Posted: 17 June 2008 at 10:13am | IP Logged

-Howdy folks. Reading the R/H2 Time Trap card recently, i wondered aloud if the following scenario is a legal card play. Feel free to throw tomatoes at me if i am missing an obvious answer here:

C3 Cryo Convict plays to any location without a Penal Colony. I play the Convict to my opponents terrain, say a T5 Galactic Trade World. During my opponents following allocation phase, i react to his allocation by playing my R/H2 Time Trap to *my* Cryo Convict. Is that legal, and if so does that them Time Trap the entire stack and prevent my opponent from using the terrain?

I know that i can only play the Time Trap to cards in my fleet, but the Cryo Convict doesn't specifically say it is played 'outside' of my fleet. Or is any card of mine played to an opponent location automatically no longer in my fleet?

Thanks in advance for your assuredly wise answers and wisecracks, have a good week all.....Lobo

Posted: 18 June 2008 at 10:13am | IP Logged

-I was using some other cards for resource denial but i found that the cards i was using were only effective if drawn and used in the first couple of rounds i.e. Shipping delays, Cryo convicts, Time Trap/Skip a Terrain, etc.

I know i saw a lot more O cards for resource denial as well as other categories but i didn't really tune in on it for my Tufor deck. Thus, i'm just scrapping that idea for now and looking more at streamlining the card choices, focusing more on boosting my abilities with support cards rather than attacking i.e. Lucky Maneuver instead of Defensive Override.

I am keeping some monsters, however, as they round out my category requirements. I'll post the deck after modification and a bit of play this next week for suggestions.....Lobo 

Posted: 18 June 2008 at 1:06pm | IP Logged

-I have some of those in sufficient multiples and have used a few in previous decks (particularly the Time Compression, Flood, and Sargassos) to good effect. As i said, i wasn't actively trying for a strong denial deck during my first run at the Tufor. I certainly do appreciate the run-down though (as i'm sure others do as well), as when i return to looking at it i have a good guide of cards to start with.

The one i have tried including lots of and found it failed was the Sun Spot. Well, didn't fail, but wasn't all that helpful in the few games i ran it in. Again, though, it wasn't coupled with multiple denial sources so i may need to re-examine it in line with that thinking.

Thanks again, have a good one.....Lobo

Posted: 19 June 2008 at 3:57pm | IP Logged

Reaching back into his deep memory... dredging past the rust and accumulated debris Galaktische vaguely recalls that he promised not to run a resource denial deck against Lobo because it is too strong in a duel. In a similar vein he recalls promising not to use the C5 Time Knight...

:)

Actually, I don't mind at all. The more strategies the better.

J--