Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot) Tournament Report - 2E - Online Event 2013-11-18 - 12:00 AM Unnatural What? Introduction Never tried androids before, thought I'd give it a shot... Round 1 Tjark Ott FW (+30) tjark was playing Voyager/Khan. First attempt in space I barely stop him and kill none. Solve on his second attempt. Then he flies to Rule in Hell and I kill all of his Fed personnel, stranding him there as he couldn't fly the Delta Flyer. Meanwhile I managed to solve Elude Federation Force on first attempt getting around Parallel Romance (stop 2), Adopted Authority (which hit Lore, thereby stopping no one), then Polywater which I could solve the mission with four. Next to Follow Homing Beacon - Secret Identity gets Lore, swap with Ira Graves, Chandra which stopped Juliana and then Ira (who prevented his own stop) and then something else which still gave me the mission. After that, three attempts at Rigel later and the game was done. Round 2 Anastasia Kalashnikova FW (+65) Alexey was playing Khan. His first attempt - four people died (Navaar and Malik stuck around.) His second attempt I didn't pay attention and didn't realize that Udar didn't get played so he made it through the mission. However, when he went to his second mission, everyone but Khan died (including his entire hand thanks to Malik's death. Meanwhile, in space I hit Intimidation (which hit Soong and then Lore) followed by Polywater (stopping Tolian) for the solve. On first planet he played Well-Prepared Defenses (stopping Lal) followed up by something which ended up stopping Tolian again, resulting in a solve. Finally, third mission I attempted with seven and hit Well-Prepared Defenses again (stopping Data) followed by Rogue Borg (Lal gained Intelligence and Anthropology) for the solve (afterwards I realized that I could've used Ira Graves to prevent Data's stop but oh well.) Round 3 Andrey Gusev FW (+70) Andrey was playing Romulan (only one I saw was the Viceroy) and all of the NA Borg. I had a great opening hand which was made even better with my Historical Research download of Noonien Soong (Lore, Lal, cheap person to staff the ship, Ruk whom I never actually played, ship, etc.) His opening turn Viceroy/Energize was helpful for him but the second decay took away Christening so he didn't have a ship out and attempting before my full-cost everyone. I one-attempted solve Elude thanks to Lal gaining two Leadership to get past Dignitaries and Witnesses, killing herself in the process (had the ETU in hand but would've taken another turn to play it and I had a copy of her in hand anyway.) He attempts his own copy of Elude with 4 (no TCS in this game) and I could only play Overburdened. Luckily, it hit two (if only Skeleton Crew had a cost of one.) He saves Crosis with ETU. Meanwhile I attempt Follow Homing Beacon and got Lore on Hard Time, preventing the solve. He goes to Romulus and back thanks to his downloaded Exceed Engine Output and Hugh again along with the ETU. He attempts again with 4 and all I drew was Bold Plan and Final Adventure. Bold Plan didn't get anything cool so he solved, requiring him to blow up 2 ETU's, Engineering PADD and an event but was out of range. Next attempt I solved getting around Temptation - Lal gained Honor and Transporters, Soong-Type Android got Honor and only Data was stopped. ETU was there this time to save Lal as they went back to DS9. Meanwhile he attempted Salvage Borg Ship but only two people died (Casualties with Tragic Turn on the mission.) Quark downloaded Ira Graves and they went to Rigel, using Ira to prevent one stop and using Lal and the Soong Type to get the attributes necessary to pass Greater Needs for the win. Round 4 Oleg Ryzhikov FL (-30) Oleg was rocking Holograms. I had a good opening hand and, as far as my deck was running, it was going well. The problem was my playing Signs of Sentience - Didn't play it on turn 1 to blow up one of his Holoprograms and, more importantly, didn't blow up his Not Easily Destroyed until late, all of which was stupid on my part. If it wasn't for his dilemma play, I still would've gotten the win but it wasn't meant to be. Closing Thoughts Oh well...