Dan Hamman (SirDan) Tournament Report - 2E 2013-06-15 - 01:00 PM Ritual Suicide v4 Introduction I grabbed my Fed/Bajoran deck to take with me, because it doesn't take much though to play.. and I didn't plan on having many brain cells to rub together by the third day of Origins. Before I left, I took out the Bajor HQ and Kira, replacing them with more Lwaxanas and These Are The Voyages. Seemed to work pretty well. Round 1 Joel Skon FL (-30)View opponent's ReportView original Report I didn't get much of a jumpstart against Joel, and he finished all of his missions to my one. He managed to capture or kill all of my Medical(and Ezri changed sides), so by the end I was treading water trying to recur personnel and hope my dilemmas held up. They didn't. This was a close game that I won by the skin of my teeth. He got out faster than me but I was able to one drop him a few times to keep the pace even. I got through IMA fast, first try I think...and moved on to TCS. He hit me with a perfectly set up WNMHGB and then sadly the next try I miss counted my skills and came up with a measly 15 and that was if I used Melora to get Ross's intel and treachery. NOOO. He killed my Bashir so I was able to get his Rebel captain. Lucky me because Ezri came over to my side two, which I later found out were his two medical for his back up mission. I was able to power through my last mission pretty fast but I'm pretty sure if he had one more turn he would have won. Round 2 Ross Fertel FW (+95)View opponent's ReportView original Report Ross unfortunately never left his HQ. I gave him 5 points with Guinan, and scored 100 myself. I got out quick, and Ross pitched a few people to Uninvited Guests. Fortunately for me, Nog had the rare Acquisition and I was able to skate past it. I think the personnel he lost to those discards slowed him down even more. Speed decks are not fun to play against. Barely got out of the gate. If not for a Guinan, I wouldn't have had any points. Round 3 Joshua Sheets FW (+55)View opponent's ReportView original Report No idea what to do against Borg. So I decided to throw the speed plans out the window and go nuts. I attempted with 14 at Practice Orbital Maneuvers. Josh played a stack of dilemmas, but didn't pull a Tragic to enhance the killing. He stopped enough, but only whacked 4 guys. I lost another to assimilation on the next turn, but was able to solve with the remaining nine. I moved on and started grinding through the next two missions, people died but they were cheap to replace. I ran through the next mission, and started working on the last. Meanwhile Knowledge and Experience helped Josh get past my dilemmas, and we were down to the last turn. Josh played a Final Adventure and agonized on what number to choose. He had slaughtered many people, but I Tacked into the Wind and got some back, so it was kind of a crapshoot as to who I had in play. The correct answer was 3 for Sisko, as he is really good at Protecting the Escapees. But 2 was chosen and Nog was whacked. I solved the mission and won. Whoo hoo! Dan gets way too many people out way too soon and goes to a mission before I have 6 people in play. He decides to go with 14 personnel, and I UD twice looking for a dilemma (BioNeural Computer Core which would net me three of his personnel) and dont get it so I play other dilemmas and stop the attempt. Downside is the mission is buried and he has 9 people left in play. I havent gotten any of my Assimilation stuff setup so I cant even go take people (I did get an Ezri from the mission attempt). So the next turn, Dan gets thru POM and I can do nothing but watch. He heads to his second mission and I realize I dont have BNCC in my pile (that attempt made me draw thru). I include that in almost every dilemma pile and I don't include it in the Borg Assimilator. Wow, fail. Dan gets thru his second mission about the time I get thru AR but he is just going too fast and I cant catch back up after the first mission fiasco. Closing Thoughts I hate Cumulative Victory Points. Perhaps we should not use it for round robin events - It is effectively meaningless and gives the win to a coin flip. I think I still would have come in third if we used differential, but at least the win would have felt less artificial. Fun deck. I tire of playing Cadets though. I felt the deck was unique when it was running Bajor for the Guinan/AWC?/Kira/AWC? trick. Now it feels (and probably is) like a cheap cadet deck. Ho hum.