Government Takes Over Checkpoint Charlie

Its all about the base. Glenn Station that is.

OK. That isn't really true. But despite the temptation to continue the pun.. saying if you have drawn Government Takeover - no Trouble! But that isn't true.

This is a very different kind of deck. Its all about - what do you do with Government Takeover.

Most games, you will want to park his ass on Glenn Station. Other games, you will want to park his ass on the bottom of your deck via dbs - and then park his ass on Glenn Station. Still other games, after you've read this deck you may decide to try to score him. Lord help you. Still other games you're going to want to rescue his ass from archives (I'm looking at you, noise) with Jackson. Only to park him on glenn station. Finally, if you're having trouble locating his ass there's a fast track or two.

Weird Economy... So each advancement counter is worth 3 income, (MORE). Our first source of income is Root to advance ice to rez. That means the root is worth 9 income a turn. Not bad. Executive boot camp (see below) is a minor star (see what I did there...) earning you one a turn - but more importantly allowing you to rez things on your turn. And then pick it up. Making you ice rez credits.

But sensei, Isn't the rez cost lowered to zero. Be quiet kid. There are no grasshoppers in space. We deal with that in a bit.

Third source of income: Root into Private contracts. Makes it free. 2 cr per click.

Fourth source of income: You could count this as 3.5 - but when you move a token from rezzed ice to unrezzed ice - you are allowing you to pick it up via blue star, AND, cutting the rez cost of the new ice - its like a crazy 6 income at that point.

Fifth source of income. Advance ice just begs for comercialization. ....

Sixth source of income.. Space camp. (Taken out.. not worth the deck slot)

Seventh source of income: Oversight AI. Pick it up.

Nasa's Executive Boot Camp. Boot camp is here to protect your ass.

By pulling Levy, DBS, Howard or Private Contracts. Space ice, you see needs good routines in play. (Sure adonis is better. Can't squeeze the influence unless you want to totally give up on scoring GT).

Levy lets you pull Orion architect, checkpoint and less important Matrix analyzer. Early game, architect is not so bad - giving you a chance to see GT before the runner. But that same ability, used in out of nebula, or lord help 'em orion - with a buit in ETR. Gravy.

DBS - lets you bury GT on the bottom of the deck.

Howard - lets you recover GT from archives. Do it as soon as you see it. Don't wait for Hades.

ICE

Sure, a solitary hunter routine, when exposed for tagging via Orion could make Punitrive strikes fun - and profitable. Or you could go flare. But checkpoint gives you a trace 5 for 4 meat dmg. You did manage to score the cleaners first, right?

Oversighting ice early is primarily for income.
BUTTTT... a protected oversighted ICE can be a cheap source of a Flare dmg, or a checkpoint etc. Stick said ice on archives, behind a cleaner wall. Pick it when you have the money to rez...

Final words... Move tokens with Constellation

If you took out Private contracts (as I have) Beth can serve (poorly) as a source of credits. rez with root. pick up. hey.2 credits. Back in early netrunner you killed for 2 credits..

Deck is weak to noise. Probably need to fast track hades (if you can). Tutor Jackson. Might even pay to advance hades naked.

Interesting note.. chum/Orion/excalibur. Chum anywhere on the board. Orion..excalibur.

If you want to customize your external routines for your nebula ice - following are good choices

Matrix -advance ice. Chum - 3 net, +2 str Datahound - trace to trash a card in the runners stack. sherlock - uninstall a runners card - not as good as trash but see datahound Gyri - -2 hand size Victor - brain dmg excalibur - stop any more runs (good with chum) Wot - 2 net dmg. Architect. Flare - Trace 6 for 2 meat, trash and etr Hunter - Cheap Trace4 for tag Inazuma - can't break next OR can't jack out till next Searchlight - Potentially very large trace Shinobi - Trace 3 for 3 net Susanoo-- you really wanted to run archives Taurus. destroy hardware (flare is better) Builder -advance an ice Shiro - look at top 3 and rearrange Yazura - move to bottom

Neat trick - if you were to run up three nebula ice in a row with matrix analyzer you could advance an agenda three times...