Rick Kinney (T-Ricks) |
Tournament Report - 2E |
2014-02-08 - 12:00 PM |
Borg V-Star Classic with a V-11 booster supercharger |
Introduction |
This is our first Virtual tournament since all the cards became "printable." I had to take Locutus out of the deck and substitute a universal Drone to replace him (one that wasn't already in the deck, nor in my constructed booster pack). That hurt the deck a lot, but I expected it to, so no surprise. I ended up facing all the fun dilemmas that the Borg can't do without Leadership, Officer, Honor, etc., etc.
Still, the deck has good redundancy of the skills needed for the missions so I wasn't afraid to try it.
We added an 11-card virtual/printable constructed booster pack of "authorized proxies" to provide a little bit of an element of surprise over the straight starter deck. None of the booster pack cards could be duplicates of any cards in the starter nor of any of the other cards in the booster pack. That pretty much eliminated any abuse. |
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Round 1 | | John Kinney | FW (+40) |
John played a well crafted Equinox deck. He put in Lore and Sybok to help with his missions. His dilemmas would often go back so I was never able to pile a lot under at any one attempt. We took turns stopping each other until finally we both had two missions done when time ran out. It was his turn, but he went first. I was able to reduce his attributes on his last attempt so he ended up one short on cunning to win the game.
I then went on to solve my third mission with no time left on the clock for the full win. 105 - 60. It was a very close game and could easily have gone the other way had luck of random dilemma choices not played a big part. |
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Round 2 | | Joseph Bazemore | FW (+30) |
Joe was - surprise, also playing an Equinox deck. For some reason he and John seem to select the same affiliation without meaning to, way more often that the odds would seem. Both Joe and John had to download Finding Our Way to get a ship so had nowhere to play on the first hand. Each had to dump a few cards at the end of their turn. Joe did a space mission on his first attempt and I was able to hit him with Where No One Has Gone Before (one of eight dilemmas I added to my booster pack). That made him waste another turn and discard six more cards. Kind of a rocky start when almost a third of your draw deck is already in your discard pile and you have only begun your first mission.
With Joe, I was able to complete my first mission on the first try. He stopped the wrong Drone, by choice, and I was able overcome his He Wasn't Nice when I didn't have the card title in the away team that he named.
The second mission was just the opposite. He kept stopping me with the dilemmas that required the non-Borg skills and there wasn't a thing I could do about it. I knew it would happen and sure enough, it did. It took me five attempts to finish what would normally be a two, possibly three attempt mission. Joe did a lot of catching up on me while I was stalled out. He finished his second mission and I was beginning to get concerned.
Still, a lot of damage was done to his deck by that time and I went on to finish my third mission without too much difficulty. Full win, 105 - 70. |
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Round 3 | | Ted Reebel | FW (+100) |
Ted's Starfleet deck got off to a very slow start. I guess he wasn't drawing into the skills he needed or something. I know he had three ships on the table before he flew off to begin his first mission.
I plugged away at my missions with moderate success. He did stop me cold a few times, but I was able to do the same to him as well. Since my personnel were not too expensive, I had a lot of them in play towards the end of the game. That gave me the option of having two crews attempt. I never needed to, but it was good to know I could if necessary. I got the full win, 105 - 0. |
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Closing Thoughts |
I knew losing Locutus to the new format rule would be a challenge. I had none of the non-Borg skills except the one Treachery on Seven of Nine. I also had two Recon Drones but only one non-Drone Borg they could download. So, the deck needs to be updated due to the new "authorized proxy" requirement. I think a simple alternate image for Locutus would be easiest. Everything else could remain the same.
I would not have tried this deck in an event where people could access any/all dilemmas. I took a chance playing Borg, and in this instance, I got lucky enough to win the tournament. |
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