Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot) Tournament Report - 2E 2012-09-02 - 11:45 AM One Person's Draw Deck + Another Person's Dilemma Pile = Let's See How This Works! Introduction We weren't planning on attending having scheduled a koala breakfast along with a tour of a wildlife zoo. However, we had gotten done earlier than expected so we decided to head over to the store and meet some of the Australian players that we hadn't played yet. With Amber not up to playing, I was all up for playing... but had no deck. So I was given a dilemma pile that went with a Terok Nor deck and a draw deck that was about Dissident Borg. It's fun attempting with an insane number of people. Round 1 Peter Hill FL (0) I got out of the gate early and a key random selection went my way, solving my space mission with the first attempt. However as he was only going to need to solve two missions for the win I had to hold him in space which wasn't going to work after the first attempt - I drew nothing that would work and I knew that he had insane skill redundancy for his planet as well. I got lucky with a Polywater + Hard Time (yes, in that order) at his planet which somehow stopped him. I made it through Hunt Alien and then stormed my second planet but he drew Fractured Time and that made it much easier for him to stop me. I couldn't pick off enough of any skill with the kill dilemmas to stop him from winning. I would've won next turn however. Round 2 Christopher Davies FW (0) Chris was playing TOS but didn't have Fractured Time. I pulled off over a dozen people in a row with New Resistance that powered my way through for the win. If I could only give my Borg the TOS icon I would've gotten 10 more points from assimiliating his Enterprise-B. During this game I figured out there were glaring holes of skills in this deck - Geology, Physics do not exist in this deck. It made space missions more difficult - Do I give Janeway a second Diplomacy for Gomtuu or Physics for WNOHGB? Round 3 Craig Giblett FW (0) Craig was also playing TOS but I was having a much better time with the dilemmas taking out his people left and right. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere as his dilemmas were doing their job (got hit by WNOHGB after taking out all the Leadership) I held him off at his last planet by taking out all of his mission skill before I solved my planet mission with 5 for the win. This game had every personnel in the deck in play at once at one point (except for the copies of course.) Round 4 Hida Mann FW (0)View opponent's ReportView original Report I'm playing with his dilemma pile which, as he points out, will wreck his deck which saw a lot of NA's in play and three Telepathy people. His first attempt I hit Deanna and Kamala with Enemy Boarding Party but was prevented with Escape. Second time he attempts, I give him the same dilemma and this time I get Deanna, Kamala and someone else with a second Enemy Boarding Party and they stay dead along with an Insurrection on Investigate Sighting. He goes to planet instead and I hit with Necessary Execution, taking out his Intelligence from play as well. With his achievement-driven dilemma pile, my people were able to solve my three missions for the win. Ninja has a hilarious Borg build and was using my Terok Nor dilemma pile, which deconstructed me utterly. He was a lot of fun to play against though and I look forward to the rest of the week! Closing Thoughts Discussed the draw deck with the owner to inform him about the significant skill gaps and thought about how I would do it differently. Something that I would have to think about in the future.