Tyler Fultz (DJstormtrooper) Tournament Report - 2E Standard - Vandros IV Regional 2011-05-28 - 11:00 AM Jareshhh!!!!! Introduction Decided to give Borg a spin this time. I've never played them in a big event, but this slimmer version of the assimilator appealed to me more than the traditional Euro-Borg. Round 1 Marco Puelsch FW (+60) Marco was playing his high cost Romulans, which I'd seen before. He, however, didn't seem truly prepared for what was coming and lost several people to his opening mission attempt and I promtply assimilated the remainders. The rest of the game was a swift K&E session to victory. Round 2 Tjark Ott FW (+30)View opponent's ReportView original Report Tjark was playing Klingons, which are the hardest matchup for Borg in playtesting. Luckily for me Tjark was running less equipment than other builds I've seen and no Grav-Plating Traps. This allowed me to play events without too much worry of them being destroyed. A Left Behind at his first mission attempt gave me the assimilated personnel I needed (including Kruge). From there, K&E allowed me to push through the rest of the dilemmas for the victory. Tyler played a two mission assimilating borg solver - I got 70 pts but never had a chance to win - lucky he got Kruge assimilated and I wasn`t able to get a second one in time - stupid I forgott a news missions game text - so CG didn`t run Round 3 Johannes Klarhauser FL (-70)View opponent's ReportView original Report Johannes dropped DS9 E, which I am still impressed by. This is probably the first time DS9 E has ever won a regional. The game started on a bad foot with Johannes and I playing the same dilemma pile. This meant my Unfair Comparison fizzled at his firt mission attempt and he auto-completed. The second error was to not play my K&E when Johannes played Caretaker's Guests. The result was me losing my only assimilated personnel and never really recovering. From there, I couldn't keep Johannes from completing his missions. So, ultimately, I committed several errors in this game that ultimately cost me the victory. Johannes, on the other hand, played flawlessly, so the loss was entirely deserved. Note to self: deck needs more event destruction. Ah², the even more dreaded Borg Assess Assimilation deck. I knew what was coming, though I didn't know how to handle it. I used Luther Sloan to destroy an Abduction and Holding Cell to hopefully delay the Assimilation loop for a while. Two things worked in my favour: I attempted first, so Tyler played a combo starting off with Unfair Comparison - only to see me reveal an Unfair Comparison and two expensive dilemmas from my own pile. We revealed the exact same total, so the dilemma fizzled and I completed my mission straight away. Then, while I worked on The Last Outpost, Tyler slowly got his assimilation stuff ready and took my Jareshhh!!!! away, but lost him immediately to The Caretaker's Guests. I played an At What Cost to draw more events, since Tyler's Two of Nine kept destroying events (which are a much needed support for my dilemma pile), which meant I was down 5 points. Tyler had killed/abducted a lot of mission skills, so I was forced to complete a short-stacked Track Survivors with high-attribute people and didn't get the bonus points for the mission. I was out of Range and on 95 points. Luckily, Tyler was only able to complete Assimilate Resistance, getting Living Legend James T. Kirk for his efforts. I had already drawn into another Promenade School, so I limped to 100 before the combined power of Kirk, Knowledge and Experience, and dilemma-screwing gametext of Assess Contamination could be abused. FW, 100-35 Round 4 Thomas Schneider FW (+100) The mirror matchup. I knew this would be in my favor since my deck relied much less on keeping out Quintessence than his did. To further stack the odds, I drew and amazing hand of Fourth/Quintessence and got the Historical Research download. So I was more than ready to win the Two of Nine race. The rest of the game consisted of Thomas spending 5 counters a turn to recycle Three and Two of Nine and destroy one event a turn, while I got around to completing my missions. Round 5 Peter van der Helm TT (0)View opponent's ReportView original Report Peter came with a capture build, which is always a threat to Borg. This was compounded by me foolishly failing to get the Queen into play. Capture ended up not being a huge threat, but the game nevertheless went very slowly partially thanks to my frequent Two of Nine use, but also Peter's slow playing. The game ended one turn away from me completing Assess Contamination which would have likely been the end. The Borg Assess Contamination deck with EtC. I read all about this puppy on trekcc. Tyler and I got off to do our stuff. Tyler filled his core with events quickly to assist his dilemma pile. He also filled his discard pile with almost all of his deck. Tyler started attempting with 7 at Assimilate Resistance. Luckily I had teched my dilemma pile a bit and was able to stop him for at least 3-4 turns. Thats were A Pattern of Lies Gomtuu and Captain's Guests are for boys.. Tyler kept killing my crew at Commandeer Prototype with his Unfair Comparison + Tsiokovsky and others. I had some 8-costers in my dilemma pile too but didn't get lucky any time. I was saving most of my Amanda's for the nasty stuff. So I canceled Reborn and a Knowledge and Experience and used Entek to remove some other assimilation events. In the end I did sold CP and Tyler solved his AR. With some bonus points each we tied at 35-35.