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Markus Eberlein (eberlems)
Tournament Report - 2E - European Continentals Day One
2015-07-18 - 10:30 AM
nn rtfm? sounds good to copy
Introduction
Continental within about 170km, about 100 miles, how could I miss such an opportunity. Several deck ideas with the new cards didn't want to work, so I picked one of the regional winners decks and slightly modified it.

Round 1	Oleg Ryzhikov	MW (+1)
The new low cost, attribute boost and requirement reduction Voyager. Where No One Has Gone Before did a good job on Voyager but I was missing Navigation. And I learned a new card combination, Seven + Finding our Way to get 2 in the deck and 2 different in hand. When time was called Oleg had 2 space solved and the third with several dilemmas under and Strakoron on my side. It ended with 3 space 80 points vs. 1 planet/space 75 points.


Round 2	Herbert Zaunmair	FW (+70)
Classic AQ Dominion, including all high cost Jem'Hadars (even Amat'igan). Founder Architects on both sides, haven't seen them in play for a long time. Excluding personnel was quite often very helpfull on my side. Oh, there also was a zero hour on Torga, but strength 54 was enough pass the extra 18 and to solve.


Round 3	Auwerd Bijker	FW (+75)
Past Klingons + Gowron Auwerd started fast with small teams and one skill was lost. I missed that part, used secret identity and there was the skill. But he used the Promise 3 times for Gowron. Boodoath gang boosted attributes against the dice. Kruge had the intelligence for Rouge Borg but a random selection took him away.


Round 4	Mr Slade	MW (+15)View opponent's Report View original Report
Relativity ran into a Dreamer on the first attempt. One Temportal Transporter less to worry about. Secret Identity again, but Kirk had to go. Data came and had the third attribute for the dice. Back to basics, nothing against that in the deck. Oh, 4 wins in 4 games, current place 3rd.
Markus was playing New Dominion. His Founder Architects were attributes 9/10/10. I got Crippling Striked 3 times for a one turn loss and 10 discarded cards. He also put Kira on my ship which meant I had to back to basics / discard 4 cards for the Wells in my last 2 turns rather than playing people.

Round 5	Johannes Klarhauser	FL (-95)View opponent's Report View original Report
Voyager with a bit of everything, Intelligence, high attributes for the dice, stop/kill prevention, 2 ships, dilemma manipulation events. Using damage dilemmas seemed to be the only thing to matter, but didn't work, they just walked through the previous dilemmas.
Markus was the surprise at this point, going into the tournament with a rating of 1300, and there he was at the top table with four wins from four games. He had Dominion point loss, with Crippling Strike and excluding shenanigans. I attempted at IAD first, making sure I had two ships to be safe from more Crippling Strikes after Markus got one to go (by Our Deathing my Grap-Trap). I used six-costers and eight-costers to keep Markus from triggering the point loss long enough. With IAD in the bag and at 40 points, I super teamed my planet with 13 guys, solved, then went for Caretaker's Array with 9 and solved that on the first try. FW, 100-5.

Round 6	Michael Mittelstedt	MW (+15)
TCC Groumal cardassians. Just don't try to stop them all at once, they'll just get orders to ignore that. Evek stole Odo and 2 other, one was killed for event destruction. Labor Camp or Prisoner Compound didn't show, lucky for me. Back to basics. Same with Tactical Disadvantage. 5 wins in 6 games, place 9.


Closing Thoughts
Crippling Strike 17 times in total, about 5 got prevented, and 2 prevention got prevented. Kira Founder and Misdirection prevented about 11 times a crew/awayteam from solving a mission. Weyoun made it in the game once, during the game with Johannes. 2 times my first space mission 9 man attempt ended with Distress Call.