Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot) Tournament Report - 2E Standard - Deep Space 9 Regional 2012-04-21 - 10:00 AM TOS 2-mission win Introduction I couldn't decide on a dilemma pile. I have the TT pile or the Legacy pile and I didn't have a win achievement with Consume. That ultimately decided my day (although had I bothered to look to see that I could've gone for the Non-Lethal force achievement instead, I might have decided different.) It's a simple TOS integrity deck, solving Deliver Evidence for 35 points and 10 points with the ship (which since I often flew back to Earth and then back to Deliver Evidence wasn't much of a hardship) and then solving Risa for 60 points. You place Legal Proceedings on the mission, giving it Law for additional requirements, then solve with 5 different species. This results in 20 points from Risa's printed cost, 5 points from Legal Proceedings, 25 points from having 5 different species providing the skills and the Enterprise-B for the remaining 10 points. If necessary, a download of the score 5 points Enterprise to overcome the Phoenix was also available. Round 1 Edward Pigman FW (-50)View opponent's ReportView original Report It is not a good thing when you can't kill practically anyone at a cadet mission. I didn't consume a single ACE, I made him swap Picard for Riker and I used Final Adventure to take out McCoy... and that's it. He gets 10 points from the Enterprise-D but gives me 5 which became important later. After getting pummeled Restore Errant Moon (whose text I did get to use since Alvera Tree Ritural wasn't in play), I was able to solve Deliver Evidence for 35 and not have to stop the ship for the extra 10 points, instead heading to Risa with an attempt of 9 people, leaving two under. A timely Uninvited at Restore Errant Moon for Bold Plan which consumed some ACE's to pick off more Astrometrics was a good thing for me (thankfully, no equipment in play) gave me the chance to play two people so that I could double-attempt Risa while still leaving it staffed. Team two solved as the first team was all bluff (only one Law personnel in play.) I got off to a pretty good start and got through my first mission quickly. Second mission however ran into problems due to MVB's TT pile killing a boat load of my Astro personnel, giving him enought time to finish his missions up. Round 2 Al Schaefer FL (-55)View opponent's ReportView original Report I have to stop giving people free missions. Al gets his double Quintessences in play and starts downloading people for fun and profit while I'm heading at Deliver Evidence, losing Maques in the process. Maques who later became Maques of Borg didn't seem to impact his mission attempts that much. His attempt at his Plot Invasion stranded his ship, giving me time to push my way through Deliver Evidence. Meanwhile, he had come back to Plot Invasion but I had Uninvited in play, downloading my Bold Plan/ACE combo and had gotten two ACE's. I name Leadership for the first one but he Queen-swapped a Leadership drone back in (Queen bit it soon later in a TT random selection.) Now, if I was smart, I would've named Leadership again then I would have for sure killed that Leadership drone and an additional person. This would have left him with the ability to staff either of his ships but would required him to fly back to get them. Instead, I named Security and he had none. I don't have enough people to do multiple attempts at Risa so I go down with nine and get hit with the worst possible card - Swashbuckler. It took away my other two Uninviteds and my Driven, a card which would have gotten me around a wall he had played. Without the Uninviteds, he walked through Plot Invasion and Salvage Borg Ship for the win. The last time MVB and I played was in our local Race to the Alpha Quadrant event in December where he beat my Bajoran solver. MVB was using events, multiple species, and Enterprise-B to score bonus points on easy missions like Risa Shore Leave. Again, the Borg downloading machine worked as it should and my crew was off and attempting. MVB had an awful draw at Assimilate Resistance and I solved on the first attempt. He decimated my crew at Plot Invasion when I failed to stick to my strategy of facing the Bold Plan/TT/ACE pile. I should have waited an additional turn and mass-attempted the mission instead of being greedy and going with my current crew. I paid the price and was de-staffed but quickly recovered by downloading a new crew and ship. Two-of-Nine and a timely Swashbuckler at Heart were key cards in this game keeping MVB's events off the table and Driven/Uninvited out of his hand. Round 3 Steve Nelson FW (+50) I lost track of the ability to skill track this game. If I had, I wouldn't have sent a normal deluge of killing at Khitomer Investigation when he attempted it as he didn't have any Treachery or Honor in play and instead, simply give him Dreamer and the Dream and be done with it. Thankfully, I still gave him Dreamer which took away his hand and more importantly, took away Secret Agendas. I lost a few people to his Unfair Comparison pile (taking out Kes before Tsikoskvy or however its spelled Infection) but I made it through my two missions for the win. Round 4 Casey Wickum FL (+5)View opponent's ReportView original Report There were two cards that I was worried about seeing - Dissident Laura (since she doesn't have to be present to avoid people dying) and the USS Sao Paolo whenever I play my dilemma pile. He played all of two people in the game who wasn't part of DS9 (both of whom I later killed) but I know he's doing two space. I get enough people stopped at missions to slow down but couldn't do it forever at Investigate Destruction. By the time he's solved that mission, I'm down to about 9 dilemmas left (including all three ACE's) and went to Evaluate Soliton Wave. Now, this is where I wasn't thinking correctly. If I had been smart, I would've let him take the mission since he didn't have the range to fly to Security Briefing and I could only kill Ezri in space anyway. Instead, I stopped enough people so that all that was left in my pile was Bold Plan and ACE. Meanwhile for me, this was the only game that I never got a single Legal Proceedings in my hand whatsoever so that even if I solve Risa, I would need to get the Enterprise into play. I solved Deliver Evidence and went down with six at Risa and plays Inequitable Exchange, taking Kes and currently the only Exobiology but Harriman is there, taking Matt Decker's Exobiology from the ship and getting through the mission for 95 points. I didn't get the ship or either of my George Stocker's to download it to hand even after getting a stop with my Bold Plan/ACE to take out a Diplomacy to stall out his attempt. Next turn, he plays a number of Diplomacy people and the trick wouldn't work again. I lose 100-95. Cool thing of the day - Willard Decker was captured by Holding Cell but Matt Decker came into play and blew it up, killing his son in the process :) MvB was running a ToSer with a really cool technique using legal precedings and Risa Shore Leave to really make that mission a champ. Though things went poorly for him when I dropped down a Sao Paolo which wrecked through his dilemmas. But he almost came back from a massive defect after I had gotten a little careless in my dilemma plays. Still always a fun time to play vs MVB and his deck creations.