William Hoskin (Gumbo) Tournament Report - 2E Standard 2011-03-27 - 10:30 AM All MACO all the time deck Introduction On the Train ride to the tournament I ask my brother James (also the TD) if there were any recent rulings that he thought would affect my decks for today he said probably not but that he would check the print out. running through my decks and James says actually yeah the way that Condition Red is played has changed because of the "scimitar Also" ruling. This basically kills my deck but i'll still give it a go(#epic fail 1). Note to self check the rulings before building a new deck. Round 1 Stuart Marsh ML (-40) A good start for me with Major J Hayes and the Columbia in my opening hand so I play both draw a card and then fly over to Collapse Anti-time Anomaly and attampt Stuart looks at me as I download Ooh mothing happens and throws his one dilemma down to reveal repressed message. I stare in disbelief as I turn over my dilemma and hit Gomtuu shockwave. can't reattempt the mission as there is a dilemma under and im stranded. I spend the next few turns drawing and playing some people until I have nine in play (plus the major) the I start drawing and discarding until I get through to one of my two shuttle pod 2s. Eventually I get the pod and start to ferry my people over to the Columbia and when I get nine I beam major hayes out of danger onto the shuttle and attempt from the damaged columbia. By this time stuart is out ahead and running and I can see what his dilemma pile is going to do with the debate over dinner on each of my other missions so i'm not surprised when I hit Tragic turn and a couple of consume dillemas. The fact that no-one died (thank you sean Hawkins) ment that on my next attempt there were half a dozen dilemmas under so I attempt and assume that I can auto complete (#epic fail 2). I really should check mission requirements before blindly attempting a mission. My dilemma pile is the only thing keeping me in this game and considering I can't use the prefix codes as I don't have enough ships that can fly (#epic fail 3) to go over and blow Stuart out of the sky i'm amazed. I finally complete CA-TA and fly my now range incread Columbia home and repair it whilst flying my shuttle to Find Lifeless world. After using my Lustful Distraction to get rid of the debate over dinner I attempt the mission but am stopped with 4 dilemmas under the mission and I reacon that I should be able to complete next turn and move onto my final mission unfortunately for me thats when time is called and I went first so no more goes for me. Can Stuart complete his final mission and get the FW, with no dilemmas under and a dillema pile thats been hitting him hard neither of us think he will do it. 2 dilemmas later were both proven right and the game ends. 35-75 ML total = 1 point Round 2 Bye BY (0) The Bye - started off well with no queue at the bar so i was able to order my food and the drinks round unfortunately the syrup for the pepsi runs out (#epic fail 4)and I have to wait five minutes for the last two drinks. This round only gets better as my food arrives a few minutes after I get to the table. Roast Beef with all the trimmings. BYE total = 4 points Round 3 Doug Hughes FL (-100)View opponent's ReportView original Report Doug and the most consistant Romulan deck in the region. I hedge my bets and don't go out early to get an Ooh nothing happened and this basically costs me any chance of doing a mission(#epic fail 5) i bounce between my space and planet missions trying to get dilemmas under but Dougs tried and tested Romulan Stooges are running a muck with my dilemma pile. As i manage to get 5 dilemmas under 2 seperate missions I think to myself next go i can catch Doug and make it a close match. The follwoing turn Doug attempts his third mission and I can't stop him. 0-100 FL total = 5 points A running theme ... my opponent de-staffing themselves. Then they get to watch me Stooge my way through missions while idly sitting there failing to draw command stars! Glory to the Romulan Empire!