Edward Pigman (jindrak) |
Tournament Report - 2E - Deep Space 9 Regional |
2014-04-05 - 10:00 AM |
Might solve a mystery..or rewrite history..DUCK TALES! OOH-WOO-OOH! |
Introduction |
I dug out good ol' Relativity for the regional because despite my success with new Bajor, this deck is far more polished and I have plenty of games under my belt with it. It worked out fine, but as some games ground on, I really regret playing Aid Lost Colony in favor of something easier to finish. The ability to play Well Prepared Defense didnt make up for having to churn through that mission. |
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Round 1 | | Al Schaefer | FL (-40)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
This is one I was sure was in the bag. I got off to a great start with cheaper personnel and a ship than Al had. I also managed to stave off his attempts with less dilemma plays. A poor dilemma choice at his second mission, and having to brutally slog through the aforementioned Aid Lost Colony let him cap off Survey New World faster than I could keep up with. The crowning moment was having to face Personal Duty at my own planet mission. Al earned plenty of bad karma for that one. |
Ed was rolling Relativity and used OT-Kirk early on to force me to stack more dilemmas than I would have liked. He got out to an early 2-mission lead and I was struggling to finish my first space mission. Greasy Dukat didn't show up until late, so Ed had free reign over his lost pile. Ed nearly won, but a clutch Repressed Message forced him to face his own Personal Duty at his final planet mission and I got another turn to finish my first planet mission and take my second in one attempt. Very close game... |
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Round 2 | | John Paul Veasey | FW (+100) |
This was a pretty fun game. I didnt expect to see anything aside from a very small assimilator for Borg since Quintessence got the axe, so was pleased to see dissendents show up- I played it in 2013s DS9 regional. Unfortunately for John, my dilemma pile contains plenty of holdover tech from when Borg were far more common so I was able to keep him from completing with minimal cards ending up overcome. |
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Round 3 | | Maggie Geppert | FW (+60) |
Maggie was running DSEarth cadets which can be just as fast as Relativity, and sure enough she got a good draw with lots of cadets and a cheap ship right off the bat. Fortunately, like with Borg, I stocked a lot of tools against Fed since it never huts to tech against blue. This and some lucky random selections- stopped cadets- let me finish up comfortably. |
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Round 4 | | Amber Van Breemen | MW (-15) |
Mirror match go! Amber was running a pretty different flavor of the deck with Dyson Sphere and the card types to fuel it. I skipped equipment and interrupts altogether so was at a disadvantage due to her being able to grav-trap my events, but I had more mission points on the table so won the Well Prepared Defense battle. Really back and forth until time was called. I was under the impression that I lost since she had me on points, but it turns out planet+space trumps points, so yay me! |
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Closing Thoughts |
Fun deck, but time to move on to other things. The good thing is it gets fuel every time a new blue personnel gets released, so down the road it will be good to revisit. |