| Neil Timmons (ntimmons) |
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| Tournament Report - 2E Standard - Romulus Regional |
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| 2012-04-15 - 11:00 AM |
 Everything's... . Alternate... |
| Introduction |
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| So I had a really great deck idea. Then it was 3:00am, and I had to scrap that deck idea because I couldn't find the cards... so I dusted this deck off, found the missing mission for it, spent 20 minutes working the dilemma pile, and well, here we go. |
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| Round 1 |  | Darrell Minott | FL (-30) |
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| This was a back and forth game. Darrel and I had basically the same dilemma pile focused around Where No One has Gone Before. We both took trips. We got to the time limit, and with me sitting with 5 dilemmas under my final mission, and 20 personnel in play, Darrel threw the book at his final mission. With no dilemmas under, he sent 16 personnel knowing if he doesn't complete I win the next turn (modified, if he top decks me twice, full if he doesn't). Long boring story short, I was the victim of a really bad random selection and out of 16 personnel I captured 2 personnel with engineer with Restricted area, so the next dilemma, Coolant Leek, basically fizzled. With that, Darrell rocked the victory.
FL 100-70 |
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| Round 2 | | Constance Corbett | FW (+100) |
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| Constance had a really nice run in VA, but her and I were locked in a mirror match. however I just got out faster, and she struggled to find a ship. By the time she was out attempting missions I was just about done.
FW 100-0 |
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| Round 3 | | Ken Brant | FW (+35) |
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| Wow.. another mirror match, and played by ken, who plays the Au TNG crew, so I knew he would be skill tracking very well. We got locked into a very tight game, with him having problems with the other side of the galaxy, and me having issues with his dilemma pile. It finally came down to time, and I solved my final mission with him sitting on his 3rd mission with many dilemmas under it. This was a very hard fought tight game played by a great player, who I somehow ended up one step ahead. Come to think of it, I believe this game was decided by whoever won the coin toss.
FW 100-70 |
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| Round 4 |  | Alexander Schmitz | FW (+5) |
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| If you thought last game was tight, this game was even tighter. Alex was rocking Jaresh-Inyo and had a really tight really good build. He suffered to my dilemma pile a bit, but generally walked through my dilemmas. While he was on a trip, he was not able to play the Promenade school, during the turn where his personnel were just standing on the ship. When he attempted Historical Research I thought I had him locked out, but he managed to come up with the anthropology, and flipped over his Archaeology Padd I had forgotten about and came up with the 2 archaeology. Fortuneately for me he had to use Melora to manufacture the second anthropology, which left him at 95 points. With Promenade school in hand I had to win the next turn. I managed to pull it out, as he was unable to top deck me.
FW 100-95 |
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| Round 5 | | Ben Hosp | FL (-100) |
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| As soon as I saw what Ben was playing, I did not expect to win the game. The only hope I had was to sneak under the radar, and be out attempting very quickly. Well that didn't happen. I dug for a ship, and dug for a ship. Even after playing Surprise Party on turn 1, Over the course of 10 turns, I spent at least 3 of them drawing at least 6 cards or more. Finally I found a single ship, and was able to play it. I made a desperate attempt to complete a mission before Ben walked through his missions, but to no avail. his Klingon deck is very good. it cuts through easy-easy 40 point missions and has many ways to make up the deficit in points. coupled with a very nasty dilemma pile, I am not actually sure how that deck gets beat, especially played by an extremely skilled player who knows exactly what he is doing.
FL 100-0 |
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