Jerad Berhow (Jerad) Tournament Report - 2E Standard 2011-03-22 - 05:30 PM Maquis Defiant Introduction Trickery afoot...... I spent several days ensuring that the regular crew was under a very good impression that I was playing my Borg again. Much to my delight they all believed me...In my down time the last few nights developing a Dominion deck as I very rarely play them and wanted to use the Defiant. Round 1 Matthew Hayes FW (+50)View opponent's ReportView original Report First up Matt. I had no fear about this match. I have been besting him for several weeks now and I wanted the league champion title badly so he had to get run over. He brought some enormous 125+ card romulan deck that seemed to get a few good plays out. I got early Friction on the board and shut down his speed if it really was there quite a bit. He got a nice Few Minor Difficulties naming Defiant early on. I pushed thru a mission and blew it up promptly and started to shuffle things as my boys kept on plugging away at missions with Javert Text. A few well played dilemmas stopped him just in time for the turn to come to me as time was called. I forced thru my third mission to secure the win. Jerad's Borg. ?! Grr. I got Assess Contamination after about 4 or 5 tries, but, that is all. Round 2 John Western TT (0) John, John john...what can I say closer than most of our games. he had a very solid Starfleet build that he borrowed from Jody.Early game 3 At What Costs with his Sight for Sore Eyes got the jump. he pressed hard at his Sphere Network and had several turns of trouble thanks to Temporal Incursions letting me pick some choice setups and recur Timescape several turns running. I had Friction wreck his day with a few plays but couldn't get Javert or Trip to Romulus out. In the end I made a last play at Honor the Fallen using the default requirements for a nice tie. Round 3 Jody Lamb FW (+25)View opponent's ReportView original Report Jody my dear friend...Why must we battle so fiercely? Oh wait that because I take no Prisoners..Unless I play Cardis at least. The TOS build was strong. I got the better off the bat with some Friction action holding off some downgrade team people. Eventually Firestorm blew away my advantage. He plugged out 2 planets and I got a late game Temporal Incursion out to nail the coffin on him. I pushed missions as he got 2 stops in a row to Personal Duty and Dal'rok tag team. incursion rocked him back and I showed no mercy. Ok. Jerad and I are playing... I can't win the tournament and I'm really pissed about the situation with Chris. He's playing a tricksy deck with the Javert and Dominion Defiant. Turn two he plays Friction. I guess Friction stops your "You May" abilities. Retarded. Consdiering it says When you play!!!! It's happening at the same time as playing the card. So I believe the text should kick in. But i guess the CC or someone has ruled otherwise. I think its a joke. Doesn't really hurt me, except I wanna play Montgomery Scott to nuke the damn event and I can't! So he's slowing me down with that. I go to IMA.. Secret ID snags OT Kirk, grr.. and stops the attempt. He's taking his time on his turns, shifting peeps around between the Dominion HQ and Athos IV.. and getting things rolling a bit. I'm feeling pretty good about the game. He plays the event on my IMA that adds 2 Leadership, Secret ID's Shran, I bring in Arandis. I'm stuck for the time being. Next turn he solves a 30 or 35 point mission with the Javert text. He heads over to a 40 point space mission, starts plugging away with two ships... he's attempting with five peeps and I have no SCREW in my pile... damn. I stop him with minimal dilemmas under the mission. My turn I'm still trying to figure out what I'm gonna do about the 2 extra leadership... I only had three at the mission. I played a Firestorm and a personnel. This is where I make a huge error. I bluff at IMA... when I coulda went home and picked up the one unstopped Acost Jared that was there headed back and actually attempted with a legit team. Jerad knew I didnt have 4 Lead and called my bluff... crap. Firestorm kills Friction and the Event on my mission at the end of the turn. Okay, so I complete the mission on my next turn... Jerad's still plugging away at his second misssion. I'm able to solve Assess Contamination after a couple turns. Jerad plays Temporal Incursion somewhere in there. He pulls a nasty combo at my last mission in space, Personal Duty and Dalrok(which bounces). Stops my team cold. Jerad finishes his 2nd mission and heads over to cleanup the game. But i stop him AGAIN. Next turn he flips the pile with Temporal Incursion, PULLS another Personal Duty and the Dalrok that was on the bottom of the pile. Stops me... grrrr. Next turn I play a Legacy to stop his turn.. and I end up flubbing on it, revealing the ONE other dilemma in the pile that has no skill's( a copy of Legacy.) So he walks through the mission attempt. Mostly mad at myself at this point.. I'm beating myself up over the misplay with Acost Jerad... asking myself why I didn't play a second ship on one of my last turns... and pretty much sad that I just lost two, TWO games in a row. That never happens to me in tournaments. GG though and Jerad knows it. He had some luck with the Legacy pull at the end, I coulda stopped him with Pitching In but I chanced it... Not sure why. 100-70