Paddy Tye (KazonPADD) |
Tournament Report - 1E - Online Event |
2024-06-24 - 12:00 AM |
 Smooth As A Vulcans Hairline |
Introduction |
I had an interesting idea for a non-Vidiian deck using Kolinahr Vulcans, Fal-Tor-Pan and Smooth as Android's Bottom - by not drawing extra cards it would starve the Vidiian player of resources. Not wanting to fall foul of the same issue for my reverse deck, I decided to go old school with a Vidiian/Equinox blend. |
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Round 1 |  | Andrew Dorney | FW (+100) |
I played Vulcan. Andrew was trying out the new tech, but I took out his Organ Bank early on with a fleet of D'Kyr's. He ran into trouble with my planet combos - an opening dilemma of Medical Crisis kept killing off his MEDICAL personnel, and as I wasn’t drawing any extra cards, he had nothing to syphon, so swiftly ran out of replenishments, allowing me to pick up the win. |
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Round 2 |  | Mathew McCalpin | FL (-60) |
I played Vidiian. Mathew played TNG Borg, which I hadn’t prepped for at all. My space combos were particularly vulnerable as they have a drone (6 of 14) with Transporter Skill as a first-listed skill, so Ghost of Cyrus Ramsey was not an obstacle. |
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Round 3 | | VictoryIsLife | FW (+100) |
Vulcan again. My Smooth/Fal-Tor-Pan shenanigans kept up denying resources to the Vidiians, although a bad draw slowed my start. But while the Alpha Quadrant invasion was slowed, a lack of Navigation (I’d always drawn a Sedis earlier in testing) slowed down my ability to solve missions. |
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Round 4 |  | Joseph Wisniewski | FW (+35)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
Vidiian again! Closer match this time. Joe’s Holograms weren’t getting killed but I managed to squeeze through and complete a second mission and had left a solving crew behind at Dead End to pick up a third on same turn. |
Paddy wasn't playing most of the new Vidiaan tech, but was able to process ore pretty easily since I wasn't going to the Delta quadrant. I went for Test Mission first and Paddy's scout ship showed up in time to chop up Alyssa Ogawa whom I downloaded specifically for HippoOath this time. I was able to download one more Transporter Skill and use Fitting in with Revised Seven for the 3rd and got 30 points. I solved another space mission and Paddy hit a Thasian/higherfewer/dead end, then worked his way through another mission. I went for my planet mission and got Deneven Parasites and some other trouble that I couldn't cheese through in time to stop him from blitzing a couple missions next turn and winning. |
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Closing Thoughts |
The Vulcan / Smooth deck worked quite well. Needs some refining, but still gets enough cards in hand without drawing to be immune to Vidiians. |