Game play started innocently enough with SolomanMedici choosing to play first. (In his words, he had made me go first every round in the last game, so he wanted to be "fair" and went first every turn in this game. I do not expect this hospitality next time.) After drawing our 7 cards and realizing I had no
in my hand, I chose to discard four cards and draw four during the first Ready Phase, and got three (after making sure we could do this on the first turn).We traded some barbs back and forth with our
taking pot-shots at each other until we had 
and special abilities that could counter this type of activity. I had no real 
ability and got out some early 
so there ended up being no piracy.SolomanMedici had trouble getting
out initially, and I managed to hit him with "The Jump Lazies*" in two of the four turns which seriously hampered his ability to do much of anything. (I'm actually quite impressed that he got to 16 points only drawing half the cards he normally would have.)The extra
or two from completing 
's made the difference for me. I managed to complete at least one on every 
I completed. I did notice that "Efficiency Diagnostic" was not as useful as I thought it was going to be due to it requiring you to spend two capability tokens and all of the 's I got out required two to three capability tokens to complete. Also, as the game only lasted four turns, there were many cards that came into play that just never got used.In a similar manner to what happened in our first game, I ended up going through my cards pretty quickly. By the end of the game I had only 10 left in my Captain's Deck and was not spending
when I could avoid doing so.Two questions came up, one from each player, and will be posted in proper forum channel, but all in all the game ran very smoothly. We only referred to the rule book twice. There was also a suggestion we thought of, and that was, when (if?) you re-print the sequence of play sheet, it might be a bit more clear to number the steps in the Ready Phase so that it doesn't look like you can pick and choose which thing to do first. (A minor point that the rule book clarified.)
We have now agreed that we both "know what we're doing" and can start using customized decks against each other. As I was the only one between us who purchased Trouble on the Mains, we thought it might be a good idea for SolomanMedici to try an Aliens of the Imperium deck while I went for combat.
Maybe.
*The Jump Lazies is a
that prevents you from drawing more than 1 card in the next ready phase.
