Kahless' Armada Deck

Well, despite my saying that battle is not a viable alternative in Kahless' Battle Rant I decided to try and make an armada deck anyways. It doesn't work fabulous, but it can certainly hold it's own.

Seed Deck: (28)

Missions:(6)

Warped Space
Investigate Probe
Seek Life-Form
Survey Mission
Space *4

Others: (3)

Klingon Outpost
Neutral Outpost
Q's Tent

Dilemmas: (19)

Borg Ship *2 (to be blown up for you points)
Shaka *2
Ancient Computer
Conundrum
Cytherians
Edo Probe*2
Outpost Raid*2
The Higher....The Fewer
Zaldan
Alien Parasites
Sheliak
Q
Coalescent Organism
Security Precautions
Chinese Finger Puzzle

Q's Tent: (13)

Edo Probe
Alien Labyrinth
Captain's Log
Bynars Weapon Enhancement
Klingon Civil War
Arbiter of Succession
Latinum Payoffs
Red Alert
Traveller
IKC K'Vort
Klag
Hugh
Plasmadyne Relay

Draw Deck: (32)

Doorways: (6)

Q's Tent *4
AU Door*2

Personnel: (9)

Lursa
B'etor
Duras
Quark, Son of Kheldar
Morag
Gowron
Kurn
K'Vada
Kargan

Ships: (9)

IKC Pagh
IKC Hegh'ta
IKC Vorn
IKC Buruk
IKC K'vort *5

Events: (4)

Kivas Fajo *4

Interrupts: (4)

Q2*3
Palor Toff

Strategy with this deck can be summarized in one sentence: Get lots of stuff out fast, and then blow things up. Preferable order is: Opponent's ships, Opponent's Outpost, Borg ships although that certainly isn't writter in stone. This deck is pretty mindless, there's none of the subtlety that some of my decks possess here, and it's kind of dissapointing. Still, I made this deck because I haven't blown things up in a long time, and I was starting to get that itch again..... ;-)

I don't think I need to explain this deck anymore, it's so simple even a Klingon could have thought of it (hey, wait a minute....)

Possible Additions/Changes to this deck:

• More ships and pilots In an armada, it's never possible to have too many pilots and ships, the only problem is trying to fit everything else in there that makes the big problem. If you can manage to fit more in there, then more power to ya, go for it!
  
• Some Counters In this day and age of super-speed decks using Fajo (which, incidentally, this deck does as well) it's always nice to have a couple of Kevins handy. None in here, because I couldn't find room.
  
• Make this deck a mission solver So long as your personnel can fly ships and be leaders, it doesn't really matter who you pick. I picked the greedy pilots in case you end up pulling out Latinum Payoffs from the tent, and the captains for the same reason. Other than that though, crew selection is pretty meaningless. You may want to pick a crew to do missions, if you think that they can pass the dilemmas though. I choose to Borg hunt because it's a "safer" way of gaining points.

• Shut off the tent I threw in AU doors to try and prevent this, but if your tent gets shut off, you're in it deep. Lots of necessary cards (Bynars, Red Alert etc.) are in there. Try and keep the tent open.
  
• Rakal Shuffe (TM) If you're stuck with a hand full of K'vorts, or a hand full of pilots, there's not a lot you can do. Not much you can do to prevent this, except use things like Fajo to get lots of cards into your hand.
  
• Speed Well, an Armada deck is never designed to score points from turn 1, so if your opponent's deck is much more speedy, you'll be busy still drawing the pilots into your hand while your opponent is busy racking up points. Hmmmm, not the best way to start things out, to be sure.
  
• Release a Borg ship while Armada is "In Transit." If a borg ship attacks you anywhere except at your outposts, then your attack force is pretty much gonzo. The two outposts let you have two jumping off points to stage the attack from and also provide the only protection from Borg you're going to get, so don't get caught out in the cold without some extra outpost shields to protect you.

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