Sean O'Reilly (Jono) Tournament Report - 2E 2014-04-05 - 11:00 AM The future is just beyond the barrier Introduction My future federation deck did pretty well. It ran into some bad luck against Tammy but other than that I was happy with how it turned out. Round 1 Tammy Vititoe ML (-25) I went first. I got the USS Relativity out on my first turn without discard to download it. I was able to kill 3 people on successive missions attempts against Tammy using Tsi Infection, but she got two lucky stops. On my last turn she stopped my 2nd leadership so I could not solve Sha Ka Ree and on Treat Plague Ship she stopped Beverly. If either of those had gone differently, I would have had more points for a MW. Tammy got two missions solved - I screwed up putting a planet dilemmas at her 1st space mission and at Transport Crash Survivors she only had 15 skills - but because in her mirror Starfleet deck one of her personnel gains skills when she has no cards in hand (which she did) she had 17 different skills. Good enough for the mission to be solved and the MW. Round 2 Ian Coleman FW (+65) Ian played a very good game limiting the dilemmas he gave to me to 1 most of the time per mission attempt. That was usually enough to stop me. However, I think my draws were better overall. I did get my USS Relativity in my opening hand and quickly got out a lot of Temporal events in my core so I could draw 4 cards with my interrupt. A well fought game that saw me win 110-35 doing 3 missions. Round 3 Daniel Matteson FW (+35) Daniel had a Bajoran Orb deck. It was a little slow to get going but he made up for it by attempting with just 5 personnel (adding a 6th using a trick of cards). The problem he ran into was I had high cost dilemmas and 3 40 point missions means I got to kill a few personnel, or stop them using 1 dilemma (the one that reveals 3 dilemmas from each dilemmas pile). I also knew I would not be able to stop him on the one missions he did end up solving so I put a dilemma there so I could capture Bariel (hurting him by lowering his integrity). On my end, I only got the USS Relativity by playing Tacking into the Wind on my 2nd turn (I didn't want to discard 4 cards to do the download). It slowed me down a bit. Daniel used Grav Plating twice - once when I tried Temporal Transporters to play Data. That was a good move. His dilemmas did not do much to me. In fact, my first two attempts I solve on my first try. The third mission took longer but after getting 4 dilemmas underneath, I easily solve Treat Plague Ship with just 4 personnel for the 110-35 win. Closing Thoughts Future federation is good. They do have some weaknesses (Capture, Assimilation), but skill-wise they're pretty good and can make great use of dilemma pile manipulation with Temporal and/or Q events. I even used Jake Sisko's ability to download the new Julian Bashir (played him the following turn), then got Jake back into play with Temporal Transporters. Neat little combo.