NBN already owns Chronos Protocol V2

Mash 32

This new version is a vertical played as opposed to the original horizontal never-advanced-like one. The reason for this is to better sustain aggressives assaults from Gabe and the like who just laugh at your pop-up defenses and naked PAD. So back to the good old Melange with end-the-run ICEs with the exception of Snoop which is of course your grave digger : Look at their hand see if there's something nasty or if you can rush an agenda with no fear of a surprise Stimhack, try to get a power counter and wait for the kill with Invasion of Privacy then Neural EMP, with Snare and False Lead as wingmen.

That's still hilarious to see a runner bumping into a Snare as a third action and quickly clearing the tag as a fourth when you have some EMP in hand. I guess if the Jinteki version of Chronos Protocol wins, you'll have to pack some meat damages after a targeted net damage into their plascrete or any meat protection they'll have at that time.

Anyway it works well both because its unexpected and because of the beautiful synergies. You dont have to get all the combo cards to hinder or kill the runner, just the more the nastier and this may be the last datapack where NBN makes sense : with Shock in reinforcment to Personal Evolution and Hokusai, it might be wiser to switch to a splash of Invasion and Snoop, you'll lose surprise and the 2 recurring credits for more consistency at disrupting the runner's plan.

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