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OK I have a faction pure OP3 coming up in a few weeks. This is the smallest venue I play at but there are some great friends there. Two of my friends really want the Stargazer, I told the TO I already have one and if I win he should give it to the next ranked player. So I am not playing for a prize, but I love faction pure and don't want to be a push over. I also love making builds with the man, JAMES T KIRK If anyone beats me I want them to feel like they earned it. Here is what I am thinking:

22 USS Enterprise
10 Federation Flagship
06 James T Kirk
03 Admiral Forest
03 Cheat Death
03 Corbinite Maneuver
03 Corbinite Maneuver
02 Janice Rand
05 Scotty (original)
04 Tom Paris
02 Elizabeth Shelby
04 Belana Torres
04 Tactical Stations
06 Quantum Torpedoes
06 Quantum Torpedoes
03 Transwarp Drive
86 Total

Here is the plan. Keep my blind ship as far away from the cube as possible. Move in with Kirk, he will be captain skill 10 so he will move before and shoot before the cube. There is only one player ranked higher than me in this series so if I play him I will just change up the turn orders.

First turn target lock and shoot with quantums w/ free battle stations. Use the borg to attack my opponent.

2nd turn use Janice Rand to use Cobinite Maneuver as a free action, then Target Lock the cube. Borg can't attack me, so my opponent will have to attack himself.

3rd turn cube target locked from last turn, use Scotty & tactical stations for an 8 Die quantum attack w/free battle stations. Again use the borg to hit my opponent

4th turn use 2nd Corbinite Maneuver so opponent must attack himself again.

5th turn either my opponent or the cube should be near death. But if the opponent is still around use the borg to finish him off.

6th turn on use Kirk and blind ship to hunt down Sphere. Kirk should do alright against the Sphere. 4 attacks base 6 w/Scotty, and 7 w/coordinated attack bonus. For defense I have 3 dice w/ship+paris+shelby re rolling all blanks and the free battle stations from the flagship. Maybenthe blind ship can add a few too.

I will have to test it out, but I should be able to take out Shpere, if not i should still be able to out live the opponent and win on points.

What do you think? Doable?

Doable, and terrifying as always.

Seems like a plan. The problem I had with one ship in this scenario was that I was a higher CPT skill and did a lot of damage to both the cube and the sphere, but lost out on the points for killing it because my opponent had two ships at CPT skill one doing the last bits of damage. Also, they died MUCH faster than I expected most rounds. Though I imagine you already know that

Yeah, a lot of this plan hinges on my opponent being gone or on the ropes when it is time to take out the cube. If they are still holding on I can try to swing in with the blind ship for some support. I am expecting at least 2 Picard heavy lists and maybe some Dukat/Kahn battle cruiser combos. I really just want to see the look on people's face if i can pull of a win with Kirk and the Enterprise. The man and his ship get no respect with all of these bald headed youngsters flying around.


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I was close to going 3-0 with Kirk and a loaded Enterprise in the Tholian web. However an injured captain snatched it away in the final round as 2 Cheat Deaths sat unused Of all the captains in the game that fatal shot came from Khan too we shall see this time

So I was pretty proud of myself on Sunday the Kirk dreadnought went 2-1. I beat a super Picard Voyager round 1, lost to a mega cube round 2, and beat a mega cube round 3. I came in 3rd. We had 6 players total, 3 mega cubes, 2 Voyager dreads and me. The game I lost was only because I missed with one die on the sphere and my opponent was able to take off the last hit point. No body expected Corbinite Maneuver, so that was fun a few times to make people attack themselves. It didn't do much damage though because just about everyone had feedback pulse.

In all I had a great time and was happy to do so well without Picard or Borg. I don't feel bad about loosing the 2nd game, because it was against a friend and he went on to in the OP.

Glad to hear it did well. It must be frustrating to almost everyone, including many people fielding it, to be coming up against the same borg metabuild or minor variations on it.

I wonder if wizkids intend to allow it to plod along for a while, sell a ton of borg and then pull the rug from under them with some new, various faction cards that will leave borg languishing at some time in the future. Only selling 1-2 of your entire range of ships cannot be overly profitable when a wide open meta with continually evolving builds would allow for better sales.


...And when i say wonder, I mean hope...

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Glad to hear it did well. It must be frustrating to almost everyone, including many people fielding it, to be coming up against the same borg metabuild or minor variations on it.

I wonder if wizkids intend to allow it to plod along for a while, sell a ton of borg and then pull the rug from under them with some new, various faction cards that will leave borg languishing at some time in the future. Only selling 1-2 of your entire range of ships cannot be overly profitable when a wide open meta with continually evolving builds would allow for better sales.


...And when i say wonder, I mean hope...

After the OP we all sat and talked for a while. We all came to a gentleman's agreement to fly NO borg at all in our next OP. Everyone seemes borged out for a while. Our TO even said if it is just the core group (about 8 of us) next time we can alter or ditch the Resistance is Futile rules. Most of us would welcome that, but if we get someone that just walks in off the street for RiF we are stuck with it.

I really had fun with this list, I might try to alter it a bit for the next OP.