Niall Matthew (sexecutioner) |
Tournament Report - 1E - Omarion Nebula Regional |
2015-05-09 - 12:15 PM |
The Romulan pubic sweep |
Introduction |
REGIONALS! And I had the nerve to use In For A Trim. I want this deck to be competitive! |
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Round 1 | | admiralgary | FW (+70) |
Gary was playing TNG Rommies as well. Luckily it only meant one shared mission at the Neutral zone, which I had no intention of attempting. His Dead End and other nastier Dilemmas were diverted from my two 25 point missions. So I managed to solve them both while slowy Barbering his deck. I kept discarding some semi-vital Events while rearranging his ships to either the top or bottom of the stack. Once I done that each turn, I would hit with security sweep to either force the ships to the bottom of his deck OR get 10 points by revealing three personnel. Gary managed to get a mission done for 30, but had trouble getting past the Kobyashi/YGII/Quantum Incursions combos. By the time he was close to getting through, I drew into 2 more Security Sweeps with 8/9 Barbering in play, forcing 6 personnel to the top of the draw deck and getting 20 more points for the win. |
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Round 2 | | Paddy Tye | FL (-70)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
Smashed! Paddy anticipated that I would try out these new Dilemma combos, so he played the best deck type to bust through; Federation/Barash. The Barash guys are the new 'hot stuff' in the game; They are all AU, Troi has Empathy and the rest have great skills and they play for free or DL'd via Holodeck door. I managed to do Excavation + Mission Specialist for 30, but Paddy was Jizzing personnel out into play faster than I could barber him, preventing me from hitting him with security Sweeps. I'll give it to Paddy, he manages to guess my Dilemma strategy everytime. Well done sir on your first Regional win :D |
Always expect the unexpected with Niall, in addition to the usual beer (and jager) drinking, incomprehensible innuendos and (new this time) political rhetoric (or why the SNP is great and why David Cameron has doomed us all). His mission layout smelled of a focus around Romulus, however he was bluffing and went to the other end of the space line, so he had successfully managed to get me to put Dead End miles from his target missions! However, his 4 Kobayashi Maru's smelled of a Your Galaxy is Impure / Quantum Incursions setup. And I knew I had the skills to mega-team it. Of his two remaining un-Kobayashi-ed missions, the planet one I guessed would be Dead End, so I attempted the un-Kobayashi-ed space (Navigate Argolis Cluster) and hit an Edo Probe. Hmm, best come back to that and not risk needing to go through two sets of Kobayashi / Your Galaxy / Quantum Incursions! So with a sizeable crew building up, I sent in a dummy crew (people that contribute nothing to the various Quantum Incursions options) to confirm my suspicions at Evade Borg Vessel – and sure enough, it was Your Galaxy then Quantum Incursions – but at least from now on, a Your Galaxy kill was my choice and not random. So, mega-team went for it: including 2 AU, 2 Physics, 2 Empathy, 2 SECURITY, 2 SCIENCE and 2 Navigation – with loads of extras to dilute the chance of losing anyone I needed. Boom – busted through it! Niall was not happy! Meanwhile, Niall had attempted one of his two target 25 point missions and was waiting for Friendly Fire to countdown. Despite much barbering and deck manipulation attempts, I think the Holodeck doors were causing him issues (not fitting with his In For a Trim pruning techniques) and he wasn’t able to run Security sweep – having lost a SECURITY personnel in his mission attempt – so was forced to Handshake away his Security Sweeps. I pressed on with missions, knowing I could get to 110 if needed from the two non-Kobayashi-ed missions, and knowing Niall’s fondness for point loss dilemmas, expected I would need all of those points! I couldn’t quite get back to Navigate Argolis Cluster, so I decided to trigger the inevitable Dead End combo at Salvage Borg Ship (Yup, Ferengi Infestation, The Higher the Fewer, Dead End), losing 6 points in the process, but with the mission cleared. Niall snagged himself 30 points from his first mission, but after taking off in his previously landed scout vessel (and before he moved away), I slapped him hard with a Loss of Orbital Stability – forcing a one turn delay. I then ploughed on with Navigate Argolis Cluster – but wary of more point loss, went in with 4 personnel only and the skills to solve – in case of either another The Higher The Fewer, or Lack of Preparation. It was both! I took the 4 point loss and solved to end on 60 points – with 40 in the bag next turn from my cleared Salvage Borg Ship and a mission specialist. So I ended my turn with the lockout move of In The Zone and despite Niall knowing he was done for, he battled on relentless, getting locked out by Linguistic Legerdemain at Test Mission, before I picked up the win the next turn. My first victory against Niall at a Regionals I believe – despite currently owning his ass at the last 4 consecutive UK Nationals. |
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Round 3 | | spiderbob80 | MW (+75) |
Sams first time at a CC sanctioned tournament. So this would mean he was playing with just Decipher cards. He was playing N/A / Androids, but relied on drawing into a Cybernetics personnel to get the Android free play engine flowing. I managed to Barber/Security Sweep his deck, forcing his multiple copies of Ira Graves/Dr.Soong to the bottom of his deck, sneaking in 20 points from them. I managed to complete Excavation and my other 25 point mission for 55 more points. But I had trouble drawing into more Sweeps later in the game (As my main draw engine was Handshake) so Time was called |
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Closing Thoughts |
One of the most fun decks I've played in a long time. I always wanted to make In For A Trim work, and despite the match against Paddy, the only thing that let me down was my Dilemma combos. My plan to have two 25 point missions and get the rest via Security Sweeps is a solid idea, so I will be revisiting this deck again for sure later this year. I have a feeling Handshake is not the right draw engine for this as I might end up discarding to many Sweeps early in the game. |
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