Posted: 28 October 2007 at 9:37am | IP Logged

Drak and I treked to ye old truck stop to play some cards and eat some food,over all the event gets an A- in my book.

  Second turn I kind of got screwed when none of the 4 experianced players noticed that there were two inderigans out and He fired at my sec tor hq instead.Guess what guys ,I just rembered that Its OK for indies to target sector HQ,this makes me feel better,giving in my mind Drak a clear victory(not that he cared)

The Inderigan shooting each other rules led to some very interesting table politics and allowed me to hammer the guy with the most ships

mercelessly and not suffer any retribution,

an early( and very well played)Galactic Armegedon by Vinc took out many of our large capital ships which in the long run was probably very decisive

The game was slowed by 2 inexperianced players but for the most part us old timers took it in stride,and we all helped them out

Vincinorex kept playing Casieno over and over thanx to a tactical officer and many of us went bust to get as many cards as possible from the deck.

My opening hand statigy of defencive crew and ways to get them out of the discard worked fantastic,although I was hampered by getting very few ship out of the deck but on the other hand I got abot 60% of the total defencive cards that were in the deck.

harry did the discard equivalancy thing too early and all he ended up is being my target

Drakmore layed low and had the good fortune of pulling a shipyard out of the deck that kept him in ships for  the end game.

at the very end Vinc,and I had very strong fleets but some defencive card play left him vulnerable to Drak,Drak not needing to target me as I had taken SHQ damage and couldnt win(sigh)

If we had played it out past the time constraits it would have been an interesting fight between Vinc and myself but fair is fair and we were told the game was to be called at 11PM

The venue was quiet and the food was decent diner quality and I would like to see wolfie hold it there in the future.

as a side  note to wolfie,why dont you try to coordinate a date for an event around the Boston groups availlability at least4-6 weeks in advance

I didnt adress the HUGE rules fight(I was at the heart of it)

Theres a lot Id like to say about it but I will not address it.

Finally GOOD JOB WOLFIE!

Posted: 28 October 2007 at 11:14pm | IP Logged

Harry isn't decisively gone yet Mike.

As a little bit more of a clarification, the rules blow up also had to do with the fact that a R/C-1 crewman was used in about the same way earlier to stop one of Harry's plays and it was allowed... mainly because no one really had an issue with it. In Mike's defense, because there wasn't an issue Mike really didn't notice the play, he was not at the table at the time. But a counter ruling kind of stung because of that. Then given that Harry and Mike are oil and water, well...

The thing to remember is that everyone is human, people make mistakes, (even refs), but the ref is there to make a call and keep the game going, whether a ruling is right or wrong and for the right reason or not.

That's why Mike posted the card interaction on the board for comment. It was more for future reference regarding transportation and when something is a card play or a card action.

Posted: 17 December 2007 at 12:44pm | IP Logged

-PC or not, the truth is subjective. You may believe you speak the truth about any number of topics, but it is *your* truth you speak, not mine.

For example, i don't see Mel Gibson as saying anything i am thinking but just "afraid" to say. I see Mel Gibson as an idiot that has made some passable movies (although his habit of destroying the historical accuracy of his subjects disturbs my ability to watch some i.e. Braveheart). That's my truth.

Then again, we're getting away from the purpose of these boards and the thread at hand. Too bad to read a temporarily-hotheaded referee is going to prevent a group from getting together for a fun tournament. Good luck to you then.

Lobo, Pinko Nazi Heretic Racist Homophobe since Day 1.