Alexander Schwarz Germany Bochum 04-07-01 (tournament report)

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Alexander Schwarz Germany Bochum 04-07-01 (tournament report) is the tournament report Alexander Schwarz posted on DeckTech on 9 April 2001 about 2001 German National Championship.[1] Alexander Schwarz went 2–4 with Hidden Mains and a Dark Deal deck at the 53-player German National Championship in Bochum on 7 April 2001, which Bastian Winkelhaus won over Martin Falke in the final.

Report info

Games

Games as the author describes them; margins are as stated in the report.

Round Opponent Author's deck Opponent's deck Result Margin
1 — Light Hidden Mains Endor Ops Loss (opponent unnamed; full loss) −15
2 — Dark Dark Deal EBO (Baragwin) Loss (opponent unnamed) −34
3 — Dark Dark Deal HB Strikeplan Mains Win (opponent unnamed) +22
4 — Light Hidden Mains Oldskool Ties (PotF start) Loss (opponent unnamed; 'the largest i have lost a game to, ever') −35
5 — Light Hidden Mains random space and ground with troopers Win (opponent unnamed; full win) +17
6 — Dark Dark Deal RST (bunker blowup) Loss (opponent unnamed) −19

Other results named in the report

Original report

germany-bochum-04-07-01

  • Author: Alexander "Black Leader" Schwarz
  • Published: Apr 9, 2001
Disclaimer : While being my first Report, this is long; be warned !!!! Pretourny junk : After finally deciding to attend the SW National Championship, which i was not sure about, because i haven´t had a sanctioned SW tournament since the ´99 Ralltiir Regional, i now have three weeks to find two decks, good enough to get me some wins. After talking to some Decktech members, who tell me not to worry about my rating, and play stuff i know, i turn to my friend Brian Hunter in advice for decks. Some days later, i have narrowed down my list to two decks each side : WYS or Hidden Mains for light, MKOS or Dark Deal for Dark. I come to the conclusion, not to play WYS, since i expect everyone to use it, and go with the HB Mains. For Dark i end up with Dark Deal, seeing that my MKOS, while very balanced, doesn´t as good as i hoped. So, after some playtesting, the day before the Nationals arrives. Friday, 04/06/01 (evening) : I hurry arround and scramble to get all my stuff together; get a hunch to include Battle Plan instead of Kal Fal, but ultimatively decide against it, because i am worried, that i won´t be able to hold it with four ships (editors note : had i decided for the Battle Plan, it would have helped in two games). But i decide on dumping Brangus for Xizor, which would wound up to have no effect at all on my deck (didn´t deploy Xizor all day). Saturday, 04/07/01 : I wake at four, get up at four thirty, and manage to goof arround till five. Then i get to the bus, which arrives shortly after. When i hit the next stop, where i am supposed to change bus to get to the train-station, i realize, i am short on time, because i will never make it in fifty minutes with a conventional bus plus riding the tub to get my train at 6:21. So i get a cab - turns out to be a good decision; now i can atleast have some coffee to get awake. The trip itself - it takes approximately four hours to get to Bochum from Berlin (where i live) - is quite boring, so i will spare you the details. However, i am able to find the place, where the Natioals are going to be held, rather smoothly. I reintroduce myself to the TD, who for some odd reason seems to renember me from the ´99 Ralltiir Regional. I look arround, and see some new and some old faces; mainly Bastian Winkelhaus (2134) - one of the two top-guns, and as it turns out, Martin Falke (2099), eager to contest him for the title, is there as well - before the tourney starts. We have a good turnout - there are 53 people participating, including me ( i am the sole player from Berlin) -----End Pretourny Garbage--------------------------------- Game 1 : Hidden Mains vs. Endor Ops I start Menace Fades, next to Insurrection,Staging Areas. The first few turns we just activate, i get out my docking bays, as well as Dagobah, the Hut and Corulag (as i would do every light game), then he deploys Rumors on Endor, drops the Visage with Baron and a scrub piloting. I get some guys at my docking bays to drain, and wait for Captain Han Solo, to go with one of my two Falcons in hand. I curse myself for not teching against the Bunker, cosz E-Man prevents me from deploying there and beating the @#$% out of him. Eventually, i get a full Superfalcon up and running, with Bacta Tank and OTE out. I cannot find my Punch It (as in every other light game i am about to play today), but since Kashyykk is the only system he has presence on, except Endor, i am not worried about the Rumors-drain, i can always retreat to Corulag to put Menace Fades into effect, should his stuff prove to be more than i can handle. He battles me at the aforementioned system, with the Accuser, some scrubs on board and the AO, but despite his immunity, i draw high enough to make him forfeit everything. But next turn he laterals my Falcon, brings another SD with crew (but still without Thrawn), Bossk in Bus and Dengar against my power-zero Falcon. I manage to kill Dengar and Bossk with my destinies, but in return have to forfeit Leia, who wanders in the Tank. Not wanting to get another beating and staying at his mery, i elect to retreat to the rendevous point, to cancel the lateral damage - but alas, he plays Gravity Shadow, and now my ship is stuck. He again battles me, after adding the Chimera to his mix, but draws relatively low, so i can just lose Chewie. His ships plus crew, however remain unscathed. Eventually, i manage to get to the Lateral Damage, and try to cancel it - 1. Then next two turns prove to be equally satisfying in that matter, as i draw a 2 and another 1. But now, the drains are hurting more and more, and i have to think of retrieval now, despite his SSPFT out. I edge Ben for five (to draw my tracked six), but mistrack, draw a 2 (kal fal) and murder Mr.Ben (actually quite humorous, as i would proceed to edge and kill Ben on another three times). We drain some more, but now, i have lost all my retrieval. I finally get Melas to the Endor Docking bay, only to have his drain blocked by Arica, who on the following turn breaks cover to battle her adversary. After the dust has settled, both the dancer and the alien are dead meat. In the end, with nothing else to show for (Home One and Spiral went to my lost pile soon)- i succumb to his drains. Full Loss (15). Game 2: Dark Deal vs. EBO Though he complains about having to lose to me in a drain race, i am equally worried, because EBO is one of the strongest Light Decks, and sets up much faster - still, i start Resistance as my third effect. He sets up usually, while i try to make something out of my crappy hand - i cannot find Search and Destroy, and he finally commits some Baragwins to his Hoth Locations, which lets me smile inwardly - Baragwin EBO is a deck i can beat. (I very much feared EBOX, because its cannons would keep me of my sector and prevent the deal). Well, he finally deploys two X-wings to his systems, so i now know what i am up against. Our drains are equal for some time, because Resistance is cutting in his potential to inflict harm on me. But then he gets TK to block Mara´s saber-enhanced drain at the Carbonite Chamber, while Boushh comes undercover to the Executor Dockingbay to pay Thrawn a visit. Seeing that i have no answer for the latter (Barrier), he breaks Leia´s cover and kills Thrawn. Cannot find Vader, nor can i find the Sniper to kill TK and reestablish my drain - his drains are now 4-1 in his favor. To make matters worse, Jedi Luke, armed with his fathers Lightsaber, comes down on Ardan and Janus at the West Gallery,but is not allowed to pass due to a Barrier, which gives my men a chance to run away. I finally manage to find my Sniper, and Mara kills Han with my tracked six plus a four (about the only time, my tracking skills worked as the should) - he now has three x-wings at three different systems. I think of beating him down, but i only have Zuckuss and Executor in Hand, and HIS hand is always average eight cards, so without a ghhhk, i have nothing to answer a swarm of x-wings and the game could be over, if he deploys a cannon, power-pivots my Capital and shoots Zuckass. So i play defensively, even forego the deployment of my sector, because i only have one Tie in hand to go with the Zuckuss in ship - clearly not enough. The meager damage i do is covered by the Baragwin retrieval, so i look pretty stupid. Even moreso, when he edges Jedi Luke for six, giving me the loss by 34. Game 3 : Dark Deal vs. HB Strikeplan Mains This game nearly everything works out for me, as it should. I get a godlike setup - the Executor with three Admirals at the system, so i can drop the Occupation on turn five, i have Janus, the Emperor, Ardan and Bane Malar at my sites, plus Vader in hand. The two Obsidian Ties get to the sector, so i am ready to deploy the deal. He tries to contest me at the system - but without the Superfalcon, his ships are no match for three battle - destinies and average twenty power. So i slowly wipe him of the system, and drain him out. Win by 22. The curse is broken - finally, i have won with a dark deck! Game four : Hidden Mains vs. Oldskool Ties (PotF-Start) I know that this will be hard; normally, the advise is to stay away from them, so the cannot retrieve even more. But i have no I hope she is allright, no BattlePlan or Aim High, i know that my db-drains won´t cut it here; on top of that, i am unsure, whether i am able to initiate and maintain a retrieval loop with my edge-cards, something that would have saved me from the start. The first time i try to retrieve, i kill Ben again. I get the Falcon up, battle his lone Bossk in Bus and kill him for five overflow - get out Bacta Tank and Chewie on the Falcon for extra forfeit. After that, we have some skirmishes, the Falcon stands its ground, i manage to kil some ties. Eventually i wipe him of Kashyykk and have an uncontested drain for some turns, but then he comes at me with four Interceptors, a dreadnought, Dengar in Boat, plays All Power, which i couldn´t grab the first time arround, because i had no grabber then - his power is about 34 to my nine, and i draw low, so i have to lose Leia and Chewie while he is immune. He soon battles me another time, after i had run to Corulag, and the ensuing damage is so bad, that i have to lose Han, the Falcon, plus 11 more. From that on, i never seem to fully recover; i get off a suprise assault for eight, but he deploys some more ties, and retrieves with short-range fighters for twelve. (Btw, he played eighteen Tie Interceptors !) I drain some more, but he nails me in the end and i lose by 35, which is the largest i have lost a game to, ever. I am now 1-3, and i hope for another win to go 2-4; i know it is higly unlikely, i will make 3-3;which turns out to be right. Game 5: Hidden Mains vs. Random-space ground with Troopers. This game is rather easy. I pretty soon set up at the Tattoine and Cloud City DB, he deploys Mara (which i barrier), followed by some troopers, i deploy Chewie and Leia to Ben, play Order to Engage. He battles, Mara succumbs to Fallen Portal, and i clean everything but one trooper, who scurries away. I chase his other troopers plus a ATST again, get some more damage in, then he finally deploys to space - for some reason, i don´t want to finsish him so quickly, so i wait before i deploy the Falcon, since i don´t have Leia or some other scrub to go with. Again i try to on the Edge Obi, AGAIN, i kill Obi, who - this turn gets tanked. I get him out, try again, only to kill him twice in one game - to add insult to injury, i mistrack for two off the edges. Bastian and some others, standing arround, make comments about my inability to track (and i feel rather foolish). In the end i drain him out, after a brief skirmish with Jedi Luke and some guys at the backdoor, which nets me another drain for three for several turns, and i drain him out. Full Win by 17. Game six : Dark Deal vs. RST - bunker blowup: I know whats coming my way, but i get a crappy opening hand, and i know, i can only win, if i play my own game. We take some times to setup, and after he moves into the bunker and plants a charge, which he misses the first draw on, i seriously consider, taking Vader and Sarkli to interfere with his plans, but i seem to detect a smile on my opponents face, telling me he can read my mind - great ! I play my own game, set up with some characters, most notably the Emperor (Palpy got to see lots of action for his old wrinkled days), get the System out, with the Chimera and lots of scrubs aboard and the occupation going. (I did not deploy the executor, because it got grimtaashed used an then lost to a drain). I further deploy the sector with a lone Tie, Barrier and Mastermove, Zuckuss in Ship, in Hand. I draw up Bossk in Hounds Tooth, after i deploy the Deal on the Sector. He comes down with the Superfalcon. I barrier. He follows up with Dash in Outrider and decides not to battle. I deploy Boskk in Bus, Guri as passenger and Zuckuss, battle, he has to lose the Outrider, Dash, and the Falcon, plus Han, but i lose Guri. He deploys Red Leader in Red 1 (no barrier this time), initiates, shoots Zuckuss and draws high, while i draw low, and lose Bossk. The X-Wing stays, to give me a nice drain of two for the rest of the game. I get some more scrubs on Bespin, maintain the drains plus an occupation for three, he tries to challenge me again at the system, but i beat him off - still, his drains are too much. Loss by 19. Woah, going 2-4, as predicted. Still, i didn´t make any gamebreaking mistakes, which is good. I didn´t even forget to force-drain, but once. (Did i tell you, i didn´t play in a sanctioned tournament for about one and a half years ?) As expected, Bastian and Martin get to play each other in the Final Confrontation - with Martin winning with his Light by 19, but losing with his dark by 26. So, in the end, Bastian gets to be the champ. Hope you liked the report. Props : - To Martin Falke, for going undefeated in swiss-games, and being a nice guy. - To Dominic Probst; Dominic always builds the most funky light decks you can possibly imagine - ´99 Regional he played Ewoks, this time (believe it or not) he went for a deck with TIMER MINES AND MINING DROIDS. - To Dominic Probst for my quote of the day (while playing Thomas Koch´s Bunker-blowing RST with his Endor Ops): " Get your hands of my bunker, thats Imperial Property!" - To Harald Lange, Patrick Rueger, Jonas Skali, Torsten Maas, Lars Grasendyk, and every other of the nice players i met there. - Finally, to Brian Hunter, for helping me with my decks, and for being the best american friend a non-us SW-Player can hope for. Black Leader, Over & Out !!!

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  1. ↑ germany-bochum-04-07-01, DeckTech (Alexander "Black Leader" Schwarz, 9 April 2001). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
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