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Sat down across the kitchen table from "Fernando" again last night, (see previous 'illusions shattered' thread).

The interaction was wildly different than I expected.

When his deck hit the table I said I was worried about never seeing any German Event triggers in our previous game, and asked if I could check to see if maybe GMT had sent him a defective German deck. (Note the face-saving option offered)

He looked slightly sheepish for a second, then said, "Oh, I replaced those cards."

I said (don't remember word for word, but to the effect) "You're saying you stacked your deck against me, right ?"

Fernando: "No, it isn't 'stacked', I TUNED my decks. Had to buy another game to do it."

I sat, semi-stunned, biting my tongue while trying to formulate a diplomatic response.

He proceeded into a rambling tale of how he had analyzed the cards and decided which ones were the most effective, then included two each of the 36 best cards in his deck. His tactical choice was closing and eliminating enemy units in melee, so he retained all the Advance, Move, and Ambush cards, then filled the deck out with some Recovers and the Fire cards which had the highest die numbers on them. No fool would want to include the Confusion or Rout cards in a deck. The Artillery cards he considered only corner-case-useful, so they came out as well.

While learning how he reinserted the Time trigger cards when he planned to play defense, I interrupted to state that Fate decks were meant to be FIXED decks.

Fernando said that was silly, declaring that part of the challenge of ANY card game is building an optimum deck. (Yah, he's a big 'Collectable Card Game' player) Fernando said the only restriction was that a fate deck had to have 72 cards and challenged me to show him where in the rules it forbad 'tuning' his deck.

I dove for my rulebook and discovered - - - well, - - - he is right, it isn't explicitly forbidden.

>1. The Fate Cards – There are three sets of Fate cards included with this game - - . A player's 72-card Fate Deck is the Heart and soul of the game. Once the game begins, no action may be taken - - without a fate card in hand allowing it."

I persisted, claiming the rulebook definitely IMPLIED that Fate decks are fixed. He dove for his rulebook and immediately referred me to the adjacent red-boxed note:

" Important: In Combat Commander - - a rule means exactly what it says - - Do NOT infer or imagine more to a rule than is stated in it. - - " <

At that point I was ready to cut my losses and leave, but, maybe I could salvage the evening - - I asked if he would be willing to play, but with both of us using my unmodified Fate decks. Fernando said he had played CC twice with the stock decks, and it wasn't much fun, too frustrating. He found that often he couldn't do what he wanted to do.

I suggested that this was exactly the point of the game. He didn't answer, but looked at me as he would at a particularly dim-witted specimen.

My erstwhile opponent then offered to loan me his 'TUNED' Russian Defensive Deck for a game. This idea I found disturbingly attractive. I considered it for a long moment (only as a 'variant', of course). Finally passed my morale check, and turned away from the Dark Side.

Fernando then compelled me to admire his 'All Heavy Artillery All the Time' deck for the old WWII CCG "The Last Crusade" which he said had never been beaten. I allowed him to demonstrate some cool first-person shooter WWII X-box game, watching him play just long enough to be polite, before returning home.

So, what did I learn from "Fernando"? That it takes all kinds. The upside to this story is that GMT got to sell two copies of CCE to the guy.

Bara att inse, måste köpa ett extra ex av PoG så att jag kan trimma leken lite.  

[BigPapaBear]

Fantastisk människa, Fernando!

[tinG]

 

[silversixx]

Det gör ju i alla fall spelet lite intressant...