Barry Windschitl (JamesValEson) Tournament Report - 2E 2014-11-22 - 10:00 AM "I'm a Loner, Daisy. And a Loner's got to be Alone". AU TOS/ 8472. Introduction I decided to try for a few new achievements, and opted for the Kirk-less AU TOS deck. I then decided to try being Really Damn Crazy, and threw in 8472. I got close to an 8472 win, but made some bad tactical errors that cost me. Round 1 Jeremy Benedict FL (-65) This was where the aforementioned error happened. I had Terrasphere 8 done, as well as two Causal Recursions and seven 8472 dilemmas in Jer's core. Unfortunately, he had a Dominion Assault/ Maneuver event out that I forgot had Assault on it. I went to attempt Metron Arena, and flew my ship home to keep it from getting shot at. He then brought over a dominion crew to beat me up, score 10 points, and therefore win, as the only thing holding him back was the Causals (and scoring the points from an event removed them from the game). A close game that came down to me putting myself in harms way. Round 2 Ben Johnson FL (-65) Mirror Match-Up (well, sort of). His Mirror Starfleet had the right skills to keep 8472 out of his neighborhood. Round 3 Rylee Johnson FW (+55) 8472 wasn't getting the job done, so I piled up 20+ people onto two ships, and went for the full win, standard style. Once I got my Chekov and Vina out, it was just protecting them until Northwest Passage was set up to auto solve, then I had enough people out to just go for Metron, and get it on the first shot. Closing Thoughts The deck has potential, but the lack of Astrometrics leaves the full 8472 experience a bit too risky. I might try pairing them with another AU-heavy affiliation to take care of that issue. Also, the 8472 dilemma pile Needs to have more way to hard-stop teams, whether or not the dilemmas go into the core, as well as more ways to get extra draws (as I was typing that, I remembered Predicament. That would fit in rather well in this deck for such use). This will be put on the back burner for now, but I will take a look at it in the future.