Jerad Berhow (Jerad) Tournament Report - 2E Standard 2011-03-15 - 05:30 PM Borg Assimilation Engine v1.6 Introduction The Borg fight on... Blowing ships outta the sky just isn't fun til you come again. We add a few cards and keep on trucking... Round 1 Ian Parmenter FW (+65) Ian steps up with his long living Holding Cell deck and takes a swing... I make quick work to get out some changed history and some maneuvers as my carefully designed dilemma pile does what it should. Stop em cold in space. I quickly start to assemble his entourage of people as I hand select a few with my Caretaker's "Guests" + Changed History Combo. He manages to bring back some people to his cause as he gets his second ship out and begins several repair sessions. I manage to force my way through several missions for the win. Round 2 Jody Lamb FL (-85)View opponent's ReportView original Report Two opponents enter the ring...The stare down beings...A Neck cracks...A growl is extruded..A Card is laid...The Battle Begins! We get down to our "chess match" as Jody so fondly calls it. He gets a lucky opener and starts with a voyager as I get a slow start and begin my setup to try and speed out my battle cards. He begins attempts 5 guys and of course we forgot about TCS on this game for some reason...silly me. I throw down some Prefix Codes and Care Takers to stop him awhile. I come out and start shooting to amass a bit of an army. He manages to force 2 missions on me before I can do much beyond collect people. I manage to destaff him by grabbing his very last Fed. Meanwhile I start my mission runs and eat a nasty helping of Tragic Turn and Friends. We rage on and I force him thru his uninviteds and get a battle with call to arms but in the end he can force his way thru the planet to get a very well earned win. Oh man what a chess match this one was. He goes first thankfully. I don't want him downloading Fourth right off the bat. His setup takes some time, and you can see it unfolding. Changed History, Quintessence, Energize, Precise Attack, and some others I don't remember on the table. I'm in space attempting Instruct Advanced Drone and for the life of me, CANT draw into the Hurried Departure... Grrrrrr. I didn't want to do this but the game was getting to the point where Jerad was gonna start doing what the Deck does and assimilating some peeps, damage my ships, use Knowledge and Experience to walk through dilemmas. He puts a Prefix Codes on my Voyager. Grr. Next turn I play an Exocomp and repair. I solve my Nebula mission without my copy of Hurried Departure on the table, so I'm forced to go do Caretakers Array.... boooooo. I go there and attempt, he stops me with one dilemma. Jerad comes over to start messing with my ship. Hits my ship with Precise Attack, Change History takes a Revised Chakotay.... damn. No exocomp in hand at this time. Next turn I walk through the mission but to my dismay, I don't have staffing at this point. He Caretakers Guest my Seven of Nine.... boooo. So the next few turns consist of me reporting peeps, an Equinox(he hit my Voyager with a Borg Cutting Beam)and eventually a Delta Flyer. His Changed History works awesome with Caretakers Guest btw, choice peep for him. He attacks my Equinox.... grrrr. That deck is brutal. I do remember I was able to use my Crystalline Entity on his Energize with a copy of Knowledge and Experience on it. Dodge a bullet there. Normally he would just grab any card off it with Fifth.. Did I mention I don't like playing against this deck. Anyhow, back to the missions. I get pretty lucky on my second attempt at Aid Lost Colony and with the help of Chuckles and Company. FW for me!!! 100-??? Round 3 Matthew Hayes FW (+40)View opponent's ReportView original Report The cards ruffle...My opponent cringes...Not just from the sound of my cards which drives him batty but also as he realizes Resistance is yet again Futile...THE BORG ARE BACK FOR HIM! I start out quite slow and burn through my Energize without seeing Fifth or a download chance for her. I push on and muster a Queen's Cube and Call to arms and begin pinging his Empty Enterprise to get my Changed History guys and force him a turn or two of repairing. He starts looking with Worf at his impending doom as my draws start working more in my favor. Harvest Drones and Will of the Collective later I am sitting on seven guys as I drop a The Perfect Tool. I punch through my space mission and he punches his planet after several turns of 1 card stops. He goes for broke with the whole Band and the Horn Section in tow. 13 guys make a mad drive for his space mission to win. Bio-Neural Computer Core and Distress call later says goodbye to the brass. 16 Counters on my turn and I liquefy them into draws for my Knowledge and Experience dig. I get one and 2 Amanda Rogers to hand. For good measure I blow One with the Borg to rock me up to 110 points with only battles and a space solved. I break down into 2 teams at Salvage Borg ship and press on. I was happy to see only 2 dilemmas set down. Captains guest got 3 guys out of 9 gone and Zero Hour Popped up next and would have set me up to fail if not for that K&E I dug up. I cracked it down and sent in my second team of 6. They broke thru 1 Dark Page and solved for a glorious win in the name of the hive mind. His Borg, brutalized me. again. I got one of the missions in the DQ, for something like 55 points. But, that was all she wrote.