I played
at the release event in Sydney today. I basically took one of every
character and 3 of most of the verbs and chucked them all in the one deck. Added a few extra peeps to round out skills and this is the end result. The deck could easily be improved.
I played four games:
Round 1 vs Honest (Voyager with Species 8472 dilemma pile) FW 100-?
I thought the Species 8472 dilemmas were pretty weak. Honest did manage to get 7 of the dilemmas in my core but they generally didn't stop anyone allowing me to solve missions with ease. His dilemma pile was looking pretty thin at the end.
Round 2 vs EnsignGibbers (TOS) FW 100-70
Very close game. I went first and this was likely the difference. Craig stalled me at
Penetrate Enemy Lines but once that was complete I was able to rapidly solve the next two missions. His dilemma pile was looking pretty thin at the end.
Round 3 vs IronMike (Equinox/Khan with Species 8472 dilemma pile) FW 100-0
Mike got maybe 3-4 dilemmas in my core but again they didn't stop anyone enabling easy mission solves.
Round 4 vs PegLeg Pete (Klingons with TT pile) FW 100-70
Close game again with one turn in it. I got the dilemma discarding going early and managed to mill one
Tragic Turn and three
All Consuming Evils.
Undermined Defences ruined many of the consume dilemmas that he had left to play. Pete's dilemma pile was very thin at the end.
Favourite play: Solve
Penetrate Enemy Lines first, draw seven and then discard them with Dukat
Cardassian Representative to nuke all their core events.
The other ability on
Ruling Council is nuts. I was able to double attempt many missions by excluding three
guys from each attempt.
Edan'Atal had some impact in the games I played. The best he got was a +6 attributes from
Spatial Interphase in one game and
In Development in another.
Untapped Influence didn't work out for me. I never needed the attribute boost and the skills on the removed dilemmas never seemed to line up.
The new
seems pretty good. I like that it is going to make it harder for
Tragic Turn dilemma piles to dominate.