Andrew (Andrew) Tournament Report - 2E - Qo'noS Regional 2016-04-30 - 02:00 PM There's a Hole in the Bucket Marylue Introduction Josh loves playing his Buckets of Blood Klingon attack deck. He uses All Out War to destaff your ship. While you're trying to get another ship and a crew to fly it into to play, he's attempting missions. He won last year's regional with that kind of deck, so I built a deck to hold if off. Round 1 ldav3106 ML (-30) Lawrence is a lapsed 1E player from back in the 90's. Josh and I convinced him to give 2E a try. I told that he should print out a deck that did well in a tournament in the last 6 months, and he ended up choosing a relativity deck. Not ideal for a new player, but he did alright with it. When I had a few sparring rounds against Lawrence the weekend before, Sensing a Trap in my Romulan deck shut down his Temporal Transporter, but I wasn't teching against Relativity for the Regional. Luther Sloan was my only event destruction, and Temporal Transporters comes off back of the table before I can use him. Round 2 Bye BY (0) It was International Tabletop Gaming Day, so I got a quick demo for LEVEL 7, a cooperative alien invasion game. Round 3 Joshua Sprung MW (+35) I was prepared for Josh's Klingon battle deck, so he didn't have a chance with engagements. However he successfully assimilated Sisko and O'Brien with Invasive Drones. He left a few drones on my USS Akira, so I had to ditch in favor of the Sao Paulo, otherwise he'd always have some drones present with my people, and play another Abduction. Round 4 John Paul Veasey ML (-65) Another Relativity deck...didn't expect 2 Relativity decks in a 5 player tournament. Playing those Strakoron missions bit me in the ass. Each one needs double of a skill, so a few lucky random stops would cause me to fail. I guess I should have stocked more of those needed skills when constructing the deck. Closing Thoughts This deck can lockout an engagement deck, but not much else. It doesn't rock any of the other DS9 tricks, like "Rainbow" bonuses, Holding Cell, or Distant Exploration.