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Hello all, we had out Klingon Civil War OP3 the other day. At this venue we play the WK suggested format, but we do not retire resources. For this event I flew:

Officer Exchange Fed/Rom

32 D’Deridex Rom/Borg
05 Picard 9*
03 Massacre
03 Quark (Tactical Stations)
05 Mag Charges
03 Interphase Generator
-2 scenario discount
49

32 D’Deridex Rom/Borg
06 Gul Dukat
02 Admiral Hays*
03 Worf (Rotarran)
03 Interphase Generator
05 Mag Charges
-2 scenario discount
49

14 Apnex
04 Donatra
05 Detonation Codes
05 Varel
03 Li Nalis
03 Cloaked Mines
-2 scenario discount
32

130 total



Double mag charges is pretty harsh, but I was a head for the grand prize and I wanted to keep my lead. Just an FYI, this was not my best day taking pictures, there a few missing .



Round 1
It’s been a while but from what I remember by first opponent flew

Scimitar
Salatrel
IG
IG

Valdore
Toreth
Fleet Captain
Mendak
Detonation Codes

Praetus
Donatra
Cloaked Mines
Cloaked Mines

Set up





Turn 1
Pic missing, not much happened we just moved up and cloaked.



Turn 2

He dropped his mines and I ditched Quark for Tac Stations.



Toreth causes 1 damage on Picard. Salatrel gets a few on him as well, but I used the IG to take it to 1 damage. Picard with a 7 die Mag Charge makes quick work for the Valdor. Dukat hits the Scimitar for a few but the IG takes it down to 1.





Turn 3

I use Detonation Codes on one of his mines, both Praetus and Scimitar take damage. The Scimitar takes some shields off of Picard. Dukat puts another hit on the Praetus and Picard gets rid of the Scimitar’s last IG.




Turn 4
The Scimitar takes some shields off of Dukat. Picard and Dukat take 2 tokens off of the Hidekies.



Turn 5
I drop my mines to keep the Scimitar from doing a come about. The Apnex takes off to get some Sensor Echo points. Scimitar Turns away from me rather go through the mines. The Praetus runs into the mines and is destroyed. Dukat and Picard finish off the Hidekies.




That was time. Victory.


Round 2

From what I can recall my opponent had:

Scimitar
Picard
Tactical Officer
IG
Aft Disruptors


Gal Gothong
Valdor
Drex
Jennifer Sisko
Plasma Torpedoes
Warp Jump

Praetus
Donatra
Fleet Captain
Mendak
Lure
Cloaked Mines
Cloaked Mines
And stuff


Turn 1

Missing pic, nothing much happened we just move up.


Turn 2

We both drop our mines.



I can’t remember much of the details from this match. I did destroy the Scimitar and the Preatus. I also got a bunch of extra points from the Sensor Echo. My opponent did take out Picard but it wasn’t enough to tip the balance. Another Victory.



Round 3 a bye


With 2 wins and a bye I took first place and a nice copy of Sela’s Warbird


Sorry for the lack of pics. I’ll try and take more next time.

Congrats on the grand prize.

I wish my local allowed old resources, I miss officer exchange program. Always a good SP saver when building your fleet.

I can't wait for the civil war missions, I have the corbimite manovour this weekend ( yep we're that far behind)

Good luck on Corbomite I honestly can't remember what I flew for that but I do love the prize. I won 1 and got my hands on a whole OP kit so I could have 4 copies or Mia Batteries and Control Center.

Thanks. I enjoyed this scenario a lot. Not retiring resources is interesting though I may change it. My one opponent is getting pretty boring with his Picard Scimitar, it's either that or he flies a souped up Ent A with you guessed Picard. It just gets a little stale after a while.

I had kicked around the idea of limiting captain skill to 6 for a month just to shake things up.

Limiting Captain skill to 6 is a very interesting idea. Starter Picard is so common in builds it's unfunny. (guilty I will be using him on sunday)

My local has discussed ways of mixing it up a bit, such has having a faction pure event or using a hanger bay event (take two different fleets and your opponent picks which one they want to face). But we don't like the idea of doing any thing weird for the 3 parter so it might be much latter in the year before we try.

To be honest it's rare for people to take the same build more than once, but a lot of lists feel samey, namely revolving around 3 ships with fairly high level captains and a big attack each. Oddly when ever I've tried something radically different, such as fighter spam it's caused a massive uproar about stuff being OP and discussions about banning certain cards.

With so many options out there in this game it gets soo boring seeing the same thing over and over again. . A little variety would be nice. It's not even like he wins a lot with it and if he sees Madred or Stalking Mode he either throws everything he has at it or runs scared. He is that petrified of loosing Picard. That and cloaked mines. I have learned to deal with them and I know how to. I don't worry about loosing to them, but when your player pool is down to 3 people and two regularly bring 2 cloaked mines each, it is just boring That's why I got fed up with them in KCW OP2 and threw the Big Cube at them. Their mines didn't help them much against that I don't really feel bad about doing mean things anymore if I have to look at the same thing over and over again. I have may throw the hammer down and do something to shake them up.


Fighter spam was rough for a while because all it lead to was Cloaked Mine spam. Now that we have Upgraded Phases and Type 8 they are not so nasty. I wish there was something in the game that made swarms more of a thing. It would be nice to see someone flying BoP like we see people with Ties in X-Wing. How cool would it be to have 6 B'Rels out there and actually have it stand a chance.

Luckily cloaked mine spam is rare, but its been a long time since I played an OP without seeing somebody running a set of them.

I'm fortunate that we tend to get 6-8 players at most events, from a pool of a dozen or so.

I do find that the scenarios help a lot with keeping the fleets mixed up. In x-wing you see people using the same fleet event after event, but in attack wing tailoring your fleet for the event is a must if you want to win.

I was actually tempted to go for a bop swarm in at least one of the klingon events, just to be thematic. But haven't seen it played in about 18 months.

I usually change up my list to play to the scenario. Some are more fun than others. The KCW has been pretty fun. Yesterday's Enterprise wasn't all that exciting but In a Mirror Darkly looks fun