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Matthew Zinno (commdecker)
Tournament Report - 1E Modern - Online Event (Mission to Talos IV)
2012-04-01 - 12:00 AM
FederationThe Tribbles of Talos
Introduction
TWT-era Talos. I've heard of the OS equipment downloads being great dilemma busters, so I thought I'd give them a try. And in the process, get the Organian Peace Treaty achievement.
Round 1Diane HainFW (+100)
Diane had both TOS time locations, and was reporting to both ... but couldn't manage to draw the cards that would get those people to anywhere else (and hadn't seeded a QTR or a TOQ to get TV). I Tented for IKC Gr'oth so I could DL Darvin early, and draw a card from her reports (and some of mine). Before too long, I used my QTR to get a TV (letting her out of Sherman's Peak), and stole Wormhole Negotiations for 50 (Gibson passed GravDist, and JTK/Sulu/Davis solved). Then I passed the Dead End at Evaluate Terraforming, and solved that for another 45 (including a 62nd rule). A fun dilemma encounter there was Horta, nullified by McCoy's download. Now I just needed 5 more, but had to go through another mission for it. Diane's USS Constitution was flying away from AgAss, towards GOF to rescue her newer people from Sherman's Peak, and in between paused for a mission attempt where she lost three people to my Horta, so I felt safe going after the shared Agricultural Assessment. I prepared with two empty ships since I had seeded FastShip there. The first team got stuck at Diane's Scientific Method; the second team used McCoy to nullify it, but then got stopped at *my* Scientific Method (which caused me to check the Glossary, duplicate dilemmas are only mis-seeds if seeded by the same player). Next turn he nullified that, and I solved for the win (McCoy + someone with a ClasTric), final score 125-(-10).
Round 2ToskFW (+100)
Tosk played Terran empire, with just the time location and outpost for reporting, and 4 AQ missions.  He spent a long time reporting, while I started on missions.  For a while I lacked Leadership, which made things difficult facing Oops, and the easy requirements on Explore Black Cluster, and 100 Tribbles.  Eventually I got Balok, and spent the Enterprise DL on JTK.  Still, several dilemmas were effective stoppers: Exec, SciMet, ChulaGame, even ChulaDrink... Each stopped me and required me to come back with a different group.  I got lucky against Artillery Attack, the probe was an equipment.  Tosk attempted Mine Dilithium... Horta got nullified, Gorn killed Smiley, then Crisis stopped twice, first with nobody on ship, then with FOS who turned out to not have OFFICER as his classification.  Finally I solved my third mission (EBC, after AgAss and Cargo with 62nd) to win 110-(-10).
Round 3FederationMarkFW (+100)View opponent's Report
Duplication! We were both playing TOS/Organian, and we duplicated two missions as well as Sherman's Peak and several personnel. We each played Arne Darvin on our first turn to start generating draws, and on his second turn he played Kras and the 35th Rule for more. I Tented for the Gr'oth, downloaded Koloth,beamed all my Feds down to the planet, and attacked, killing Darvin. Next turn, I attacked again to kill Kras. Without his draw engines, Mark was severely hampered, not drawing into a ship (or a Tent for one) until the very end of the game. I went after missions with a mega-crew of around 10, on my Gr'oth and later my Enterprise. First was EBC where I passed all the dilemmas except Dead End. Then Evaluate Terraforming (with 62nd rule) with an initial party of 3. A special download of Kirk's Communicator let me pass Crisis, then a special download of Scotty's phaser let me save CSMcCoy (but not Gibson) from DNP, then Moreau (wrong choice) died to Fast Ship, and McCoy passed Hunter Gangs and solved the mission. Two more turns got me Investigate Sighting, and then I headed back to EBC to win.