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It's time for another First Edition Friday Question! I have been neck deep in old rules supplements lately, and it's got me all nostalgic thinking of war stories from games past.
1E is full of zillions and zillions of decisions, and the Official Tournament Reports are filled with pages of players kicking themselves for the wrong decisions they made in a game. I myself am very bad at decisions, and I often build my decks in order to remove as many decisions from my life as possible. But, sometimes, we make an absolutely right decision, one we didn't remotely plan before the game, and the whole game pivots on it.
For example -- this isn't even me, this is princedetenebres, but it was such a perfect play that it is seared into my memory--I was playing a Borg Assimilator against Pope's DS9 Cardassian/Romulans. I immediately routed them; I assimilated Morn as a counterpart on Turn 3, then spent much of the rest of the game assimilating Romulans to run up the score with Add Distinctiveness. I never managed to finish scouting another mission, but I sure as heck prevented him from solving one!
As the timer ticked down, Pope threw a bunch of people on a near-suicidal mission attempt in the Gamma Quadrant (which failed), subtly goading me to attack. I had my cube of non-essential personnel off trying to score some missions and bring home the full win, so my only available ship was a Tactical Cube with all my key personnel aboard -- but who cares? He didn't have anywhere close to enough firepower to hurt me. Even if he somehow damaged me, I had a TON of Borg onboard, and most could be easily recovered if need be.
What I missed -- and what Pope did not -- was that he had both To Be Or Not To Be and Elim in play, with a tactics side deck that caused generic random casualties. I forgot about both these cards and blundered on in. I killed all his remaining personnel... but he not only damaged my Tac Cube with To Be Or Not To Be; he used Elim's special skill to turn the random damage kills into his choice; and he used that choice to kill Morn Of Borg. Since my only "mission points" were from the Assimilate Counterpart on Morn, I instantly dropped from 60 points to 0 points that "counted towards winning" and we ended the game on a True Tie. Absolutely brilliant play involving an obscure interaction that I would never have remembered if I'd been in his shoes -- and he not only remembered it on the spot, I'm pretty sure he planned the whole thing for me to blunder into, all on the fly.
What's your best in-game decision ever? How did it change the outcome? Tell me your stories!
1E is full of zillions and zillions of decisions, and the Official Tournament Reports are filled with pages of players kicking themselves for the wrong decisions they made in a game. I myself am very bad at decisions, and I often build my decks in order to remove as many decisions from my life as possible. But, sometimes, we make an absolutely right decision, one we didn't remotely plan before the game, and the whole game pivots on it.
For example -- this isn't even me, this is princedetenebres, but it was such a perfect play that it is seared into my memory--I was playing a Borg Assimilator against Pope's DS9 Cardassian/Romulans. I immediately routed them; I assimilated Morn as a counterpart on Turn 3, then spent much of the rest of the game assimilating Romulans to run up the score with Add Distinctiveness. I never managed to finish scouting another mission, but I sure as heck prevented him from solving one!
As the timer ticked down, Pope threw a bunch of people on a near-suicidal mission attempt in the Gamma Quadrant (which failed), subtly goading me to attack. I had my cube of non-essential personnel off trying to score some missions and bring home the full win, so my only available ship was a Tactical Cube with all my key personnel aboard -- but who cares? He didn't have anywhere close to enough firepower to hurt me. Even if he somehow damaged me, I had a TON of Borg onboard, and most could be easily recovered if need be.
What I missed -- and what Pope did not -- was that he had both To Be Or Not To Be and Elim in play, with a tactics side deck that caused generic random casualties. I forgot about both these cards and blundered on in. I killed all his remaining personnel... but he not only damaged my Tac Cube with To Be Or Not To Be; he used Elim's special skill to turn the random damage kills into his choice; and he used that choice to kill Morn Of Borg. Since my only "mission points" were from the Assimilate Counterpart on Morn, I instantly dropped from 60 points to 0 points that "counted towards winning" and we ended the game on a True Tie. Absolutely brilliant play involving an obscure interaction that I would never have remembered if I'd been in his shoes -- and he not only remembered it on the spot, I'm pretty sure he planned the whole thing for me to blunder into, all on the fly.
What's your best in-game decision ever? How did it change the outcome? Tell me your stories!
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"Then receive this reward from the Glossary. May it keep you strong."
~Iron Prime