, so I switched to planet. I got stopped with three under, this time losing three people to Guillotine and ACE. Markus then flew over with two ships and put two damage markers on my Enterprise. I switched to the Constellation, completed IMA, and went to space again. Markus had played Bashir Founder and used Yak'talon, so he brought my attributes down enought to prevent me from completing without using dilemmas. On his turn, he used the suicide ship and Disable Sensors to place two more damage markers on my ship. Still, I completed IMA on my next turn, then completed Track Survivors before Markus could make a mission attempt of his own. FW, 100-0. |
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Round 5 | | Vladimir Vrbata | ML (-1) |
Vlad played a dead solid Voyager deck doing Caretaker's Array, Reestablish Neural Cooperative and Instruct Advanced Drone. I knew from the start that I had little hope of beating this deck and its massive skill/attribute/unstopping/dilemma power with my gimmicky pile and messy deck. Still, I tried my best to make him earn this win. Knowing he had not played Diplomacy on his first turns, I stopped him with Hard Time/Gomtuu once, then chose not to play dilemmas on his second attempt. When Navaar and other Diplomacy personnel hit the table, I tried to filter them with Secret Identity/He Wasn't Nice/Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, but it only worked so long. After some losses, I had finally completed Investigate Maquis Activity, but couldn't find the right skill mix to try and attempt space, so I went to Track Survivors. I knew that with Hindrance and heavy event support, I would never complete three missions in time, so I tried to keep Vlad from doing more than Caretaker's Array (which he completed eventually). At Reestablish Neural Cooperative, I stopped him with plays of Captain's Holiday by itself, Secret Identity + Infinite Diversity (which were pulled back with McCoy), Accelerated Aging by itself, and I think once more. Vlad was using one crew at RNC and another aboard the ship to try IAD and hopefully complete one of them. Eventually, my dilemma pile let me down at RNC, and I didn't draw either AA, ID or Gorgan. I could have used the Uninvited in my hand (Vlad had already used 2 Grav-plating Traps and lost the third to Energize, I think) to grab Vault of Tomorrow and turn that into another AA, but I'm useless at this game and forgot about it, so Vlad finally got his planet done. He went for the full win with his crew aboard the ship at IAD, but I stopped him easily there. Alas, it was no use, as Vlad's 60 points from planet/space beat my 70 from planet/planet. As always, a thoroughly enjoyable game. ML, 70-60. |
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