Offshore Tax Haven

HilariousCow 7

Just sharing for a friend.

Trying to make a kind of never advance space ice deck.

Executive boot camps are there to allow you to rez ice for yourself if people absolutely refuse to run on ice. I've also considered Public Support to force them to at least have a go, but it often backfires. You need those space ice as offshore advancement token storage place for Trick of Light later in the game.

Although you probably want to split your advancement storage between two ice (incase one gets trashed), it's sometimes worth splurging all on ones so you can get sweet Commercialisation plays.

Firmwares are are going to allow you to get 4x advancement tokens on space ice so you don't even need that plan.

Mostly barriers means that you only have to focus on sending fracters and AIs to the bottom of the stack using will o the whisp (but I've found it a bit expensive). WotWs want to be on centrals, typically. As soon as you use it, there's a window for a slow advance in an asset server.

I've been working on this one a while, but it's still pretty fragile.

Ideally, if you can, double trick of light when scoring Atlas out of hand, as you can instantly get to either Reclaimation order, then another Atlas. (although this tends to be wishful thinking).

I've had something like 14 advancement tokens in some matches, and managed to get to Commercialization. At that point, install ice a bunch... make R&D and a scoring server strong to force hard choices as you out agendas.

Utterly falls to david, crescentus, clot, and ice trashing... or at least, the way I play it it does. Wish I had a little room for caprice, but, hey. Nicer to thin out the pack with GFI.

I've tried using Hollywood Renovations before and just found it too much of a point liability. I might try again, because of those sweet combos you can do to get both HR and Atlas out over 2 turns.

3 comments
4 Feb 2016 forktines

Since you can't lower the rez cost of space ice with Dedication Ceremony, why not run some strength boost advancers (ice wall, fire wall, Hadrian's wall)?

4 Feb 2016 forktines

Oh. You are. Sorry don't know how I managed to miss that. GRNDL Refinery's still real good, though.

4 Feb 2016 HilariousCow

Thanks. I might give it a shot. With executive boot camp I can mostly afford to have one-of assets.