Robin Honeycutt (robin1234) Tournament Report - 1E - Romulus Regional 2019-05-26 - 11:00 AM Bluegill Department of Temporal Incursions Introduction First, walking through the Boston Airport with my NEW. ENGLAND SUCKS! And BRADY SWALLOWS shirt , was a great start to my trip, Thank you Chris O’c for the ride from The airport. The venue was awesome, Great space and very nice. Great to meet Matt,Chris Morse, and Chris O’c. Round 1 Lucas Thompson ML (-5)View opponent's ReportView original Report THE REMATCH!!!!!! From trek masters, Lucas was playing a TNG Klingon deck that was very efficient, I got a little carried away with playing Quinn early in the game, putting me at -10, stopped his landing protocol, he was able to get out to a 35 point lead early, then I responded next turn with a mission solve, to get to 35 , it was a back and forth solving/attempting, crucial mistake I had was switching the shock wave with cytherians , he had a back up crew ready to solve should have done a whale probe. I solved another 35 point mission then headed to Vulcan to solve and got hung up on a dilemma that needed 72 integrity and fell short. As time expired, at the Moment we called. Time I thought i was ahead 70 to 65, then I realized QUINN!!!!! -10 giving Lucas the modified win, uughhhh, Lucas beat me AGAIN!!! ERRRRR, but it was one of the best games that I ever played, I had a Riot, even though the mod loss hurt , it was not over Robin was playing a deck that I was familiar with, which helped a bit, since I remembered how some of the combos went. The dilemmas were still difficult to get through, but fortunately Robin was having even more trouble with my dilemmas (don't say Exobiology around him any time soon). We thought we were tied when time was called, but then we remembered the second Quinn - it's just as well though, I had a third cleared mission (which had been blocked by a Dead End) that I was ready to solve if I had another turn. I did not remember to use my Storage Compartment much this game - it was my first ever game with that side deck. I got a lot better at remembering as the tournament progressed though. Round 2 Chris O'Connell FW (+100) Chris was playing an enterprise e , bok’ku planet, son’a , his free plays were solid with using handshake to get more cards, he ran into some tough mission attempts early, I solved Vulcan first and scored 45 due to a MS, then went out to space to solve, got hit with the cloud, damaging my Ship badly, then Chris came Over towards me which puzzled me, then played an attack interrupt destroying my ship!!! I had a back up thank god, and Solved the mission that I cleared out putting me to 80, then went to another space and won , interesting game Round 3 Austin Chandler FW (+60) A match up that I wanted to avoid but knew it was gonna happen, Austin was playing a Dominion slasher deck, so I decided to stay in Vulcan for 5 turns building a crew and getting ships together, then a drew a genesis effect ,said dead end on Vulcan and relocated to the planet with conduit for the 45 points. Then Austin began trying to solve missions and was stopped twice before solving a 35 point mission plus 5 points , making it 45 to 40, while he was in the gamma Quadrant, I ran out with 2 ships with crews, 1 ship for redshirting , 1 to follow through, I solved 1 space and was stopped by the other, Austin came out and was ready to beam aboard to start slashing, but wait! QUINN! To the rescue! Negated the beam in, next turn I solved the mission for the win. Round 4 Matthew Zinno FW (+1)View opponent's ReportView original Report This was a match up I knew was gonna happen if I beat Austin.I wanna point out how Matt’s knowledge the game is insane, I learned a lot in this game. Matt was playing a distant control drone tower deck, that was incredibly and brutally efficient to get missions attempted within the first turn of the game. In the the final 25 minutes this game I really felt that it was going to be over , Matt had a huge crew out solved 2 missions already and all I was able to do so far was get two ships out to blow up his raptors to slow him down momentarily. I forgot that the rule in OTF tournament play, having to solve a space and planet mission which Matt did not solve any planets him having 115 points did not matter to a victory until he solved a planet I thought the game was over, then we had to take a break in play due to me feeling some symptoms of my PTSD I needed to take a few minutes to get myself back together, I really appreciate Lucas, Austin and Matt for calming me down and getting me back into the game it was very appreciated. Now here comes the part that I never saw coming, Matt needed to solve planet in order for him to win the game so he first started Romulus to solve, he hit buried alive and mission debrief,next turn i hit him with the combo scow/love interest. Then he went to free Orion slaves and I stopped him with Jol” had no anthropology left and he had no transporter skill he was trumped for four turns, Which gave me the time to do this on my last turn I had 2 ships out with limited personnel on all of them. I was able to solve a plant mission with four people on the far end of the space line for 35 points I had ran into a cyth with that crew for 15 points earlier so that put me at 50 points, I used IDIC finally to download a ship and it's captain, then I picked up the crew I built at the time location and solved the first space mission which I cleared out the delimmas the prior turn and then which put me at 85, with mission debriefing in play, I used make it so to unstop my crew .So I went to the next space mission and then on to the final part of the game just as time expired, I was able to finish my turn I had one space mission with a crew of six people that I attempted and I somehow, someway got through these three delimmas and my ship had the extra navigation which was my second navigation to solve mission and I won the game. after solving that mission I still did not even comprehend how that happened , solving 3 missions with 2 different crews on the last turn of the game! WHAT!!!!!! The luckiest ending ever As anticipated, the final came down to my 22 deck, and Robin playing the infamous “Sykes” Vulcan 22 deck. This uses Koss as Benefactor to several Vulcans, some of whom are also Bluegills, and IDIC/Power for matching commanders and MIS unstops and battle. I exposed a Dead End at my first mission, and had both drones dodging his ships to solve two others (but Mission Debriefing slowed me down). Bonus moment: I passed Chula Trickery, ID-ing Riaan! He blew up a drone or two, and also decided to send both his ships to my time location, and we had some personnel battle. He MW a few of my people, but I had enough people to win the battle and kill one of his, which I think turned out to be one of his bluegills. At this point, he thought I had basically won the game, since I had 80 points from the two missions, and an imminent 35 more once I went after the Dead End. But, I pointed out, I hadn’t done a planet mission. So he got back in the game. Like Lucas, he decided that battle was not going to hurt me much (not knowing I only had 4 drone cards in the deck), and went after missions. On my side, Romulus had Buried Alive (which leads to a Mission Debriefing stop), and a Scow (MD again) … which I couldn’t tow: only one Tractor Beam and it was somewhere deep in my deck. I even tried the Orion planet, which I never do, and was stuck there too, thanks to Jol Yichu and no Transporter Skill to be found. Meanwhile, Robin cut through many of my dilemmas well — his choice of benefactor worked very well with my choice of dilemmas. Koss gave his people Physics against Nanobio, Geology against Rules of Obedience, Honor against that and Forsaken. His Vulcan Databases (on most ships) and Vulcan PADD (downloaded by Strom) aided with the skill cheating too —- he would get stopped by a dilemma, change the ship’s skill to what it needs, then he has two copies of it (the ship, and someone from the PADD). Eventually I remembered I could get victory conditions with all 4 space missions, but I didn’t pull that off in time. Time was called, Robin had his last turn, and it all came down to one planet mission attempt. Solving would give him FW, failing would give me the MW at 115 points. And he did make it through, for the FW in a game he thought he had lost at the halfway mark. Closing Thoughts I have to say it was worth it to fly out and play some new players, big thank you to Lucas for hosting the event, and for letting me crash at his home. This was one of my favorite experiences playing Star Trek and I definitely will not forget it for quite some time. I will savor the flavor, but I will stay hungry for continentals