Submitted by Jaglom Shrek on Sun, 04/26/2009 - 04:26
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Tournament-Report from the Tournament "DLM 2009: Münster".
My thoughts were to let people enjoy the fun we had in Munster so I wrote an tournament report.
It started with an text message from Thorsten on Tuesday; ‘If I would come to Munster.' I had no plans so why not? I only had one problem, no deck that could perform on a tournament. With a packed Tuesday night and no time to build, only Friday evening/night was left to build a deck. With great help from HelmP and skype we managed to build a nice solid ferengi deck Link
The idea of the deck; fake Reyga use him as sort of bluff the fear that he is around makes people want to kill him. While the real busting power comes from Gint and Zek combined with Bridge Officers Test and the high cunning from all the personnel. Further the deck packs cards that keep the great river of material flowing.
After a 2 hour drive to Munster and some wrong turns to find Ubberwasserstrasse I thougt I call my wife to help me out. She navigated me through Munster. On a side note never let me navigate I always make a wrong turn, I have no sense for direction at all. But I manage to get there in time.
First round vs. Carsten Hartmann full win 100-0
Carsten played a Bajoran Cardasian deck he said he wanted to play some thing new and strange. He used Find Lifeless World with Rebuilding the Fleet as an sort of draw engine. Carsten started the game by drawing 7 cards and using the order of lifeless world to discard and draw till back at 7 cards in hand. He discarded Labor Camp and that made me cautious. After 4 or 5 turns we both done nothing, and I decided I would give it a go… I tried Geological Survey with 7, Carsten only played agonizing encounter witch stopped 3 including Nog who I unstopped using the Ferengi Computer and solved the mission. In the next turns he managed to capture my Brunt and Nog, what leaved me with no event distruction left and a Psychological Pressure in play. My bridge officer test did the rest and made me win the game.
Afterwards Carsten decided to play “normal” no Find Lifeless World drawing it took to long.
Second round vs.Sandra Wanek 65-100
Same thing as driving, in a tournament I have to make one big, no sorry really big blunder. Sandra played Klingons and when she lay down the missions I was worried because my dilemma pile would be hammered. I said to Sandra that this would be an interesting game. My strategy was speed and I got Par Lenor and Quark, True ferengi on opening hand. I now had to wait for a rule card in core, turn 3 I got one and turn 4 gave me 16 counters. It was a neck to neck race who would win the game. I was the first to start attempting the last mission, I attempted with nine personnel. Sandra managed to kill 3 or 4 of my crew (not sure) and my last astrometrics. With the personnel left I could solve the mission but I missed the astrometrics (I totally overlooked my engineering padd) and I declared that I could not solve the mission. It was Sandra’s turn she solved her last mission, Brute Force and beating the crap out of my dilemma pile with Riker.
At the end of the game I noticed my padd on my ship at the space mission and realized what happened. Any way, lesson learned, BIG note to brain and hope this won't happen twice.
Third round vs. Thorsten Wanek 65-100
This was a nice close game. I knew my dilemma pile could hold this kind of deck, I use no random selection except for An Issue of Trust and In Fighting. Played often against war wariness. Brunt did brilliantly from turn 2 I managed to nuke events in an endless stream. I do not remember specifics only that Thorsten waited long before he started missions. I started the game and when it was time Thorsten had 1 turn left in witch he solved his last mission. I did one last effort to trick him in a random stop from An Issue of Trust (how fitting) witch he almost did and at the last second he remembered that War Wariness was in his core, so that gave him the mission and the win.
Fourth round vs. Daniel Sinner 50-100
Daniel played Romulans and DS9, I did not know what I could expect so I played with caution, I waited till I had a nice team. On my first attempt I had 3 Ferengi Computers an 2 ETU not the perfect personnel but enough to try solving missions. It went nice and smooth, The Rule #33 and ferengi computers did there work, first mission was in the pocked.
Second mission, burning a load of interrupts to boost attributes to find out later I can not solve the mission was also a big bumber.(yes, astrometrics again this time I checked for the engineering padd)
Morik with Rule #141 is da bomb quark wit 3 rules is also good so cunning was not a problem this game.
Funny thing is that Daniel scored a whole bunch of bonus points, where Thorsten to score only once with getting under your skin.
