#548455
From the #ShowMeYourSpaceline files, here's the first physical spaceline I have seen in a year.
It's from my daughter Sabina's very first game of Trek! (She is 6.)
As you can clearly see from this image... she skunked me. I lost 100-0:
I gave her a TOS Fed Final Frontier deck on the theory that I built half of The Cage around the idea that it should be a nice easy intro point for new players. That worked very well! Explaining to her, "This card lets you get a ship at the beginning of the game and play two extra people each turn; this card lets you draw an extra card" was a whole lot easier than explaining everything Continuing Mission is doing!
Unfortunately, I brought a hastily-constructed TNG Romulan deck with inadequate drawing power, forgetting that I had given her enough Kivas Fajos to keep her afloat for the whole game. She played more personnel than I did, and they were better-quality personnel. And I had given her 24 solid dilemmas I'd used to win a South Dakota regional to use against me, while I grabbed the starter-deck dilemma combos from TNG and seeded those 18 against her.
I had believed that my superior knowledge and experience would allow me to keep it close. I was mistaken! I probably would have at least cleared one mission if I had had the good sense to stock a Tricorder in my deck for Founder Secret (I had the Equipment Replicator!), but noooooo... I had to put in two Kits and a PADD instead. And then hit Founder Secret TWICE, once with Distracted By Thoughts Of Home in effect.
Meanwhile, she's sitting over there punching through Picking Up The Pieces / Captain's Holiday because effing Lt. D'Amato has Geo x2 all by his lonesome. She hit Do You Smell Something Burning / A Bad End on her final turn, which was pretty nice (killed three people!), and she very judiciously exercised the "your choice" to kill all the boys, "because if all the girls died I don't think I could stand it."
Needless to say, I'm very proud. She says she'd like to play against me again, "in a couple months."
It's from my daughter Sabina's very first game of Trek! (She is 6.)
As you can clearly see from this image... she skunked me. I lost 100-0:
I gave her a TOS Fed Final Frontier deck on the theory that I built half of The Cage around the idea that it should be a nice easy intro point for new players. That worked very well! Explaining to her, "This card lets you get a ship at the beginning of the game and play two extra people each turn; this card lets you draw an extra card" was a whole lot easier than explaining everything Continuing Mission is doing!
Unfortunately, I brought a hastily-constructed TNG Romulan deck with inadequate drawing power, forgetting that I had given her enough Kivas Fajos to keep her afloat for the whole game. She played more personnel than I did, and they were better-quality personnel. And I had given her 24 solid dilemmas I'd used to win a South Dakota regional to use against me, while I grabbed the starter-deck dilemma combos from TNG and seeded those 18 against her.
I had believed that my superior knowledge and experience would allow me to keep it close. I was mistaken! I probably would have at least cleared one mission if I had had the good sense to stock a Tricorder in my deck for Founder Secret (I had the Equipment Replicator!), but noooooo... I had to put in two Kits and a PADD instead. And then hit Founder Secret TWICE, once with Distracted By Thoughts Of Home in effect.
Meanwhile, she's sitting over there punching through Picking Up The Pieces / Captain's Holiday because effing Lt. D'Amato has Geo x2 all by his lonesome. She hit Do You Smell Something Burning / A Bad End on her final turn, which was pretty nice (killed three people!), and she very judiciously exercised the "your choice" to kill all the boys, "because if all the girls died I don't think I could stand it."
Needless to say, I'm very proud. She says she'd like to play against me again, "in a couple months."
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"Then receive this reward from the Glossary. May it keep you strong."
~Iron Prime