Matthew Zinno (commdecker) |
Tournament Report - 2E - Online Event |
2014-05-02 - 12:00 AM |
Relativity 2.1 |
Introduction |
I decided I've gotten enough 2E experience (though I still am not very good) to be able to run a 2E tournament online. This is my 10th time playing, which gets me a few achievements. And I used a deck type I hadn't played before (Relativity), which got me a few more. |
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Round 1 | | Jonathan | FW (+70)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
I attempted early, and got a quick solve on the first attempt at Breach Barrier. I think one got stopped, one went back to hand or deck, and I pitched a Chakotay (to Revised Chakotay) to keep another one unstopped, and solved with 6 (just short of staffing for Mission Accomplished, since one was holo). Right after, Triumph attempted Investigate Destruction with 6; I got rid of two but he was able to solve on that first attempt with only 4, thanks to the Centaur. I headed to Sha Ka Ree and tried that several times, only getting one or two under each time; he went to his planet and tried the same. Eventually came a turn where he gave me 3 dilemmas: Caretaker's Guests which got rid of Revised Chakotay -- but to retain my stop prevention, I replaced him with the regular Chakotay I had pitched back in my first attempt; Hard Time which grabbed Naomi; and Show Trial which tried to stop Ducane and Rev-Doc, but I destroyed some events to have Chakotay keep them unstopped. That gave me enough to solve, and I reached 90 points. My ship was still staffed, and it hadn't flown since I don't need to go back to HQ to get my new reports, so I flew on to Dyson Sphere which I solved easily.
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(This was actually the second game I played, chronologically.) Ouch. Matt was playing Relativity. I messed up really badly with dilemmas, and then he had Super Chuckles Bros. to compound my blunders. I need to read cards more, because Revised Chakotay didn't work at all the way I'd imagined, and his skill base was very different than I'd thought, too (so much Honor, so little Lead / Office???). He basically rolled over me.
I did get my space mission in the first attempt, thanks to Centaur giving me the ability to solve with just four personnel. Other than that, my deck's performance was pretty lame. |
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Round 2 | | Anastasia Kalashnikova | FL (-100) |
No Headquarters in this game! Once I was staffed, I started attempting Breach Barrier. I attempted it many times over the game, always getting more dilemmas under, but always getting too many people stopped. Eventually I had so many people on the ship that even with 7 dilemmas under, he still had 4 dilemma counters and was able to find something to stop me. I wanted to drop people off on a planet, but I didn't have the range to get back on the same turn. (Lesson: I should have anyway.) It's the situation where a second ship would be nice, but I had drawn and discarded my Wells rather early. On the other side, Alexey used his dual Chakotays to avoid many stops, and my dilemmas didn't accomplish much. Sample encounter: Well-prepared Defenses/Identity Theft (for 2)/Slightly Overbooked. I look at his people, and he has 3 people at cost 4 (more than I had remembered), so I target The Doctor with WPD. Chakotay burns an Unexpected Difficulties to save him. IDT stops and kills, and those get prevented by Revised Chakotay. Then the SO is easily passed, and he solves.
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Round 3 | | Kevin Jaeger | FL (-85) |
On my first attempt at Breach Barrier, I got one under... but the next attempt got me a damage marker (Gomtuu) and put none under ... and Kevin had reported the Kaza'Kime, though it didn't have the range to reach me from the gamma quadrant in one turn. I hadn't seen B'Elanna yet, so I figured I would have to suffer through having the Damage Marker for a while. But I had reported the Wells, so if I could fly back to it, I could at least attempt from a clear ship. I got worried about hitting another damage dilemma, and then if the Kaza'Kime reached me it could destroy me. So I flew away from the Great Barrier, to fly home next turn. (I flew to his mission in fact, so I could have a chance to Deploy the Fleet.) Bad call -- he dropped a Maneuver and a cheap ship with Smiley, and blew me up. Well, at least my deck is of a type that can work on recovering from something like that. I downloaded another Relativity and started playing to it again. But a few turns later, his two ships came to my starting mission. He dropped two Maneuvers, hit me with his two ships, then unstopped the Kaza and blew me up again. I worked on recovery again, but didn't get anywhere before he got his missions done. On the final mission attempt, I discovered (using an "opponent's choice" dilemma) that I couldn't prevent the solve, so I just stopped Odo several times so that he would unstop and give me a handful of points. |
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Closing Thoughts |
I had few illusions of winning the tournament, but it's nice when I'm able to win at least one match. Getting my ship blown up repeatedly was not so fun. Ah well, next time! |
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