Rick Kinney (T-Ricks) Tournament Report - 2E 2018-02-03 - 12:00 PM A hollow deck Introduction This was my first attempt at playing a hologram deck using the Grid 296 HQ. Round 1 John Kinney FW (+30) I was able to slow down John's deck strategy by killing his Borg Queen on the first attempt at the first mission. He was using her to report non-Borg Archeology personnel for skills the Borg don't have easy access to. My game plan was just keep dropping holograms into the game and plug away at my missions. I did make use of the Hunters Training Program to boost attributes. It helped a little but the game ended up being very close. I was able to win after time was called since I went second - Full win, 100 - 70. Round 2 Joseph Bazemore MW (+1) Joe was playing a Khan deck and I didn't really expect to have a close game. I was using the Underlying Influence and Pattern Loss dilemmas to add skills to the skill requirements of my other dilemmas. Joe was prepared with Self Replicating Roadblocks to block that idea. I was able to do a planet and a space to his planet only solves to get a modified win. Joe had more points than me as he was able to complete two higher point missions, but he didn't have time to do the Genesis Planet for the win. So modified win, 65 - 75 (with a +1 differential for me). Round 3 Sean O'Reilly FL (-35) Sean was playing three HQ's but was using mostly Klingons with enough of the other affiliations to allow him to fly his Dominion ship and have the necessary skills to solve his missions. He went with a two mission win by getting dilemmas under his missions without having to face them. My holograms were working as they should, but I was only able to solve two missions with dilemmas under the third before Sean solved his two high-point missions for the win. He also earned some bonus points as he solved his missions. I only had one counter to spend on each of his two mission attempts. Sean earned the win because it took a lot of work to get those dilemmas under the missions. This was a full loss for me, 65 - 110. Closing Thoughts My main goal was to get the Photonic Player achievement. It would have been nice the get the win with holograms achievement, but in all reality, I didn't expect to. All of my games were very close and I could just as easily have lost all three. I did learn afterwards that there is a planet mission for holograms that I should have used. It might have sped up getting my Hunters Training Program functioning, but I didn't even realize when I built the deck that it existed. Oops.