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"That Salia Bird Works In My Local Chippy"
by Ringo

(traditional spellings of Brog, as always, included)

Missions
        Cloaked Mission
        Compromised Mission
        Covert Installation
        Espionage Mission
        Explore Typhone Expanse
        Secret Salvage

Q's Tent
        Deactivation
        Dead End
        Eliminate Starship
        Fair Play
        Intermix Ratio
        Masaka Transformations
        Oof!
        Operate Wormhole Relays
        Scorched Hand
        The Big Picture
        The Wake Of The Brog
        Transwarp Conduit
        Transwarp Network Gateway

Dilemmas
        Chula: The Chandra
        Conundrum
        Crisis
        Cytherians
        Dead End
        Ferengi Ingenuity x5
        Friendly Fire
        Hazardous Duty
        Odo's Cousin
        Punishment Box
        Radioactive Garbage Scow x2
        Shot In The Back
        The Higher... The Fewer

Other Seeds
        Brog Outpost
        Complink Drone
        Examine Singularity
        Mission Debriefing
        Obelisk Of Masaka
        Population 9 Billion - All Brog
        Q The Referee x2
        Spacedoor
        Space-Time Portal
        Transwarp Network Gateway

Draw Deck
        Doorways (5)
                Alternate Universe Door
                Temporal Vortex
                Transwarp Network Gateway x3
        Events (6)
                Regenerate
                We Are The Brog x4
        Incidents (3)
                Resistance Is Futile x3
        Interrupt (24)
                A Change Of Plans x2
                Adapt: Negate Obstruction x4
                Awaken x15
        Objective (4)
                Assimilate Homeworld
                Salvage Starship
                Stop First Contact x2
        Personnel (29)
                Assault Drone x2
                Astrogation Drone
                Bio-Med Drone x2
                Brog Queen x10
                Countermeasure Drone
                Interlink Drone x2
                Locutus Of Brog x5
                Multiplexor Drone
                Proficiency Drone (7 of 9)
                Quantum Drone
                Reassimilation Drone
                Transport Drone
                Transwarp Drone
        Ships (2)
                Brog Cube x2
        Time Location (1)
                Montana Missile Complex

Outside The Game
        Phoenix

This Brog (you've got to love that word) Stop First Contact deck used the same missions as my previous Romulan deck and runs just like you'd expect it to.  It swoops through to the Alpha Quadrant in an effort to assimilate Earth as soon as possible (occasionally you need to download Masaka Transformations to get a Locutus into play.)  Once this is done, play A Change Of Plans to download Stop First Contact, and fly through a Temporal Vortex (downloadable by seeded Q The Referee) to Montana Missile Complex. Once the Stop First Contact Objective is completed there, you can flip the seeded Population 9 Billion - All Brog to go back through and complete scouting at Salvage Starship for the extra 60 points you need to get to 100.

It's safe from The Big Picture, and the 3 Resistance Is Futile make the opponent's Q's Planet less of a problem.  It's also got a good probe rate: most of the bad probes can be downloaded, and I even won one game when I probed to reveal my own Crisis dilemma after a Regenerate.  (Confusing game that one, I won despite being 10 points behind.)  Tribbles might also have been a pain, so I included a Transport Drone, although I used it more against the occasional Orion Syndicate Bomb at Wolf 359 than to move Tribbles about.

The space dilemmas also work out to be strong, as dilemmas such as Radioactive Garbage Scow, Cytherians and Conundrum will always stop the opponent because of Mission Debriefing before they can go anywhere.

... and there wasn't even a Salia in sight...

Best wishes,

Ringo Greenwich
UK ST:CCG Ambassador for London
ringo_essex@hotmail.com



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