Nathan W (Naetor) Tournament Report - 2E Standard 2011-11-09 - 05:30 PM Printable DS9 Introduction I went with a printable, weenie, white border DS9 with the Vastly Outnumbered crew. I went 2-1, but I didn't like them very much. It never felt like they got "better" throughout the game. There's just too many dilemmas that hit too hard. Round 1 Thomas V MW (+30) I'd seen his deck before, but played with another affiliation. He was playing tons of events and ways to spend/draw more to try and hit with the 8 costers. So I used Sisko against them. Well, I realized that this deck wasn't going to a power solver after getting hit by In Development three times for essentially full stops. He pulled one back with Manheim. However, with all his card ditching with the Sutherland, some nicely timed personnel removal on my part, and all the events he had in his deck -- he never really put together an away team for me to really fear. When time was called I was comfortably winning 70-40 for the timed win. Round 2 Matt Kirk FW (+100) This deck did what it was designed to do against Matt: sneak under my two space missions and use the Centaur's gametext to solve with 4. Despite hitting with his dilemmas, he still left me 4 and I had the skills remaining to solve both in 1-attempts. After that, a turn or two chipping at Restore Errant Moon got me the full win 100-0. Round 3 Rogue Shindler ML (-30)View opponent's ReportView original Report Rogue was playing the popular Gromall + skill gaining Garak. It didn't take him long to get set up. Meanwhile, I think 10 of my first 16 cards were all my ships, Christenings, and Under Siege. So I was going slow. I started digging for Holding Cell since I didn't have much to counter The Central Command, otherwise. On his turn he got Kasidy and Quark with Evek, so it ended up taking me 3 more turns to get a Holding Cell in play. This meant I had to over-throw dilemmas at him -- eventually giving him enough to solve Kressari even with a 1st attempt Insurrection. Meanwhile, my Investigate Destruction got Insurrection'd attempt one. Between me hardly stacking any dilemmas there and his Shran pulling one back, seemingly, every turn, I knew I was in trouble. Eventually he solved Kressari and started on his planet. I knew time was short, so I gave up on space and went to Restore Errant Moon thinking I might get lucky and solve to be up 40-30 if time were to get called. Well it did, but his dilemmas (including a Necessary Execution) ruined my attempt while time got called: 0-30. Woah. I beat Johnny and TK on the same day? Surely that's enough work for one person; tournament win! But no, now we've got Nate here, too. Three rounds, three heavyweight opponents; this is getting rough. I only played Nate once before, and made a grievous, game-changing error, so I just resolved to play a smart game. Nate dropped a ton of DS9 weenies early, but not what he wanted, I guess, as I slowly built up to head out. I drew into Evek, so focused on getting 6 Cardies out fast, and was able to nab Quark and Kasidy Yates for my brig. This would end up being very useful, having his only two Acquisition personnel in my brig and Broken Captives in my pile. We both went and attempted and got hit by first attempt Insurrections. I nabbed a few more captives and kept plugging away at my mission. Shran was stopped to clear the last dilemma from his mission, but he went for it anyway. We both spend a while slogging through the first mission, but while I was building up dilemmas under mine, I wsa able to use minimal, high costers and/or returning to pile dilemmas combined with Shran to slow his progress. I eventually solved, and stared picking away at my first planet with two teams. Seeing time was winding down and I had captured some more of his key people, Nate headed for a planet mission to get a fresh start as time was called. He attempted with 10, which triggered my Restricted Area to capture two and hit my already successful Covert Ambush to capture a third, then Necessary Execution to kill two more of my choice. At this point Nate conceded the attempted, and though I had my last turn left, the differential didn't matter as I would be the only 3-0 player, so we wrapped it up. Wow, I think I'm going to retire. Never again will I play so well as to beat TK, Johnny, and Nate in the same tournament. Only 1E and Tribbles for me from now on!