Joshua Sheets (prylardurden) Tournament Report - 2E Standard - American National 2011-01-15 - 10:00 AM SF Genesis Introduction After work approving my day off finally, I decided I would make the trip to Chicago for US Nationals West. If you are familiar with my series of decks on the 2E Design board, it should not surprise you that I took a somewhat risky deck, Starfleet Genesis. I picked that one based on not usually being able to solve space missions at the last several tournaments I attended, with several different affiliations. With deck decided on, I headed up late Friday night, and, with little sleep, headed out to the College of DuPage Saturday morning. Here is what happened next. Round 1 Neil Timmons FL (0)View opponent's ReportView original Report I hadn't been on the boards Friday to check if there was any new info I should know and was semi-surprised to see Neil. I popped an Oh! Nothing Happened blind, calling Legacy (my pile was not set up to handle that) and Whiffed, a whiff i was ok with. Neil starts doing his Borg downloading thing, and Im putting a crew together. I go out first (I think) and run into the classic Timmons Tragic Turn. I have 7 dilemmas under Genesis, but only 1 personnel on the planet and 1 on the ship. Ouch. At Neils first mission, I make one of my worst plays of the day - I play an SI and he brings in Locutus to pass the following Gomtuu (with bonus points). At his second mission, I give at least 2 more dilemmas for Locutus to score points off. I end up Completing Survey New World, and have enough dilemmas under the other 2 planets if I can get the skills together, but giving up a free mission was too much to recover from and Neil gets the win. Not saying I would have beat him if I hadnt gifted him his mission, but it would have been closer. Round 1: Josh Sheets. I have played Josh a few times, it’s a good guy. I was a bit skittish when I sat down, but when I saw what he was doing I felt a little bit better. He also said he had built his deck the night before, and as one that has done that, I am always happy to hear that because I personally always miss stuff and lose games because of it. Josh however had built a solid deck. However in the process of me dropping a lot of people, he had forgotten if I had played Locutus or not, so he played Secret ID then Gomtuu Shockwave. I lost the Queen, but gained a Locutus, and proceeded to score 10 points for the trouble of breaking through a Gomtuu. It’s never a good idea to give the Borg free missions, and I was able to complete my planet mission and use One with the Borg for the rest of the points I needed to win the game. FW 100-35 Round 2 Casey Wickum FL (0) I got smacked around by some free dilemmas that kept hitting for maximum effect (kill 3 on multiple occasions). Eventually solved a mission, but Casey played a solid game and got the win. Round 3 Brian Leonard FW (0) This one started out badly for me. I got down 80-0 after he walked thru my dilemmas at his first mission and made short work of the second. However, he did 2 planets first, and I cleared out most of my planet-only dilemmas. I was able to hold him off for a little while in space while I pushed thru my missions. Round 4 Charlie Plaine FL (0) Charlie was playing a borrowed Borg deck and had gotten the hang of what it was supposed to do and was hard-stopping my away teams with 1 or 2 dilemmas each time (B2B was the first 3 of those, i think). I was working on missions but things just did not go my way. Round 5 Mike Burke FL (0) The Maquis are a pain to play against :) I got Stalled, Biogeniced, Defiant pinged, Tragic pile'd, you name it. A very effective use of the Maquis and the tricks they have available. 100-0, Mike. This was the third game I ended the game with less than 4 personnel in play. Round 6 Bye BY (0) Yay for 3 VP! I played a pickup game against Maggie with similar results to the above games. I should actually test the decks more before taking them to Nationals. Overall, a great tournament and a great group of people showing up for the event.