Mr Slade (Frool) |
Tournament Report - 2E - Omarion Nebula Regional |
2015-04-19 - 01:00 PM |
Relativity 1.3 |
Introduction |
Thanks to Nick for hosting (there was free Lunch!). There was a fair bit of excitement (I think that's the right word to describe the mood) about the new set.
I was going to play a Legacy pile but figured that would be too mentally taxing (remembering lot's of skills) so I went for an Unfair Comparison pile, making the appropriate changes to the deck (adding lots of events). |
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Round 1 |  | Daniel Giddings | FW (+100)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
Danny always builds very creative decks and this was another one. He got 3 ships out quickly so it looked like a battle deck which was scary and I had to really careful attempting missions. It was a battle deck but for some reason, he never attacked my USS Relativity although I did have two damage dilemmas on it by the end including the one which doesn't allow me to attempt missions. I slowed Danny down by Inequitable Exchanging Damaged Archer to my Brig and by WNOHGB his ship. To the last point, I spent about 2 minutes deciding between Chula: The Chandra/WNOHGB or C:TC/Tsiolkovsky Infection when I had 6 events in play before going for C:TC/WNOHGB which was actually overcosted, Danny realised a couple of turns later that it was overcosted but I guess it was too late by then. |
Close game, despite the score line. Matt was able to stop my attempts with Unfair Comparison, Inequitable Exchange and (as you can see in his report) the overcosted WNOHGB (Note to all: make sure you do the sums when dilemmas are revealed).
I managed to stop his first attempt by Caretaker’s Guesting one of his Dip personnel, SI’ing out the second, then hitting him with a Gomtuu, however, I hadn’t drawn into the necessary battle cards to deliver the coup de grace. He then walked through the mission on his next attempt, and completed his next space mission by bringing more Diplomacy and scumbagging through dilemmas with both the Chuckle Brothers (to prevent the stop, then the following kill).
I stopped his planet attempt, by SI’ing out Data leaving Matt without the Exo (and he didn’t have the Treach) to overcome Greater Needs which meant that he couldn’t attempt the planets with the ship was there.
I then ummed and ahhed about the merits of blowing up with ship with no one aboard, or leaving it at a mission where he couldn’t attempt if the ship was in orbit, and decided on the latter. This turned out to be the wrong choice, as, on his next turn he dropped a U.S.S. Wells, flew to it, swapped ships, flew back and completed, scumbagging again with Chuckles. |
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Round 2 |  | Nicholas Yankovec | FW (+100) |
Nick surprise, surprise was playing Dominion. Nick was playing a straight Dominion solver with the new headquarters and anti-Dual dilemma missions. My Dilemma pile stood up to Nick's missions attempts. Without any disruption from Nick, I slowly solved my missions, he did Nerf one of my Temporal Transporters but I had another one in my hand to keep going. |
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Round 3 |  | William Hoskin | FW (+100) |
Another Dominion deck for me to face. The 3rd of the day! Will was playing a Combat deck with the new headquarters. As I have ways to get people back from the discard pile I decided to go for it and attempt my missions (and get people stopped on planets). Will came over and killed lots of my people. He also destroyed all my Temporal Transporters which was very inconvenient. With Will spending some of his turns killing my people, he had less mission attempts himself and my excellent dilemma pile slowed him down enough. The moment of the game was when I attempted Investigate Massacre with 4 people (who could solve) and 3 dilemmas under. Will drew Insurrection (again very inconvenient). |
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Closing Thoughts |
I saw a lot of Moral Choice and Secret Identity. Time to start playing another affiliation. Bring on Munich! |
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