Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 22:23:56 +0100 Reply-To: Netrunner Discussion List Sender: Netrunner Discussion List From: Stephane Bura Subject: The southern hemisphere on 1eb a day Skipper Pickle asked: >What Corp deck/strategy will accelerate the game to Phase 2 and keep it >there? I think that the following deck is a good contender. It works quite well against an unprepared runner (without a lot of ice-trashing/ice-bypassing cards). The southern hemisphere on 1 eb a day A lot of Filters A lot of Data Walls. A lot of Rio de Janeiro City Grid Some cheap sentries (including some Shock.r's) * One or two Aardvarks (optional. You can replace them by...) Some Bizarre Encryption Schemes * One or two Chester Mix's Some Corporate Downsizings Some Main-Office Relocations Some Employee Empowerments * One Executive Extraction Some Annual Reviews Some Day Shifts A few Edgerunner, Inc., Temps One or two Vapor Ops Some 0-cost ambush nodes (including a Virus Test Site) A few bit gaining nodes (including one Information Laundering and...) A South African Mining Corp (for flavor) * These are rare cards. If you don't have them, you can do without. You may want to add a Data Fort Reclamation or two to compensate, though. The idea of this deck, as you may have noticed, is that no cards cost more than one bit to rez. You always have enough money (especially if you have Chester Mix). As you can easily install cards, your main strategy is to keep your HQ full (Annual Reviews, Day Shifts and Employee Empowerments) and score a Corporate Downsizings with your Vapor Ops when you have too many agendas in it. If you manage to install 4 or 5 layers of ice in front of Rio de Janeiro City Grids, you'll almost never see a runner rumaging through your data. Very satisfying. I've built a runner deck with the same concept (Bitless in Seattle - Netrunner, Shadowrunner, same difference :) but it doesn't work as well against ice with high strength (the cheap icebreakers cost a lot to pump up). And it has two Dupre as Mantis can't go in the deck. Maybe I'll add some 2-bit cards to help. -- Stephane Bura bura@laforia.ibp.fr I could put something in French here if I wanted to.