Space: It's what's for dinner

lolpaca 1247

This is all about draining the runner's creds and keeping them too poor to break or trash anything. Space is expensive!

As well as Gagarin's ability, we have the lovely Dedication-Reversed to quickly clear their credit stack, Contract Killer to take out Kati Jones and her kind, and finally Keegan Lane to target Magnum Opus.

There's a pretty robust defense in Data Raven and Dedicated Response Team, although this is more of a distraction than a dedicated kill plan. There's also the tools to pull off the Dedication-Hollywood-Atlas trick for a quick closer.

Couple of Business First notes: the second Mumba Temple should be a PAD Factory, and Corporate War should be a New Construction.

The ice mix could probably do with some work, and I'm not sure about the econ. Comments/suggestions welcome!

3 comments
11 Mar 2016 sruman

Thanks for posting. Given you only 2 ice with 5+ strength, it seems that Wormhole is too weak to d4v1d as the counters will be drained very slowly. The lack of Tour Guide is strange given how bonkers it is in Gagarin. I suppose you build doesn't have that many rezzed assets but even 3 is value. Perhaps -1 DR, -1 WH, -1 Wall of Static for +3 tour guide?

11 Mar 2016 lolpaca

Ha I forgot about Tour Guide - looks like a good choice for taxing, I'll give it a go. More cheap, multi-sub ETR ice is just what I need really.

I think Wormhole's worthwhile here as you can cheat it out with Hollywood Renovation, or at least advance it for free with PAD Factory... sure it sucks vs D4v1d, but it's pretty good against everything else. Maybe I should just go with Orion instead though.

12 Mar 2016 Saan

Seems close-ish to the list I ran a couple weeks ago at an SC. Would have won if I didn't fuck my last runner game hard in the finals, but second will do =)

I didn't run the tagging plan, but lemme know how that works for you; it seems interesting. I'm with @sruman as far as Wormhole is concerned, though. It's super duper slow, and d4v1d just shits on it. Even rezzing for free doesn't matter if the runner breaks for free too.

You should try either New Construction or Corporate Sales Team over the Corporate War. War has a severe downside in that it screws you on credits if you're not ahead when you score it. New Const. lets you install assets while advancing, so it can be a good tempo boost for Gagarin. If you don't find you're using it enough, Corporate Sales slowly gives you money back each turn without the credit-draining downside of your current agenda.