Unjustly Banned (RedDwarf) Tournament Report - 2E Standard 2011-05-15 - 10:30 AM Homage to Doug [v2] Introduction Homage to Doug version 2 involved replacing 50 cards from version 1. I ended up last out of 6, last time I played Version 1. Version 2 didn't fare much better. I finished 4th out of 6. Hopefully, by the time I get to version 4 or 5, I'll be winning tournaments... Round 1 Stuart Marsh FW (+60) Things started so well for me. By the end of my second turn, I had Getting Under Your Skin (GUYS) and Prejudice and Politics (P&P) in play. Over the next few turns, I was drawing and playing cheap events to rack up the points. We had completed one mission each, and the game swug in my favour on my second mission. Stuart stopped a couple of personnel, and I got to use Karina to unstop one of them. I didn't really care who I unstopped (they were equally worthless cannon fodder in my eyes), so I picked Ptol on a whim. It turns out that his Programming was the third programming I needed to overcome Stuart's Maglock. As Stuart has stopped all but one of my Intelligence personnel, I had to use the Integrity requirements on Intercept Renegade, and Ptol was my only source of Officer for that. I completed the mission thanks to one Power Shift, and had enough points left over from P&P/GUYS, that I won the game. I was so happy/lucky (delete as appropriate) that I had unstopped Ptol. FW 100-40 Round 2 William Hoskin FL (-55)View opponent's ReportView original Report I had another great start in this game. Both GUYS and P&P were on the table early again. However, this time I didn't have any Praetors or Senators to use P&P with. This meant my 5 point scoring was not as regular. I built up a solid team though and went to Khitomer Investigation first. This was a planet mission, but I didn't care because I had Donatra to protect me from Necessary Execution. Or so I thought. It turns out that I hadn't played Donatra yet, and Will drew Necessary Execution. That followed by Center of Attention saw me lose Ruwon, Ptol and Karina. 13 counters worth of personnel lost to two dilemmas. Ouch. While I regrouped, I flew Sela (Mysterious Operative) to Will's Political Intrigue. Sela was in the deck to screw with the Borg, but it turns out she screws with Androids too. Will was forced into attempting his only other planet mission: Historical Research. Integrity ... with Androids ... Ha! Unfortunately, I hadn't noticed that Will had replayed Ira Graves. When I casually gave him In-Development as the only dilemma, thinking that would be enough, he unstopped Lal - who he then gave the mission skills for the win. FL: 45-100 James had played Karina, Ruwon but no Donatra so when he attempted his planet mission first I was a little taken back. A quick mental check to make sure I hadn't missed Donatra and I went with NE and then center of attention. Killing Ruwon first, then another security guy leaving him with only 2 left so I then decided to kill Karina and make my life a little simpler. After this demolition of three of his eight people James decided on another tactic, fly home and get more people and on the way he dropped Sela at political intrigue to force me to go to Historical Research. This would usually have hurt my deck but getting the right people for the job was simple with Bustling. Before I was going to HR I attempted my second space mission hit secret identity(Ira graves turned into Rayne Kapec)two random stoppers and then a WNHGB but still having plenty of Androids in play and in hand I powered through and completed the mission. Needing 6 people to do HR I sent 9 and James's face went from ugly to down right iritated and ugly. He was unable to stop my attempt and that was the game. FW 100-45 8 VPs Round 3 Nicholas Yankovec FL (-55)View opponent's ReportView original Report Awww crap. When Nick's Borg Assimilator works, it is tough to beat. When I'm playing like a moron, I'm easy to beat. The odds were not good for me. My first mistake came when I tried to play Coolant Leak followed by Gomtuu Shock Wave at Assimilate Resistance. I knew Nick hadn't played any 1 cost drones, but I figured he must have had several Engineers. He had no Engineers, so it didn't stop anything and he breezed past Gomtuu and completed the mission on his first attempt. I had been careful not to discard any personnel though, so he couldn't assimilate anyone from my discard pile. Worried about falling too far beind, I played a ship and went to attempt my first misison with 15 personnel. I had intended to attempt with them all, but then I remembered Nick saying he had Bio-neural Computer Core in his dilemma pile. Then, I couldn't remember what that dilemma did and became convinced that it kept assimilating personnel until you only had nine personnel remaining. I made the decision to go with two teams. Yes, I had Donatra there. Yes, I forgot about her ability to nullify dliemmas like Bio-neural. Two teams went down. Not many returned after Nick massacred then with his dilemmas, and then swooped in to assimilate some more on the next turn. I gallently tried to recover, but I couldn't resist the chance to make a fool of myself one last time. Donatra was one of the 15 who went down to my first mission and never returned. Nick had assimilated her. I forgot this, and played a 6 cost no skill dilemma at his next attempt. He used my Donatra against me, and a Knowledge and Experience against Assassination Attempt to complete the mission. One with the Borg on his next turn gave him the win. FL: 45-100 Ah, now James and his determination to surpass Doug's Romulan deck. James needs to let this go, Doug is Doug, and its not the deck, its the man playing it. Anyway, James started with tactics like Doug's: sit at his hq and try and amass bonus points. I destroyed most of his events (P&P GUYS and Power Shift) and went and attemped a space mission with no assimilated personnel. I thought I was going to get massacred, but Coolant Shift stopped NOBODY! (no Engineer's or 1 cost personnel) and I walked through Gomtuu with Locutus and had 50 points after my first mission :) Then James decided he had to go attempt, losing three to Whispers, followed by a savage assimilation attempt from me (1 Reborn, 2 Abductions, and 2 Unrelentings gave me 5 personnel, one of which was Donatra. I flew to my planet, and completed (thanks to Donatra) after using another One With The Borg. James valiantly struggled on, even removing all my K&E's from the game, but one more One With The Borg gave me the Full Win.