Unjustly Banned (RedDwarf) Tournament Report - 2E 2013-06-02 - 10:30 AM Relativity Small [v1] Introduction Not having played a Relativity deck yet, I thought I'd give it a go at this tournament. The prospect of (ab)using Revised Chakotay and Kirk/Original Thinker in the same deck got me all tingly. Round 1 Nicholas Yankovec FW (+100) Nick was playing his TOS deck. He told me afterwards, he couldn't be bothered to build a new dilemma pile, so he changed a couple of his missions to help his existing Unfair Comparison pile. The only problem was that he never checked his new mission skills. It turns out that his two space missions required Medical, and he only had four in the deck. I figured something was up when Nick had a crew and ship out but didn't leave his headquarters for a couple more turns. It was blindingly obvious what the problem was when he finally left having just played a Medical personnel. He didn't even attempt with them on his first attempt, and he never made a second. My deck seemed to be running well. FW: 100-0 Round 2 William Hoskin FL (-65)View opponent's ReportView original Report Will was playing TOS too. Sadly, my deck screwed me in this game. Well, I screwed myself first, and then my deck screwed me. I began by getting Revised Chakotay and Revised Doctor on my Relativity. Neither had staffing icons, so I needed six more personnel to fly the ship to my first mission. After several further turns, I got desperate and used a Temporal Transporters to get Kirk and his command icon aboard my ship. That let me begin attempting missions. Unfortunately, I didn't have any Astrometrics in play - but I hadn't noticed that. I didn't notice for a couple more turns. As the turns went on, I was building up more and more personnel aboard my ship with no hope of ever completing the mission. I did eventually notice, and then spent another turn digging for someone. The turn after, I played Naomi Wildman and completed the mission. Sadly, I was too far behind in the game to catch up. FL: 35-100 I had been talking to James about building a Relativity deck on the way to the tournament so that I was more familiar with it. Turns out the deck James had built was the very same thing. Luckily James had done his thing and "borrowed" a deck from a good player (Peter Moller) and then changed the deck to make it worse. This must be the 3rd/4th time that he has taken a solid deck and made it his own and by that I mean worse. James struggled with a mission skill but was getting dilemmas under using Kirk and a few other bits. I only noticed on his 3rd attempt the he only had 1 of a mission skill which he just played. could have saved myself a lot a dillema choices. I powered through my missions FW. Round 3 Stuart Marsh FW (+90) Stuart was playing a Romulan Assassin deck. After a few turns, he had three out and I was very wary of getting one-stopped by Assassin Team at my planet missions. After hitting the first, I burnt two copies of Ohhhh! Nothing Happened! to get rid of another. Stuart's dilemma pile was based around Tragic Turn, but it wasn't doing as much damage as I expected. Generally, I was able to complete a mission the turn after I attempted it for the first time. He did score 10 points from Quite a Coincidence (killing old guy Riker) though. Stuart's own attempts were hampered by his choice of space mission. The only one he had in his deck required Integrity, and his assassins didn't exactly have a lot of that. By the time Stuart made his first mission attempt, I had forgotten he had played Donatra on the first turn. I played Agonizing Encounter to stop him and was fortunate that returning her to hand would have meant Stuart didn't have the attributes to complete the mission. He never got to make a second attempt. FW: 100-10 Closing Thoughts I think this deck has promise. I just need to remember not to play Holograms until I can staff the ship, and to check mission skills before I download someone with Anthony Braxton.