@Database DOTW100.guide @Author Ralf Schwate @$VER: DOTW100.guide 2.4 (07/05/97) @Index "STCCG:stccg.guide/INDEX" @Node MAIN "DOTW100.guide" @prev "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @next "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{"DOTW" link "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW"} @{"Main" link "STCCG:stccg.guide/CONTENT"} @endnode @Node DOTW1 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - Arch, Treachery" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #1@{ub} Welcome to BeeR's Deck Ideas! I've been playing STCCG for more than a year now and I've come with a lot of great Decks built around themes (I always built deck around themes because experience showed that no matter how powerful your deck is, it always relies on good drawing order (luck), so why not have fun when building your decks?) In my next post, I will show you how to evaluate the odds when you draw your cards from your deck and believe me, they're low,low,low. So, here's my first Deck Idea and this one almost doesn't rely on luck. Romulans -Arch/Trea- Missions: Strategic Diversion skills required to complete all missions: Wormhole Negotiations Treachery x 12 Plunder Site Archaeology x 4 Sarthong Plunder Excavation Secret Salvage Personnel _required_ ( you should add 4 more at least, with complementary skills) Galathon x 2 Taul x 2 Sela D'Tan Pardek Baran Ocett Taibak Bok Jo'Bril Berlingoff Rasmussen Of course, this is only the core. I once played with 4 Galathon and 4 Taul. Try to stay between 30 and 35 cards for your draw pile, this way you're pretty shure to have the cards you need in no time. With almost everyone having the skills required, you should be able to complete any mission while your opponent stumbles on your 23 dilemmas. Two problems so far: Thine own self. It's tempting to play a red shirt strategy because (almost) everyone is expendable. Second, you have five missions with multi affiliations so you have to put some of your dilemmas on them just to be sure. Next time: Klingon - L'Armada- and a small course about the Hypergeo- metric law! @endnode @Node DOTW2 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Klg - L'Armada" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #2@{ub} Here's my Deck Idea #2, the purest of the purests Klingon Armada decks. It basically includes ALL the Klingons Officers and those with Leadership. It has 10 ships, 8 of wich are K'Vort class. No Non-Aligned whatsoever. Only one Event: a Red Alert. You can put two if you want to be safer. Klingon -L'Armada- AKA -The Way Of The Warriors- Personnel: Batrell B'Etor B'iJik Duras Governor Worf Gowron Kargan Klag K'mpec K'mtar Konmel Korris Kurn K'Vada L'Kor Lursa Morag Nu'Daq Toral (I said everyone!) Ships: I.K.C. Bortas I.K.C. Buruk I.K.C. Hegh'ta I.K.C. K'Vort x4 I.K.C. Pagh I.K.C. Qu'Vat I.K.C. Vorn (No K'Ratak because of it's poor range) Events: Red Alert! (x2?) Captain'Log (?) Bynars WE (?) Doorways: AU Doorway (seeded) @endnode @Node DOTW3 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Families" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #3@{ub} Hi everyone! It seems I am the only one to write about deck ideas now that we don't hear from Movar. :-( I think that this is a _great_ subject and a punishment for all those who don't read r.g.t.s and are stuck with their sole mind to invent new decks while we put our minds together to construct the ultimate deck, the deck that will kill'em all (especially my opponent)! >:-) This is a quest for many. I shall not succeed alone. Now, to change the subject completely, here's a not-so-powerful-but-very- funny-to-play deck Not so powerful because if your opponent(s) know the cards well, they can guess what's in your draw pile. Deck idea #3: Fed-Families Personnel: Jack Crusher Nikolai Rozhenko Wesley Crusher Alexander Rozhenko Beverly Crusher K'Ehleyr Beverly Picard Worf Jean-Luc Picard Lt (j.g.) Picard Fed/Romulan Dr LaForge Sela Geordi LaForge Lwaxana Troi Fed/Klingon: Deanna Troi Kurn Ian Andrew Troi K'mtar Major Rakal Gov. Worf William T.Riker the four Duras Thomas Riker Tasha Yar Klin/Rom Tasha Yar - Alternate Ba'el Ishara Yar Tokath the four Duras Lots of Honor, Diplomacy, Leadership, Navigation and Computer Skill. That should make no problems for choosing your missions. @endnode @Node DOTW4 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Harem" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #4@{ub} Hi, everyone! For my fourth Deck Idea, I've decided to postpone my Fed -One Man Show- until I've tested it because it may be a "pure" theme deck (unplayable) So here's BDI#4: Fed -Harem- *IT IS PLAYABLE* and it did win against my 3 affiliation treaty deck Personnel: Deanna Miss Shelby (lots of character) Jenna (for the Androids) Linda Miss Taitt Miss McKnight Tasha (both) Leah (the *real* one...) Vash (not useful but I couldn't resist) The Older ones: Beverly (both) Rachel Neela Alynna Mrs Shanti The Aliens: Vekor Jaxa Laren K'Ehleyr (for the tough ones) Mrs Selar (a doctor) Missions: (I will skip the comments, it is PG-13) Investigate Massacre Diplomacy Mission FGC-47 Research Explore Black Cluster Study "Hole In Space" Study Stellar Collision I know there are better missions for this theme (First Contact?) but it is a playable deck. Events: Goddess of Empathy Red Alert! (after all, there is a lot of personnel) (*new adds*) Alien Probe Mot's Advice Interrupts: Alien Groupie Jamaharon Amanda Rogers La Forge Maneuver Dead in Bed Artifacts: Horgan'hn Thought Maker Dilemmas: Parallel Romance Martriarchal Society Male's Love Interest Anaphasic Organism etc... @endnode @Node DOTW5 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - Planet Power" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #5@{ub} Here's my fifth Deck Idea, this one is not a theme deck but a deck that follows rules #2,3,4 and now 5 of my Holy Deck Rules. To date, it won 2 out of 3 games, the only defeat beeing against a similar deck of the same affiliation. BeeR's Deck Idea #5: Romulan -Planet Power- Missions: Investigate Raid Covert Installation Expose Covert Supply Strategic Diversion Covert Rescue Sensitive Search Personnel: Bok Cmdr Tomalak Dathon Lakanta N'Vek Major Rakal Maques Mendak Palteth Roga Danar Sela Taibak Takket x2 Taul x2 Tebok Toreth Varel Vekor x2 Ships: Decius Devoras Haakona Khazara Tama Events: Thermal Deflector Red Alert! The rest is up to you. Next time a theme deck... PS: I did my best start ever with this deck (3 players game): initial draw: Taul (SECURITY) Dathon (OFFICER) Vekor (SCIENCE/MEDICAL) Sela (VIP) Lakanta (CIVILIAN) Haakona Taul again Next draw: Vekor again ... sixth draw: Roga Danar (SECURITY/ENGINEER) I had seeded a Kurlan under Sensitive Search and no one put any dilemmas under it, thinking it was a dilemma. I played Taul,Dathon,Vekor,Sela,Haakona,Lakanta and Roga and got the Kurlan Naiskos after 7 turns!! And I still had another security and another medical in my hand! With the Romulans!! @endnode @Node DOTW6 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Klg - Descent part III" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #6@{ub} Sorry, I was supposed to post a theme deck but I got so crushed, torn apart and humiliated by my partner's deck yesterday that I felt I should share with you my nighmare. I changed two personnel (after all, it's my post ;-) ) to put a sixth Klingon only mission (Med Relief) BeeR's Deck Idea #6: Klingons -Descent part III- "The Rogue Borgs have made an alliance with the Klingons. They have reconstructed Lore on a remote planet and are awaiting his return. Will your crew survive the deadliest threat ever encountered?" Missions: Investigate Disturbance Cloaked Mission Krios Suppression Fever Emergency Brute Force (or Plunder Site) Medical Relief Personnel: Bok Divok Etana Jol Governor Worf Gowron J'Ddan Koroth Kurn Nu'Daq Roga Danar Vekor Ships: Qu'Vat Bortas Hegh'Ta Interrupts: Rogue Bors x10 Crosis x2 Q2 x2 (against Amanda) Amanda x2 (nullifies Hugh) Events: Lore Returns Kivas Fajo x2 The Traveller Others: Disruptor OR Varon-T Disruptor OR a Personnel with archaeology if you put Plunder Site (possibly a female, Ocett 'caus you have only two) AU Doorway Klingon Outpost Dilemmas: Interphasic Plasma Creature x4 Male's Love Interest x3 (a lot of SCIENCE are male) Female's Love Interest x2 Chalnoth Cardassian Trap Hunter Gang Armus Outpost Raid x2 Tarelian Plague Ship (get rid of Vekor --> SCIENCE) Frame Of Mind The idea with the dilemmas is to make one IPC hit (it did not in my case, I did't had the oportunity to attempt even one mission) by killing or removing personnel. After that, the Borgs are unstoppable. @endnode @Node DOTW7 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom,Klg - Captains' Prerogative" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #7@{ub} This one is a modification of my partner's treaty attack deck. It's very effective as either a speed deck or an attack deck. Just wait for the few first card and then make your choice... BeeR' Deck Idea #7: Romulan/Klingon -Captains' Prerogative- Missions: Investigate Raid Extraction Covert Rescue Cloaked Mission Investigate Disturbance Krios Suppression Personnel/Ships: The captains and their ships: (total weapon:77 *ouch*) Mendak --> Devoras Tomalak --> Decius Toreth --> Khazara Kargan --> I.K.C. Pagh Kurn --> I.K.C. Hegh'Ta Baran --> Mercenary Ship Dathon --> Tama The crew: Divok Governor Worf J'Ddan (science, exo, fourth Treachery) Koroth Major Rakal Maques N'Vek Roga Danar Stefan DeSeve (Treachery, Dual, AU...) Takket Taul Vekor x2 Events: Captain's Log x2 Red Alert! Treaty x2 Interrupts: Tachyon Detection Grid (?!) LaForge Maneuver (?!) Equipments: Engineering Kit Medical Kit The rest is up to you... Beware of the Neural Servo Device! Two Kevin Uxbridge at least may be a good idea. @endnode @Node DOTW8 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Space Opera" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #8@{ub} Here's a theme deck based on romantic involvement in TNG. Did I missed some? Let me know! BeeR's Deck Idea #8: Fed - Space Opera - Personnel: The Picard clan: Jean-Luc Picard Neela Daren Vash Beverly Crusher Kareel Odan (with Bev, not with Picard) The Data clan: Data Jenna D'Sora Tasha Yar The Castillo clan Richard Castillo Tasha Yar-Alternate The Lwaxana Clan: Lwaxana Troi Ian Andrew Troi The Riker clan: William T. Riker Soren Ro Laren Etana Jol Deanna Troi (a big linking card) Thomas Riker Devinoni Ral Worf K'Ehleyr The LaForge clan: Geordi LaForge *Dr* Leah Brahms (poor Geordi is waiting for Aquiel) The Barclay clan: Reginald Barclay Holo-Projectors (Event) Goddess of Empathy (Event) Ships: Enterprise Yamato Enterprise-C Runabout Missions: Evacuation Diplomacy Mission First Contact Wormhole Negotiations Investigate Massacre Study "Hole in Space" Can't put risa :-( only one CIVILIAN Interrupts: Kevin Uxbridge Amanda Rogers Howard Heirloom Candle Alien Groupie Jamaharon Events: Rishon Uxbridge (Holo-Projectors) (Goddess of Empathy) Equipments: Med Kit (for play purpose) Doorway: AU Doorway Outpost: Fed Artifacts: Horga'hn Receptacle Stones Dilemmas: Anaphasic Organism Parallel Romance MLI FLI Ktarian Game Matriarchal Society Conundrum Tsiolkovsky Infection Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease Worshiper Tarellian Plague Ship Punishment Zone Q (he loves Picard so much...) @endnode @Node DOTW9 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Star Trek: Borg " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #9@{ub} Here's another Borg Deck, but a theme deck this time. -----------------please--use--safe--scissors-------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #9: Fed -StarTrek: Borg- The new film from Paramount "The Borgs are back, they have assimilated the Rogue Borgs and taken Lore as Locutus' successor... But Wesley is back with the Traveller and some yellow friends and together with the Enterprise they will once again save the Quadrant." Starring: Patrick Stewart as Capt'n Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr William Riker Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi LeVar Burton as Lt Cmdr Geordi LaForge Brent Spiner as Lt Cmdr Data Cheryl "Gates" McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Micheal Dorn as Lt Worf Will Weaton as Wesley Crusher Elizabeth Dennehy as Lt Cmdr Shelby Tom Jackson as Lakanta Natalia Nogulich as Vice-Admiral Alynna Nechayev John Neville as Sir Isaac Newton Jim Morton as Albert Einstein Jeff McCarthy as Roga Danar Caitlin Brown as Vekor Suzie Plakson as Dr Selar also starring: Olivia D'Abo as Amanda Rogers John Anderson as Kevin Uxbridge Corbin Bernsen as Q2 Eric Menyuk as The Traveller (Transcendance) Nehemiah Persoff as Palor Toff Brian Cousins as Crosis (x2) Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh Brent Spiner as Lore (Returns) Buncho Peepol as Rogue Borg (x10) John Snyder as Aaron Conor (Female Love Interest) John DeLancie as Q with special appearance by: You as The One Thank you to: the US Navy for the loan of the "U.S.S. Enterprise" the Japanese Navy for the "Yamato" the UFP for the "Nebula" and to ACME for the loan of some stuff and furniture: a Transwarp Conduit a Devidian Door (Lakanta on the Borg Ship? Don't, stop, moving baby...) an Alternate Universe Doorway a Federation Outpost (boy, that thing was heavy) an Emergency Transporter Armband (to retrieve Lakanta) the plot twists: Nanites (the ultimate weapon against the Borg) Tarellian Plague Ship (use these two to make Nanites hit) Tsiolkovsky Infection ( " " " ) Borg Ship Outpost Raid IP Creature (they work great with the Rogue Borg...) Hunter Gang Frame Of Mind Armus MLI (FLI, see above) (Q, see above) The sets: The plots: Tarod IX "Investigate Massacre" Peliar Zel "Diplomacy Mission" Bre'el IV "Restore Errant Moon" Dorvan V "Evacuation" Hakaris Corridor "Investigate Dissapearance" Morgana Quadrant "Study "Hole In Space"" Other possible places: Velara III "Evaluate Terraforming" Sector 97 "Explore Black Cluster" ---------------------------------------------------------- Ohniaka III (Descent) and Wolf 359 are not Fed missions. Too bad. Much less powerful than Deck #6. This one is more of a theme deck. For those who find some card inclusions odd, they were taken mainly from "Q Who?", "TBOBW", "I, Borg", "Descent" and the novel "Vendetta". ---->Next week: a *very* nasty deck... Check out my previous decks at http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ @endnode @Node DOTW10 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - A Good Place To Die" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #10@{ub} Hi everyone! I'm really glad you stopped by because I have something really nasty for you. This is a deck of total anihilation. In fact, if the cards get out right, you can make your opponent forfeit after a few turns. It happened to me (see below). Decks #10 and 11 come from this memorable deck but are more focused and even more destructive. Just hope your opponent doesn't play a six space deck... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #10: Fed -A Good Place To Die- Interrupts (10): Barclay's Transporter Phobia (BTP)x6 Thine Own Self (TOS)x4 Dilemmas (22): Setups (not stopped): Firestorm x2 Male's Love Interest (MLI)x2 Female's Love Interest (FLI) Armus Alien Abduction Hunter Gangs x3 Punishment Zone x2 Borg Ship Frame Of Mind Hitters: Cardassian Trap Chalnoth x2 Nausicaans x2 Zaldan x2 Outpost Raid Other (2): AU Doorway Outpost Personnel, Ships and missions: Your choice, but Feds suggested. Put 6 planets to be sure he'll have some planets to try. Otherwise you could play a 6 Green planets Romulan deck so there will be less chances that you both play the same affiliation. Here's what I suggest, it's called Fed -The Fewer the Higher- (12): J.-L. Picard, Data, Tasha-Alternate, Worf, Roga Danar, Richard Galen, Vekor, Geordi LaForge, Bev Crusher, Bev Picard, Jo'Bril, Mjr Rakal. 3 different Science, Medical, Engineer, Security and Officer and only Anthropology, Youth, Mindmeld and Stellar Cartography missing! The other eight cards are your choice (hey, it's a deck idea, not a Deck Of The Week! ;-) ). Don't forget to put some ships... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Analysis: It's hard to get wrong with this deck. Either you draw a personnel or you draw something to disable your opponent's personnel. A typical turn should go like this: -Your opponent's turn. He attempts a mission with 6 crew members. -Before he beams down, you put a BTP. 5 to go... -Hit MLI. 4 to go... -Hit Armus. 3 to go... -Chalnoth! Stopped. 2 to go... -You finish it with TOS. No more crew. It's important to put as many BTP and TOS as possible because you want to be able to start this on his first mission attempt. After two of this, chances are he'll have almost nothing left... --->Next week: second part. Check out http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ for previous decks @endnode @Node DOTW11 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - A Good Day To Die" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #11@{ub} Hi there! Sory for the delay, I had problems with my news servers... This is, I admit it, a very cheapo deck but it can get you out of a loosing streak really rapidly. It's not tourney legal (TAK-Alien Probe) but you can play without the probe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #11: Fed -A Good Day To Die- Events (9): Telepathic Alien Kidnappers (TAK) x 4 Alien Probe x2 Anti-Time Anomaly (ATA) Static Warp Bubble (a Kevin magnet) Klim Dokachin (another Kevin magnet) Interrupts (6): Kevin Uxbridge x2 (to remove the Anti-Time if something goes wrong) Amanda Rogers x2 Q2 x2 Personnel, Missions and ships (21): Doesn't really matter, but I recommand the same thing as last week: Fed -The Fewer the Higher-: J.-L. Picard, Data, Tasha-Alternate, Worf, Roga Danar, Richard Galen, Vekor, Geordi LaForge, Bev Crusher, Bev Picard, Jo'Bril, Mjr Rakal. 3 Ships 6 Missions Dilemmas (22): Same as @{"BDI #10" link DOTW10}: Setups (not stopped): Firestorm x2 Male's Love Interest (MLI)x2 Female's Love Interest (FLI) Armus Alien Abduction Hunter Gangs x3 Punishment Zone x2 Borg Ship Frame Of Mind Hitters: Cardassian Trap Chalnoth x2 Nausicaans x2 Zaldan x2 Outpost Raid Other (2): AU Doorway Outpost Variation: you can remove up to 4 dilemmas if you want more personnel or artifacts or whatever... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Analysis: The idea here is that if you draw the ATA early, put down a TAK first so that your opponent will play his best personnel in a hurry. Then put the ATA and try to look at your opponent in the eyes without smiling... :-) (oops! Just did) If the ATA doesn't come up, put down the Alien Probe and begin a massive carnage of his hand. As I said in my previous deck idea, these two decks come from a grand unified deck that has both this strategy and the BTPhobia-TOSelf strategy. Once the latter has worked, switch to the former and your opponent will never be able to put another personnel on the table! This deck works great with a Klingon Commando (Away Team killer) instead of a Fed crew. By an extraordinary coincidence, next week's deck will be a Klingon Commando. Don't miss it...next monday. Missed last week's BDI? Check out: http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ (note:the server is down for a few days right now) --- Nick for The Campaign against FS/FT @endnode @Node DOTW12 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Klg - DOOM" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #12@{ub} Hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere! Here we go again for another of those killer deck that make your opponent forfeit after a few turns... This is a deck entirely based on AT battles. Now you might say: "What? Away Team battles? Helllooo? This is only a myth you know..." Well you'll be surprised how nasty that can be. Just hope (again) your opponent doesn't play an all-space deck. Card analysis (chess notation): !! a winner ! good ? bad or questionable ?? a looser ?! questionable, but has some possibilities !? seemed good, but turns out to be bad Hey! If you try this deck, give me some feedback! --------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #12: Klingon - DOOM - aka The Glory of Battle Missions (6): The 6 Red planets (Brute Force, Krios Suppression, Cloaked Mission, Inv. Disturbance, Fever Emergency, Medical Relief) Personnel (13): K'mtar Governor Worf Kurak Nu'Daq Divok Gowron Vekma (?!: Honor) Kurn Kargan Divok Roga Danar Dathon Vekor Ships (3): Pagh Hegh'ta Buruk Interrupts (16): Kevin, Amanda, Q2 Dist. of S/T Cont. x2 (is there any abbreviation for this one? DS/TC?) Phaser Burns Honor Challenge (!: very good against Romulans) Klingon Death Yell (?: you'll never die anyway! Just for the theme) Barclay Transporter Phobia x3 (to start the work...) Thine Own Self x2 (...to finish off the work) Disruptor Overload (?!: many uses, ex: Alien Labyrinth) Rogue Borg x2 (!: to boost the Echo Papa 607) Equipments (2): Echo Papa 607 Klingon Disruptor (!: Brute Force, Zaldan, battles...) Artifacts (2): Iconian Gateway Varon-T Disruptor Others (2): AU Doorway Klingon Outpost Dilemmas (13): FLI x2 MLI Q (!: you can put your Gateway-ed Away Teams near your outpost) Parallel Romance Matriarchal Society x2 Hunter Gangs Frame of Mind x2 Alien Labyrinth Outpost Raid Punishment Zone Armus 3 other cards for you to choose (probably personnel or dilemmas) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dilemma combos aim to stop your opponent like FLI+Matriarchal. Those combos where discussed at large in @{"BDI#10" link DOTW10}. It's not necessary to put these combos everywhere. Just where your opponent is most likely to attempt first. If the cards come out well, this can be a total crusher deck. Just look what happened to me... (yes, it's again my partner's idea). 11 personnel out. I was testing my deck idea @{"#13" link DOTW13} (Feds). Attempting the mission at my outpost ("Nah! I'm sure there's no Outpost Raid here...") Hit Armus: lose Roga Danar (ouch). Hit Oupost Raid(!): lose Bev Crusher AND Bev Picard (f..k). Stopped. Enemy attempts a mission, gets Varon-T. Enemy goes to my mission, beams AT. Plays Phaser Burns... no amanda: 2 down, 6 to go... Enemy battles Emeny 1 more down, 5 to go... plays Distortion of S/T Continuum... no amanda. Enemy splits AT: 1)Roga+Gowron+Varon-T 2)the others. First strike: 4 to go... Second strike: 3 to go... One more and he could have played a Thine Own Self! I lost 8 crew members in one turn. :-( Having three different way of boosting your ATs (Disruptors, Varon-T and Echo Papa) increases the chances to have at least one early in the game. Another good strategy is to use Brain Drain in combination with such dilemmas like Holo Ruse or Shaka to stop your oponent. Guess what? Yep. It'll be next week's theme... +++++++++++++++++++ Missed the previous deck ideas? http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ @endnode @Node DOTW13 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - The Wiser...The Killer" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #13@{ub} 'lo there! I was trying to find a way to use the Vulcan Stone Of Gul (VSOG) for someone (the Giershmeister) when I fell on Brain Drain. This is one of those times when your start banging your head on the wall, saying: "Why haven't I thought of that before, why haven't..." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #13: Fed - The Wiser...The Killer - Missions (6): Evacuation Diplomacy Mission Evaluate Terraforming Restore Errant Moon Investigate Disapearance Investigate Rogue Comet Personnel (14): Jean-Luc Picard Data Bev Crusher Bev Picard Worf Tasha - Alternate Roga Danar Geordi LaForge Vekor Richard Galen Rachel Garrett Jo'Bril (!: SCIENCE, treachery, Greed...) Dathon Major Rakal Ships (4): Enterprise Yamato Runabout Nebula Interrupts (7): Amanda Q2 Kevin Brain Drain x3 (!!: good with VSOG, CUNNING dilemmas...) Palor Toff (!!: Brain Drain x4 or Amanda x2...) Events (4): Red Alert! Genetronic Replicator Kivas Fajo The Traveller Others (3): Vulcan Stone Of Gul Fed Outpost AU Doorway Dilemmas (22): Cardi Trap Edo Probe Worshiper Hunter Gangs Frame Of Mind Holographic Ruse Parallel Romance x2 Male's Love Interest Female's Love Interest x2 Matriarchal Interphasic PLasma Creatures Firestorm Rascals Nagilum Q Outpost Raid Tsiolkovsky Plague Ship Armus Zaldan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, first my opinion of the Vulcan Stone Of Gul: not a very good card. Most of the good personnel can get passed it and you need to stop your opponent on a planet, wich is somehow difficult. But then with Brain Drain, it's a whole new ball game. You can now kill those who normally get passed the VSOG by lowering their cunning first! I tried it and my opponent was playing Klingons (low cunning)!! The only two personnel in his (stopped) AT that had CUNNING > 7 where Dathon and Roga Danar. I played three Brain Drain; he nullified one with Amanda; I Brain Drained the two wise guys and then played the VSOG. 8 kills!! Dedicate four cards in your deck to kill maybe six personnel may not sound well calculated, but BD has many more uses, like removing a critical skill (Exo?) to strenghten a dilemma (Zaldan?) or to prevent your opponent from doing a mission at a critical point... Almost everyone use Vekor, because of her Med skill. She often completes the 3 Med Commando that makes Genetronic Replicator so powerful. Well your opponent might be on for a little surprise... You might want to look at it's effect on Nutational Shields, Warp Core Breach, The Charybdis abd Isabella. Also Parallel Romance is excellent for the VSOG since it stops two personnel that might be VSOGed after! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Next week: a tribute to the Major, one of my favorite cards. check out http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ for previous deck ideas. -- BeeR @endnode @Node DOTW14 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - Fedspionage" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #14@{ub} 'lo there! You like those little surprise decks that make your opponent's jaw drop? Just read further... ...and hope your opponent plays Feds. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #14: Romulan - Fedspionage - Missions (6): Study Lonka Pulsar Investigate "Shattered Space" Covert Rescue Secret Salvage (!: to attract killer space dilemmas...) Expose Covert Supply Strategic Diversion Personnel (20): The Commando: Major Rakal Stefan DeSeve Bok Vekor Etana Jol Dr Reyga Roga Danar Jo'Bril Ajur Boratus Dathon Baran Evek The Support Crew: Takket Sela Tebok Mirok Tarus Toreth Taibak Ships (4): Tama Decius Haakona Mercenary Ship Interrupts (6): Vorgon Raiders Wolf (!: you don't want your Commando Leader to die) Amanda Q2 Kevin Uxbridge Brain Drain Events (4): Genetronic Replicator Red Alert! Thermal Deflector Espionage: Romulan on Federation (!: Major + Stefan + Esp: 3 Teams) Others (3): Medical Kit Romulan Outpost Alternate Universe Doorway Dilemmas (17): Tarellian Plague Ship Tsiolkovsky Infection Rascals Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease Shaka, When The Walls Fell REM Fatigue Hallucinations Interphasic Plasma Creatures Armus: Skin Of Evil Coalescent Organism Chalnoth Hunter Gangs Firestorm Parallel Romance Worshiper Edo Probe Cardassian Trap Outpost Raid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, now for the analysis: You might wonder why doing such a deck in a race game like STCCG. Granted it isn't a speed deck, but if the cards come out well, your opponent will be in for a surprise...You don't _need_ the Espionnage! First of all you've placed the dilemmas under the Fed Missions, so you know exactly what to expect (do you?). Nothing new here. The difference is that since this deck relies heavily on NA personnel, you can do _all_ your opponent's missions. The old trick of placing a single dilemma and two or three misseeded dilemmas works really well here. But this deck really shines in those lazy Sunday afternoon games when you play without the 100 points limit (i.e. until someone's deck runs out). In those games, you can easily do 5 or even your 6 missions before you finish your deck. So one mission less for your opponent can be fatal, and since you're playing Romulan there's no way for him to steal your missions. Unless... ...next week. ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ for previous deck ideas. -- BeeR @endnode @Node DOTW15 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Undercover at Romulus" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #15@{ub} 'lo there! Remember last week's deck? Here's the opposite strategy. Thanks to the power of Fed personnels, this one is a real bulldozer... All I did was change the support crew, and remove Ajur & Boratus since Fed security is much better than Rom. ...hope your opponent plays Romulan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #15: Fed - Undercover At Romulus - Missions (6): Evaluate Terraforming Diplomacy Mission Evacuation Restore Errant Moon Investigate Rogue Comet Investigate Dissapearance Personnel (19): The Commando: Major Rakal Stefan DeSeve Bok Vekor Etana Jol Dr Reyga Roga Danar Jo'Bril Dathon Baran Evek The Support Crew: Beverly Crusher Beverly Picard Worf Tasha Yar - Alternate Jean-Luc Picard Data Geordi LaForge Rachel Garrett Ships (4): Tama USS Enterprise USS Yamato Mercenary Ship Interrupts (6): Wolf (!: you don't want your Commando Leader to die) Amanda Q2 Kevin Uxbridge Brain Drain (!: to spice some dilemmas...) Palor Toff Events (4): Genetronic Replicator Red Alert! Lore's Fingernail (?: Data becomes NA) Thermal Deflector Others (3): Medical Kit Federation Outpost Alternate Universe Doorway Dilemmas (18): Tarellian Plague Ship Tsiolkovsky Infection Rascals Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease Shaka, When The Walls Fell REM Fatigue Hallucinations Interphasic Plasma Creatures Armus: Skin Of Evil Coalescent Organism Chalnoth Hunter Gangs Firestorm Parallel Romance Worshiper Edo Probe Cardassian Trap Outpost Raid Zaldan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, now for the analysis: Since this deck resembles last week's deck, most of what I said is still true. One thing I didn't said last week: the Med Kit is useful only if you don't remember where you put what and against the Plague Ship (tough I would suggest you put the Plague Ship somewhere you're not likely to spy. I've also included Lore's Fingernail but I didn't playtested the deck with it, I prefered to add another dilemma. Only one Security in the Commando isn't a problem if you remember the dilemmas. Want some stats? 30 Classifications with 19 personnels! Diplo x8, Lead x7, Hon x6, Comp x6, Trea x5, Nav x4, Bio x4, Astro x4, Greed x4, Exo x3, Arch, Phy and Music x2, Anth, Emp, Stel, Geo and Tal Shiar x1 Woah! Even if you don't spy any Rom mission, you'lL bulldoze your way through anything. And there's three Fed missions you can do with one personnel. Sounds like the much overdue Fed -One Man Show-... Think the decks are getting a bit tight these days? Ok, next week will be a theme deck. ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ for previous deck ideas. -- BeeR @endnode @Node DOTW16 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - The Power of the Mind" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #16@{ub} 'lo there. Here's a deck I wanted yo do for a while. It's a very psychedelic deck (hehe) and also very versatile All the cards are related to mind control or special mind abilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #16: Fed -The Power of the Mind- aka Psychodeck Personnel (17): The Mindmelders Satelk Dr Selar Sarek Taurik T'Pan (don't forget she _has_ Mindmeld) The Empaths Devinoni Ral Maques Major Rakal Deanna Troi Lwaxana Troi Tam Elbrum The Travellers Lakanta Wesley Crusher The Others Roga Danar ("my improved memory lets me remind...") Bok (the Thought Maker guy) Etana Jol (psychotropically addictive game) Baran (Neural Servo Device) Missions (6): Investigate Sighting First Contact Investigate Massacre Sensitive Search Diplomacy Mission Evacuation Ships (4): Gomtuu Yamato USS Enterprise USS Brittain (It's in the theme. I have no choice. I'm sorry...) Interrupts (9): Eyes In The Dark Wolf Brain Drain Howard Heirloom Candle Q2 Amanda Kevin Vulcan Mindmeld Vulcan Nerve Pinch Events (4): Telepathic Alien Kidnappers Neural Servo Device The Traveller: Transcendance Interrogation Others (4): Federation Outpost Alternate Universe Doorway Thought Maker Receptacle Stones Dilemmas (16): Cytherians Thought Fire 2D Creatures Conundrum Empathic Echo Ktarian Game REM Fatigue Hallucinations Male's Love Interest Female's Love Interest Frame of Mind Maman Picard Cardassian Trap Alien Parasite Q Anaphasic Organism interphasic Plasma Creatures ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This deck was very interesting to play, as it permitted me to try cards I never tried before. With Howard Heirloom Candle, you can actually make Anaphasic Organism and Empathic Echo work by doubling the requirement for those two dilemmas. Now before you tell me that the card reads "doubles the effect" and that effect isn't the same as requirement, read the FAQ carefully. It clearly says that the card doubles the requirement, NOT the effect. That's probably the oddest ruling in the entire game but the FAQ is the law so... Receptacle Stones can have very interesting effects too. Since it is written "...also apply to..." we decided that the dilemma would affect your opponent after. So if you hit Q, you would be the last to modify the spaceline! Correct me if I'm wrong Q(!). Also, you'll be able to capture someone right when you want! Just hit Cardi Trap. Chances are your opponent won't have Empathy. The combo Brain Drain-Ktarian Game is also very good since your opponent loses two crew members before the 30 Cunning is calculated. Vulcan Nerve Pinch? Oh well, I guess you can remove that card for now in favor of a Nagilum maybe, to justify the Yamato... Next week, how about a game of Black Jack? ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ for previous deck ideas. -- BeeR @endnode @Node DOTW17 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Points'R'us" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #17@{ub} 'lo there! Recently, some people complained that the decks me and the others were posting contained too much high-priced rares. Well, when I see a new deck design, I never try it before analysing it myself and making a few adjustment if I feel necessary. For example, I almost never put The Traveller in my deck designs simply because we don't play with it. We feel it's too powerful so we just don't use it. If your partner always play with it, I suggest you remove one dilemma in favour of that card. Also, if you don't have Picard, you can replace him with two other characters with the same skills... you get the idea. This deck was designed back in June so it may seems a little out of touch (I saw a few Music-Ressikan Flute deck designs since). Anyway, here it is... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #17: Fed - Points'R'us - Personnel (16): Mickey D. x2 Data Jenna D'Sora Jean-Luc Picard Beverly Picard Neela Daren Ian Andrew Toi Jack Crusher Beverly Crusher Roga Danar Vekor Worf Thomas Riker William Riker Richard Galen Ships (4): Future Enterprise Enterprise Yamato Runabout Interrupts (9): Emergency Transporter Armband (ETA) x4 (!: beam me up, Scotty) Amanda Rogers x2 (against Thine Own Self) Q2 x2 (to protect your ETAs and the Ressikan Flute) Kevin Uxbridge Events (2): Red Alert! The Traveller (!: really important in this case because of Music) Others (4): Fed outpost AU Doorway Engineering Kit Ressikan Flute (RF) Missions (6): Diplomacy Mission Excavation Restore Errant Moon Avert Disaster Evaluate Terraforming Investigate Massacre Dilemmas (19): Royale Casino: Blackjack (BJ)x6 The Higher...The Fewer x2 Punishment Zone x4 (*Four*. Ouch!) Edo Probe x2 Sarjenka Holographic Ruse Q Worshiper Alien Labyrinth ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You've probably guess, the idea is to put the six BJ dilemmas under you own missions. You'll be able to gain as much as a 60 point lead over your opponent (30:-30). After that, the RF takes charge with up to 40 points plus the mission where you seeded RF (about 30 points). Speaking of Blackjack, I'm really looking forward to the Royal Casino: ____ side games coming (probably) in the next expansion. How do you attempt those six missions without losing Mickey D.? Chances are you'll have a couple of missions with BJ as your first encounter. In that case your ETAs and Q2s are all you need to beams safely up once the job is done. Sarjenka will also come in handy to stop Mickey. Once you've used all your ETAs, start doing the missions with Mickey as a crew member, backed with another one in your hand. The Edo Probe-Q and Edo Probe-Worshiper combos are almost sure hitter, as most people will choose to continue... One big weakness in this deck: only 12 dilemmas. Normally I would scream against this, but in that case each time you succede a BJ, it's as if your opponent had hit a -10 dilemma. Hopefully you'll be able to make 100 points before your will-be fast opponent. Oh, and one more thing: try not to send Vekor and Thomas Riker together in an Away Team as they are the only two that can solve Evaluate Terraforming. I know what I'm talking about. ;-) Next week: Rommies go in space. ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ for previous deck ideas. -- BeeR @endnode @Node DOTW18 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - Six Green Space" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #18@{ub} 'lo there! I know there's no such thing as 6 "green" space missions (yet) but this deck is probably the closest you can get while keeping the requirements to an acceptable minimum... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #18: Romulan - Six Green Space - (6GP) Missions (6): Investigate "Shattered Space" Study Lonka Pulsar Quash Conspiracy Explore Typhone Expanse Compromised Mission Secret Salvage Personnel (20): Jera Major Rakal Mendak Mirok Palteth Taibak Takket Tarus Taul Tebok Tomek Toreth Sela Bok Dr Reyga Jo'Bril Lakanta Maques Roga Danar Vekor Ships (4): Pi Devoras Khazara Haakona Interrupts (4): Amanda Rogers Q2 Kevin Uxbridge Events (2): Red Alert! Holo-Projector Others (2): Romulan Outpost AU Doorway Dilemmas (22): The "Bashers": Rascals Tsiolkovsky Infection Tarellian Plague Ship Frame of Mind Edo Probe Armus - Skin of Evil Firestorm Male's Love Interest Female's Love Interest Alien Abduction Hunter Gangs Punishment Zone Parallel Romance The "Show Stoppers" Borg Ship Outpost Raid Shaka, When the Walls Fell Coalescent Organism Cardassian Trap Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease Q Zaldan Alien Parasites ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Simple, straightforward, no fuss, no mess. Thise is probably the most boring deck I've ever written (except maybe @{"#2" link DOTW2})... First you put the three Green Space. Here's how to do Quash Conspiracy: wait 'till the Major and hopefully the Pi come out, attempt the mission with one well staffed ship while the Major in her Pi is waiting _at_the mission_opposite_to_the_direction_a_Borg_Ship_would_follow_ (I know, I made the mistake). Next there is Explore Typhone Expanse, with Klingons having no good Stellar Cartographers and poor Cunning; Secret Salvage, where you should beat the Klingons again with 7 Treachery, 4 Computer Skill and 3 Navigation in your deck; And finally Compromised Mission with 2 Treachery that a Fed opponent will have trouble getting out before you. Palteth? Tomek? Tarus? Jera?! Sounds like a deck from my early days... I had to blow the thick layer of dust from those cards ;-) since I don't usually play Romulans in space. Palteth is good for is ENGINEER classification and the fourth Computer Skill he brings, which important. With Mendak around, now's a good time to put Captain's Log, or you could put a second Holo-Projector or Hugh to be on the safe side, but there is a reason why I included 22 dilemmas... With a deck design so dull, now's the best time to draw you attention to the second, but no less important, part of a deck design: the dilemmas. You all know, dilemmas are good when they are combined. Those combos are even better when arranged in a way that will prevent your opponent from withdrawing after an unpleasant encounter. Keeping this in mind, I chose my dilemmas in a way that would allow me to put two dilemma under each missions in the case of a six space and three dilemmas under each planet in the opposite situation. That brings me to a 4 space, 8 either and 10 planets setup. I then chose those dilemmas trying to have a basher-stopper combo for each space and a basher-basher-stopper combo for each planet. If you opponent decides to mix space and planet missions, things get even better... So I'm leaving you to your thoughts, trying to find the best setup for each possibilities. Next week, let's investigate some space anomalies... ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ for previous deck ideas. -- BeeR @endnode @Node DOTW19 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Space Anomaly" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}BeeR's Deck Idea #19@{ub} 'lo there! Here's a theme deck that went well despite the fact that less than half the draw deck consist of personnel (a common thing for a theme deck). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #19: Fed - Space Anomaly - Missions (6): Explore Dyson Sphere Study Nebula Investigate Disappearance Repair Mission Explore Black Cluster Study "Hole In Space" Personnel (16): Jean-Luc Picard Data Beverly Picard Beverly Crusher Worf Roga Danar Geordi LaForge Vekor Dr. Reyga Albert Einstein Wesley Crusher Jenna D'Sora Neela Daren Dathon Major Rakal Jo'Bril Ships (4): Enterprise Yamato Nebula Runabout Interrupts (9): Distortion of S/T... Kevin Uxbridge Amanda Q2 Senior Staff Meeting Temporal Rift Hugh Wormhole x2 Events (6) Where No One Has Gone Before Red Alert! Tetryon Field Subspace Warp Rift Gaps In Normal Space Q-Net Others (3): Federation Outpost AU Doorway x2 (one seeded) Dilemmas (16): Q Coalescent Organism Alien Abduction Csmic String Fragment Null Space Temporal Causality Loop (No, I didn't use this one myself. Theme has a limit sometimes) 10 others. Space/Planet dilemmas preferably. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This deck is a mixing of several space-oriented theme decks with about the same personnel, notably a Wormhole x10 one (very effective against Klingon attack decks), a Q-Nets one (my opponent played a Fed Diplo deck :-( ), a Warp Rift-Gaps Tetryon-Gaps heavy deck (these combos are very effective: place one combo on each side of the outpost and move away your missions using Q...) and a space defensive deck (Hugh, Senior Staff, Asteroid Sanctuary...). Try them, they are very fun to play, especially the wormhole heavy one if you have at least 8 of them. I like playing six spaces. I will probably end up nullifying 8 to 10 dilemmas just by doing so. Watch out for the multi affiliation missions, you opponent will often put one or no space dilemma, followed by tons of misseeded ones to scare you out. It's even more obvious when he places his outpost near that mission. Only two wormholes is dangerous, but the deck don't rely on these two cards, so they can show up late in the game. The Q-Net might poses a problem for your ships, so use one AU Doorway. Distortion of S/T Continuum: simply one of the most usefull cards of the game. Good for battle decks, speed decks, theme decks, defensive decks... Next week: Diplomatic Conference (and how to win with it). ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://step.polymtl.ca/gestion/polytv/beer/ for previous deck ideas. -- BeeR @endnode @Node DOTW20 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - The Conference" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #20@{ub} 'lo there! This week we have a guest! Let me introduce you to my usual opponent, the guy (with Dom also) who dragged me into the CCG world (who "drowned" me may be more appropriate... thanks guys ;-) ). His name is Phil, but you'll probably see him as Koroth, and I as Tebok on Decipher's WebBoard. -Hi Phil! -Helloww. Phil is an old contributer to this column. He designed decks @{"#4" link DOTW4} and @{"12" link DOTW12} an contributed to decks @{"#10" link DOTW10} and @{"#11" link DOTW11} (yes, I know those are the four best deck designs I've ever posted). He's gonna be with us this fall, as I persuated him to join the net (that's for dragging me to "another" money pit ;-) ). Now that presentations are made, let Phil talk to you about his latest idea, shall I say the first "Tebok & Koroth's Deck of the Week"... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeR's Deck Idea #20: Fed - The Conference - Missions (6): Diplomatic Conference Hunt for DNA Investigate Massacre Evaluate Terraforming Evacuation Diplomacy Mission Personnel (17): Major Rakal Governor Worf Maques Sarek Tasha Yar-Alternate Jack Crusher Beverly Picard Jean-Luc Picard Beverly Crusher Dr. Selar Richard Galen Data Dathon Lakanta Dr. Reyga Baran Roga Danar Ships (3): Future Enterprise U.S.S. Enterprise U.S.S. Galaxy Interrupts (7): Q2 X2 Amanda Rogers Kevin Uxbridge X2 Dist. Time/Space Cont. Vulcan Mindmeld Events (1): Res-Q Others (6): Federation Outpost A. U. Doorway Devidian Door X2 Ophidian Cane Betazoid Gift Box Dilemmas (20): (he didn't put any, check deck @{"#19" link DOTW19} for a good selection) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This deck is very simple: four easy missions to get your artifacts and *two* big scorers to split your opponent's big dilemmas. 1)Use the BGBox to get the necessary VIPs in your hand and the Ophidian Cane (if necessary) to bring them together to the Diplomatic Conference once your AT has cleared the dilemmas. You should try to keep Rakal, Worf and Maques in your hand and play them with the cane to protect them from any danger. Should you decide to use Rakal or Maques in your AT, you still have a Res-Q just in case. 2)The DNA Hunt can be easily accomplished once you use Vulcan Mindmeld to duplicate important skills (Sarek mindmelds Galen and Selar mindmelds Roga or Jack Crusher or JL Picard). A heavy defense (Q2, Kevin) is necessary to protect your important cards (Mindmeld, Dev Door, Cane). Next week: who said Romulans were traitors? ++++++++++++++++++++ The web page has moved! check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous deck ideas. -- Commander Tebok Romulan Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW21 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - A Matter of Honor" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #21@{ub} 'lo there! Now that the new ST card game is up and running, I've decided to change my weekly deck title to avoid any confusion in the newsgroup. BeeR's STCCG Deck Idea sounded good, but here's another idea more in the net.tradition: Tebok's STCCG DOTW! And what could be more appropriate to this new name than a Romulan theme deck... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #21: Romulan - A Matter of Honor - Missions (6): Secret Salvage Investigate Massacre Investigate Raid Relief Mission Excavation Covert Rescue Personnel (18): Toreth Tokath N'Vek D'Tan Bochra Jaron Cmdr Tomalak Tomalak Tebok Takket Varel Thei Evek Ocett Vekor Maques Roga Danar Dathon Ships (4): Devoras Haakona Khazara Pi Interrupts (4): Amanda Rogers Q2 Kevin Uxbridge Distortion of Space/Time Continuum Events (2): Red Alert Lower Decks Others (4): Romulan Outpost AU Doorway Medical Kit Engineering Kit Dilemmas (22): Space (4): Rascals Tsiolkovsky Infection Tarellian Plague Ship Borg Ship Planet (9): Armus - Skin of Evil Firestorm Male's Love Interest Female's Love Interest Alien Abduction Zaldan Alien Parasites Hunter Gangs Punishment Zone Parallel Romance Either (8): Outpost Raid Shaka, When the Walls Fell Coalescent Organism Cardassian Trap Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease Frame of Mind Edo Probe Q ---------------------------------------------------------------------- That new D'Tan card gave my Romulans an all new purpose in life: to live with honor and a sense of integrity. So I grabbed my cards and looked for all those who could pass The Great Test with the help of our little Romulan friend. A few people from the yellow world came to join them and they even admitted a misfit for medical and science reason. What's great about this deck is that with the help of Lower Decks, your personnel have an average integrity of 6.6! Not bad for Romulans. Using Dathon and Maques, I was even able to pass the Q dilemma with eight personnel! My Q dilemma! With only one space mission, I was sure to attract a lot of nasty dilemmas there (why waste them?) so I seeded Q there last and did the mission first. Then I went to the more hazarous planet missions and got destroyed on my way by a Klingon armada but that's another story... Another note: with 10 officers out of 18 personnel, the two kits are quite powerful. The rest is obvious. Next week: The wise Koroth has spoken again: some Klingons are honorless. ++++++++++++++++++++ check out the revamped web site! http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ -- Commander Tebok Romulan Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW22 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Klg - Right of Cowardice" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #22@{ub} 'lo there! Here's another deck from my friend Koroth. I wonder where he got the inspiration... BEGIN TRANSMISSION RECEIVING FROM: Koroth@Monastery.Boreth Honorless Klingons outmatch honest Rommies anytime... Nice try Tebok. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #22: Klingon - Right of Cowardice - Missions (6): Fever Emergency Medical Relief Sarthong Plunder Plunder Site Secret Salvage Compromised Mission Personnel (18): Koroth Duras Lursa B'Etor Toral (If you don't play him now, when will you ???) K'mpec Koral J'Ddan Divok Nu'Daq Devinoni Ral Baran Vekor (X2) Roga Danar Bok Ajur Boratus Ships (5): I.K.C Vorn I.K.C Hegh'ta I.K.C. Pagh I.K.C. K'Vort Mercenary Ship (Tama tons better, but less fitting) Interrupts (5): Q2 Amanda Rogers Security Sacrifice Vorgon Raiders Latinum Payoff Events (3): Espionnage: Klingon on Federation Neural Servo Device Thermal Deflectors Others (4): A. U. Doorway Klingon Outpost Medical Tricorder Thought Maker (a good time as ever to put to use the old ferengi dog device) Dilemmas (19): Punishment Zone-Armus-Alien Parasites Male's Love Interest-Punishment Zone-Alien Labyrinth Borg Ship-Tarellian Plague Ship-Cytherians Frame of Mind-Outpost Raid-Cardassian Trap Parallel Romance-Hunter Gangs-The Gatherers-Barclay's PD Tarellian Plague Ship-Rascals-Nagilum (the ONLY way I ever witnessed Nagilum kill anyone) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At first glimpse, an honorless Klingon is as sorry an excuse for a living entity as a fishless sea. So I thought that since we're probably going to end up soon with the later, might as well get used to the idea by fumblimg with the former... And remenber, "The wind does not respect a fool" Honorably yours, Koroth END TRANSMISSION Wow. That was deep. I admit there's not much to say about this deck. Every card speaks for itself. You forgot to include Kell, though (but that was probably intentional). That about wraps it up for now. See you all next week! ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Commander Tebok 10289 Main Street Gal Gath'thong, Rumulus Beta Quadrant @endnode @Node DOTW23 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom,Fed - Counterparts" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #23@{ub} 'lo there! Enough about theme decks for now, let's investigate something I neglected for a long time: Treaty decks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #23: Romulan/Federation - Counterparts - Missions (6): Study Lonka Pulsar Investigate "Shattered Space" Study Nebula Repair Mission Investigate Dissapearance Study Stellar Collision Personnel (21): The main crew: Mirok Tarus Dr. Reyga Jo'Bril Roga Danar Data Rachel Garrett Taitt Neela Daren Jenna D'Sora Geordi LaForge Wesley Crusher The support crew: Sela Tebok Major Rakal Takket Vekor Maques Beverly Crusher Beverly Picard Jean-Luc Picard (or Dathon if you want more NA) Ships (4): USS Enterprise USS Yamato Devoras Khazara Interrupts (5): Amanda Rogers Kevin Uxbridge Q2 Senior Staff Meeting (It destroyed Outpost Raid! Whoohoo!) Hugh Events (3): Red Alert! Treaty: Fed/Rom x2 Others (3): Fed Outpost Rom Outpost AU Doorway Dilemmas (18): (3 per mission) Planet (8): Hunter Gangs Firestorm Alien Parasite Punishment Zone Zaldan Female's Love Interest Male's Love Interest Armus - Skin Of Evil Space (3): Tarellian Plague Ship Tsiolkovsky Infection Rascals Either (7): Outpost Raid Cardassian Trap Q Parallel Romance Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease Frame Of Mind Edo Probe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- One good thing about mixing these two affiliations together is that they are complementary in many ways. Rommies tend to be stronger whereas Feds tend to have higher integrity. Roms have more treachery and Feds have more honor, etc. The first mission set you can built is the obvious one, the diplo set. Start with Investigate Massacre, add Diplomacy Mission, Evacuation and Covert Rescue and finally, take Excavation plus another one. Skills: Diplomacy, Leadership and probably Treachery. That's it! The one problem with this idea is that you'll need a *lot* of officers and you know how much this classification is useful... So let's look at the space missions. Romulan have two missions perfectly suited for the Feds: Lonka Pulsar and Shattered Space. After including the Astrophysicians, the Stellar Cartographers and a couple of support crew, you end up having enough skills to complete most of the Fed and Romulan missions. Look like a simplified version of my two espionnage decks! One major diference: A third of your crew are Engineers and a quarter are Sciences. That will help you get passed a couple of space dilemmas easily. The only problem I had with this deck is that it's very low in offensive interrupts. A Temporal Rift and a Thine Own Self would have been very useful in more than one occasions. But then again a lot of personnel is also powerful and I won't go below 18 dilemmas so I decided to post it without any modifications. Next week: Klg/Fed ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Commander Tebok Romulan Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW24 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Klg,Fed - Honor is Life" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #24@{ub} 'lo there! Another deck from my partner-in-crime Phil (alias Koroth). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #24: Klg/Fed - Honor is Life - Missions (6): Krios Suppression Cloaked Mission Investigate Disturbance Diplomacy Mission Evacuation Investigate Massacre Personnel (16): Governor Worf Worf K'Ehleyr (the Force is strong in this family...) Alexander Rozhenko K'mtar Kurn Kargan William T. Riker (for the sentimentals out there...) Vekma Kurak Kahless (not that useful, but quite essential...) Gowron Jean-Luc Picard Tasha Yar-Alternate Rachel Garrett Dathon Ships (5): I.K.C. Fek'Ihr I.K.C. Hegh'ta I.K.C. Pagh Tama U.S.S. Enterprise Interrupts (6): Honor Challenge Klingon Death Yell Phaser Burns Kevin Uxbridge Amanda Rogers Q2 Events (5): Treaty: Federation/Klingon (x2) Captain's Log Red Alert Others (5): A. U. Doorway Klingon Outpost Federation Outpost Klingon Disruptor Medical Kit Dilemmas (18): (recommended combos, if possible) Armus - Frame of Mind - Ferengi Attack Parallel Romance - Male's Love Interest - Chalnoth The Higher... - Frame of Mind - Q Interphasic Plasma Creatures- Outpost Raid - Borg Ship Firestorm - Hunter Gangs - Zaldan Edo Probe - Cardassian Trap - Shaka ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Who said treaties were peaceful in nature? Actually, nothing quite stirs away the boredom of diplomatic agreements like pouring a little chaos into your neighbor's lives! With enough Klingon/Non-Aligned personnel to man 4 warships (3 of them under captain's log), and a few battle interrupts, you just might achieve exactly that... But most of all, even if your intentions might not be, your hand is ENTIRELY honorable! This, however, brings forth a few problems: no Bio (not so bad for planet missions), no Exo (counter Zaldan with Disruptor), no Anthropology (try to avoid religious centers...), only 1 Science (keep an eye open for those freak leaches, and hope you don't tear apart the flat once you're protomorphosized...), no empathy (bah, F*** Tam!), and only 1 Engineer (unless you carry around Scotty, but I guess he's seen enough already...). By the way, if you manage to beam down the Kargan/Riker/Vekma trio from the Pagh, and to match the Riker/Vekma duo in a Parallel Romance, score 44 points (just 1 shy of the Borg Ship)!... And remember, "The wind does not respect a fool" Honorably yours, Koroth ++++++++++++++++++++ Not bad he? Thanks again Koroth. Stay tuned for upcoming deck ideas by Tania Taylor, Robbie Clark alias Mortal Q and Peter Veeren alias Ian Christopher Troi. Next week: A special 25th edition DOTW!. check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Commander Tebok Romulan Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW25 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/25 short deck ideas" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #25@{ub} Jolan tru! Welcome to the 25th edition of Tebok's DOTW. 25? Sounds like a magic number to me! What could be appropriate to such a number? 25 decks you won't see in DOTW? Nah. Been done. How about... ...25 short deck ideas? That's not bad... I have tons of unfinished deck ideas that are to "ordinary" for a DOTW. I was waiting for QC to get a couple of missions that could fit in the themes, but I guess we'll have to wait another six months for that. So, here are 25 short deck ideas to give you a head start, and a quick step by step guide to built an effective deck with those ideas: 1) Select a mission set. The best are those with few skill requirements. 2) Choose your personnel to match the required skills. Try to have at least three personnel for each required skill, more if required more than once. 3) Adjust your crew to have at least 3 different SEC, MED, SCI and ENG. 4) Watch out for Exo and Empathy. 5) Interrupts, Events, Artifacts. 6) Dilemmas. At least 18. 9 planet, 9 either and 3 space ideally. If you can come up with good decks based on these ideas, I'll be delighted to read them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #25: 25 short deck ideas Romulan - Archaeology - (Pre AU)(5) Excavation Iconia Investigation Plunder Site Sarthong Plunder Hunt for DNA Program Strategic Diversion *Arch x8, Trea x4, Comp x3, Bio x1, Lead x1. Taul x2, Galathon, Ocett, Baran, Palteth, Vekor, Bok, Takket, Tebok, Sela, Taibak... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Romulan - Arch w/ space - (4) Sarthong Plunder Plunder Site Excavation Iconia Investigation Secret Salvage Expose Covert Supply *Arch x5, Trea x4 or x8, Nav x3 or x1, Comp x2 or x1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Romulan - Astro II - (6) Investigate "Shattered Space" Study Lonka Pulsar Explore Typhone Expanse Secret Salvage Study Stellar Collision Study Plasma Streamer *Astr x5, Stel x4, Nav x3, Comp x2, You x1, Lead x1. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Romulan - 6GP - (Pre AU)(8) Covert INstallation Covert Rescue Expose Covert Supply Extraction Investigate Raid Strategic Diversion *Trea x8, Lead x2, Dipl x2, Nav x1, Bio x1, Exo x1, Med x1, ENG x1. Toreth, Tebok, Alidar Jarok, Pardek, Sela, Taibak, Mendak, Takket, Jera, Taul x2, Evek, Vekor, Roga Danar. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Romulan - DNA - (5) Hunt for DNA... Iconia Investigation Extraction Covert Installation Plunder Site Sarthong Plunder *Arch x7, Comp x3, Trea x3, Bio x2, Lead x2, ENG x1, MED x1. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Romulan - Pegasus - (4) Pegasus Search Secret Salvage Strategic Diversion Expose Covert Supply Covert Installation Covert Rescue *Trea x12, Lead x3, Dipl x2, Nav x2, ENG. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Romulan - Diplo/Treachery - (2) Secret Salvage Strategic Diversion Investigate Massacre Excavation Explore Typhone Expanse Wormhole Negociations *Dipl x6(1), Trea x7(11). ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Romulan - Secret Salvage - (3) Secret Salvage Wormhole Negociations Compromised Mission Sensitive Search Expose Covert Supply Strategic Diversion *Trea x12(16), Comp x3(2), Navx3(1). ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Romulan - Exo - (3) Investigate Sighting Investigate Raid Investigate Anomaly Strategic Diversion Secret Salvage Wormhole Negociations *Trea x12(8), Exo x3, Diplo x1(6) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Fed - 6BS - (8) Investigate Rogue Comet Repair Mission Study Nebula Explore Dyson Sphere Investigate Dissapearance Test Mission (Fed/Klg) *ENG x6, Astro x4, Phys x2, Comp x3, Nav x1, Stel x1, Exo x1, Arch x1. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Fed - Lot'O'Feds - (7)(based on Wesley's STCCG Card*list* of the day) Evacuation Diplomacy Mission Restore Errant Moon Investigate Dissapearance Investigate Rogue Comet Explore Dyson Sphere *Dipl x4, Astro x1(4), Comp x2, Phy x2(1), Nav x2(1), Arch x1, Lead x1. Bev Picard, Bev Crusher, Rachel Garrett, Tasha Yar-Alt, Wesley Crusher, Data, Geordi LaForge, Jenna D'Sora, Worf, J-L Picard, Richard Galen, Neela Daren, Exocomp, Roga Danar, Vekor, Dr Reyga, Maques, Dathon, Baran, Jo'Bril. 20 personnel + 4 ships + 4 inter. + 2 Red Alert! The Ultimate Bulldozer ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Fed - Diplodeckus - (1) Wormhole Negociations Investigate Massacre Diplomacy Mission Evacuation Explore Black Cluster Excavation *Diplomacy x10 !!! Jean-Luc Picard, Worf, Deanna Troi, Sarek, Major Rakal, Dathon... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Fed - Q-Netted - (3)(very good against Klingon Armadas) Wormhole Negociations Investigate Massacre Diplomacy Mission Evacuation FCG-47 Research First Contact *Diplo x12(7), Youth x2, Emp x1, Hoor x0(4). Lot's O'Diplomats + lot's O'Q-Nets ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Fed - SimpleSpace - (4) Study Nebula Investigate Dissapearance Test Mission Fissure Research Study Stellar Collision Explore Black Cluster *Astro x5(2), Stel x3, Phys x2(3), Lead x1, Nav x0(1). ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Romulan/Klingon - Treaty Astro - (7) Seek Life-form Survey Mission Study Lonka Pulsar Explore Typhone Expanse Investigate "Shattered Space" Secret Salvage *Astro x5, Stel x4, Nav x3, Comp x2, Exo x1, Phys x1, Lead x1. Gowron, Kurak, Kurn, Gorath, K'Tesh. Tebok, Toreth, Takket, Tarus, Mirok, Taul. Baran, Dr Reyga, Vekor, Jo'Bril, Data (Fingernailed) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Klingon - Bio - (5) Fever Emergency Investigate Disturbance Investigate Alien Probe Investigate Anomaly Seek Life-form Medical Relief *Bio x4, Exo x3, Comp x1, Anth x1, Astro x1, Gowron, OFF, ENG. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Klingon - 6RP - (6) Cloaked Mission Fever Emergency Investigate Disturbance Krios Supression Medical Relief Brute Force *Honor x3, Dipl x2, Bio x2, Nav x1, Lead x1, Exo x1. Gowron, Kurn, Koral, Nu'Daq, Koroth, Gorath, Divok, Kle'eg. J'Ddan, Governor Worf, B'Etor, Vekma, Dathon, Evek, Roga Danar, Vekor x2, Baran, Bok, Etana Jol. Disruptor. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Klingon - Astro/Stel - (5) Explore Black Cluster Seek Life-form Survey Mission Test Mission Explore Typhone Expanse Study Stellar Collision *Stel x4, Astro x2, Phys x2, Exo x1, Lead x1, ENG x1. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Klingon - Astro - (5) Seek Life-form Investigate Anomaly Test Mission Warped Space Fissure Research Study Plasma Streamer *Astro x4, Exo x2, Phys x2, Nav x1, Youth x1. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Klingon - Archaeology - (6) Hunt for DNA... Plunder Site Sarthong Plunder Fever Emergency Investigate Disturbance Investigate Alien Probe *Arch x6, Bio x4, Comp x2, Lead x1, Trea x1, Anth x1, Gowron, OFF. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Klingon - Big Points - (12) Hunt for DNA... Pegasus Search Seek Life-form Wormhole Negociations New Contact Investigate Alien Probe *Honor x4, Arch x3, Lead x3, Diplo x2, Comp x2, Bio x2, Anth x2, Exo x1, Emp x1, Nav x1, Trea x1, Astro x1. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Klingon - Honor/Diplo - (6) Cloaked Mission Krios Suppression Investigate Disturbance Wormhole Negociations Pegasus Search Secret Salvage *Honor x7(3), Diplo x3(8), Nav x4, Lead x2, Comp x1, Trea x1. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Klingon - 3-3 All Red - (10) Cloaked Mission Investigate Alien Probe Fever Emergency Krios Supression Seek Life-form Survey Mission *Bio x2, Diplo x2, Hon x2, Anth, Comp, Exo, Astro, Phys, Stel, Nav. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Klingon - Diplo II - (4) Cloaked Mission Krios Suppression Investigate Disturbance Explore Typhone Expanse Explore Black Cluster Study "Hole in Space" *Diplo x3, Hon x3, Lead x2, Nav x1. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Klingon - Diplo/Honor III - (3) Krios Suppression Investigate Disturbance Explore Typhone Expanse Explore Black Cluster Study "Hole in Space" Wormhole Negociations *Honor x2(6), Diplo x7(2), Lead x2. (Stel x2, Astr x1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, that about wraps it up. ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok (Commander Tebok) @endnode @Node DOTW26 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - They CAN be mean and the ARE GREEN!" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #26@{ub} Jolan tru! The countdown to QC decks is commencing. Will we have QC in time for @{"Deck of the Week #30" link DOTW30}? Until then... Here's a submission from Robbie Clark aka Mortal Q... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG DOTW #26: Rom - They CAN be mean and they ARE GREEN! - Missions (6): Covert Installation Covert Rescue Expose Covert Supply Strategic Diversion Extraction Plunder Site Personnel (15): Sela Pardek Lakanta Bok Baran Tomalak Toreth Galathon Palteth Mirok Jera Vekor Taibak Taul Amarie Ships (3): Decius Khazara Haakona Interrupts (6): Temporal Rift DS/TC Barclay Transporter Phobia Q2 Kevin UxBridge Amanda Rogers Events (6): Captain's Log Klim Dokachin Red Alert Nutational Shields Metaphasic Shields Bynars Weapon Enhancement Others (2): Romulan Outpost Alternate Universe Doorway Dilemmas (22):(GROUPED) FLI MLI Punishment Zone Cardassian Trap Outpost Raid Tarellian Plague Ship Frame Of Mind Rascals FLI Matriarchal Society Hunter Gangs Higher...Fewer Edo Probe Punishment Zone Hunter Gangs Tarellian Plague Ship Rascals Edo Probe Maman Picard* MLI Frame of Mind Hunter Gangs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Missions: I got all the Romulan only planet missions I have. This will keep your opponent from doing your missions and get rid of almost half their dilemmas. [Iconia Investigation would also fit nicely here istead of Plunder Site, it's Romulan only and you got enough Computer Skill to do it. -Tebok] The Personnel: Lakanta is here just so you can get to those unlucky people who were sent off to the far off planets. Amarie is in just to get past any dilemmas that need Music (SINCE NO ROMMIES HAVE MUSIC!) [It is possible to get around those dilemmas without Music, though.] The Ships: These are the best that the Romulans have and 2 of them get Captain's Log benefits. [The Decius is difficult to staff here, the Devoras is easier, if you have it. You could then replace Amarie with Mendak for another CL.] The Dilemma Groups: These are based on divide and conquer.This is the best way to have a good Away team/Space fight deck.Then there are the Male and Female Love Interest's these are the divide and conquer cards. Then we have Hunter Gangs for fun! [Divide & Conquer! I like that terminology! Most definetely the best way to build effective combos.] The Events: These slow your opponent down and power you up. The Interrupts: The TR's are to give you a while longer to get to those stranded folks. The Barclay TP's are to see your opponents face contort when Jean-Luc is too scared to beam down. DS/TC is for attack then kill strategy. [Barclay TP with Tarellian Plague Ship is also a very good combo] ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW27 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom & Klg - Two Player Game" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #27@{ub} Jolan tru! I got a few requests lately from readers who wanted a deck with few or no rares. So I designed a deck with only commons and uncommons and went to playtest it against my usual opponent... only to discover that his deck had very few rares too! This was a great opportunity to post a Two Player Game before Decipher, that could pretty easily be reproduced by anyone who wants to introduce someone to STCCG. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #27: Rom & Klg - Two Player Game - The Romulan Deck (a semi-speed deck): Missions (6): Covert Rescue Excavation Expose Covert Supply Strategic Diversion Plunder Site Covert Installation Personnel (22): Taul x2 D'Tan Tebok Varel Takket x2 Mirok Tallus (!) N'Vek Galathon Pardek Taibak Maques Evek Baran Ajur Boratus Bok Vekor x2 Dr. Reyga Ships (4): D'Deridex x2 Mercenary Ship Science Vessel Interrupts (4): Kevin Uxbridge Amanda Rogers Q2 Distortion of Space/Time Continuum Events (3): Red Alert! Lower Decks Genetronic Replicator Others (2): Romulan Outpost Alternate Universe Door Dilemmas (19): Planet (9): Worshiper Male's Love Interest Female's Love Interest Parallel Romance Hunter Gangs Firestorm Alien Labyrinth Punishment Zone Alien Parasite Space (3): Rascals Menthar Booby Trap Tarellian Plague Ship Either (7): The Higher...The Fewer Cardassian Trap Frame Of Mind Interphasic Plasma Creatures Edo Probe REM Fatigue Hallucinations Outpost Raid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Klingon Deck (a semi-attack deck): Missions (6): Fever Emergency Krios Suppression Cloaked Mission Test Mission Study Plasma Streamer Sensitive Search Personnel (18): Koroth Torin Gorath x2 K'Vada Nu'Daq J'Ddan Divok Deninoni Ral Evek Bok Dr. Reyga Jo'Bril Vekor x2 K'mpec Toq Ships (6): IKC Vorn IKC K'Vort x3 IKC Vor'cha Combat Vessel Interrupts (8): Senior Staff Meeting Tachyon Detection Grid Auto-Destruct Sequence Kevin Uxbridge Amanda Rogers Hail Distortion of Space/Time Continuum x2 Events (2): Metaphasic Shields Red Alert! Others (2): Klingon Outpost Alternate Unviverse Door Dilemmas (18): Planet (9): Female's Love Interest x3 Matriarchal Society x3 Hunter Gangs Anaphasic Organism Parallel Romance Either (7): Cardassian Trap Interphasic Plasma Creature Outpost Raid x2 The Higher...The Fewer Frame Of Mind x2 Space (2): Rascals Tarellian Plague Ship ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Romulan deck is based around Lower Decks, since almost half of the personnel can benefit from it. D'Tan also adds to the total Integrity and with four Medical and a Genetronic Replicator, you end up pretty safe in every situation. Overall, the Klingon deck doesn't look very good, I had to change my opponent's missions, which were a six space, and add more personnel to replace the big ones (Kurn, Gov Worf, Kurak...). That's why I would suggest playing it and let your opponent have the Rommie deck. Or you could play the Rommie deck against a normal deck and after you've won, look your opponent straight in the eyes and say: "You see, I don't even need rares to beat you!" ++++++++++++++++++++ That's all for now! check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW28 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom,Klg - Speed(ish) Deck" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #28@{ub} Jolan tru! Here's a deck design by Peter Veeren aka Ian Christopher Troi... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #28: Rom/Klg - Speed(ish) Deck - Missions (6): Cloaked Mission Covert Installation Covert Rescue Krios Suppression Secret Salvage Diplomatic Conference Personnel (16): Governor Worf Gorath J'Ddan Kle'eg Nu'Daq Major Rakal Stefan DeSeve Palteth Sela Bok Devinoni Ral Vekor x2 Ishara Yar Dathon Lakanta Ships (4): I.K.C. Pagh I.K.C. Qu'Vat Scout Vessel Devoras Interrupts (5): Full Planet Scan Amanda Rogers Kevin Uxbridge Palor Toff - Alien Trader Q2 Events (5): Genetronic Replicator Red Alert! Res-Q Treaty: Romulan/Klingon Thermal Deflectors Others (7): Engineering Kit Medical Kit Iconian Gateway Kurlan Naiskos Klingon Outpost Romulan Outpost Alternate Universe Door Dilemmas (17): Planet (3): Armus - Skin of Evil Chalnoth El-Adrel Creature Space (3): Rascals Borg Ship Gravitic Mine Either (11): Empathic Echo The Higher... The Fewer Interphasic Plasma Creatures Edo Probe Frame of Mind x3 Shaka, When the Walls Fell Cardassian Trap Outpost Raid x2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This deck presents a different way of accomplishing Diplomatic Conference than DOTW#20: instead of the Devidian Door, it uses the Iconian Gateway to safely bring your valuable VIPs to the Conference. The good variety of classification in this deck makes it a perfect choice for the second artifact, the Kurlan Naiskos. Like many decks that relies on difficult missions, howerver, this deck needs a lucky draw or maybe a BG Box to get, in this case, the Fed and the NA VIP early in the game. Unfortunately, these two are the only empaths of the deck: you need them so they're likely to get killed. That's why a Res-Q is very important. Equally important is Palor Toff, in case your Treaty is destroyed, An even safer idea is to put two Treaty cards, but then you loose the versatility of PT, that can retreive many other useful cards. That reminded me of a way to bust the game (and your opponent's patience). First, load your deck of Palor Toffs. When you lead in the points, simply use a Palor Toff to retreive another Palor Toff from your discard pile, and repeat the procedure until your opponent decides to withdraw from the game to get home! You lost a friend, but you won the game!!! ++++++++++++++++++++ To quote Heather Scott of the long defunct Heather's STCCG DOTW: "Keep those decks coming in! Your deck could be next!" Please don't forget to put some comments, a deck is as good as people know how to use it. Check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Tebok 10470 Main Street Ihhliae ch'Rihan (Romulus) Beta Quadrant @endnode @Node DOTW29 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Klg - Security Overload" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #29@{ub} Jolan tru! I wanted to wait DOTW#30 for the first QC deck but after tonight's game, I can't think of anything else than QC. QC! QC! So tonight was our first showdown of QC decks. I decided to play a Klingon battle deck because I knew that my opponent could not resist the call the K'chiQs... and won! But, being a fair player, I have to recognise that Koroth's deck was better designed than mine, so I'm going to post his deck instead, with both my and his comments about some cards. So here goes the first QC DOTW... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tebok's Deck of the Week #29: Klingon - Security Overload - Missions (6): Brute Force Fever Emergency Medical Relief Krios Suppression Cloaked Mission Investigate Disturbance Personnel (15): K'chiQ (x2) Kitrik K'nera Kahlest Governor Worf Divok Kurn Kargan Nu'Daq Zon Galen Madred Dathon Roga Danar Ships (5): I.K.C. T'Ong (a handy teeny-weeny Red-Alert. It can even enable you to score a quick 15 points if, while K'nera is in play, you load up Korris & Konmel on a suicide mission againsts ennemy/Borg ship & utter a Klingon Death yell for the thus lost Korris) I.K.C. Maht-H'a Tama I.K.C. Hegh'ta I.K.C. Pagh Interrupts (6): Data's Medals Kevin Uxbridge (x2) Q2 (x3) (I post-mortemly traded Klingon Death yell for the third Q2; another Q2 is never lost, and I'm not supposed to die with Genetronic Replicator & 2 K'chiQ nurses, right???) Events (5): I am not a merry man! Brainwash Captain's Log Interrogation Genetronic Replicator Others (5): Klingon Outpost AU Doorway (seeded) Q-Flash (seeded) Q-Flash (x2) (another post-mortem trade: Korris & Konmel for those two, for I got genuinely fu...dged with the Naked truth/Mortal-Q combo Dilemmas (18): The Higher... - Q-Flash - Chinese Finger Puzzle Female's Love - Q-Flash - Matriarchal Society Yuta - IPC - Android Nightmares Male's Love - Q-Flash - Alien Parasites Armus - Q-Flash - Cardassian Trap Hunter Gangs - Punishment Zone - Q's Vicious Animal Things Q's Tent side deck (0) Q-Continuum side deck (30): Mandarin Bailiff (x8) His Honor, the High Sheriff (x5) Penalty Box (x4) The Issue is Patriotism (x3) Pla-net (x3) Frigid (x2) You will in Time (x2) Door-net (x2) Guilty-Provisionally ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tebok's Comments: Personnel: K'chiQ: this card is incredible! You need an Empath? You got it! Oh you're playing Klingon and don't have enough Stellar Cartography? Tada! You lost your only Anthropologist? Tada! Your opponent's K'chiQ has a valuable skill and he just hit The Naked Truth? Put one more! Mortal Q: this is the big absent of this deck and the reason I won the game. Not because he didn't have one in his deck, but because I was able to report mine using The Naked Truth. And since he couldn't get his Immortal Again ["wich, by the way, I didn't have" -Koroth], I didn't had to face the numerous Q-Flash I encounted... Dilemmas: Yuta: ouch! Both of us encoutered a Yuta and we both lost Galen! With a Yuta number of 7, we could kill Galen, Gov. Worf, Kitrik... Koroth's Comments: The 6 trios answer perfectly to an all-planet strategy & can take into account without a budge 2 space missions. And even in a case where the slimy opponent chooses 6 space missions (as Tebok did), you can leasurely re-arrange the dilemmas & Q-Flashes to cover them all fairly well. The Q-Continuum side-deck (and a part of the crew rowster) is focused on capturing foes (call it sort of a Q-net...) The Mandarin Bailiff/High Sheriff combo is the heart of it all: capture one, show a security ('cause you have enough to keep one in your hand at all time), capture two more (whom you can brainwash or interrogate under Cardassian supervision, at your discretion). And remember, "The wind does not respect a fool" Honorably yours, Koroth ++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihanssu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW30 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/None - Arguably Cool Deck" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #30@{ub} Jolan tru! This week I have a very cool (5pts) deck for you! It is so cool (5pts) that I even thought of not posting it and using it at the next tournament in my region. And what's *very* cool (5pts!) about this deck is that it's relatively easy to build and I can only find one way to beat it: to play the exact same deck! ! !! !!! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #30: None - Arguably Cool Deck - Missions (12): Space x12 Personnel (0): Ships (0): Interrupts (24): Parallax Arguers x24 Events (6): Kivas Fajo x4 The Traveller x2 Others (1): Q-Flash Q's Tent side deck (0): Q-Continuum (40): Where's Guinan? x2 Frigid x2 Mandarin Bailiff x8 The Higher... The Q-er x3 Penalty Box x4 Aldebaran Serpent x4 Scottish Setter x8 Door-Net x3 Subsction Q, Paragraph 10 x3 Amanda's Parents x3 Dilemmas (23): The Sheliak + The Higher... The Fewer + Q-Flash + Q Armus + Yuta + Cardassian Trap Firestorm + Hunter Gangs + Q-Flash + Zaldan Security Precautions + Q-Flash + IPC + Android Nightmares Tarellian Plague Ship + Q-Flash + Rascals + Barclay Parallel Romance + Frame of Mind + Q-Flash + Outpost Raid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you still trying to find a weakness? We did. We did *try*, that is. First, It has Q's seal of approval. It is Legal. For now. Second, before you ask the question: no, you don't *have* to play an affiliation. The rule book says on p.6: "... you must have: *... *one Outpost card for each affiliation you decide to control." So you don't HAVE to control an affiliation. If, however, that ruling is ever changed, put a Romulan Outpost (so that you can say you won a tourney with a Romulan deck) and play with only 22 dilemmas... If you have to include at least one personnel, then my friend Koroth suggests that you put a Klingon Outpost and K'chiQ (the coolest card in STCCG). She will of course instantly die the second you report her (cool!). Example for a first turn: In your initial 7 cards, you have 6 PAs and 1 Kivas. Play Kivas, draw 2 other PAs and 1 Kivas. Play 7 PAs. Your opponent will surely start an argument: put another PA, play Kivas for free. Draw 3 PAs, play them all. Draw your end-of-turn card (another PA) play it. After all, that turn was pretty cool. :-) One turn, 55 points. That's what I call a speed deck. Now you have only 16 cards left in your draw deck. With a Traveller coming in about 3 turns and two other Kivas, that means your opponent has less than 10 turns to make 100 points, with 12 space missions and 23 dilemmas to slow him/her down! Let's put this deck to the test even more. 1) Telepathic Alien Kidnappers: Nope. PA are interrupts so you can play them as soon as you draw them. You will most probably loose your events, but if you can put down a Kivas and draw a Traveller along with your PAs, just start an argumentation, play the Traveller for free and start draining your deck at double speed. 2) Amanda, Res-Q, Palor Toff, Immortal Again, Plexing, Subspace Schism: unless your opponent has LOT'S of those cards, you are safe here. Remember, even if you loose 5 PA and can only score 95 points, chances are you will exhaust you draw deck way before your opponent. 3) Q's Planet (from opponent's Q's Tent): Same as 2). 4) Revolving Door: your Q-Continuum is closed. Don't worry, you still have 3 dilemma combos everywhere. 5) What're You Tryin' To Push On Us?: Oops! Wrong game. Would've been very annoying though. 6) Kevin: OK, so you loose a Traveller. Put another one. 7) Parallax Arguers: ah! That can hurt. Your opponent might even win if he/she has enough PAs to counter you 10 times. But who's gonna play with 10 PAs? Another DOTW reader maybe? :-) ++++++++++++++++++++ Did we find the Ultimate-Works-Everytime-Knoks-Everything deck? Is my Quest for the Holy Deck finally over? Will Batman ever see Robin alive again? Answers and more next week. Check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node PARALAX "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Parallax Arguers" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} The card works because it forces your opponent to choose the lesser of two evils: (1) deem the action "cool" and give you 5 points, or (2) argue with you and give you a "free" Event play. The secret to successful use of the card is to play it at a time that creates maximum anxiety for your opponent as to which Event cards you might be holding. Examples: 1. Opponent moves a ship to the location of your ship, and it's pretty obvious to you that she plans to attack. Play Parallax Arguers. You get a quick 5 points unless she wants to risk a Bynars Weapon Enhancement or Metaphasic Shields coming out before her battle is initiated. 2. Your opponent has a lot of ships and personnel at her outpost. You play your Tox Uthat, say "now THAT was cool" and drop a Parallax Arguers. Your opponent will probably give you the 5 points, rather than risk your Supernova going boom before she can scatter her ships away from her outpost. These examples are admittedly very specific, but I think they show how the Parallax Arguers can have great psychological value if played at the right time. 8-) Here are some situtations in which you would hope the card *doesn't* work (that is, you hope she argues, thus giving you the free Event play): 1. Ever wish you could play Kivas Fajo as an interrupt? 2. Ever want to play a Warp Core Breach *and* a motion-hampering Event card both before the end of your opponent's next turn? 3. Suppose she just resolved a dilemma and you remember that the next one you seeded there is a Thought Fire. I'd say now's a great time to generously play your Traveller next to her draw deck. 4. I'm sure people will find many additional reasons to play Event cards during their opponent's turn. How about the Neural Servo Device? I use your non-aligned ship during *your* turn -- oops, I attacked one of your other ships. Oops again, I got them both "stopped" for you! Clumsy me.... ;-) -Bill ----------------------------------------------- Bill Martinson Product Development Assistant Decipher Inc. The Art of Great Games (tm) ----------------------------------------------- @endnode @Node DOTW31 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Bigger is Better" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #31@{ub} Jolan tru! This week, I'm gonna post something nice and easy. :-) Why? For those who read this on the newsgroup, let's say that last week's deck was, well, just a little of the track... Bottom line: it does not work. See the upcoming FAQ (or the dotw web site) for more infos. Next week, Tebok strikes back. :-) Do you play with decks bigger than 60 cards? That one's for you. It's Tania Taylor's super-duper-mumbo-jombo 120 cards deck, to use in a 150 to 200 points game. Very reliable, and the duplication allows you to use it in a 90 or 80 cards game too! It's a non-QC deck. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #31: Fed - Bigger is Better - Missions (12): Restore Errant Moon Evacuation Repair Mission Diplomacy Mission First Contact Explore Dyson Sphere Excavation Investigate Time Continuum Investigate Massacre Hunt For DNA Program Wormhole Negotiations Pegasus Search Personnel (23): Jean Luc Picard Rachel Garrett [seeded under Repair Mission] Data Deanna Troi Leah Brahms Albert Einstein William T. Riker Tasha Yar - Alternate [seeded under Repair Mission] Beverly Picard Lakanta Tam Elbrun Dr. Selar T'Pan Roga Danar Ro Laren Montgomery Scott Jenna D'Sora Toby Russell Richard Galen Riva Nikolai Rozhenko Maques Berlingoff Rasmussen Ships (6): Runabout USS Galaxy x2 USS Sutherland USS Yamato Husnock Ship Interrupts (21): Thine Own Self Destroy Radioactive Garbage Scow Countermanda x2 Dead In Bed x2 Palor Toff-Alien Trader x4 Amanda Rogers x2 Kevin Uxbridge x2 Q2 x2 Crosis Rogue Borg Mercenaries x4 Events (15): Red Alert! Res-Q x3 Genetronic Replicator Kivas Fajo-Collector x2 Supernova Captain's Log The Traveler:Transcendence Wartime Conditions Yellow Alert Lore Returns Rishon Uxbridge x2 Others (7): AU Doorway Federation Outpost Starfleet Type II Phaser Kurlan Naiskos Tox Uthat [Aim is to destroy the Borg Ship with the Tox/Supernova combo. Tox is seeded with Cryosatellite under Repair Mission] Data's Head [Seeded under First Contact mission] Cryosatellite Dilemmas (36): [If possible, seed the dilemmas as follows (with the first dilemma on each list being the last one seeded; the first one your opponent will encounter.] Dilemmas for Planet missions (18): Firestorm The Firestorm will kill all with INT>5. The The Gatherers Gatherers requires INT>36 (not likely after Outpost Raid Firestorm). Enough dead that STR>18 may not be possible. Rebel Encounter Chalnoth Malfunctioning Door Armus-Skin Of Evil Nausicaans Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease Male's Love Interest Female's Love Interest REM Fatigue Hallucinations Archer Hunter Gangs Thought Fire The Higher... The Fewer El-Adrel Creature Punishment Zone Dilemmas for Space missions (18): Outpost Raid Hopefully this works, then play the Quantum Singularity Lifeforms Ded In Bed cards to kill one or more Borg Ship crew members in stasis. Rascals Rascals makes some crew STR 2. IPC-2. Interphasic Plasma Creatures Therefore some crew will have STR 0. Outpost Raid Then try to get past Outpost Raid. :) Interphasic Plasma Creatures Tsiolkovsky Infection Nagilum Radioactive Garbage Scow Nanites Cosmic String Fragment Menthar Booby Trap Microbiotic Colony Coalescent Organism Edo Probe Empathic Echo Frame Of Mind ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It's not a savage deck but if you play carefully it can be fairly leathal. You have to seed it just right and focus on the game. It's not one of those 'shoot 'em up' decks, either. Typical federation deck, I suppose. ++++++++++++++++++++ Lot's of different missions and personnel, this deck can do anything, depending on which cards get out first. Less than one third of your draw deck consists of personnel, but you have two Kivas and a cryosat to help you. A BG Box would be very useful here. check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok STCCG Player's Association @endnode @Node DOTW32 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/None - Definitely Cool Deck" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #32@{ub} Jolan tru! @{"DOTW #30" link DOTW30} was a rehearsal, now this is it. The corrected-and-working (but weaker and a little more expensive) Parallax Arguers Deck... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #32: None - Definitely Cool Deck - Missions (12): Space x12 Personnel (1): Samuel Clemens Ships (0): Interrupts (16): Parallax Arguers x16 Events (12): Kivas Fajo x14 Others (4): Q-Flash (seeded) Alternate Universe Door (seeded) Neutral Outpost (seeded) Devidian Door Q's Tent side deck (0): Q-Continuum (40): Where's Guinan? x2 Frigid x2 Mandarin Bailiff x8 The Higher... The Q-er x3 Penalty Box x4 Aldebaran Serpent x4 Scottish Setter x8 Door-Net x3 Subsction Q, Paragraph 10 x3 Amanda's Parents x3 Dilemmas (21): The Sheliak + Q-Flash + Q Armus + Yuta + Cardassian Trap Firestorm + Hunter Gangs + Q-Flash + Zaldan Security Precautions + Q-Flash + IPC + Android Nightmares Tarellian Plague Ship + Q-Flash + Rascals + Barclay's PD Parallel Romance + Q-Flash + Outpost Raid -------------------------------------------------------------------- Here we are (here we are *again*)! That one's a little more difficult to built (12 Kivas) and will give two choices to your opponent... The Not Cool Variation: the guy doesn't get it. Each time he doesn't agree you play a Kivas. After a couple of this, it is useless to agree on subsequent PAs because your draw deck will be very depleted and you will score 5 points each time. Worst scenario for your opponent. You can even exhaust your deck in two turns (play Samuel on the last but one turn, show Devidian Door, score 10 points for Samuel and draw your last card). If your not lucky and don't draw any Kivas at first, this may extend to 5-6 turns. Don't fear Masaka because you will have only one card left in your draw deck (you will re-draw all your cards except for one, chances are it won't be your Devidian Door). The Cool Variation: the guy is Cunning > 6. If all your PAs are cool, you will only be able to put one Kivas per turn. You will still draw 4 cards per turn, though. This will give your opponent about 8 turns (a few Uxbridged Kivas) to score 60 points (worst case scenario: your last four cards are PAs). Bottom line: your opponent needs to complete two missions in 8 turns, with 21 dilemmas seeded under his missions. In Between: not a very good idea. Decks/Cards to watch: Wesley's Anti-DOTW30 deck. Although this deck will demolish my deck, it is not viable against anything else. Revolving Door (in a Q's Tent): could be dangerous against the "Not Cool" variation (you won't be able to play Samuel) but your opponent needs to retreive it on his first turn (assuming he starts to play first) or he won't be able to stop you. Worst case will be a draw anyway. Pronostic: this deck will win 75% of the games if your opponent is unprepared. Not bad... ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW33 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - The Conference, QC ed." @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #33@{ub} Jolan tru! Do you remember Koroth's Diplomatic Conference deck (@{"DOTW#20" link DOTW20})? Well, here's a QC way of using that difficult mission. Again, it needs the power of the Devidian Door and the dual aff. personnel... ...and it's also from my Kll'inghann friend. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #33: Rom - The Conference, QC ed. - Missions (6): Diplomatic Conference Covert Installation Covert Rescue Extraction Iconia Investigation Investigate Raid Personnel (13): Gowron Sirol Taris Telak Mirok N'Vek Pardek Sela Marouk Samuel Clemens Devinoni Ral Roga Danar Vekor Ships (2): Terix Haakona Interrupts (5): Amanda Rogers Kevin Uxbridge Parallax Arguers x2 Q2 Events (4): Drought Tree x3 Red Alert Others (12): Seeded: AU Door Q-Flash Q's Tent Horga'hn Romulan Outpost Draw Deck: Devidian Door x2 Q-Flash Q's Tent x4 Q's Tent side deck (13): Governor Worf Madred Major Rakal Maques Red Alert The Traveller: Transcendence Arbiter of Succession Kevin Uxbridge Colony Devidian Door Devoras Romulan Outpost Security Precautions Q-Continuum (30): Aldabaran Serpent Door-Net x3 Go Back Whence Thou Camest Incomming Message - The Continuum Frigid x2 Guilty - Provisionally Jealous Amanda Lemon-Aid x3 Mandarin Bailiff x5 Penalty Box x4 Scottish Setter x6 Where's Guinan? You Will In Time Dilemmas (18): Barclay's Protom. Disease Microvirus Chinese Finger Puzzle - Q-Flash - Security Precautions Yuta - Frame of Mind - Cardassian Trap Frame of Mind - Q-Flash - Interphasic Plasma Creatures Punishment Zone - Hunter Gangs - Q's Vicious Animal Things Q-Flash - Q Borg Ship - Outpost Raid ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The missions: Five standard green planets and the big scorer. You could also trade one of the green missions for Kithomer Research. Although the Klingons will be able to do it, someone playing Romulan probably won't so he'll place a couple of nasty dilemmas he desn't want to encounter himself. The personnel: Not many. You will need your Q's Tents. If you're lucky and draw all the VIPs, you will only need to retreive Major Rakal from your Q's Tent. The ships: Only two! You will not need to move early in the game so that will not be a problem... unless your opponent gets a really lucky starting hand. The Interrupts and Events: The combo Parallax Arguers-Drought Three is very cool! After you've completed Diplomatic Conference, play a DT for 7 points, then play a PA. What will it be? 5 pts or a possible second DT for 7 pts? That's what I call a dilemma! The other draw cards: Four Q's Tent should be enough to retreive the replacement VIPs for those in the bottom of your draw deck and maybe an arbiter of succession for ten extra points if you have both Gowron and Governor Worf in play. And then there's the hick: three Devidian Door! Those of you lucky enough (but not as lucky as Koroth) to have two of those will have to remove the one in your Q's Tent and forget about Arbiter of Succession... unless you put a couple of Trust Me in your Q-Continuum and one of two Palor Toffs in your deck. If you have only one DDoor... well... replace 'couple' with 'lots' in the last sentence. :-) The Q-Continuum: Lemon-Aid: because you probably won't be the first to score. :-) The Dilemmas: Barclay and Microvirus to seed under the Conference for an additionnal 15 points! Let's do some maths: Barclay: 10 Microvirus: 5 Dip. Conference: 60 Drought Three: 7 Parallax Arguers: 5 could be another Drought Three Another one: 5 idem Arb. of Succ.: 10 Total: 102 Be careful when defending your Drought Threes: your VIPs cannot work together after the completion of the mission. Hteij! ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW34 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - Clash of the Titans" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #34@{ub} Jolan tru! On november 28th, a day after the miraculous Decipher announcement, another big event took place on the Internet, but this time on Jonathan's Chat Page . That event was "Clash of the Titans", the 'net game between myself and Wesley Crusher. OK, I know this title sounds presumptuous but you don't get people's interest with "Confrontation of two ordinary guys"... ;-) After a whopping 3h30 of play, Wesley came on top 100-35. He was never in real danger, having taken a 65-0 lead before I was able to threaten him ($#"%?@ Klim Dokachin). So, without any further delay, here's the winning deck... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #34: Romulan - Clash of the Titans - by Wesley Crucher Seed Deck (30): Missions (6): Extraction Investigate Raid Covert Installation Strategic Diversion Covert Rescue Expose Covert Supply Dilemmas (17): Q-Flash x5 The Sheliak Zaldan Cytherians Yuta x2 Rem Fatigue Hallucinations Frame of Mind Thought Fire Shaka, When The Wall... Crystalline Entity Q Barclay's Disease Other seed cards (7): Romulan Outpost Q's Tent Q-Flash AU Door Kurlan Naiskos Betazoid Gift Box Thought Maker Draw Deck (30): Personnel (14): Taris Mirok Sirol N'Vek Mendak Roga Danar Dr. Reyga Devinoni Ral Baran Vekor Galen Maques Kareen Brianon Nick Locarno Ships (4): Devoras Haakona Mercenary Ship Pi Interrupts (3): Palor Toff Kevin Uxbridge Amanda Rogers Events (4): Red Alert Kivas Fajo The Traveler: Transcendence Res-Q Others (5): Q's Tent x4 Medical Kit Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): Q's Planet Distortion of S/T Continuum Soong-Type Android Klim Dokachin Brain Drain Bynars Weapon Enhancement Genetronic Replicator Captain's Log Static Warp Bubble Full Planet Scan Immortal Again Espionage: R on F Espionage: R on K Q-Continuum (33): Penalty Box x5 Mandarin Bailiff x5 Door-Net x4 Trust Me x2 The higher... the Qer x4 Frigid x2 Incoming Message: the Continuum x3 Are these truly your friends... x4 Guilty - Provisionally x2 Lemon-Aid x2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I will dare to comment on this deck, but since I lost against it don't take what I say for granted... The missions: 6 green planets. Classic, effective. Romulans are probably the best affiliation for a 6 planet since most requirements are alike. The personnel: Just enough duplication to easily accomplish the missions and overcome the dilemmas. The Medical Kit helps to have enough MEDICAL. 65% Non-aligned is a bit high, though. The Tent: Definetely an offensive Tent with all the SWB, Klim, Espionages, etc. Having an offensive Tent means that you need enough Tents in your draw deck to (almost) always have one in your hand when needed. 4 is just enough and a Kivas in your draw deck should enable you to catch up for those turns without any draw. Also you want to be prepared against a similar deck, hence a Kevin in reserve. Next week, my deck... ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW35 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Klg - The Rout of Tebok" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #35@{ub} Hello everyone! You've all been waiting for this: the deck I used for Clash of the Titans. Here it is! Of course, I didn't play Romulans. I suspected that Wesley had a feeling I would go for my favorite affiliation, so I played Klingons instead. I estimated a 50% chance Wes would go for Klingons too. It's a shame I was wrong, I would've liked to see some good battles. Anyway... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #35: Klingon - The Rout of Tebok - formerly known (before the game) as The Rout of Wesley. ;-) Seed Deck (28): Missions (6): Fever Emergency Medical Relief Investigate Disturbance Cloaked Mission Krios Suppression Plunder Site Dilemmas (17): Chinese Finger Puzzle - Q-Flash - Security Precautions Yuta - Q-Flash - Cardassian Trap Frame of Mind - Q-Flash - Interphasic Plasma Creatures Armus - Hunter Gangs - Q's Vicious Animal Things Q-Flash - The Sheliak - Q Borg Ship - Outpost Raid Other seed cards (5): Klingon Outpost Alternate Universe Door Q's Tent Q-Flash Horga'hn Draw Deck (32): Personnel (15): Nu'Daq Kitrik Gowron Koroth Galen K'nera K'chiQ x2 Kurn Vekor Devinoni Ral Divok Governor Worf Kahlest Roga Danar Ships (5): Maht-H'a Hegh'ta Pagh Vorn Buruk Interrupts (5): Distortion of S/T Continuum Q2 Palor Toff Kevin Uxbridge Amanda Rogers Events (2): I Am Not A Merry Man! <--- replace with Red Alert! The Traveler Others (5): Q's Tent x3 Q-Flash Engineering Kit Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): Alien Parasite Arbiter of Succession Kevin Uxbridge Madred Dr. Reyga Soong-Type Android Klingon Outpost The Traveler Masaka Transformation Yellow Alert Maques Revolving Door The Devil Q-Continuum (30): Mandarin Bailiff x6 Scottish Setter x6 Penalty Box x4 Jealous Amanda x3 Door-Net x3 The Higher...The Q-er x2 Where's Guinan? x2 Frigid x2 Aldebaran Serpent x2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This deck is a mission solver with enough ships to give a good battle to anyone. The missions: Plunder Site was a mistake. I should've put Brute Force even if it would've been very difficult to attempt. I was forced to break one of my combos to prevent an easy 30 points for Wes. The Dilemmas: 17 was a mistake! I should've put 18. Why? Because in the case of a 6 planet, a third card in the Borg-Outpost Raid combo could've made a big difference. When Wes encountered it, he had 19 Strenght!! 3 is the name of the game. Period. Another example: you should always triple any skill required by one of your missions. The draw deck: One big absent: Red Alert! I can't believe I forgot to put one. At least it should be in Q's Tent. The Q-Continuum: I really like Scottish Setter. Before a Security Precaution it can remove a much needed SECURITY and before IP Creatures it's a good way to remove a SCIENCE. Mandarin Bailif is always an annoyer. It's almost like a free 'The Higher... The Fewer'. Q's Tent: A defensive Tent... Alien Parasite in case your opponent uses a Q's Planet. Arbiter of Succession for a quick 10 points if you have 90 points. Kevin Uxbridge against an annoyer like Klim Dokachin. Madred in case you need quickly get passed Security Precautions. Dr. Reyga if you want to attempt your opponent's space missions. Soong-Type Android in case you loose a vital classification. Klingon Outpost. Just in case. :-) The Traveler to nullify SWB, otherwise wait for the draw deck one. Masaka Transformation, against Devidian Door and Kurlan Naiskos Yellow Alert against an early Red Alert! Maques, to cure Frame of Mind with Devinoni Ral Revolving Door, to shut off the Q-Continuum at a critical moment. The Devil, against Horga'hn (and Treaties sometimes). Since it was a defensive Tent, I only had three Q's Tents in my draw deck. When I ran out of Tents with a Klim Dokachin still affecting me, I wish I had put one more. 4 seems to be the ideal number in this case. That about wraps it up folks! ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW36 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - Beat the Odds" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #36@{ub} Hello everyone! I lost my usual partner these days. It seems The Dominion has invaded the Alpha Quadrant on DSMUSE so things are a little rough there... ...so while I wait for him, let's take a look at some old stuff. With QC and it's new personnel, now's the best time to revamp my very first DOTW, probably the easiest to build but still one of the best Romulan decks: The Archaeology & Treachery deck. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #36: Rom - Beat the Odds - Seed Deck (30): Missions (6): Strategic Diversion Plunder Site Sarthong Plunder Excavation Secret Salvage Wormhole Negotiations Dilemmas (18): Q-Flash x4 Q Yuta Armus Zaldan Cytherians The Sheliak Hunter Gangs Frame of Mind Cardassian Trap Security Precautions Chinese Finger Puzzle Shaka, When The Wall Fell Interphasic Plasma Creatures Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease (cute eh? ;-) ) Others seed cards (6): Romulan Outpost Q's Tent Alternate Universe Door Q-Flash Betazoid Gift Box Thought Maker Draw Deck (30): Personnel (16): Galathon Taul x2 Telak Baran Taris Galen Sirol Bok Sela Taibak Devinoni Ral Major Rakal Takket Vekor Roga Danar Ships (4): T'Pau Haakona Terix Devoras Interrupts (4) Q2 Palor Toff Kevin Uxbridge Amanda Rogers Events (3): Red Alert! Kivas Fajo The Traveler Others (3): Q's Tent x3 Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): Vekor Dr. Reyga Maques Madred Dathon Galathon Alien Parasite Kevin Uxbridge Romulan Outpost The Traveler Yellow Alert Revolving Door Thermal Deflectors Q-Continuum (30): Mandarin Bailiff x6 Scottish Setter x6 Penalty Box x4 Jealous Amanda x3 Door-Net x3 The Higher...The Q-er x2 Where's Guinan? x2 Frigid x2 Aldebaran Serpent x2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In CCGs, where the name of the game is the draw, the first thing a good deck should try to do is to minimize this factor. Q's Tent, duplication and a BG Box are all things that come in mind when you want to beat the odds. In this deck for example, all you need to complete the missions is Treachery x4 (Secret Salvage & Wormhole) and Arch x2 (Sarthong Plunder). The only 3 personnel that don't have one or both skills are Vekor Roga and Takket because their classifications are very useful. Don't worry about the fact that 5/6 missions are multi-affiliation. Normally this could be dangerous and would force you to put some of your dilemmas under your own missons, but in this case you will very likely be the first one to be able to complete them. In fact, you have a 20% probability of getting 4 or more Treachery personnel on your initial draw! If you don't know where those numbers come from, check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/tebok000.txt (or ask). Artifacts: as I said, BG Box will get you the cards you need quickly and the Thought Maker will do the exact opposite for your opponent. If you know your opponent uses BG Box too, replace it with a Thermal Deflector in your draw deck or a Q's Tent (Firestorm can be *really* dangerous for this deck). Ohter things to know: do not use your Q'Tent unless you really badly need something. And remember: in this deck, everyone is expendable. ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW37 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Kevinbane" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #37@{ub} Hello everyone! Have you read Wesley's COTD #322? Well here's the attachment... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #37: Fed - Kevinbane - The deck that loves nullifiers! By Wesley Crusher. Seed Deck (30): Missions (6): Investigate Time Continuum Evacuation Investigate Sighting Investigate Massacre First Contact Diplomacy Mission Dilemmas (18): Q-Flash x4 The Sheliak Zaldan Cytherians Yuta Rem Fatigue Hallucinations Frame of Mind Thought Fire Shaka, When The Wall... Crystalline Entity Q Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease Hunter Gangs Cardassian Trap Punishment Zone Others seed cards (6): Federation Outpost Neutral Outpost Betazoid Gift Box x3 Horga'Hn Draw Deck (30): Personnel (22): Major Rakal Devinoni Ral Maques Lwaxana Troi Ves Alkar Lal Juliana Tainer Ira Graves Data Mr. Homn x2 Soong-Type Android x11 Ships (4): Combat Vessel x4 Interrupts (2): Kevin Uxbridge x2 Events (0) Others (2): Colony x2 Side Decks: Q's Tent (0) Q-Continuum (0) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy: Use Tainer or Graves to quickly get your classifications into play using STA's. Make sure you get a Homn into your away team. Then, move all that stuff and play the Empaths to Homn while traveling. Several BGBs help you get cards faster and the Horga'Hn is there to build Colony points. The only things you really like to use Kevins on are SWBs, TAKs and Klim Dokachim. I used the Combat Vessels because I am short on *'s but have plenty of +'s on my crew and they have Range 8. An ideal game: Turn 1: Tainer / Graves + 4 STAs. Attempt Outpost Mission and overcome Dilemmas using 1 each of ENGINEER,SCIENCE,MEDICAL,SECURITY. Turn 2: Bring in an Empath and solve Mission. Get BGB. Turn 3: Build a Colony. Play any retrieved STAs / Lal as CIVILIANs. Turn 4: Play a ship , score from Colony. Turn 5: Play Homn, move non-CIVILIANS and Empath to ship, fly to next location. Turn 6: Play another Empath to Homn, solve another mission using two teams (Androids for Dilemmas, Empaths for mission requirement) Turn 7: Repeat Turn 6 with a different mission. Win. ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Tebok 10470 Main Street Ihhliae ch'Rihan (Romulus) Rihannsu Star Empire Beta Quadrant @endnode @Node DOTW38 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Schisms" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #38@{ub} OK, holidays are over I guess... You like Telepathic Alien Kidnappers? Here's something that adds even more bite to the strategy... no, I'm not talking about Alien Probe. Oh, before I go on with my deck, I'd like to mention a *very good* deck design program (CGI, actually) created by Jos Vollering. It's at Joskefet's STCCG Page Check it out! It's awesome. I've included an example of the results you get with these missions at the end of this post. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #38: Fed - Schisms - Seed Deck (27): Missions (6): Restore Errant Moon Investigate Massacre First Contact Diplomacy Mission Evaluate Terraforming Evacuation Dilemmas (17): Q-Flash x4 Shaka, When The Wall Fell Outpost Raid Frame of Mind Cardassian Trap Yuta Interphasic Plasma Creatures Q Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease Tarellian Plague Ship Zaldan Hunter Gangs Armus Chalnoth Others seed cards (4): Federation Outpost Alternate Universe Door Q's Tent Q-Flash Draw Deck (33): Personnel (14): Wesley Crusher Beverly Picard Data Tasha Yar-Alternate Beverly Crusher Jean-Luc Picard Worf Richard Galen Rachel Garett Keiko O'Brien Lal Major Rakal Roga Danar Devinoni Ral Ships (4): USS Enterprise USS Nebula USS Yamato Runabout Interrupts (8): Life-form Scan Palor Toff Q2 Kevin Uxbridge Amanda Rogers Subspace Schism x3 (SS) Events (4): Heisenberg Compensators (HC) Red Alert! Telepathic Alien Kidnappers x2 (TAK) Others (3): Q's Tent x3 Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): Federation Outpost Heisenberg Compensator Telepathic Alien Kidnappers Yellow Alert Kevin Uxbridge Masaka Transformation Immortal Again Rescue Captive Revolving Door Alien Parasite Soong-Type Android Dr. Reyga Maques Q-Continuum (30): Mandarin Bailiff x6 Scottish Setter x6 Penalty Box x4 Jealous Amanda x3 Door-Net x3 The Higher...The Q-er x2 Where's Guinan? x2 Frigid x2 Aldebaran Serpent x2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The main strategy of this deck is the combination of TAK and HC. While you get rid of the cards in your opponent's hand with the TAK and a well (early?) played Life-form Scan, you can also prevent him >from getting up to four good cards with the combo SS + HC. The equation "5 cards to nullify 4 cards" does not apply since the HC is also useful for the TAK and you have control over the quality of the cards you're nullifying. If you're out of SS, you can still know (with a little memory effort) which cards your opponent has in his hand, thanks to the HC and the Scan. There's also an HC in your Q's Tent in case you didn't draw it in your first few turns. Since there are only three Q's Tents, I suggest you don't waist them unless it's very necessary. Missions and personnel are pretty straightforward and can be changed for about anything else with a low skill/personnel requirement (Try Joskefet's program!). ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire ++++++++++++++++++++ Personel selection screen You selected the following affiliation(s) * Federation * Non alligned You selected the following missions: Name AffilSp/PlpointSpan Requirements Evaluate Terraforming F P 35 3 MEDICAL Biology Exobiology Diplomacy Mission F P 30 3 INTEGRITY>30 CUNNING>30 Diplomacy Evacuation F P 30 3 STRENGTH>35 Diplomacy*3 First Contact F P 30 2 Diplomacy Empathy Restore Errant Moon F P 30 3 ENGINEER Astrophysics Leadership Inv. Massacre FR P 35 3 INTEGRITY>35 CUNNING>35 Diplomacy I selected the following 14 personel cards for you: Name type Affil m/fIntCunStr Abilities/Skills Rachel Garrett [Image] F 9 7 5 OFFICER ENGINEER Astrophysics Diplomacy Honor Leadership Roga Danar [Image] M 5 9 12 ENGINEER SECURITY Biology ComputerSkill Leadership OFFICER ENGINEER Astrophysics Data's Body [Image] M 8 2 12 ComputerSkill Exobiology Music Android Beverly Crusher [Image] F 8 8 5 MEDICAL*2 Biology Exobiology Beverly Picard [Image] F 8 8 4 OFFICER MEDICAL*2 Biology Leadership Dr. Reyga [Image] M 6 9 5 ENGINEER SCIENCE Astrophysics StellarCartogr CIVILIAN ComputerSkill Youth Lal [Image] F 8 8 10 Android Choose: Diplomacy Empathy Worf [Image] M 8 6 10 SECURITY Diplomacy Honor*2 Navigation Major Rakal fed. [Image] F 8 7 4 VIP Diplomacy Empathy Keiko O'Brien [Image] F 7 7 3 SCIENCE Biology Exobiology Maques [Image] M 8 7 4 VIP Diplomacy Empathy*2 Vekor [Image][Image] F 2 7 6 SCIENCE MEDICAL Geology Navigation OFFICER Archeology Jean-Luc Picard [Image] M 9 8 6 Diplomacy*2 Honor Leadership Music Navigation Tasha Yar-Alternate [Image] F 8 7 8 SECURITY Honor Leadership Tot Avg Min Max Integrity 102 7.29 2 9 Cunning 100 7.14 2 9 Strength 94 6.71 3 12 Federation 9 Non alligned 5 Unique personel 13 Universal personel 1 Male 6 Female 8 Command ability 9 Staff ability 4 Alternate Universe 5 OFFICER 4 ENGINEER 4 3+ SCIENCE 3 3 MEDICAL 5 3+ SECURITY 3 3 VIP 2 CIVILIAN 1 Archeology 1 Biology 4 3 Computer skill 3 Diplomacy 7 5+ Empathy 4 3 Exobiology 3 3 Honor 5 Leadership 5 3 Navigation 3 Treachery 0 Youth 1 Android 2 Cybernetics 0 Astrophysics 3 3 Geology 1 Music 2 Stellar carthography1 Choose yourself 2 Thank you for using this program, if you have questions or remarks e-mail me . @endnode @Node DOTW39 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Klg - Captain's Logs" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #39@{ub} Hello everyone! Another defeat, another of Koroth's decks. You are probably aware that the new FAQ rules that "Gowron's Flagship" is close enough to get Captain's Log benefit. Although it doesn't really make sense (the Neq'Var is now "Gowron's Flagship" but it was "commanded" by General Martok) they could either do that or remove "Commander Toreth's Warbird" and "Subcommander Taris' warbird" from the list, which wouldn't be very good for the Romulans. Also note that Taris' warbird doesn't have a capital W. Probably because she's just a Subcommander (or is it subcommander?). ;-) So now that we have this great 'new' card for the Klingons, why not make the best use of it... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #39: Klg - Captain's Logs - Seed Deck (28): Missions (6): Cloaked Mission Fever Emergency Medical Relief Investigate Disturbance Krios Supression Investigate Alien Probe Dilemmas (18): Q-Flash x4 Frame Of Mind x2 Interphasic Plasma Creatures Outpost Raid Shaka, When The Walls Fell The Higher... The Fewer Borg Ship Hunter Gangs Q's Vicious Animal Things Chinese Finger Puzzle Security Precautions Parallel Romance Nausicaans Male's Love Interest Other seed cards (4): Alternate Universe Door Q's Tent Q-Flash Klingon Outpost Draw Deck (32): Personnel (15): Gowron Nu'Daq Kargan Kurn Governor Worf Kitrik Koroth K'chiQ Kahlest K'Nera Roga Danar Soong-Type Android x3 (STA) Ira Graves Ships (4): IKC Bortas IKC Maht-H'a IKC Pagh IKC Hegh'ta Interrupts (6): Q2 x4 Amanda Rogers Kevin Uxbridge Events (2): Captain's Log I Am Not A Merry Man Others (5): Q's Tent x4 Q-Flash Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): Q's Planet Kurlan Naiskos Q Captain's Log Espionnage: Klingon on Federation Temporal Rift Klingon Civil War Arbiter of Succession Klingon Outpost Rescue Captive Immortal Again Madred Dr. Reyga Q-Continuum (25): Go Back Whence Thou Camest Frigid Incomming Message - The Continuum Amanda's Parents Guilty - Provisionaly Jealous Amanda Penalty Box x4 Aldebaran Serpent x2 Door-Net x2 Mandarin Bailiff x5 Scottish Setter x5 The Higher... The Q-er ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A deck of powerful ships. The simple idea here is to use Q's Planet to get the Kurlan Naiskos fast, and use your dual-classification personnel (6 out of 15), K'chiQ, STAs (reported via Ira Graves) and finally Q's Tent to staff it *very* fast. If you're lucky enough to have Nu'Daq and his Maht-H'a or Gowron and his Bortas out by that time the game is almost over! If you're not lucky then you'll have to wait for a second ship. Still not bad... >:-> What about Kevin Uxbridg-ing the Kurlan? You though about that. That's why you have 4 Q2s in your deck. But there's another reason for those Q2s... Q! Under Q's Planet! The best way to make sure your opponent won't succede before you do. Actually, that's exactly what happened to me. I managed to attempt Q's Planet before my opponent and I got stopped by Q. The next thing I knew my Outpost was right next to my opponent's, he had a Kurlan in his hands and a nasty Klingon away team boosted with STAs was attacking my poor away team. In other words, the game wasn't going as expected. How do you think I lost the game? Yup. Poof went the Outpost. The rest of the deck is pretty obvious. Easy missions, nasty dilemmas and "I Am Not A Merry Man" because it's sooo good. ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW40 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - Lots-O-Point" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #40@{ub} Hello everyone! Here's a deck for multiplayer games... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #40: Rom - Lots-O-Point - Seed Deck (26): Missions (6): Pegasus Search (50 points) Wormhole Negociations (45 pts) Investigate "Shattered Space" (45 pts) Study Lonka Pulsar (40 pts) Quash Conspiracy (40 pts) Compromised Mission (35 pts) Dilemmas (16): Q-Flash x3 Planet (7): Zaldan Armus - Skin of Evil Hologram Ruse Parallel Romance Matriarchal Society Female's Love Interest Alien Labyrinth Space (1): Tarellian Plague Ship Either (5): Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease (goes under Pegasus Search) Cardassian Trap Yuta Frame of Mind Shaka, When the Walls Fell Other seed cards (4): Alternate Universe Door Q's Tent Q-Flash Romulan Outpost Draw Deck (34): Personnel (17): Major Rakal Sela Tebok Takket Taris Mirok Tarus Sirol Telak Roga Danar Dr. Reyga Jo'Bril Devinoni Ral Soong-type Android x2 Samuel Clemens Galen Ships (4): Khazara Terix Haakona Devoras Interrupts (7): Amanda Rogers Kevin Uxbridge x2 Q2 Distortion of Space/Time Continuum Thine Own Self Ship Seizure Events (1): Red Alert Others (5): Devidian Door Q's Tent x4 Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): Maques Soong-type Android Where No One Has Gone Before Captain's Log Tarus Romulan Outpost Alien Parasite Rescue Captives Yellow Alert Masaka Transformations Immortal Again Revolving Door Red Alert Q-Continuum (30): Scottish Setter x6 Mandarin Bailiff x6 Penalty Box x4 The Higher... The Q-er x3 Door-Net x3 Aldebaran Serpent x3 Frigid x2 Incoming Message - The Continuum x2 Where's Guinan? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you play in a multiplayer game, there's one thing you should always keep in mind when building your deck: you're not playing against someone, you're playing against *everyone* else. Rogue Borgs for example are very powerful in normal games because they can completely neutralize your opponent, leaving you all the necessary time to complete your missions. A Rogue Borg deck in a multiplayer game is not very wise because you're devoting a quarter of your deck to neutralize only one adversary, helping the others at the same time. Unless you're playing each Borg separately, in which case this strategy is X times less powerful where X is the number of other players. So what should you do then? Simple, play an individualistic game. Race for the points. Keep a few stalling cards, because the "usual" strategy is to hit whoever has more points until someone else takes the lead and so on, but don't build your deck around a strategy like Heisenberg + Subspace Schisms. In this deck I included as many big points missions as I could, while playing a space only set. There're two big reasons for this: if you had play Pegasus Search along with normal, 30-35 points missions, chances are a lot of nasty dilemmas would've ended under it. Second, seed Barclay's Disease under Pegasus Search and you now have a 60 points mission and only need to complete any 40 points mission to win. I know, Pegasus needs Integrity > 40, but that should take you 8-9 personnel. Not that difficult, especially considering that you probably won't encounter a Borg Ship, a Cytherians or another unavoidable dilemma there: your opponents will have difficulties resisting the call of a 50 points steal. If you loose some points and are short by less than 10, use the Devidian Door and Samuel Clemens to score a quick 10. Watch out for Masaka though. Around here, it's in everyone's Q's Tent. Here's how the game ended, very typical of the Devidian Door: I was stopped by a Shaka on the Quash Conspiracy mission, where my outpost was. I had 77 points and there was no other dilemmas left. I had only one diplomacy in my Away Team (Rakal). On his turn, one of my opponents destroyed my Outpost. :-( My turn. I played Q's Tent and retreived Maques. I said "Devidian Door" and played Maques to my ship. I then re-attempted the mission, solved Shaka, solved the mission... ...won, and showed Devidian Door! ++++++++++++++++++++ Send me your decks if you'd like them to be reviewed! check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW41 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Game Over" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #41@{ub} Hello everyone! This deck was submitted to me by Sean Stevens aka Locutus... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #41: Fed - Game Over - Seed Deck (29): Missions (6): Repair Mission Study Nebula Investigate Sighting Fissure Research Investigate Disappearance Explore Dyson Sphere Dilemmas (15): Armus-Skin of Evil x2 Interphasic Plasma Creatures Chalnoth x2 Yuta x3 The Sheliak Q Frame of Mind REM Fatigue Halucinations Barclay's Proto. Disease x2 (Seed one under Explore Dyson Sphere) Cytherians (Seed at Study Nebula) Other seed cards (8): Betazoid Gift Box Cryosatellite Lakanta Beverly Picard Tasha Yar-Alternate Alternate Universe Door Q's Tent Federation Outpost Draw Deck (31): Personnel (15): Data Wesley Crusher Worf Beverly Crusher Jean-Luc Picard Geordi La Forge Katherine Pulaski Spock Admiral McCoy Commander Troi Mordock Robin Lefler Rager Dr. Reyga Roga Danar Ships (2): Future Enterprise USS Enterprise Interrupts (5): Parallax Arguers Q2 x2 Kevin Uxbridge Amanda Rogers Events (4): The Traveller: Transcendance Kivas Fajo-Collector Res-Q Red Alert! Others (5): Plasmadyne Relay Q's Tent x4 Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): Revolving Door USS Enterprise-C Federation Outpost Devidian Door William T. Riker USS Yamato Hugh Wartime Conditions The Devil Klim Dokachim Red Alert! Rachel Garrett Kevin Uxbridge Q-Continuum (0) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Strategy: Seed Outpost at Repair Mission also seed the Cryosatellite there. As soon as possible attempt Repair Mission after its completed move to Study Nebula and encounter your Cytherians. With Lakanta move to the other end very quickly scoring 15 pts and attempt Explore Dyson Sphere (have rager and/or Mordock) encounter your Barclay's and pass it. Complete Dyson Sphere for 35 (or up to 45 more points depending on if you have Rager and/or Mordock) Game Over. -Locutus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A few thoughts, if I may (after all, this deck won a big game recently). This seems to be a break it or make it kind of deck. With only two ship (including the Future Enterprise) and a very difficult mission (Fissure Research), you will probably rely on your Q's Tent more than you should. And since you also have much needed cards like Red Alert!, Klim Dokachim and Kevin Uxbridge in your Tent, you run the risk of running out of Q's Tent sooner than you thought. On the other hand, cards like Mordock and Rager which can make the five points difference you need to win should go in the Tent. Also, I am a big fan of the Q-Continuum side deck. With cards like Penalty Box and Mandarin Bailiff, at worst your Q-Flash is worth an Armus/Higher. Not bad... A few more things. I wonder why he chose to put Robin Lefler in his deck and Rachel Garett in the Tent instead of the other way around. I mean, what does she got that the other one does not? Asides from that. Also, I personnaly prefer Vekor and her Navigation to Katherine Pulaski and her nothingness... ++++++++++++++++++++ If you'd like your deck to be reviewed, send it to me with the subject "DOTW Review". Check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW42 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Mostly Harmless" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #42@{ub} Hello everyone! I know I'm a bit late, but I was about to post the sceduled article when I realised it was #42. I HAD to do something for such an important number. So here goes, a tribute to the world of the infinite improbability generator and the Bistromath drive... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #42: Fed - Mostly Harmless - Seed Deck (22): Missions (6): (impossible missions) Diplomatic Conference Fissure Research Investigate Legend Qualor II Rendez-Vous Space x4 ("Space, is big. Really big. You don't...") Dilemmas (13): Malfunctioning Door (with a personnality) Ancient Computer (7.5 million years old) System-Wide Cascade Failure (the ship that commited suicide) Android Nightmares (actually, Marvin IS the nightmare) Shaka, When The Wall Fell (those guys have lost their Babel Fish) Punishment Zone (where you hear Vorgon peotry) Conundrum (the aliens that forgot who they where) Worshiper ("we apologise for the inconvenience") Parallel Romance (wasn't the earth demolished, Fenchurch?) The Gatherers (...would appreciate a Sandwich Maker) Chinese Finger Puzzle (I'd *love* to see Marvin stuck with that) Hologram Ruse (A great way to shop for a planet) Security Precautions ("Click, hum. Click, hmm. Click, - . ??") Other seed cards (4): Federation Outpost Iconian Gateway (To reroute the Perfectly Normal Beast) Varon-T Disruptor (the Kill-O-Zap) Draw Deck (38): Personnel (26): Darian Wallace as Arthur Dent Christopher Hubson as Ford Prefect Data as Marvin Mendon and Mordok as Zaphod Beeblebrox Sonya Gomez as Tricia McMillian Richard Galen as Slartibartfast Robin LeFler as Fenchurch Lal as Random Targ as a Perfectly Normal Beast and a Boghog Boratus as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz Ajur as the Vogon guard's aunt Exocomp as Colin Sirna Kolrami as Agrajag Narik as Frankie Mouse Gorta as Benjy Mouse Worf as the Sperm Whale Geordi LaForge as the Bowl of Petunias Bok as Loonquawl Dr. Reyga as Phouchg Zon as Deep Thought Mot the Barber as Pizpot Gargravarr Dathon as Hotblack Desiato Jean-Luc Picard as The Captain Will Riker as Number One Deanna Troi as Number Two Ships (5): Husnock Ship x2 as Vogon Constructor Fleets ships Zalconian Vessel as The Hearth of Gold and Eddie Combat Vessel as Hotblack's ship USS Enterprise as the dead Blagulon Krappa ship Interrupts (4): Vogon Raiders (Vogons, Vorgons...) Rescue Captives (...floating in space) Energy Vortex (the Total Perspective Vortex) Humuhumunukunukuapua'a (translation: so long and thanks for all the fish). Events (1): Where No One Has Gone Before (Magrathea) Others (2): Echo Papa 607 Killer Drone (the Krikkit Robots) and Federation Padd as "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- That's all folks! May Almighty Bob bless you all. ++++++++++++++++++++ check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, causes itself to happen again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though. -Douglas Adams @endnode @Node DOTW43 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Don't Worry" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #43@{ub} Hoch Savan! (I salute you all) I'm practicing my Klingon. You never now when it might be useful. I also learned the word "pahtk", in case the negociations don't go well... ;-) Here's a deck sent to me by Daniel Pandre... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #43: Fed - Don't Worry - Seed Deck (23): Missions (6): Hunt For DNA Program Pegasus Search Wormhole Negotiations Cultural Obeservation Avert Disaster Evaluate Terraforming Dilemmas (10): Q x2 Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease The Higher... The Fewer Yuta x2 Tsiolkovsky's Infection Tarellian Plague Ship Male Love Interest Female Love Interest Other seed cards (7): Horga'hn Betazoid Gift Box Data's Head Time Travel Pod Alternate Universe Door Q's Tent Federation Outpost Draw Deck (37): Personnel (19): Jean-Luc Picard Jack Crusher Beverly Crusher Baran Bok Montgomery Scott Geordi La Forge Taitt Vekor Vash Roga Danar Rachel Garrett Nikolai Rozhenko Tasha Yar-Alternate Worf Beverly Picard Jo'Bril Dr. Reyga Evek Ships (3): U.S.S Enterprise U.S.S. Yamato U.S.S. Nebula Interrupts (4): Kevin Uxbridge Q2 Amanda Rogers Palor Toff Events (6): Res-Q Red Alert Nutational Shields Metaphasic Shields Where No One Had Gone Before Revolving Door Others (5): Q's Tent x3 Medical Kit Plasmadyne Relay Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): Darian Wallace Taitt Richard Galen Toby Russel U.S.S. Nebula Res-Q Spacedock Revolving Door Kevin Uxbridge Q2 Amanda Rogers Palor Toff Federation Outpost Q-Continuum (0) -------------------------------------------------------------------- This deck is designed to not worry about the probablities. It has multiple redundies in many areas, and has few disadvantages. One is that it does not have enough KU, Amandas, and Q2s (all those people with Q's Tent have more). Another disadvantage(advantage?) is that it has no Q Continuum (I don't see the point). All it has is two revolving doors. --Dan Pandre -------------------------------------------------------------------- And now my analysis... With 19 personnel in the draw deck, and 4 more in the Q's Tent, this deck sure is safe on the personnel side! Dan made use of Q's Tent primarily as a "backup" deck, one wich duplicates almost all necessary skill and interrupts/events in his draw deck. That's not a bad idea, though it requires more than 3 Tents to be effective IMO (4-5 should be good). I would also add a Q-Continuum, for the bluff. Even if you don't seed Q-Flashes it's still a good idea to place a fake Q-Continuum because the power of the QC also lies in the threat it represents. If it can convince your opponent to send a trimmed Away Team, thereby making your dilemmas more effective, then it has fulfilled its mission and the "waisted" Q-Flash is justified. Perhaps this deck's biggest enemy is... itself! To quote my friend Hugh, "this deck needs *more* dilemmas". With only ten to slow down your opponent, your margin of error is VERY thin and your timing must be impeccable. If your opponent gets a good draw, you're in big trouble... may'Daq bIQapjaj! ++++++++++++++++++++ If you'd like your deck to be reviewed in DOTW, let me know! check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW44 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Little Isabella" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #44@{ub} Hello everyone! Here's a deck I wanted to do for a while. It's based on the combo Brain Drain - Isabella. Just remember to space out the nebulas (if you can). When I played the deck, I completely to forgot about that, with disastrous consequences (I didn't seed Q)... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #44: Fed - Little Isabella - Seed Cards (25): Missions (6): Nebula Study Nebula FCG-47 Reseach (also a nebula) Investigate Disapearance Repair Mission Explore Black Cluster Dilemmas (16): Q-Flash x 3 Outpost Raid Firestorm Borg Ship Shaka, When The Wall Fell Cardassian Trap Yuta Interphasic Plasma Creatures Parallel Romance Frame of Mind REM Fatigue Hallucinations Hunter Gangs Q (now it's there) Barclay's PD Other seed cards (4): Alternate Universe Door Q's Tent Q-Flash Federation Outpost Draw Deck (35): Personnel (15): Rachel Garrett Wesley Crusher Lal (give her Stellar Cartography if possible) Neela Daren Jean-Luc Picard Data Worf Jenna D'Sora Beverly Crusher Commander Troi (or Devinoni Ral) Major Rakal Soong-type Android (give MEDICAL) Dr. Reyga Roga Danar Vekor Ships (3): USS Enterprise USS Yamato USS Nebula Interrupts (10): Isabella x2 Rogue Borg x2 Brain Drain x2 Q2 x2 Amanda Rogers Kevin Uxbridge Events (3): Subspace Warp Rift x2 Red Alert! Others (3): Q's Tent x3 Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): Federation Outpost Tetryon Field Red Alert! The Traveller: Transcendance Maques Immortal Again Rescue Captive Yellow Alert Masaka Transformation Soong-type Android Holographic Ruse Distortion of S/T Continuum Kevin Uxbridge Q-Continuum (30): Trust Me x2 (to get the Stargazer) Penalty Box x5 Mandarin Bailiff x5 Scottish Setter x5 Guilty - Provisionally x2 Aldebaran Serpent x2 Door-Net x2 Incoming Message - The Continuum x2 The Higher... The Q-er x2 Frigid x2 Where's Guinan? -------------------------------------------------------------------- The strategy is simple, wait until your opponent stops on a nebula (you can also use the Warp Rifts to help it) and play Isabella, backed with Brain Drain to remove youth and Rogue Borgs to prevent other ships from coming to the rescue. BOOM! Of course, you need to carfully select your target too: the combo costs 3-4 cards (Isa + Borg + Drain + Rift) so unless you destroy a whole bunch'O people, it ain't worth it. Not a tourney-level deck, but it's soooo fun when it works you don't even care if you win or loose afterward... ++++++++++++++++++++ If you'd like your deck to be reviewed in DOTW, let me know! check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok ch'Rihan Beta Quadrant @endnode @Node DOTW45 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed - Bonus" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #45@{ub} 'lo there! There's an old saying: "Too much of something is WONDERFUL"... In this case, too much of something is conterproductive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #45: Fed - Bonus - Seed Deck (30): Missions (6): Investigate Dissapearance Diplomacy Mission First Contact Repair Mission Explore Dyson Sphere Restore Errant Moon Dilemmas (19): Sarjenka Chinese Finger Puzzle + Q-Flash + Security Precautions Shaka, When the Walls Fell + Hunter Gangs + Zaldan Q-Flash + Interphasic Plasma Creatures + Outpost Raid Yuta + Frame of Mind + Cardassian Trap Edo Probe + Q-Flash + Q Hologram Ruse + Q-Flash + The Higher... The Fewer Other seed cards (5): Alternate Universe Door Q's Tent Q-Flash Mirasta Yale Federation Outpost Draw Deck (30): Personnel (13): Kova Tholl Devinoni Ral Samuel Clemens Beverly Picard Jean-Luc Picard Rachel Garrett Roga Danar Worf Vekor Data Major Rakal Tasha Yar-Alternate Beverly Crusher Ships (3): Runabout USS Enterprise Yamato Interrupts (7): Hail Amanda Rogers Q2 Kevin Uxbridge Distortion of S/T Continuum Thine Own Self Asteroid Sanctuary Events (1): Red Alert Others (6): Devidian Door Q's Tent x5 Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): Kevin Uxbridge Alien Parasite Red Alert Masaka Transformation Immortal Again Revolving Door Soong-Type Android Jo'Bril Maques Dr. Reyga Mordok Rager Federation Outpost Q-Continuum (31): Scottish Setter x5 Mandarin Bailiff x4 Penalty Box x4 Guilty - Provisionally x3 Door-Net x3 Trust Me x2 Aldebaran Serpent x2 Frigid x2 Where's Guinan? x2 Jealous Amanda x2 The Higher... The Q-er x2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This deck features several ways to get bonus points so you don't have to complete more than three missions. Of course, it's a bit ineffective to try all those strategies at the same time (you need too many resources for some bonus) but a theme deck is a theme deck... First, there is Timicin and Test Mission, The 5 poi... -Hey! Waitaminute. There's no Timicin in your deck! Oops. Right. In fact, it was there during gameplay but it's so ineffective that I replaced both with Repair Mission for the same point value. 'Nuff said. Then comes Mirasta Yale, uncovered just before Sarjenka. An easy 10 points is always a good thing. The only problem is that you have to protect her during the whole game. For example, my opponent played Klingon. I had to get Mirasta very early in the game or else my 'rescue' Team would've been attacked by a Klingon commando right after it was stopped by Sarjenka. Rager is safer. Slight problem though: if she's near the bottom of your deck you'll be temped to wait before you attempt Dyson Sphere. Solutions: Q's Tent or BGBox. But then you (again) have a two cards combo. Kova Tholl: Interesting. 10 points is good but you need your opponent's cooperation. You also need to carefully select his crewmates if you want to trigger his bonus. Tholl + Runabout + Borg Ship works fine but a three cards combo is not something I rely on. Mordok: the kind of card you don't show early if your opponent's isn't playing Federation. In my case, his bonus was nullified when I got attacked without provocation by my opponent's Away Team, before Mordok was even in play. You can also stack a couple of helper cards like Hail or Asteroid Sanctuary, but then you end up with a 3+ combo for 5 puny points... Samuel Clemens: Ah. Now we're talking. Very easy 10 points, if you can show your Devidian Door that is. You should wait 'till you have 90+ points for maximum efficiency. Declare DDoor, play a personnel, complete a mission for 90 points, next turn report Clemens and show DDoor. Tada! For more safety you should have a second DDoor in your Q's Tent. Slight problem: Masaka (always in my opponent's Q's Tent) and Wrong Door. Solution: Zalkonian Storage Capsule. Uh, did I say 3+ cards combo? Conclusion: if you want a fast bonus, put a Barclay's Disease under your own mission instead. Easiest 10 points you'll ever make. ghIj qet jaghmeyjaj! (May your enemies run with fear) My Klingon is improving... :-) ++++++++++++++++++++ If you'd like your deck to be reviewed in DOTW, let me know! check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~gouache/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok RSE Headquarters Ra'tleihfi ch'Rihan (Romulus) Beta Quadrant @endnode @Node DOTW46 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Klg - Anti-Matter" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #46@{ub} "They say time is the fire in which we burn". I do not burn anymore. I'm already completely burned. Anyway, here's one more toward the magical number 50. At the current rate, it should be reached in less than six month... ;-) BTW, the DOTW archives' URL has changed. It's now http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~cgoyette/stccg/ And now... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #46: Klg - Anti-Matter - Seed Deck (26): Missions (6): Explore Typhone Expanse Warped Space Survey Mision Study "Hole in Space" Investigate Alien Probe Seek Life-form Dilemmas (16): Q-Flash x4 REM Fatigue Hallucinations Q Interphasic Plasma Creatures Outpost Raid Q's Vicious Animal Thing Armus - Skin of Evil Nausicaans Yuta Cardassian Trap Frame of Mind Shaka, When The Walls Fell Zaldan Other seed cards (4): Alternate Universe Door Q's Tent Q-Flash Klingon Outpost Draw Deck (34): Personnel (16): K'chiQ Jo'Bril Nick Locarno Evek Koroth K'nera Dathon Kurn Kitrik Gov Worf Roga Danar Devinoni Ral Dr Reyga Kurak Nu'Daq Vekor Ships (4): IKC Hegh'ta IKC Maht-H'a IKC Bortas Tama Interrupts (4): Amanda Rogers Kevin Uxbridge Distortion of S/T Continuum Q2 Brain Drain Events (2): Captain's Log Red Alert! Others (8): Q's Tent x4 Anti-Matter Pod x3 (AMP) Side Decks: Q's Tent (13): IKC Qu'Vat Rescue Captive The Traveler: Transcendence Yellow Alert Kevin Uxbridge Soong-type Android Where No One Has Gone Before Masaka Transformation Captain's Log The Devil Maques Immortal Again Alien Parasite Q-Continuum (30): Scottish Setter x5 Mandarin Bailiff x5 Penalty Box x5 Door-Net x3 Aldebaran Serpent x3 Frigid x2 Where's Guinan? x2 The Higher... The Q-er x3 Incoming Message- The Continuum x2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Simple startegy, yet not very effective. The idea is to mine the spaceline with AMPs and then finish the job with your ships. Here's what to keep in mind... 1)AMPs are easy to nullify. Although Transporter Skill is not a common skill in all decks, having only one can give a 4 cards advantage to your opponent. :-( NOT having Transporter Skill will force your opponent to stack his personnel on one single ship, to have the 3 Nav requirement. A perfect target for your Armada. Brain Drain can also help you. 2)AMPs are slow to seed. You need to actually put the AMPs where you want them to be. That can slow you down very much. The best thing is to seed your outpost near your opponent's, and then place AMPs nearby. Are AMPs worthwhile? I've seen combos with fewer cards getting better results. Right now, I'd say their best use is to nullify Manheim's Dimensional Door, and even that isn't great. Maybe stock one in Q's Tent... That doesn't mean it's not fun to play though. The joy of being able to pull off the combo is worth playing the game by itself! But in tourney, this is a card that'll stay in your binder, just between Baryon Buildup and Warp Core Breach. ++++++++++++++++++++ If you'd like your deck to be reviewed in DOTW, let me know! check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~cgoyette/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW47 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Fed-Klg-Rom - Mission Impossible" @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #47@{ub} Hoch Savan. chay' DaHjaj taDI'oS 'IwlIj... ??? tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a' ? {Oops. Wrong language. Let's try Federation instead} One, two, test? Ah! Thank you for joining us. This week we have a theme deck submitted by Nobody (that's not a joke). What a perfect undercover name for... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tebok's STCCG Deck of the Week #47: Fed/Klg/Rom - Mission Impossible - by Walter D Smith (nobody0@juno.com) Comments by Walter D Smith Seed Cards (24): Missions (6): Nebula (a truly Impossible mission) Diplomatic Conference Reunion Hunt for DNA Program Pegasus Search (note the lack of an interphase generator) Wormhole Negotiations Avg. points = 50 Damn close to impossible. Then again you only need to solve two missions to win. Dilemmas (13): Borg Ship (virtually impossible mission) Shaka When the Walls Fell El-Adrel Creature Female Love intrest x2 Matriarchal Society x2 Frame of mind Rascals Cardassian trap Tarellian Plague Ship Menthar Booby Trap Q-Flash Other seed cards (5): Alternate Universe Door Q-Flash Federation Outpost Neutral Outpost Iconian Gateway Draw Deck (39): Personnel (19): Spock Scotty McCoy JL Picard Lt. Picard Jack Crusher Richard Galen Rachel Garrett Ro Laren Gov. Worf B'etor Major Rakal Sirol Neral Baran Dathon Ocett Devinoni Ral Maques Ships (6): USS Stragazer IKC Hegh'ta Decius Scout Vessel Tama Mercenary Ship Interrupt(1): Thine own Self Events (8): Treaty F/R x2 Treaty F/K x2 Treaty R/K Red Alert x2 Klim Dokachin Others (2): Colony x2 (Nimbus III anyone? ) Side Deck: Q-Continuum (7): Q's Planet Door net's x2 The Higher the Q-er x2 Wesley gets the point Into the breach ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everybody should have its own version of the Mission Impossible deck. It's The Ultimate Challenge. The Rite of Ascension. The Maso-Deck. The If-you-win-with-that-I-will-strip-naked-and-walk-outside-to-shout-your- name deck. One mission I would never leave out, though, is Qualor II, *THE* most impossible mission of all (unless of course your opponent has very few dilemmas). Use instead of the Nebula and you now have the perfect set. Also, the heavy duplication marks the need for a Q's Tent. Or does it? Here's the catch: if you put all three Treaties plus the Red Alert in the Tent and retreive them one by one, it'll be slow. Really slow. On the other hand, if you double each treaty card, you'll loose some valuable space for, say, interrupts maybe? The simple answer is: no three way treaty. In normal game, that is. This is a theme deck and theme decks work under a different set of rules... Finally, a small Q-Continuum side deck is never a good idea. Using a seven cards QC is like telling your opponent "I seeded only one Q-Flash, so don't bother trimming your Away Teams after that". If you really want your opponent to hit a specific Q-card, *this* is the time to use duplication. 'nuff said. Try it and enjoy, you little perverse... ;-) Press 'next'. This message will not autodestruct. ++++++++++++++++++++ If you'd like your deck to be reviewed in DOTW, let me know! check out http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~cgoyette/stccg/ for previous DOTW. -- Riov Tebok Rihannsu Star Empire @endnode @Node DOTW48 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #48@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW49 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #49@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW50 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #50@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW51 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #51@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW52 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #52@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW53 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #53@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW54 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #54@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW55 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #55@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW56 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #56@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW57 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #57@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW58 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #58@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW59 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #59@{ub} @endnode @Node DOTW60 "STCCG.guide/ST:CCG Deck of the Week/Rom - " @TOC "STCCG:dotw.guide/DOTW" @{u}@{b}@{fg highlight}ST:CCG Deck of the Week@{fg text}@{ub}@{uu} @{b}Tebok's Deck of the Week #60@{ub} @endnode