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Mark (soggy_amphibian)
Tournament Report - 1E - Online Event
2013-11-04 - 12:00 AM
Triple Treaty Borg Fakeout
Introduction


Round 1	Danny Nuttall	FL (-100)
Round 1 - vs nuttersuclan: Danny was playing his Worlds-winning Bajoran/Son'a deck. For some reason, he was convinced I was playing Borg. He seeded 3 dilemmas under one Space, 2 under the other, 2 dilemmas under Evade Borg Vessel and Qo'nos, 3 under the others. There were points where I had a bit of the Lackey Shuffle: Kivas and no Parallax, or the other way around. Still did manage to play a few Kivases that way. Danny attempted first at Relocate Settlers: Flim Flam/DNP/Diplomatic Intervention killed a few people (Li Nalas, Vedek Dax and 2e Bareil Esteemed Vedek) then locked him out of the mission for a couple of turns (5 Diplomacy is hard to beat). Danny played Guinan, which worried me a little with the main Space combo hinging on an AU dilemma. He attempted Bajor. Hippocritical Oath took Surmak Ren to Relocate Settlers, and Male's Love Interest took Odo to Earth. Everyone else (including Guinan, yes!) fell victim to a Plague Ship. Diplomatic Intervention went away, and Danny came over and solved Relocate Settlers Of Catan (+30). Dr McCoy (who arrived just too late, there) was in an Away Team reattempting Bajor, and he nullified the last dilemma, Mimetic Simbiot. Solving would have to wait until later, though. Here's where my Treaty finally hit play. Danny solved Alter Records (+35 =65). After talk of going to Chin'toka, Danny decided to attempt at Characterize Neutrino Emissions. The Clown: My Festival was sneaked through, with 8 people and a highest Integrity of 8. Hero Worship stopped 5 people! There was a Bajoran left to continue. Conundrum hit. I was running out of time to get points. I threw a bunch of people at Earth. I got through Mission Fatigue as I had Major Rakal there. I was then stopped by Executive Authorization. Danny Dabo'd successfully (+6 =71), then took 2e Jo'Bril over with the rest of a crew to solve CNE for the win (+35 =106). Good game. Final score: 106-0, with nuttersuclan having the 106.


Round 2	Christopher Coyle	FL (-90)
Round 2 - vs startrekccggeek: Mr Geek was also fooled by the spaceline and thinned out his dilemmas. He was running a non-TNG Romulan deck and we shared Secret Salvage and Romulus, so the thinning out was not quite as helpful as it could have been. He also ran with Historical Research, which it turned out I was unable to thieve because of Absolutely No Archaeology in the deck. Chris got a bunch of points throughout the game by setting up Prejudice And Politics with 2e Khazara. He was Dead End-ed at Insurrection. He came over to Historical Research and attempted, blowing through Flim Flam/Common Thief/Executive Authorization (I was unable to kill Velal with Common Thief, so I took out Rae'alin to prevent the solve that turn). He solved a little bit later. I'd got a bunch of Feds out at Earth, so I attempted there. Admiral McCoy got moved to Historical Research (how apt) by his Hippocratic Oath, and Chris Hobson went a looong way to Plunder Site (where I'd put my Klingon Outpost), by the Male's Love Interest half of a Combo Plague Ship. everyone else died to the Plague Ship half. Chris brought Selok, some Tal Shiar, and all the Medical he could muster over to Earth, passed Medical Crisis, and solved. This took him to 100 points without a Space. I spent a couple of turns blowing up Raptor One with the Hegh'ta, and got the Apnex to Evade Borg Vessel. Had some Klingons on the Apnex (some I'd rescued from the Outpost, and some from the Hegh'ta), a couple of Romulans on the Apnex, and a bunch on the Romulan Outpost at Evade Borg Vessel. I attempted. Chris had already used his Scout Ship, so Scout Encounter didn't do anything. On the other hand, with the Apnex my only ship at the mission, Quantum Singularity Life-Forms hit very well. Chris threw a lot of people at Insurrection (but sadly not all of them). Fractured Time only removed 4. Kazon Bomb found plenty of Security left and plenty of Cunning. the mission wasn't solved right then because Injector Assembly One was landed. Anij took it off, then the mission was reattempted. One Mission Specialist pushed the points up to 40, bringing Chris to 140 and the win. I got 10 points, which had been gained from Parallax Arguers. Good game. Final score: startrekccggeek got 140, I got 10.


Round 3	J	FL (-100)View opponent's Report View original Report
Round 3 - vs The Mad Vulcan: J was playing Bajorans, and though he's played them lots he hasn't played them in a while. I did manage to split up his Bajor Region with a Space (didn't really accomplish a lot in the end, he didn't go that far down the spaceline, but still). He threw a dilemma under each Space just in case, but I think he knew what I was playing because I'd discussed the construction of this deck with him before the tournament. Most of the time he let me play cards with Parallax Arguers, a couple of times he gave me points (my ten points from the end of the game). This gave me a bunch of Kivas draws, a Treaty, WNOHGB and at least one of the draw engines (I may have used my card play on the other). J threw 7 people at Relocate Settlers, Flim Flam got me a draw and was easily passed, DNP killed 4, Diplomatic Intervention downloaded me Spock and Sarek (the latter I'd drawn into). He couldn't solve the mission, but did progress to his self-seed - The Nexus showed up at Qo'nos (thankfully no ships). I threw people at Secret Salvage, got through Hazardous Duty but no Engineer for Trilithium Raid. J got Dead Ended at Bajor. I threw 9 people (including Selok) at Earth. A Torin with Lower Decks guaranteed a pass of The Clown: My Festival. I could have passed Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease, but was short a Medical and Science for the Brutality enhancement. J took some people to Characterize Neutrino Emissions. Clown My Festival was passed, Hero Worship only stopped 2 but it was enough to fail Conundrum. J used a Space-Time Portal to get the ship to hand (regretted it soon after when he realised he could just have let the Nexus take it). J solved Characterize Neutrino Emissions (he's been Daboing as well, he was up to 83 points now). 4 people were thrown at Bajor. Fractured Time missed, Kazon Bomb killed 2 of the 4 (and one was saved with The Viceroy's special download of Empathic Touch). I was going to lose next turn anyway, so I used Spock to commandeer Deep Space Nine, then sent Torin over to beat up Kai Winn in the Bajoran Shrine. ... We just don't see enough Defend Homeworld super-downloads these days... J won next turn. I encouraged him to Dabo first, that and the mission solve took him to 130 points, with me on 10 points.
Probably one of the most Epic games I've seen, which shouldn't surprise anyone who has faced Mark. The Frog tends to play fun decks and have a great time rather than going for that all-out win. I felt bad when I saw his mission set as Mark had told me about this deck and plan, though I had forgotten (or not known) that it was for this event. I decided to play this honest and actually put Dilemmas under the two space missions, even though I knew he couldn't attempt them. As I partly suspected that it was a double fake out and he actually could attempt them. Still, he had put the two space in the bajor region so even if he was running Borg, I could spend a few little ships pinging him until the HP010 exploded. This PLUS we shared Romulus. So I ended up with 4 dilemmas under each of his best missions. We started pretty much on par with the reasonable draws and plays. Both of us had to wait to get the non-seeded treaty in play before blowing up at the missions. But when we did attempt missions, things went better for me than for Mark. He lost a huge crew to Barclay's - effectively setting him back to nada and I lost far fewer while churning through dilemmas likely meta'd against TNG decks. Dabo's actually worked in this game. I had gone to Jerado first and lost Kira to a good kill dilemma and cleared down to the Raging ambassadors. Spock + Sarek meant that I would have to bring every diplomat I owned (or get stabby) to complete, but since I went here early, I just decided to wait out the count down and collect up Dabo points. I started red shirting Characterize Neutrino Emissions (I think it was) and found dilemmas that were likely meant to target TNG, so it went down pretty easy. Then I simply had to take my time solving each mission to avoid In the Zone. This meant that I could auto solve Bajor with just a Dead End there on the next turn for the win, and Mark had JUST rebuilt his crews. Instead of attempting missions, Mark went the awesome route and decided to start a war at Bajor. After commandeering DS9m he attacked Kai Winn in the shrine to allow a Defend Homeworld uber download. Then we had it out royal in space over Bajor. As I recall, there was lots of life lost on either side but not anyone needed to actually solve the mission. So I got boring and 'won' on my next turn.

Round 4	Sebastian Kirstein	FW (0)
Bye.


Closing Thoughts
Historical note: the mission Space hit the banlist shortly before Round 4 was announced. I still like the idea of the Borg fakeout.