Johannes Klarhauser (Kaiser) Tournament Report - 2E - Online Event 2014-03-03 - 12:00 AM Shipscrewed Introduction A look at the "unearned achievements" tab told me that I was one tournament away from getting "play Klingons five times" achievement, so I went with that. No other new achievements, as I couldn't manage to get any of the fancy ones to work well. Round 1 Tyler Fultz FW (+70) Tyler had the latest incarnation of his DS9 Unstoppables, but he had some poor draws and a relatively slow start. I Bridge Officers' Tested through the Outclassed he gave me on my first attempt and solved right away, then got bounce-stopped at DAA by Adopted Authority. On the next attempt, He Wasn't Nice killed Klag, but Issue of Trust didn't stop enough and I completed. Tyler then attempted in space, I burned Endangered to draw/spend 12 and killed five of his nine people to stop him. My first attempt at Brute Force got stopped by Artificial Ability/Hard Time, Tyler burned 2x AWC to replay Sisko with Primmin and Lore, and completed Elude Fed Forces, but was out of Range. I attempted at Brute Force with 9, Tyler gave me another Issoe of Trust + Rogue Borg Ambush, but a The Promise helped me to cheat through and complete for the win. Round 2 Kenneth Tufts FW (+50) Incredibly fun 2HQ design by Ken, using the Infinite Improbability Drive on Shuttlepod Two. He went first, dropped a bunch of Jem'Hadar, then I dropped Riker and Gowron, and passed the turn to him. And only then did I realize that I forgot to take the double turn from Provoke Interstellar Incident! Oh well. He attempted his own copy of Provoke with 5, I killed one with the blade, and discarded his hand of 9 with the Dreamer, which took away most of Ken's toys. He stopped me for two turns in space and took the lead, 50-0, then went to his planet. I killed more guys, then finally got my space done and attempted DAA. Adopted Authority and Hard Time stalled me again, and I had to burn my Endangered to kill four more of Ken's guys. With an Uninvited and two Grav-Traps I figured I was prepared for another attempt and maybe some bonus point verb, but it turned out I didn't need it, as I completed DAA and then did Brute Force on the first try with ten people. Really good game, the Dreamer was money. Round 3 Michael Moskop FW (+95)View opponent's ReportView original Report Ferengi/Thief with 40-point missions, using things like Enterprise-A, Tallera and Trilithium Heist to go round the corner. After a stop in space with Intimadation/Gomtuu, I completed on my second attempt. When Michael went for Ariannus Passage, I burned my Endangered to go all-in on dilemmas. I didn't fint either a TT or Spatial Interphase, and Overburdened failed completely, but I still managed to kill 5 of 8 and destaff him (which I didn't realize at first). The Needs of the Many/Rogue Borg Ambush stopped me at DAA, Ominous Presence/Pitching In/somethings else once more. With Michael still rebuilding and trying to find a second ship, I worked on BF on got it on the second try with The Promise helping me to overcome Greater Needs. Just got caught behind the 8-ball with a lot of stops from the dilemmas this deck hates to face. Nothing I could do. Round 4 Nickolay Korotya FL (-100) Let's get the whining out of the way first: Boo, Lackey Shuffle at its worst! Nick went first and had Relativity in his opening hand, whereas I had already drawn 25 of 45 cards in my deck and still had not drawn a ship or a ship downloader. Digging for a ship, I had a turn of drawing 7 and discarding 7 just get my personnel moving eventually. That being said, we still had a great game! Nick attempted with 8 in space, and had both fuel for Revised Chakotay and an Escape, so instead of 6 kills I only got rid of three guys. He completed the following turn, but then lost all of his seven guys to my dilemmas on the planet. When I finally attempted, I ran into Nick's own kill dilemmas, and suffered some casualties. While Nick was rebuilding, I completed space, but lost several important guys at Deliver Ancient Artifact. Using everything available (Uninvited, Hindrance), Nick and I gave each other a hard time doing the other missions, but in the end not having drawn into Deja Q meant I eventually ran out of dilemmas, so it was only a matter of turns (or maybe only 1 turn) before Nick would complete for the win. I could have completed the shortstacked DAA to make the score 65-70 momentarily, but with my resources depleted, trying to do Brute Force was pointless, so I just Kruged the Relativity, watched all my guys magically disappear at the beginning of the next turn, and conceded. :) Definitely a fun game! Closing Thoughts I had given my deck several test runs against hard-hitting kill piles, and I'm quite confident that if a ship had shown up a turn or two earlier and not forced me into so many discards in my last game against Nick, I would have had enough redundancy to weather the killing storm. Still, the deck worked great in three of four games, and the Klingon x5 achievement is in the bag.