Apex - Obliteration
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Butler223 70
This iteration of Apex is designed to fire and follow up on Apocalypse - which seems to be an extremely powerful card, especially for Apex. Using Bookmark, I should be able to quickly reset my board with key cards, and continue the attack on a severally weakened Corp.
Along with the full suite of Apex cards, I have the following included:
Account Siphon is to be used when fulfilling, or just after firing, Apocalypse. With very little in the way of defense remaining, draining credits will be a twist of the knife.
Dirty Laundry, Sure Gamble and Ghost Runner are used to bolster the economy. Ghost Runner can only be used with Overmind and e3 Feedback Implants, but those guys are a credit hog anyway. Interestingly, it also fires Wasteland, so it may be worth leaving that last credit on the Ghost until I have a few set up.
Quality Time and Chop Bot 3000 are my only advanced card draw. The Chop Bot 3000 especially is somewhat of a random include to soak up that 25th influence, but I can see it having many, many targets, thanks to Apex' ability.
Levy AR Lab Access has been included simply due to the nature of Apex. I would much prefer having two, to make my Hunting Grounds' hits a bit safer, but hiding one under a Bookmark would help to keep it safe.
Bookmark has been included to help rapidly reset my board after an Apocalypse hit. I would have to fire it before using Apocalypse, as my hand is the only place kept safe afterwards. The ideal set of cards to save are Endless Hunger/Heartbeat/Account Siphon and maybe Prey, in that order.
Finally, e3 Feedback Implants seems like an auto-include with Endless Hunger. Considering that, Overmind seemed like a natural choice to get through pesky, Non-ETR ICE (Hopefully alongside a Prey run). Ideally, I could drop an Overmind, trashing any Endless Hunger I had installed (Triggering Wasteland) to get a 4 counters, and then re-install an Endless Hunger.
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21 Apr 2016
mmik
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21 Apr 2016
mmik
Ok, so you take everything off bookmark, then flip it all over with apoc? Maybe I'm missing something. |
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21 Apr 2016
Butler223
Perhaps - you see that Bookmark is Click or Trash to trigger, yeah? The idea is to have your key cards in hand when you fire the Apoc, so that next turn you can still have maximum pressure on |
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21 Apr 2016
mmik
Perhaps there's reason to have bookmark in the deck still, but if I'm understanding what you're trying to do: You cannot trash bookmark and then "interrupt" it with apoc, or the other way around, to get benefit from both. Once you declare one, you need to resolve it before using another effect. Jackson Howard, for example, cannot be used in response to a trashing of hades shard, to shuffle cards into your deck. You'd have to use him before the shard hits the table to guarantee safety. (It can be installed and trashed in the same window, not allowing response from Corp) Am I reading you right? If it's not serving the purpose you intended, the influence is likely better spent elsewhere. You can always confirm with someone else, I could be wrong. |
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21 Apr 2016
Butler223
I'm not sure what the issue is - you Trash bookmark after click3, before you use Apoc on click4, thereby having key cards in hand next turn when the board is empty |
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21 Apr 2016
mmik
The issue is I totally misunderstood, haha sorry. In my head I thought you were trying to install cards off of bookmark in response to apoc. Ugh. I guess if that's working out for you, great. It feels like too much effort for too little benefit, though. I'd rather just install whatever I don't need and draw into the rest. |
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21 Apr 2016
Butler223
Yeah thats fair. My thought is that the power of Apoc is lost a bit if I cant apply pressure straight away |
I don't think you can use bookmark before apoc flips it over, can you?