Orbital Bombardment v1.5

paddosan 3413

Update of the classic Tag n Bag deck, with Jackson Howard from Opening Moves. Basically solves a frailty of this archetype, giving you the possibility of recovering cards like Scorched Earth or Midseason Replacements, when they somehow end up in the Archives.

The strategy is quite simple, really. Just build up your economy and wait for the right moment to strike. Lure them with an Agenda and Midseason them, giving plenty of tags so it becomes virtually impossible for the Runner to remove all of them fast enough.

In early game, Weyland can easily score a Project Atlas with some extra advancement, thanks to Archer and/or Hadrian's Wall (which can easily stop a Runner whose economy is still not optimal). So do it, you'll need it later to fetch the key cards for your victory.

The big ICE makes it quite easy to rush some Agenda, to put pressure on the Runner and force his hand. Which is always a bad thing, when facing a Tag n Bag deck.
Jackson Howard also allows you to wipe out those pesky Plascrete Carapace and then reshuffle your Scorched Earth(s) into the deck. Ready to be fetched once more with a token from Project Atlas.

I'm still waiting for Punitive Counterstrike (True Colors) though. That will allow some interesting changes in a type of deck which has been basically the same for a very long time.
4 comments
3 Oct 2013 Alsciende

Geothermal Fracking looks like it could replace PSF.

3 Oct 2013 paddosan

Just the other day I manage to win a game with 3 BPs, but it was against a quite inexperienced player and it still proved to be daunting.

Another source of BP could be too much, at least until we get the loveable Elizabeth Mills!

3 Oct 2013 Alsciende

You can still score Geothermal Fracking and use it if and only if you're short on credits to win by damage. That way the BP is irrelevant.

4 Oct 2013 ZiNOS

Interesting take on an archetype that has not been really updated for a long time. I think that i will try something like this. However, as long as emergency shutdown exists, i would not use Hadrian's wall so much. This Ice has backfired a lot of times in the past for me against criminals.

The Midseason replacements idea though is very very interesting.