Michael Moskop (Comicbookhero) |
Tournament Report - 1E - North American Continental |
2013-08-17 - 02:00 AM |
Another Excuse To Play With Ezri 2.0 |
Introduction |
With all the garbage that was been going on with my wife and I lately, I was only planning on going to Gen Con on Sunday, but as I told many people, the stars aligned only three days before the convention, and I was able to get to Indianapolis on Friday. That meant I could play in the 1E Continental so I made sure to pack my newly streamlined Terran Empire deck. It ended up being a very hard fought tournament for me as you will see. |
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Round 1 | | Phil Schrader | MW (-25) |
I've never played against Phil and we both have a similar 1E skill level so I was excited for this match up. I have also never played against Alpha Borg before. This was truly a back and forth game but I was able to pull it out and stay only a couple points ahead to take the MW. Phil definitely showed me how powerful scouting and probing same turn can be though. |
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Round 2 | | Kurtis Correia | FL (-50)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
Huh. This looks familiar. Alpha Borg with a Klingon mission set again. Kurtis was running on all cylinders, and I just had no chance. I might have had the opportunity to change the tide when he came and assimilated at my homeworld, but I was scared to flip Defend Homeworld for fear that he would just get more people to assimlate and score more points. Next time, I think I will just try it. I was able to blow up his cube with "God" though. That counts for something, right? |
I got paired up against a mirror KCA deck. I was off to a flying start and assimilated one or two of his personnel. I attacked him at his hw on purpose knowing that kca has a small personnel pool hoping to assimilate more personnel, but he was thinking the same thing and didnt use DH. He ended up blowing up my cube with god which we thought gave him 50 points. Turned out the points only apply to blowimg it up in battle oh well lesson learned. I won this round. |
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Round 3 | | Sean O'Reilly | MW (+7) |
Oh god! Not again! Sean was playing Alpha Borg too! I admit I got pretty lucky in this game. I hit another cube explosion with "God" and Sean just could not draw into any other ships. I was able to work up enough points while Sean's drones were shipwrecked on the planet to MW. |
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Round 4 | | Justin Ford | FL (-76)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
Once I saw Justin's missions, I wanted to hug him. No Alpha Borg! HUZZAH! Justin was playing a Bajoran/Son'a solver with a splash of what I am calling the "Kivas Fajo Shell Game" to hide an Orb somewhere I can't destroy it. It was a good game. With Access Denied's everywhere, I was pretty locked down and Justin got the win. I did scare him though by almost blowing up his ship with the Defiant. |
What a refresh to see someone playing with Mirror Universe/Crossover. Mirror is not played often enough and should be seen more. We both had a bit of a slow start, then when I started drawing from resistance cell things were picking up nicely. I did manage just 2 missions for the win. I saw my dead end on me come out at bajor, but I was expecting either dead end at Bajor or Insurrection. I switched gears quickly and headed to insurrection, completed it for exactly 50 points. At which my only ship was the Jovis, so I popped QTF on myself for a ITZ to double shields and range which ultimately saved my bacon. Michael comes out of mirror with ships in hand and attacks the jovis, but thanks to ITZ with a freighter having 12 shields it is not destroyed. I was able to draw into a second sona battle ship the following turn to swap out and just drag the damaged jovis because it still had double range. Hit the space mission for exactly 50 points after I drew into medical (took bout 5 turns) for the win. Another great game, with a great deck that does not see many tournaments, nicely executed Michael. |
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Round 5 | | Neal Lawson | MW (+45) |
Hey, it's Neal! I love playing Nea....NOOOOOOOOO! WHY NEAL WHY!? Not more Alpha Borg! Honestly, this almost became a solitaire game because after playing against it three times already, I knew how the deck works as well as Neal did. I was able to score enough points after time had been called to take it, but by that point of the day, I was so tired. It was a really fun, laid back game though. |
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Closing Thoughts |
So I end up playing against Alpha Borg four times in one tournament, and I get 24th place even though I went 3-2. What a day. By the end, I just wanted to fall down dead. (Instead, I ended up going to dinner with my wife and her family and drinking a whole bottle of sake.) Charlie crowned me the "King of the MW" for this tournament. |