Kevin Jaeger (Hoss-Drone) Tournament Report - 1E - Andoria Regional 2016-04-17 - 11:30 AM I need Bat'leths! How many? All of them! Introduction Wanting to take the opportunity to upgrayedd the prior version of this deck and throw it into the deep end to see if it could swim. The MN regional is the definition of a deep field that isnt a K3 or higher event. Some of the next level decisions I made with the deck end up back firing on me though. Round 1 Ben Johnson FW (+70) Stole Pegasus search, destroyed a ship then cleaned up two of my own missions for the win. Round 2 Barry Windschitl MW (+49)View opponent's ReportView original Report Barry built up and built up behind a protected timeline until he felt ready to come out. My dilemmas did their job and over the course of just 3 mission attempts barry's personnel were all put to bed. Unfortunately I was one turn short of pulling the full win. I didn't face the Buzzsaw first round, but I got it the second. I held out sending my guys to the 24th century as long as I could, but once I got going, it went sideways fast. The Defiant was the first to take on damage, then my Constitutions. The Beefed E got sent on a trip to see some floating heads, and soon ended up taking hits. Once my Empire was in flames, there was only 8 minutes left, so I sat back and saw what my dilemmas could do while I tried to get some recycling and replaying going to try to rebuild. Kevin took the MW. Good, but Rough, Game Kev. Round 3 Kris Sonsteby FL (-100)View opponent's ReportView original Report I made a lot and I mean of lot of bad decisions during the seed phase. You cant do that against Kris and hope to win. He exploited my mistakes perfectly and got the perfect 100-0 sweep score. We duped Wormhole negotiations, something I never expected and therefore didn't have a plan for and my cobbled together plan just ended up sucking. On the drive home I realized what I should have done that would put me in the game. Live and learn. Big Kev was working KCA battle, but didn't have an answer for duplicated missions nor speed decks intent on attempting on turn 2. Clearing a Quantum Incursions early thanks to Suna and K'chiQ, I then blew through my cobbled together combo at Wormhole Negotiations to seal the surprise shutout before he could get rolling. FW 100-0. Round 4 James Heaney MW (+35) So much maneuvering happened in this game because we both had MTD's that could allow us to pop inside each others ships and facilities and reek havoc. James decided to turtle at bajor and Mirror bajor and I was happy to let him since there were some moments early where I knew that if he got more aggressive the game could grind to a halt. So we spent a lot of time building up and dancing around each other. Twice though I took opportunities to snipe people. I killed a lenaris holem on his interceptor and later (the hossiest play of the day) - James left the intendant alone on his regency 1 at mirror bajor and declared it so that strategema was implicated while the rest of his people attempted bajor and got stopped. I then d/l'd my intendant, free played bariel, dl'd a gun, flew to bajor then mtd'd her onto his regency one at mirror bajor and had my intendant execute his intendant with an art of diplomacy. Some hot girl on girl action. Then my regency 1 flew over and opened fire. It was fun. Time was running out, my dilemmas were stopped James hard, I got through refuse immigration and dabo'd. James was unable to solve a mission before time was called and on the equalizer bonus turn. Closing Thoughts The dilemma strategy works only giving up 3 missions over 4 games when paired with the ability to battle reliably. Just the dilemma placement screw ups in the game with Kris was the only black spot and that was my pilot error and not a deck flaw. I like the deck but I don't LOVE the deck like I do some of my other decks. So this one will likely get shelved or re-worked. So many strategies out there to explore next that at the very least this on will be put to bed for awhile.