Daniel Matteson (OKCoyote) Tournament Report - 1E - Online Event 2012-07-01 - 11:00 PM Continuous Romulans Introduction I don't generally remember much about my online tournament matches by the time I get around to writing a report but I'll try to include what I can. I built a Continuing Mission Romulan deck with two seeded ships (Mercenary & Husnock), the Stone of Gol and Metaphasic Shield teams, and multiple AMS shenanigans. Most of my missions could be completed for 50 points with appropriate mission specialists, and I included Getting Under Your Skin (with RRDs for Captain's Order events to trigger it) to make up a few points if I didn't earn 50 on an attempt. Round 1 Mark FW (+60)View opponent's ReportView original Report Mark's tournament report is available and more informative than mine so go check it out. I do remember that he played Federation and also had a seeded Husnock Ship, plus he got the "observe greatness" holograms and Data into play early aboard that ship. I used AAH to get a D'deridex into play early and staffed all three ships, then managed to blow up the (docked!) Husnock ship to destroy the holograms and stop the card cycling. Mark was sufficiently able to protect his forces after that, but I managed to beat him on missions as he kept losing key crewmembers at dilemmas that made future dilemmas devastating. Round 1 - vs OKCoyote: We both spent a long time building up our forces. I got lucky and had my 3 facilities right next to each other. I got Process Awe and Duck Blind going pretty early. I was thinking about stealing his Raid Ancient Burial Site, but I realised I don't actually seem to have Treachery in the deck. I made a miscalculation and tried playing Holodeck Door (for a hologram) and AMS on the same turn, tripping General Quarters. Should have played the Enterprise instead at that point. I used Process Awe a few times, then the Husnock Ship got blown up (I rescued most of the folk, though). I attempted first, at Earth with Secure Homeworld. I had War Room and Lower Decks in play, and 9 people in the Away Team. Founder Secret was first. Linda Larson, Data, Simon Tarses, Chris Hobson, Taurik, Deanna Troi TNG, Sito Jaxa, Andrea Brand and Spock aced that. Fractured Time was next, and no-one disappeared. A Fast Ship was last, taking away Deanna (my only Honor around, at this point). Mr Coyote attempted next at Compromised Mission. Gomtuu Shock Wave was passed, but Clown: Bitter Medicine/Subspace Shock Wave damaged the D'Deridex. I played Lopez and got my 40 points. Mr Coyote solved Compromised Mission with Mission Specialists for 50 points, and he had 10 points already from Getting Under Your Skin draws. I head to Automated Repair Station: out of the way from his ships. Forsaken took 2 Lopezes below the deck, Ankari Spirits killed Simon Tarses and Dexter Remmick. My venerable opponent got his Mercenary Ship to an out-of-the-way planet and attempted. Dal'Rok killed Tallera, Cardassian Processing grabbed Alidar Jarok. In the other half of the spaceline, his Husnock Ship's crew attempted Raid Ancient Burial Site. Distracted By God blew up the ship, with no other ship in easy reach. Ankari Spirits killed Sito Jaxa and Darian Wallace. I reattempt Repair Station, but I was short on Security for Friendly Fire. Prot and Spock were killed by the Spirits, and I redshirt at Hunt For DNA Program. I'd put most people on the Outpost. First up was Now Would Be A Good Time: Andrea Brand beamed them back up. I wasn't stopped, but I was short a Biology. Next turn I could play a Biology for DNA Program's requirements, and Friendly Fire would be gone. With Distracted By Thoughts Of Home newly gone, and his Mercenary Ship back at the Burial Site, Mr Coyote reattempted at the Burial Site. Now Would Be A Good Time was under there, Will Riker was on the ship, beaming them back up. They beamed back down, completing the mission for 50 points with 2 Mission Specialists, and the win. Final score: OKCoyote 115, me 40. Round 2 Matthew Zinno FL (-55)View opponent's ReportView original Report Lost to a Starfleet deck. My dilemma combos were very effective and helped draw the game out, even blowing up Matt's Enterprise, but he played another one and managed to outpace me on mission solving. Daniel bracketed Earth with his Husnock outpost (with Scientific Diplomacy) and his Romulan Outpost (with Selok); Calder II with the Mercenaries was far away. The threat of battle loomed, but I flew down 3 missions and cleared out Investigate Massacre, down to a failed Linguistic Legerdemain (which hits Starfleet a little harder than anyone else). He pumped his D'Deridex with Tactical Console and Metaphasic Shields, and came and damaged my stopped Enterprise. I rescued everyone with the Sarajevo, and then he blew up the Enterprise on his next turn. While I rebuilt and waited out LL, he tried a space mission, getting War Games and Ankari onto his Husnock ship, and his warbird back to base to damage the docked Sarajevo. I played another copy of Enterprise and flew it back to Investigate Massacre to solve [35], then on to Diplomacy mission where I lost Hoshi to NWBAGT. He destroyed the Sarajevo, then re-attempted the space mission and got 2 ships hit by Gomtuu. On my turn, I had an odd idea. I played my Phoenix for 10 points (17 in hand and 2 in deck at this point, I could afford to lose the "We're Ready" draw), and used up my Enterprise range to fly to Daniel and score the War Games points. Grabbed In the Zone, which doubled my range, effectively restoring it -- and I flew back to Diplomacy Mission to re-attempt. Archer's special skill, used twice, got past Distracted/Apollo, and I solved, now [80-0]. Daniel then hit my second Ankari combo, and I cleared SHIS down to a Maglock. He passed Gomtuu and solved Metaphasic for 45, but then I passed the Maglock and solved SHIS to win. Round 3 epinnick FW (+10) Nick is a very tough competitor and came very close on this one if I recall correctly, with a fast archetypal CM Klingon deck. I managed one mission and some bonus points with GUYS then went after a second for the win, which happened to be at my Romulan outpost location. Before I attempted he played The Wake of the Borg at my outpost mission. Oh, looks like I did seed it at a Neutral Zone mission... but I'd never seen Wake before and it was totally unexpected. Fortunately I managed to solve and make it to 100 before my outpost was blown away. Round 4 Matt Kirk FL (-95) Seems I invariably get matched up against Matt Kirk in every online tournament I play in and I also invariably get beaten. This event was no different. Matt was also playing Klingons and his were a notch more aggressive. Can't remember specifics about this one except that I lost. Closing Thoughts I thought I'd get a jump start on block-style Romulans but I can't wait for them to get more help. That said, the Virtual format, which had never been tried in 1E, was a lot of fun, and I wouldn't mind playing another tournament like this.