Johannes Klarhauser (Kaiser) Tournament Report - 2E Standard - Online Event 2012-02-05 - 10:00 PM VedEx Delivery Silver Service Introduction Vedek Deck adjusted to earn Silver Age deck and dilemma achievements. The "flow" of the deck was significantly worse than that of the previous incarnation, but if the right pieces are in place early on (Bareil!), it's still a very quick and surprisingly resilient solver. Round 1 Bye BY (0) Round 2 William Hoskin FW (+90) My decks seemed to work fine, and had a speed advantage over Will's Romulan Android combination. Thanks to cheating blatantly with my interrupts and personnel, I got through my missions fairly quickly. Round 3 Rem Boon FW (+95) I had just about the best opening hand I could get, and was underway quickly, whereas Rem had trouble getting personnel out and drew lots of Events, Ships and Equipment early on. My personnel had, surprisingly enough, most of skills for Rem's skill-based dilemma pile, but were stopped twice because I forgot to check mission skills. Still, I managed to complete three missions before Rem could get his Ferengi setup going (we played out the next turn, he would have completed one mission and put 3 under his second). Round 4 Auwerd Bijker FW (+80) Auwerd's capture cardassians were ship screwed for a long time, but he managed to capture a total of three personnel (Borum, Li Nalas, Jadzia Dax) with Dilemmas, Evek and Ensnared, and scored 20 points off them with two Prison Compounds. I completed Investigate Maquis Activity one my first attempt, and Transport Delegations shortly afterwards. Auwerd finally got a ship out and attempted Commandeer Prototype with nine personnel. I played An Issue of Trust - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? - Where No One Has Gone Before, but I had to lose 10 points with Paenol in order to cancel two copies of The Central Command. I then fake-attempted at Amnesty Talks with a crew that couldn't complete without cheating to get some dilemmas under, and to avoid accidentally ending up on only 95 points and having to complete Historical Research (Auwerd could have easily locked out my Archaeology with his capture cards). With Auwerd's ship on WNOHGB, I had enough time to dig for Solbor, and use his ability on the shortstacked mission to reach 100. Round 5 Bye BY (0) Round 6 Tjark Ott FW (+100) All the draws went in my favour, I was lucky with my dilemma pulls, and kept Tjark from completing Caretaker's Array for longer than I had any right to. The Rite of Emergence + Covenant + Basso Tromac + Yassim meant that even with a couple of stops, I was usually able to cough up the necessary attributes for the mission requirements. Round 7 Nicholas Yankovec FL (-30) I had a very slow start, with no Bareil Antos to be found. Also, Nick's dilemmas annihilated much of my crews (Unfair Terms + Whisper in the Dark to kill four out of seven, then Necessary Execution + Unfair Terms to do the same at my second planet). After the kill dilemmas, two Unfair Comparisons stopped me on consecutive turns and bought Nick enough time to do his two planet missions. My dilemma draws weren't too great either, and with neither Paenol nor Holding Cell out, I was unable to prevent Nick from using The Promise or Bridge Officers' Test.