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Mark (soggy_amphibian)
Tournament Report - 1E Modern - Online Event (Mission to Talos IV)
2011-12-14 - 01:00 PM
BorgTalos IV/4: Borg
Introduction
Borg deck attached to the tournament, Fed deck here: http://www.trekcc.org/1e/decklists/index.php?mode=viewdeck&deckID=1851
Round 1ByeBY (0)
I tested and tested the decks against each other. Borg consistently had the edge. Fortunately, it did give me until round 2 to get the Borg ready, and until round 3 to get the Feds ready. I think I ended up ok, if Diane had that bit more familiarity with the Borg rules, cards and her deck in particular, that round probably would have been a different story.
Round 2FederationJon CarterFW (+65)View opponent's Report
vs pfti This seemed closer than the final score suggested. With free plays and stuff, pfti was getting lots of folk out early on, and got to atttempting first. Lightner was shot in the back, then Primitive Culture stopped the attempt. I got the Queen and Data in the opening hand, and after a bunch of turns downloading, I scouted the DQ mission with Establish Gateway. Lack Of Prep stopped the Nine Of Eleven that redshirted. Next turn I just sent everybody. Definitely Not Swedish retrieved a Strict Dress Code (killed Data) and My First Raygun (Thirteen Of Nineteen, the Tactical Drone, just couldn't take the feedback). The loss of Data wiped out my only Officer skill present, so Maglock stopped me. Kathleen Tonnell and Dr Royse redshirted, getting past the Primitive Culture, then the good doctor was disfigured by a Borg Servo. Shortly afterwards, he was killed by Worf. Elsewhere, a lone Holographic Doctor failed to get himself relocated by a Hippocratic Oath. I played my spare Data, but lacking any more red Borg, couldn't get past Maglock again (that whole Strength thing). Another EMH redshirting made Hide And Seek useless. A couple of red Borg downloaded at the end of the previous turn, and some Activate Subcommands folk let me get through Maglock finally, completing the scouting. The EMH was deactivated by a Strict Dress Code. My First Raygun probed a Geordi and killed Worf. Maglock again proved troublesome. I probed a Bareil, which was a good for the Objective, but was a bit annoying that I had to download stuff and couldn't draw him. 25 points, a Transwarp Network Gateway, and an Assimilate Homeworld on Earth (just happened to be on the very end of the spaceline, where a TNG was seeded). The Outpost downloaded another Gateway, and off to the Alpha Quadrant we went. The EMH in an Akira tripped Undetected Beam-In. 2 Assault Drones, one Sabotage Drone, and a Talon Drone joined the EMH, and suddenly a Scout Vessel with another Assault Drone and a Transport Drone appeared on the spaceline. Contingency Plan put Assimilate Starship onto the Akira, and Maglock again stopped the attempt. I played Gowron of Borg, then scouted the Akira. I started moving the Cube in the direction of the scout vessel: three Eighteen of Nineteens pushed the range to 11, getting it past Secret Salvage and Bajor to Cardassia. Pfti retrieved his EMH from the Akira, and bravely ran away in his Vulcan Lander. I had been a little worried that he would battle me one way or another, to prevent my probing on my turn. I probed, and won. Up to 60 points. I downloaded another Assimilate Homeworld, and put it onto Qo'nos, which was next door to the Scout and the assimilated Akira. I moved the scout there, I couldn't staff the Akira yet. Hawk, Solkar and Jean-Luc Picard got past a Maglock and then other folk solved, taking pfti to 35 points. I moved the cube to Qo'nos, beamed Akira crew to the scout, moved the scout to the Akira, and moved Akira and scout to the cube. I put everyone on the cube. Suspecting another Lack Of Prep, I sent down 8 and 18 of 19, and 9 of 11. Make Us Go enlisted the services of 18. Theta-Radiation Poisoning was placed on the Akira. The remaining scouts couldn't get past Hippocratic Oath. 4 of 11 started his own scouting attempt, and moved to the next mission with the crippled Jem'hadar. I sent down another Lack Of Prep-busting team, 1 of 11, 18 of 19, and 8 of 19. 1 of 11 was Shot In The Back, the rest were stopped by Primitive Culture. 3, 8, and 13 of 19, and 6 of 17 beamed down to scout, and beat Primitive Culture. I flipped Service The Collective and revealed Gowron of Borg, and probed successfully for Assimilate Homeworld, bringing me to 100 points. 3 Objectives: 1 Planet, 1 Space and 1 Ship Final score: me 100, pfti 35. Good game, but resistance was futile.
Round 3Diane HainFW (+60)
There were 2 duplicated missions. Unsurprisingly, Earth was one, but perhaps more surprisingly Aid Clone Colony was the other. I pulled Deanna Troi and Geordi La Forge pretty early, so I could peek at dilemmas and fly the Enterprise at least. The Borg put down an Assimilate Homeworld on Earth, and they were the first to get to actual dilemma encountering. Lack of Prep was blown through, but Crowded Bar left one scout going from an 8-Borg scouting party. Balancing Act did nothing, and Dead End stopped that attempt for that turn. I went attempting next at Explore Black Cluster. Balancing Act had its previous effect, Hippocratic Oath took Suna away (Ack! my present Medical!) Heads took him to my Outpost mission, Tails would have taken him to an opponent's mission next to Earth. Unscientific Method just stopped the no-Science crew. Back at Earth, the Borg Servo didn't affect the Borg, and Lack of Prep was again breezed through. Hippocratic Oath stopped the no-Medical Borg gang. Next turn the Oath was Adapted to. This cleared Earth, and Stop First Contact was downloaded the next turn. As I'd taken off and landed the Vulcan Lander, Build Interplexing Beacon was played on the Phoenix. The Borg that let you beam through shields was not in the Cube's crew, and so I filled up the Phoenix with Zef, Lily, and T'Shonra. It then turned out that the Borg that let you beam through shields was not in Diane's deck. I rescued Suna, and added Data to that attempting crew. Unscientific Method was passed with no Science and much Cunning, and Borg Servo was passed with Suna and Lightner, whose wasted Youth had really been put to good use by studying Cybernetics. A launched Phoenix, Mission Specialist Wilkins and Captain Picard solved Explore Black Cluster for 45 points. Not quite enough to pass Dead End and steal Earth, sadly. Diane had been accumulating more Borg forces at her outpost, and now started moving them to the Alpha Quadrant. Data redshirted a previously peeked-at Shot In The Back, and Geordi peeked at a Primitive Culture. Not in a position to pass, at this point. A Change Of Plans pitched Interplexing Beacon (and the nullified Stop First Contact), and Assimilate Homeworld was probed for. Red Borg. (Phew!) I moved the Akira and Enterprise to Study Nebula at the end of the spaceline, past the clone colony. Geordi peeked, Definitely Not Swedish. EMH Program and the Security team attempted from the Akira. Strict Dress Code disabled the Doc, and My First Raygun probed Obarakeh into my discard pile, stopping Joe Travis. Don't Call Me Ahab missed, and Maglock stopped the Officer-less bunch. Meanwhile, on the Enterprise, Troi, Picard and Data armed themselves with a phaser rifle, and blasted that Maglock to pieces. Mission Specialist Wilkins and an airborne Phoenix took that mission to 45 points also, putting me on 90 points. Diane again probed for Assimilate Homeworld, and a Queen got her 40 points for that. I played Suna and a Temporal Vortex, landed the Phoenix and put all the Montanans and Vulcans onto the Lander. They didn't quite have enough range to get to the Outpost, but the Akira picked them up. Everyone attempted. The Vulcans passed the Primitive Culture (Kathleen Tonnell was sadly the only card I didn't draw from my deck), and Dead End was irrelevant. Inge Eiger, the Vulcans and Mission Specialist Wilkins solved the mission Avert Disaster, and with Eiger being a Geology Mission Specialist, 45 more points gave me the game at 135 points. Final score: 135-40.
Round 4FederationEnrico EvinkFL (-100)
Enrico had a great Fed deck. I didn't pull a counterpart in my opening hand, which was a little inconvenient. First turn I played Activate Subcommands, and the Red drone I grabbed was Six of Ninety-Six, so I shuffled my deck and peeked at the top two cards, revealing a counterpart. I drew cards at the end of the next two turns (I did have a Queen so I played that), then after drawing Data of Borg I grabbed Adapt Allocate Resources to get We Are The Borg. Eventually I redshirted the Delta mission, but Maglock stopped me. In the meantime, Enrico got to attempting missions, with a pretty small crew. A Redshirting Inge Eiger passed a peeked-at Hide And Seek, the EMH Program was downloaded from hand to be deactivated by Strict Dress Code, My First Raygun probed a Zefram Cochrane, stopping Inge. Geordi then peeked at Maglock. His next turn, Suna grabbed Reflection Therapy to promote Suzanne Dumont to Officer (at the cost of Transporter Skill), giving enough people to pass Maglock. At the next attempt, there were enough Security to bypass Undetected Beam-In, making that whole combination kinda useless. The same Officers were even there to pass the Maglock at the end. Mission Debriefing stopped them, though, and they couldn't solve with the Scout Ship in the Zone. The Akira was able to move to the Scout Ship, with an Ent-E person on, to blow it up. 5 more points took him to 65. His next turn, solving the cleared PNZ took him to 125 points. The final turn, a quick trip to Montana gave him 10 points for the launched Phoenix, plus 10 points for the already-solved PNZs. Final score: 145 for him, 0 for me. On reflection, I should have got the drone that lets you download the Transwarp card early, then grabbed the second with the Outpost, and headed straight for the Neutral Zone to make it impossible for him to solve missions. He probably had a second Akira in his deck as a contingency to blow up the Cube... Fun game. Congratulations, Enrico!