Seidr Siphon

obscurica 1317

Post-rotation HB list, assuming that the rumors of FiHP getting MWL3'd are true as well.

Your goal is to make two primary servers:

Server A - Clicktaker

They can either lose their money, or lose their installs. They're losing clicks either way. Ronald Five lets you dump out everything from Blacklist to Jeeves Model Bioroids freely in unprotected remotes. With MCA Austerity Policy and Enhanced Login Protocol, they'll be desperate for means to regain clicks, but the cure is as crippling as the cost.

Server B - Pointmaker

To get your agenda, they need to pay up in credits. To get past the ice, they need to bankrupt themselves. If they bankrupt themselves, they can't even trash Red Herrings, meaning they definitely don't have what it takes to take the agenda.

Unless, of course, they have Film Critic. But that's what MCA Informant is for.

2 comments
31 Aug 2017 cavant43

What is the downside if the runner just runs last click? Heinlein, Bellamy, Ronald won't fire. We used to have strongbox, but no longer with rotation. What is the plan with run last click?

31 Aug 2017 obscurica

@cavant43 A Fairchild 3.0/Turing scoring remote, basically. Even with the most efficient icebreakers for their respective card types, just two-ice deep makes for a fairly expensive wall to break through. If they're stymied by ELP and MCA Austerity to just two actions a turn, their ability to garner enough credits and rig installations for a proper run should be heavily mitigated.

They can either make that single solitary run to try and score an agenda, which will cost them an additional five credits per run due to Red Herrings, or they can use it to break Jeeves Model Bioroids or MCA Austerity Policy -- which should ideally be protected by Warroid Tracker, losing them installations and putting them further back.

If they don't run at all, that's great! Score an agenda.

(notably: I'm already iterating on this list as more ideas occur to me; Localized Product Line was hard to shove in, but offers more consistency on the core elements.)