Posted: 16 May 2007 at 2:44pm | IP Logged

The Zedan Retribution Fleet

as w/most of my decks it needs to be small to get the gimmick going.The idea is to deal lots of damage during your opponents weopons fire phase so as to discourge him from firing at you.Zedan is your main as thier heavy weopons fire back .For your minor use The Garshain  S8.9,and 10 as they all fire back w/phasers.A couple of Ships from the future and 3-5 instant reactions.O6&9 Pendulem defects(?) roll the damage back at them and R/L 6 Spontanious Combustion(?)instantly reacted will do a heck of a lot of damage to the firing ships.Some of the Manouver cards are also good

Posted: 13 July 2007 at 12:44pm | IP Logged

-In my own experiences with other ccg's, i tend to skew toward smaller decks and the minimum required to play. With my current deck ideas in GE i am working from a beginning focus of 100 card decks with the understanding that i will cut down from that number during revision and shuffle-through solitaire playtesting by at least 10, preferrably more. I am sure as i get more familiar with the game (and my regular competition's tendencies) i'll keep the numbers closer to the minimum.

The main reason i like to keep the decks small in any game i play is that i usually (illogically) focus on a couple of cards that define my deck idea. I want those to get out without having to show everyone my strategy in the reserve, so i'll shrink the deck to allow it to play otu for a couple of turns at least. Win or lose, i just like playing the ideas.

When i get my Cops and Robbers deck finally posted in the Deck Design section you'll see what i mean. I have no issues about size, my waistline is big enough to compensate for any perceived problems!

Lobo

Posted: 26 July 2007 at 8:02am | IP Logged

-A question for the person that posted his deck:

How often do you find that your Hazards and Monsters get negated or muted in games? i thought about building a deck whose majority percentage of cards was monster/hazard/occurrence to just brow beat the opponent but am unfamiliar with all the cards and ways to make those not work. I would of course include some ships to protect sector HQ but was throwing around an idea for a dragon deck that is mostly "support" cards and contains little else but D1 Scintilatting Dragons for protection. Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks for posting your deck, have a good day.....Lobo

Posted: 26 July 2007 at 5:08pm | IP Logged

I'll have to throw the Rogue Couple in instead of the Ace Fighter Pilot. Fits this deck even better.

Posted: 26 July 2007 at 8:29pm | IP Logged

Lobo,

The D1 deck works well in a duel but in my experience it suffers in the multi-player game because you have too many people to defend your D1 darlings from.

In general, I think the 'O' cards are some of the best in the game. They can really stifle an opponent especially if he/she is slightly terrain hosed. The O4 Flood card can take forever to dig yourself out from under if you're relying on one terrain stack in the early game.

I'm looking forward to Friday's game... maybe I'll build a Scorpead deck based on future ships and luck cards and the Scorphead comet of lore.

J--

Posted: 27 July 2007 at 8:10am | IP Logged

-Thanks for the responses. I didn't mean exactly that i would hide behind the D1 and be purely defensive but was curious if a deck based on non-ship/dragon damage cards such as M and H was viable. This would imply that i would not be dealing damage to anything but the Sector HQ a little bit at a time once my M and H cards had dealt with the enemy fleet. Sounds like (depending on the opponent) i may last a few turns or a few seconds. Of course, that's always been my experience in CCGs, why stop now?

After looking at the dragons a bit, though, there are quite a few cool ones that are higher strength i would like to see played as well. And i don't think i have enough strong H or M cards to deal with a competitive deck. But, that won't stop me from trying!

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

Posted: 27 July 2007 at 10:50am | IP Logged

Playing a card which requires another card to protect it is generally weaker than playing two cards which can operate on their own without protection. The D1 Scintillators fall into this category. If I were to play a deck with several D1s in it I'd be tempted to protect them with O1 Time Skips and other stuff. In some ways this is diluting my deck's effectiveness.

Generally, speaking playing 2 cards where 1 card will do is a losing strategy unless the two cards are more effective when combined than any two other cards you could play.

Discovering these sweet spots in the game are what distinguish good deck designs from great ones.

J--

Posted: 27 July 2007 at 12:03pm | IP Logged

Matchbox wrote: yeah ill have to try and slim it down, and see what happens.  im sure you are right though, that my wins would increase, well i hope anyway.  but it is all in fun, and its just crazy that everytime we play, theres always something new that comes up, especially new combos.

I've been telling you guys for years to slim down your decks. I just finished putting together a 50 card Geko deck to try on you guys.

That is what makes this game great. Even after all this time, you can still come up with things that make your opponents go "WHAT THE...."