William Hoskin (Gumbo) Tournament Report - 2E 2012-06-24 - 10:30 AM Romulan Repeater Introduction For this deck I was trying to Hit Far Seeing Eyes 6 ties and try to take out some skills to make it very difficult for my opponent to comlete 3 missions Round 1 Unjustly Banned FW (+40)View opponent's ReportView original Report Got a fairly good opening hand with Tal, Hiren and a cheap romulan as well as a FSE. Turn 1 play tal, hiren (d/l p&p) reveal opponents hand see an interupt and d/l a 2 cost card(GUYS) play the other romulan and then draw a card. Turn 2 play GUYS, P&P and FSE play 2 cost romulan downloading a second chance at life draw a card get the 5 points form P&P. It didn't get much better for James throught he next few turns hitting FSE each turn then getting it back and playing it again. As he couldn't get rid of the interupts in his hand I was downloading a card each turn. I got rid of Klag, Kruge, and a few other useful cards and then started playing a few more people and went and attempted. using the romulan unstopping people with Donatra, Ruwon and Karina. James struggled to stop enough people as i threw events in the discard pile left and right. I managed to get to my third mission and complete just after time was called. Will was playing a Romulan skill denial deck, and the lucky git had the best opening hand in the... history... of... the... game. On turn one he played a few Romulans. On turn two, he dropped Hiren, GUYS, P+P and Far-Seeing Eyes. Over the next few turns, he played Far-Seeing Eyes over and over again (retrieving it from the discard pile using multiple copies of A Second Chance at Life.) Tal's download ability fuelling everything, because I had a couple of stupid interrupts in hand that I couldn't get rid of. I lost my Sword, Klag, two copies of Chang, Riker and Kruge to Far-Seeing Eyes. I then began attempting missions and lost most of my high cost Klingons (Kor, Kang, Koloth, Worf). I managed to stack six dilemmas under Investigate Alien Probe, but didn't have the Anthropology or Programming to complete it. I had also managed to stack a number of dilemmas under Rescue Prisoners, but didn't have any Transporters for that either. Those at the tournament can attest that my mood wasn't great at this point. I would apologise, but it was Will taking the brunt of it, and it was his fault in the first place. I eventually drew into the skills I needed, but only having one ship in play was restricting the number of attempts I could make. Meanwhile, Will had spent a long time screwing my deck over. When he began attempting missions. I hit his first space attempt with a combo ending in Gomtuu, but he complete, the following turn despite the damage. At his first planet attempt, I hit his ship with Greater Needs and stopped him again. The stupid Bird-of-Prey and its unrestricted attribute boost just laughed at them though. He flew the ship away from the mission and completed it on the next turn anyway. On what would be the final turn, he scumbagged his way through my combo thanks to Taul unstopping himself and my final dilemma being overcosted. FL 60-100 Round 2 Daniel Giddings MW (+25)View opponent's ReportView original Report Danny used Tacking into the wind to kill FSE on 2 occasions but I was still getting people into play and he was spengin 4 cost to kill 1 event. When I had a FSE in play at the start of my turn I used it and B'aht Qul challange was gone, Danny needed 3 missions now and my dilemma pile was working enough to slow him down a lot. unfortunately he was slowing me down with his dilemma plays so we went to time. ...with good reason. Thanks to regular Romulan tricks (GUYS, P&P, FSE) along with a 'A Second Chance at Life' or two, plus Greasy, my 'Removed from the game' pile was larger than my discard pile and deck combined come the end. After losing my B'aht Qul Challenges to FSE, it meant to win, I'd have to complete a third mission, something I wasn't really prepared for. The best I could hope for was a MW (by completing my second mission as time was called). That didn't happen, and Will won 65-40. Still, better than nothing. Round 3 Nicholas Yankovec FL (-40) All I needed to do to win the tournament was beat Nicks deck that hadn't been working too well. Mirror TNG using Guinan and disadvantage into advantage. I was happy enough that I should be able to take them out and slow him right down unfortunately I had my worst start and Nick had his best. I was unable to kill nicks deck and Tasha Yar was screwing with my dilemma plays. Nick fought his way through for the win.