Genearal SFB
Tournament Tactics
Game 5 Will
Leiserson– Tholian ATC
I have never
played Will and had never seen him play before, so I was worried
about this one.
Turn 1
I used the
exact same EA that I did for my game with Aadil.
Will plotted
a high speed through out the turn and slipped out while I slowly
headed for the middle of the map, slipping in when I could. At
about range 13 or so, Will pinged my #6 shield with 2 out of the 3
disruptors he fired. I then turned left to face him and he laid a
4 hex breakdown strength web running straight down the hex row I
was in. If I went to the left of it he would have been able to
turn left himself and he would have had most of the map with which
to run. If I went to the right of the web, he would be forced to
escape into the corner where I had a chance of eventually catching
him next turn. So I slipped out to the right and achieved a
couple of hexes separation between the web and myself so I could
make a tighter turn around it. He then laid 2 hexes of web from
one of his web snares a couple of hexes past the end of his 1st
web. I would have to run a slalom course to get to him now. We
finished the turn at about range 10 with me turning left to come
around his 4 hex web and him heading towards my SW corner. I
thought at this point that he really knew what he was doing. I
would have to be very careful here.
Turn 2
I knew I was
going to get at least range 8 on him regardless of what he did
with his web and I was willing to accept that shot because I would
have most of the board with which to run the next turn. I knew
that he’d have preference of movement if he wanted it and I also
wanted to keep my ability to HET, so I plotted a 17/24/23/17
split. I held my photons and the suicide shuttle, put 2 points
into an HET, and 1 point on my #1 (leftover energy). I had 1
point of impulse in my batts along with 4 warp just in case I had
to emergency decelerate.
Will
maintained Speed 28 and attempted to wiggle his way out of the
corner, but I was able to position myself in such a way that I
would get that range 8 shot. For some odd reason, will did not
cast any more web to help his escape. By impulse 24 I had him
pinned to the map edge at range 4 (my #2 to his #6, just like last
game). He was not going to move next impulse unless he HETed, so
I fired all 4 16 point photons along with 3 phaser 1’s. I hit
with 3 photons and did over 2 dozen internals. He fired a
standard disruptor, 7 p1’s and a Web fist. He did 41 damage
total, 2 of which I stopped from batts. Next impulse I let him
have it with my other 3 p1’s and he took another dozen internals.
He hit me back with 2 more standard disruptors. I lost a photon,
3p1’s, and both p3’s along with a Right warp in this exchange. He
eventually came off the wall so he could get in a shot with his
surviving p3’s. He was now firing on my #1. Impulse 31 I
centerlined him on his #5 and fired my 2 lf/l p1’s after placing
him in a 1 point tractor that he didn’t fight (He had used his
batts for reinforcement and I had 3 left in mine anyways). He was
down to about 18-19 total power. He let me win the tractor
auction at 1.
Turn 3
All I had to
do was hold him and reload, so I started my 3 photons (4 to 2 of
them, 2 to the third), put 5 into phasers, put 5 into tractor,
refilled the batts, held the SS, put 7 on my #1, and plotted 1
impulse and 1 warp tac. Impulse 1 he attempted to break my
tractor, but he only had 5 to tractor and I still had my batts to
keep it. He surrendered a couple of impulses later when his
direct fire didn’t even break my #1 shield.
As it turns
out, this was Will’s 1st tournament. He played the 1st
turn very well, but he told me he got rattled by my maneuvering in
the 2nd turn and didn’t think to use his web to
escape. If he had, he would have taken an average of 12-15
internals and still would have had some ship left with which to
hunt me down. Kevin Block-Schwenk was kind enough to come over
and give Will a few pointers on web use and I’m sure that Will
will be much more of a threat the next time I see him.
Game 1 -
Peter Bakija, Kzinti
Game 2 - Ben Ossenfort, WYN AUX (Hellbore, Dis,
Gat, Drone)
Game 3 - David Cheng, Hydran
Game 4 - Aadil Sulamain - Tholian ATC
Game 5 - Wil Leiserson - Tholian ATC
Game 6 - Kevin Block-Shwenk, Rom TKE
Game 7 - John Malis, Klingon
Game 8 (Round 1 of single elimination) - Ameer
Sulamain
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