Richard Engler (rtiger32) |
Tournament Report - 1E - Online Event (Mission to Talos IV) |
2023-12-01 - 12:00 AM |
 2023RainbowSealed_EnglerDeck2-1.txt |
Introduction |
First time playing rainbow. I decided to lean Fed/Kazon/NA |
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Round 1 | | Paddy Tye | FL (-70) |
Lost the race, plain and simple. Our missions were to our own sides, and with my kazon raider being taken over by emergent lifeform + Engine Imbalance, and no other ships on the table, I was stuck for six turns before I could use my ship again. |
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Round 2 | | Brad W | FW (+70) |
Were this not a 12 mission enforced spaceline, we would have shared four missions.
For a while, nobody got a ship. I dropped the first ship, a mercenary, and went to solve prison break only to be stopped by Spatial rift, which killed minnis and halok, my only engineer. I then drop lower decks and return to solve a few turns after. Viper manages to drop an intrepid and attempts his prison break, only to be stopped by aggressive behavior. I drop an intrepid, and ferry over my remaining people to go for study cometary cloud, breezing through with little trouble. Viper manages to solve prison break, and then tries botanical research only to get stopped by crisis. I drop a second merc ship, and the two merc ships start harrassing intrepid, while my own intrepid heads over to my botanical research, running into now would be a good time, forcing me to beam up the crew. This didn't stop me, so I beamed down again, and got past the last dilemmas for the win. |
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Round 3 |  | Jarrod Cafaro | FW (+100)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
This one was straightforward. Both of us with missions on our own sides of the spaceline. Takket got the first ship drop, a romulan scout, and I got the second, a Kazon raider, which I promptly sent to his side of the spaceline to harrass his ships. Next turn, I dropped a merc ship and proceeded to sweep Cometary cloud, Study pulsar, and stop bombardment with no real snags for a quick victory. |
B’elanna was the MVP of this game. She tore up every single dilemma I had. He had trouble drawing a ship. I attempted Restock Supplies (after he pointed out I needed Transporter Skill to beam down. Good catch! But I landed my Romulan Scout with Blue Alert). Crisis! Well, with my ship landed, I could not pass this!
He was having trouble drawing a ship so I wasn’t too worried. I had a Q-Net in my hand and figured he’d go attempt Prison Break where he seeded two people, so I was going to drop my Q’Net when he went there.
I play a Parallax Arguers and he gives me the 5 points, which might have won him the game as I did not drop a Q-Net at this time.
Instead he went in the other direction (and he had a second outpost along that line) so playing the Q’Net seemed pointless. He attempted Study Cometary cloud and that’s where the beatdown began lol. Iconian Computer Weapon did nothing. Birth of Junior: He had 3 Engineers to nullify this (B’Elanna), Stellar Flare he had the skills (B’elanna), and he also had the skills for Navigational Hazards. Blew through 4 dilemmas. B’Elanna contributes Comp skill, and with AMS he’s up 40-0
He moved to Study Pulsar. There I killed a Security with Dejaren, but B’Elanna passed it with 2 comp skill, then he had 3 security for a Kazon Bomb (B’Elanna) and obviously 2 security for an Assassins Blade (B’Elanna). B’Elanna contributes Comp skill, and with AMS he’s up 75-0. So yeah if you are watching, out of the 7 dilemmas and 2 missions he has shown skills for, B’elanna has contributed to SIX of them.
Meanwhile I attempted Cure Blight and hit: The Gatherers. D’OH! I lost ALL my equipment.
He attempts Stop bombardment. Impassible Door (B’Elanna again!), Angry Mob actually hits and kills a security person, not B’Elanna, damn it lol. So he’s stopped.
My turn, I play a personnel, attempt Cure Blight with everyone, and The Gatherers from last turn hurt BAD as I then ran into Common Thief. No equipment to discard to this! So he killed the only Security person I had in play. Next card was Security Precautions and I don’t have any security out so that will take a while.
Next turn he attempts again and I say “good game” because I know it is over. Anaphasic Organism does nothing (B’Elanna again!) and neither does Matriarchal Society. (B’Elanna again!!!!!!!!!!). Turns out though, he did NOT have Leadership. He he goes to his outpost and picks up a Leadership he had just played, then goes back and solves, with B’Elanna, of course, contributing engineer and Astro LOL).
So 11 dilemmas and 3 missions, and B’elanna contributed to TEN of them. She was the MVP
If I had played my Q-Net (I wasn’t thinking of it at the time) when he was at Stop bombardment, he could not have gotten back to his outpost to pick up the leadership he needed. D’oh!!!!!!! My bad.
FL 100-5 |
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Round 4 |  | Mathew McCalpin | FL (-65) |
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