Maggie Geppert (jadziadax8) Tournament Report - 2E - American National 2014-01-18 - 03:30 PM Leaders and Subordinates Introduction I was really nervous about playing this deck. I only built it last week and had played it twice. I had not won either time. My only other option was Romulan capture, and I know I was dead if I did that. This deck was stacked with a lot of meta stuff. I played Cadets because they're cheap and easily replaceable in the case of a TT/ACE pile. I had a bit of kill prevention as well, or in the event of people dying, they went on Forever Linked for later skill sharing. Finally, my TT pile is designed so that I can have skill-based dilemmas, Round 1 Joshua Sheets FW (+100) Josh was playing Romulan. I think he just didn't get his mechanics going right. I managed to get together enough Cadets to make it through Practice Orbital Maneuvers, and then solved two more, exactly what the deck is supposed to do. FW 100-0 Round 2 Greg Hodgin FL (-60) Romulan TT/ACE just killed me over and over again. I managed to do Practice Orbital Maneuvers, but nothing else. I got through one attempt of Assess Contamination, but he killed the two Law people I had. Both went on Forever Linked, but I never got to a place where I could attempt again. Greg won, and he won fast. I was wonder how I could make my Romulans fast. Now I know. FL 40-100 Round 3 Michael Shea MW (+40) Michael was also playing Romulan/TT/ACE. He was making use of Nanclus for attribute boosts. He also 'thonged me quite a bit. Oh, and Aid Legendary Civilization sucks! He managed to put all my non-Cadets under my deck. I couldn't even get enough folks together to do TCS. I slogged it out to the mod win. MW 75-35 Round 4 Mikey Camp JR FW (+65) Mike was playing a pretty standard Bajoran integrity solver. He didn't like seeing TCS in play at the beginning of the game. My TT pile pinged him enough that I made it through. FW 100-35 Closing Thoughts I'm glad I chose Cadets. They proved to be an agile deck with lots of advantages.