Jerad Berhow (Jerad) Tournament Report - 1E Modern - Andoria Regional 2011-06-25 - 01:00 PM Klingons Introduction 8 pm Friday night...Me and Ben Hosp sit down to a lackey game with my regionals deck for a test run. 6 Planets, Klingons, some Orions and a lot of Target Practice targets. I handily lost but some after game chatter gave me some good ideas with Tribunal of Q taking a hint from how good it was Ben and Seductive dance for the Orion cheats meant some late night rebuilding. Add in a treaty for some AMS action on Duckblind and I was set. Round 1 Ben Johnson MW (+5)View opponent's ReportView original Report Not drawing nearly well enough off the bat did not help me at all. I had a slow start on getting Klingons out and wound up with people spread far apart. I kept digging most of the game but couldn't get down to certain mission skills and got stopped up by a few dilemmas so I never got a chance to solve anything. I blew up a ship with my manuever to score 10. George and Gracie eventually wound up at earth keeping Ben at 15. Using Target Practice I downloaded a BaH! and I scored a solid 10 to take the mod win. In all we had around 6 mission attempts with both us combined...Not a stellar start for either of us. Lost my ship to KDF battle and kept getting stopped by dilemmas. I had alot of personnel in my hand, but some idiot put red alert on the ban list. I went back in time to grab George and Gracie and beamed them down to Earth for 15 points. Round 2 Tony Carlson FW (+92) My most varied game of the day came in round 2 as I blew my opponent out of the water quite handily. I got a good opening lead and several turns of free plays and card plays to get some momentum going and completed 2 early missions. At this point my opponent began to try his hand at earth. He quickly learned about be Distracted by Thoughts of his home far away as he watched "God" take out a tact cube. Seizing my opportunity I quickly sprang into action and sent my battle-force over to occupy his attention as I had a Batleth and a Disruptor in play. I got 1 kill in the first time and he went digging for another ship. Although he didn't need it yet I was not about to inform my opponent of such an oversight during a regional. He found his ship in a scout vessel that showed up so he could walk thru my last dilemma with some skill cheating from the Queen. I battled him on the surface once again to lock out his probing. He ran up to his ship and I dropped a Quite a Coincidence naming Locutus and shot down the ship for it's 5 points destroying Locutus, the Queen and his objective targeting Earth. Then while he dug for more fuel I raced down to my last 2 missions for a full win of 140 points. Round 3 Matthew Hayes MW (+5)View opponent's ReportView original Report Now here is the round that always takes the cake. He views me as his nemesis which sits fine with me...I started out with a mediocre hand. I grabbed Q the Ref the first turn as it was to Matt. I made 2 free plays and discarded Q for my Obelisk and grabbed a new much nicer hand. I spent several turns building up enough forces so that if he wanted to play on my playground there would be blood. Took me several turns to fight through a mission but ended up only getting one. He tried to download 7 with a Calibration drone ability at one point but was thwarted by my Obelisk of Masaka. Couple turns later he was able to push thru a major download turn and go for his Harness Particle. He bullied 1 turn clear and next turn he failed the probe after trying to setup a handshake rig. next turn I knew he had it so I suspended for a Juggler and hoped it would change the probe to something nasty. He still got his objective on the probe and his 30 points. I still had 35 and time ended there so I tried for a push on my differential and failed as my whole away team bit it. Jerad, my current local nemesis. Oh how we've been battling each other for some time in both editions of the game. So, I certainly expected to see him running Borg as well (that's why I included the copies of Alas, Poor Queen in my deck, in case my AFSWBN or my Exec Auth/Shocking Betrayal/A Bad End or Shocking Betrayal/Don't Let It End This Way combos gave me the opportunity to kill her and wipe out all pretenders in each of his hives in response if that ever occurred), so when the Great Hall hit the table, I knew it was going to be a different story. Oh well. Knowing his other 1E deck of late has been Klingon battle, I figured out it was going to be a completely different game and it was. He had seen me run the earlier version of this deck a few months ago, so he knew very well to thin out his combos and place dilemmas under each of my (Univ) Space missions, therefore no easy grabs for me. So, adapting to the scenario laid out before me, I knew I was going to have to work on HP010 at my Unicomplex location (SO). Further, he shocked the spaceline with 6 planets. I had to realign all my combos and dump my two space based ones involving two Cytherians and a few others at his furthest planet mission, that of my farthest left, his farthest right, figuring he'd not get to it and snag an easy mission. (it did work out that way, heh heh.) Anyhow, I proceeded on HP010 at SO as soon as I could make a run for it, meanwhile, he nabbed one of his planets for 35. So, when I probed for HP010 successfully on the last turn I could do so, as a failed probe happened the earlier turn, and I had not had either a Handshake nor the most recently converted from 2E drone whose name I forget, the one who can download BDT in place of the normal card play, on that turn, I nabbed him at the end of that turn, providing me the 'hail mary pass' of using BDT to rig on that final opportunity before my Unicomplex and Tac Cube and crew of 9 or more would have been sent to kingdom come when the Particle blew up. My BDT found two of the cards that would have given me a successful probe (a Queen and an Incident, I believe) out of the five and I put one of them on top, but, to muck with me, Jerad used his QtR download of Juggler to rearrange it, hoping for a fail. Fortunately, for me, while he sent those cards in a jumble, I ended up with an Objective being on top after the shuffle. So, keeping him from getting another mission, with a Scientific Method I do believe, the game finished with his MW, 35 to my 30. Grrr. Oh if only HP010 was instead a 35 or 40 point objective?! 35, and we'd've tied, most likely placing me at the top of the heap, 40 for sure, which would've been my MW. Oh well. In hindsight, naturally,...why oh why did I not include a Balancing Act in my seed slots, for me to encounter, then it would've been my 30 to his -15. ??? Dem's da breaks, as dey say. Lamentations are futile. GG. Congrats to Jerad on wresting the Regional Champion title from me, succeeding me in the role. I plan to regain it next year, assuredly.