Played
MoH last night. It was 120 points anything goes which almost made me just turn around and walk out of the
FLGS. The other change was that the
STD Tokens became obstacles, which added a little bit more to the scenario, but not much.
My list:
Scimitar
Capt. Toreth
Admiral Mendak
Tactical Officer
Polaried Hull Plating
Interphase Generator
Counter Attack
Disruptor Beams
Massacre
USS Enterprise-D Mirror Universe
Capt. William T. Riker
Elim Garak
Tasha Yar
Fire All Weapons
We Can't Go Back!
Quantum Torpedoes
Notes on my list: I had a different build in mind under the WizKids suggested format, and we had been playing ship pure for ever, so I have no idea why the sudden change. This list was pretty much thrown together at the last minute and I wish I had taken into account the scenario a bit more. I loved having two Capt. Skill 9 ships, but the upgrades on the Scimitar... I wish I had taken cloaked mines instead of the hull plating. I also didn't realize Disruptor Beams could not be fired out the back arc. That was a bit disappointing. Massacre was worth it, and I just might try and pick up another one of those. Such a great card. If you inflict a [crit] on the enemy's Hull, discard this card for +1 damage to that ship. 3 points. So worth it!.
The MU Enterprize is just so full of win, that I think it's my favorite ship in the game. Never used my Quantum Torps, Fire All Weapons, and We Won't Go Back! once during the event. More on that in a second.
Round 1:
Opponent: Excelsior, Yeager, Star Gazer, Sutherland, some OK captains, couple torps. New player, didn't build his fleet all that well. During the first planning phase, we roll for the Subatomic Bacteria Tokens, which quickly became known as 'Teh AIDS Token', and I didn't pay enough attention to the scenario and rolled a crit on my Mu Enterprize, and pulled the "Damaged Sensor Array"- so actions on your action bar... did I mention MU Riker was the captain? And my Scimitar takes a hull damage. All his ships take a point as well. We fly straight at each other, I cloaked the Scim, and used an action to attempt to flip the crit over (successfully). Some shooting goes on, damage here, damage there. Everyone gets another token. Planning phase- I take another hit on both my ships and more tokens. My opponent takes some more damage as well. I'm thinking he was going to go 1 forward to use his torps (My Mu Enterprise is all sorts of Target Locked up by 3 ships). So I select a 4 forward thinking I'll get behind him. Nope. Smack right into his "line abreast" formation of all four ships (I had mine pretty much in a line as well). No actions for me, and the Enterprise get's blown up, but it takes out the Star Gazer with Tasha Yar's ability. My Scimitar blows up the Yeager, and now it's the Excelsior and Sutherland against my Scimitar. Everyone gets another token.
At this point, I have 4 tokens on my Scimitar, he has 6 on his Excelsior, and 4 on his Sutherland. Roll dice, and look at that! I take another Hull Damage. My Scimitar is down 4 hull (3 left). His Excelsior is down 1 shield and a couple hull. The SBT's blow up the Sutherland. So now it's just the Excelsior and Scimitar. We do a little maneuvering, shoot at each other, and end the turn with 1 hull point left on each ship. Next planning phase, he's rolling 7 SBT dice on his Excelsior, and I'm rolling 5 on my Scimitar. We both blow up to the SBT. We roll the five attack dice for ties, and I get two Battle Stations to his none, and I win. But it didn't feel like a victory...
Round 2:
This was the reason I almost walked out of the
FLGS. Named Borg Sphere, regular Sphere, and Octahedron, 0 point Drone captains. I won't go too much into the play here, just to note that my Mu Enterprise once again started the game with Hull Damage. I managed to destroy the named Sphere, but was crushed. I think the game lasted three turns? I hate the Borg.
Round 3:
Alpha Hunter, Dom Fighters, and I don't remember his third ship, but I remember it only had 3 hull. My opponent admitted his fleet was a total mistake for this event- he had planned for the previous
OP. In this game, I totally gained a new appreciation for the Alpha Hunter; more specifically Karr. I'll be getting that ship today.
FYI, he can reroll one attack die twice, and if his skill is higher then yours, he gets +1 attack die. Oh yeah, and he had a card that lowered my captain skill by 2, and got another +1 attack die from somewhere else... Seems like everyone was gunning for my MU Enterprise, and again, before the game even really started, I took hull damage thanks to the SBT. And I took 3 more damage over the next three turns as well. So it was really no surprise when the Alpha Hunter blew it up. However, my opponent was not rolling all that great with the SBT's as well. I learned from my first game and started to shoot the tokens off my ships. So end game, I had only 1 token on my Scimitar. He had piled on the hull damage all game to the point where he blew himself up with the SBT's.
So I went 2-1, and unsurprisingly lost to the Borg. Other fleets of note:
Jem'Hader Battle Ship
Beetle ship- but the Beetle Ship had a bunch of movement shenanigans on it that allowed it to be up in your fleet turn 2, while his battleship stayed way, way far away. Said little Beetle ship had "I Stab At Thee" twice, Cheat Death, and Suicide Attack. I didn't get a close look at the build, but it was supposedly legit from the
TO and other players. Basically, he runs the Beetle straight at you, and blows up twice. Then his Dom Battleship mops up. He went 2-1 though, because he lost to... wait for it, wait for it... a Borg Cube Dreadnaught. Go figure.
The only thing that keeps me coming back to play in these
OP's is that we usually get 4-5 prize ships (the
TO always donates his), and yes, first place always gets one, and LAST place always get's one. The remaining three are randomly handed out, or sometimes everyone agrees that one player should get it for something he did or whatever. I got one during the End Game because I was the only player out of 14 that successfully made it back to the Alpha Quadrant and closed the wormhole in all three of my games. I lost all my games, but hey! I played the scenario.
I'm really, really disappointed that my
FLGS went back to the "No Holds Barred" fleet building. He fully realizes the pit falls and why its a bad idea, but he said he got so many complaints, gripes, and passive aggressive comments about it from the
WAAC players that he just didn't want to deal with it anymore. So now he gets complaints from the non-
WAAC crowd, but he pretty much ignores everyone. So my meta is completely dominated by
WAAC Borg players. The
TO does a great job running the events, and I have no complaint about him, but the
WAAC players are really starting to
me off. They have driven away most of the casual and new players, and like I said, if it wasn't for the random prizes at the end, I think the only players would be the
WAAC players at
OP's. I'd rather buy my prize ships off eBay then have to play one of them.
