Kenneth Tufts (Worf Son of Mogh) Tournament Report - 1E - Online Event (Mission to Talos IV) 2013-02-04 - 12:00 AM Talos 2.5 take 2 A quick poopy deck Introduction So after realizing a hr before my first game that the sweet deck i had build and tested and was completely useless with out the treaty that was not in the card pool, I had to build some new fast so i threw together a old fashioned Bajoran two mission win with returning orbs, Sarajenka, and PA for points/KFCs. The deck had some huge holes in it skill wise, luckily, Q-Flash was a champ and lead directly to two of my wins. Round 1 Christopher Coyle FW (+100) So as we started to lay out cards i realized i had to pull a couple quick swaps Quarks bar was not legal, nor was the teddy bear, so after a few second delay changers were made, and the deck was fully card pool compliant. My opponent was playing hard cor Bajoran battle, at first i was thinking ok not so bad we both had chamber and DS9 so he wont want to destroy them... I was wrong. I got of to a good start getting some points from orbs and sarjenka at duped bajor. But then i hit a seismic quake there and found one of my skill holes ZERO geology in my deck... The Emissary was in play and hidden fighter game me a landed ship to hide in but the space line was cleansed of my facilities. My very nice opponent however attempted Bajor and cleared the seismic the was stopped by one of his own dilemmas, one i could pass, and I had no fear of my own Q-flash seeded there, I walked out and solved getting a bunch of points, with no facilities I would only get to attempt a mission once more really adn i;d have to solve to get a win. I lay in wait, waiting and hoping my opponent would try our other duped missions characterize knowing i had a Q-flash last seeded there and that fighting words would have a good chance to wipe out the mission skills; and that's what happened he cleared all the dilemmas but failed thanks to fighting words I launched flew over and solved for the win. Round 2 Bye BY (0) MY opponent took like 2 weeks to read messages sent and then never replied so this game never happened. Round 3 wmspringer FW (+100) Borg... well borg are not to strong in this format, I didn't hit any of the dilemmas that would wreck me due to my skill holes, and the two mission win with bonus points easy out paced borg in this limited format, I also got lucky in my opponent did draw a queen early for key skills, or ACoP to swap in to interference objective. Another game where luck helped this poopy deck win. Round 4 Matthew Zinno FW (+31)View opponent's ReportView original Report Ok some weird Baj/Klingon battle thingy he was running faster then I was and I had to hide from him, however Q-Flash fightin' words saved me again I was not able to make it to the mission to solve, sadly he deviled my treaty and I did not have the skills in play with out the feds to solve that one but it gave me an extra turn knowing it was all over momentary I had to go for other missions and after hitting a lucky easy dilemma combination I was able to solve and get the win. Bajoran (with Klingons) vs Bajoran (with Feds), so no fighting likely. Mogh scored some early points with Parallax and Sarjenka, then a solve of the shared Bajor along with a ROTB brought him to 60. Right after, I solved Khitomer also for 60. Then I retrieved my Devil from the Tent, and destroyed his Treaty. Ken was left in house arrest, which we determined did not mean his minority crews (the Feds, who had no attemptability icons on his side) had to leave the ships, just that they couldn't do much aboard. They certainly couldn't help with mission attempts, which really impeded his efforts to pass the Maglock he'd just encountered at Refuse Immigration. Many Feds did evacuate onto DS9, but not all. After I scored my own ROTB for 10, I was at 70 and in apparent range of a victory. I attempted the shared CNE and hit a Q-Flash, which gave Guilty,Provisionally to stop me from battling, then Fightin'Words to deny me skills because I couldn't battle (and a Penalty Box which I Kevined). After also hitting DNAClues/Hippo, I lacked the cunning to pass Unsci. Ken played another officer to pass Maglock and solve RI, reaching 96 points, and I stopped that crew with Mission Debriefing. Still, he had enough people to make a separate attempt at Relocate Settlers. Those people lacked the skills to solve, but -- get this. He used his house-arrest Miles O'Brien, who couldn't join mission attempts or staff ships, to special-download Near Warp Transport. It played at that location, and beamed two Bajorans into the mission attempt for the solve, and win. Closing Thoughts Final confrontation: with 2 undefeated players there was to be a final to clarify the winner, J was playing Borg and had done very well, however my 2 mission win was just to fast and I took the game. Q-flash was a champ this tournament both my very close games were won for me by Q-flash and more specifically fightin' words.