England is a small island, how far away can middle of nowhere be?
England may be a small island, but it's also a breeding ground for space-time folds and non-euclidean geometry. One simply has to pass through a wardrobe, hop over a wall, head into the London Underground, or walk through bricks at the end of a train platform, and they may inadvertently find themselves in the middle of a vast and uncharted land.
In such a country, one can simultaneously be both thousands of kilometers away from London while also being in the middle of it.
England is a small island, how far away can middle of nowhere be?
England may be a small island, but it's also a breeding ground for space-time folds and non-euclidean geometry. One simply has to pass through a wardrobe, hop over a wall, head into the London Underground, or walk through bricks at the end of a train platform, and they may inadvertently find themselves in the middle of a vast and uncharted land.
In such a country, one can simultaneously be both thousands of kilometers away from London while also being in the middle of it.
Dunno, man. On my recent trip, I found the Underground entirely delightful ...
It's worth mentioning it takes less time to fly from Canada to England than it does to fly to the other side of Canada. Our perceptions are definitely, wonderfully, and intriguingly different.
It surprised me to learn just how tiny England was.
Like, I'd often hear Japan referred to as a "small island nation" but Japan is like 50% bigger than the whole UK.
Yeah its not big (Great Britain is slightly smaller than Honshu), but anyone referring to Japan as a small island nation in the first place is a bit of a dolt.
It just occurred to me how badly Cyberdex Virus Suite fucks Atman, Crypsis, and Datasucker based tactics in general. If the corp has one installed, they can just use its trash effect whenever the runner hits a high strength Destroyer and kill a program if they don't have a backup breaker.
As someone who hate Katman with every fiber of his being, I rejoice.
As someone who wanted to make a Darwin deck work, I weep.
It just occurred to me how badly Cyberdex Virus Suite fucks Atman, Crypsis, and Datasucker based tactics in general. If the corp has one installed, they can just use its trash effect whenever the runner hits a high strength Destroyer and kill a program if they don't have a backup breaker.
As someone who hate Katman with every fiber of his being, I rejoice.
As someone who wanted to make a Darwin deck work, I weep.
I dunno Darwin + Virus Breeding ground is only 2 turns to get up to strength 4. In Quetzal with e3 and D4V1d for the >4 strength ice I think it could be solid. Either have very few other viruses or Fester to make cleaning up Darwin expensive for the corp. You're steadily ticking up and the corp only has so many CVS's (which are 3 to rez if you want to use the trash ability) to get through.
So I played a half dozen casual games with my adjusted Noise deck last night. Won every single game convincingly. I had more money than I've ever seen an Anarch have, even if I was using Crypsis as my main icebreaker (had morningstar and mimic backup) so the icebreaker efficiency was pretty low. It was incredibly fun, though, and felt really quite consistent over the course of the night.
I'm actually thinking I might take a break from my PPVP Kate deck to play Noise for a while until I get my copies of the latest two datapacks. For some reason they haven't arrived in stores here in Australia yet, so I ended up just ordering them on amazon the other day.
It just occurred to me how badly Cyberdex Virus Suite fucks Atman, Crypsis, and Datasucker based tactics in general. If the corp has one installed, they can just use its trash effect whenever the runner hits a high strength Destroyer and kill a program if they don't have a backup breaker.
As someone who hate Katman with every fiber of his being, I rejoice.
As someone who wanted to make a Darwin deck work, I weep.
If the spoilers for it are fully accurate, it works in archives too! :O
I dunno Darwin + Virus Breeding ground is only 2 turns to get up to strength 4. In Quetzal with e3 and D4V1d for the >4 strength ice I think it could be solid. Either have very few other viruses or Fester to make cleaning up Darwin expensive for the corp. You're steadily ticking up and the corp only has so many CVS's (which are 3 to rez if you want to use the trash ability) to get through.
Right, I forgot about the rez cost. Not as cheap as I though, especialy with a fester or two out.
If the spoilers for it are fully accurate, it works in archives too! :O
Snow-Jax hasn't been wrong yet. You're right about archives, too. That would shut down the standard tactic of running archives for datasucker tokens. At least, not without a Security testing or something. I kinda like the datasucker hate. It's too ubiquitous.
A friend just pointed out I missed a key archetype, NBN Never Advance... Will put something together for it.
Those Dedicated Response Team/100-remote decks might also be thrown in there? Or maybe that's too new a type
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One of my Leela games from the last tournament just got posted/commentated! One of my matches with the guy who took first. It was a fun one, but I definitely made some mistakes. https://youtube.com/watch?v=f5_6Y5-P5Xk
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It just occurred to me how badly Cyberdex Virus Suite fucks Atman, Crypsis, and Datasucker based tactics in general. If the corp has one installed, they can just use its trash effect whenever the runner hits a high strength Destroyer and kill a program if they don't have a backup breaker.
As someone who hate Katman with every fiber of his being, I rejoice.
As someone who wanted to make a Darwin deck work, I weep.
atman uses power counters, not virus counters
as of right now, there is no way for the corp to interact with them directly
It just occurred to me how badly Cyberdex Virus Suite fucks Atman, Crypsis, and Datasucker based tactics in general. If the corp has one installed, they can just use its trash effect whenever the runner hits a high strength Destroyer and kill a program if they don't have a backup breaker.
As someone who hate Katman with every fiber of his being, I rejoice.
As someone who wanted to make a Darwin deck work, I weep.
atman uses power counters, not virus counters
as of right now, there is no way for the corp to interact with them directly
I assumed he was talking about how purging datasucker tokens would mess with Atman usage.
Basically, NEH with 3x DRT, 3x Encryption Protocol, and a shit load of asset economy and recursion. Play them faster than they can break them. DRT is amazing denial when they're 5 to trash, and you can interns them back in.
So, I'm looking at some of the new support cards for Anarch in Lunar and O&C. I'll spoiler this because I know some of you prefer not being... spoiled.
We've got Progenitor, which lets us host a virus for no memory and lets it keep one virus counter during a purge. Then there's Incubator, who gets a virus counter every turn and can trash itself to move the counters to another card. Hivemind starts out with 1 virus counter (two for Grimoire), and that counter is considered to be hosted on all other viruses. Last up is Fester, which isn't virus support per se, but punishes the corp for trashing our viruses.
What I'm seeing here is a lot of support for Darwin. Get out Grimoire, put three Progenitors out with Hiveminds on them, and then play Darwin. Darwin is now STR 6, and if the corp purges, STR 3 plus the one you get to add for free. Now, getting three copies each of two cards is pretty impossible, but even getting two Progenitors to protect a Hivemind and Darwin means that you're at worst STR 3 when your turn starts. Get DAVID for STR5+ and a single Incubator for those pesky STR 4s, and you're in business.
The deck seems slow at first, but all you need is Darwin and a Cyberfeeder to get started. If they purge early game, that's just more time for you to set up. By the time late game comes, you should have your Hiveminds and Festers ready for action.
edit: Hivemind is unique, it seems.
edit 2: Virus Breeding Ground is also pretty neat, and it's immune to purging virus counters. One click per counter is pretty nasty, but it might be better than Incubator.
Basically, NEH with 3x DRT, 3x Encryption Protocol, and a shit load of asset economy and recursion. Play them faster than they can break them. DRT is amazing denial when they're 5 to trash, and you can interns them back in.
that deck seems....weird
like I can see it running out of gas in lategame when it's got a ton of money but no way to leverage it into a win
Basically, NEH with 3x DRT, 3x Encryption Protocol, and a shit load of asset economy and recursion. Play them faster than they can break them. DRT is amazing denial when they're 5 to trash, and you can interns them back in.
that deck seems....weird
like I can see it running out of gas in lategame when it's got a ton of money but no way to leverage it into a win
If the runner accesses a Snare! or TGTBT, you can rez DRTs which will actually fire. It's essentially a shell-game deck that scores in undefended remotes and tries to tag the runner.
I honestly couldn't tell you if it's remotely competitive or not. If I was going to mention it to new players, I'd notate it under a 'Shell Game' archeytpe.
Yeah, basically any shell game deck with NEH and 3x Dedicated Response Team and some combination of Snare/TGTBT/Encryption Protocol/Data Ravens/Manhunt/City Surveillance. I think some variant of that has won the last 1 or 2 tournaments around here.
In hindsight, that isn't really a huge deck type yet, I don't think I saw anyone play it at Worlds, so probably not worth including.
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Also, 3 DRT (9) and 3 Snare! (6) is a lot of influence. NEH can just afford 2 Encryption Protocol, though I think the new Executive Boot Camp is also really good in this deck, and that means nothing for ice (and NBN ice is kind of crappy). That said, it has teeth, and I did run into one of these at a tournament recently.
It just occurred to me how badly Cyberdex Virus Suite fucks Atman, Crypsis, and Datasucker based tactics in general. If the corp has one installed, they can just use its trash effect whenever the runner hits a high strength Destroyer and kill a program if they don't have a backup breaker.
As someone who hate Katman with every fiber of his being, I rejoice.
As someone who wanted to make a Darwin deck work, I weep.
atman uses power counters, not virus counters
as of right now, there is no way for the corp to interact with them directly
I assumed he was talking about how purging datasucker tokens would mess with Atman usage.
I was indeed referring to the practice of Atman at 4 and using datasuckers to keep grims/archers/inuzumas low.
I think the corp would have to use the purge while the ice is still unrezzed to prevent the runner from just dumping their datasucker tokens and jacking out. Goosing shaper has a dozen ways of getting atman back, but making them spend 7 creds and a testrun/clone chip is a good trade, imo.
Basically, NEH with 3x DRT, 3x Encryption Protocol, and a shit load of asset economy and recursion. Play them faster than they can break them. DRT is amazing denial when they're 5 to trash, and you can interns them back in.
Huh, cool.
I've never seen or played it. I imagine its fun though. I'm not sure its common enough to include in the archetypes bit but I'm glad you pointed it out.
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England may be a small island, but it's also a breeding ground for space-time folds and non-euclidean geometry. One simply has to pass through a wardrobe, hop over a wall, head into the London Underground, or walk through bricks at the end of a train platform, and they may inadvertently find themselves in the middle of a vast and uncharted land.
In such a country, one can simultaneously be both thousands of kilometers away from London while also being in the middle of it.
'bout 600 miles, Great Britain is highly fractal in a way people from continental interiors find hard to grasp
Dunno, man. On my recent trip, I found the Underground entirely delightful ...
It's worth mentioning it takes less time to fly from Canada to England than it does to fly to the other side of Canada. Our perceptions are definitely, wonderfully, and intriguingly different.
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
All the time travel and tears in reality have really destabilized the region.
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Like, I'd often hear Japan referred to as a "small island nation" but Japan is like 50% bigger than the whole UK.
Yeah its not big (Great Britain is slightly smaller than Honshu), but anyone referring to Japan as a small island nation in the first place is a bit of a dolt.
On topic, I miss this game. That forum game was very unsatisfying, and I am sad that it might have been the last I'll ever play.
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As someone who hate Katman with every fiber of his being, I rejoice.
As someone who wanted to make a Darwin deck work, I weep.
I'm actually thinking I might take a break from my PPVP Kate deck to play Noise for a while until I get my copies of the latest two datapacks. For some reason they haven't arrived in stores here in Australia yet, so I ended up just ordering them on amazon the other day.
Those Dedicated Response Team/100-remote decks might also be thrown in there? Or maybe that's too new a type
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f5_6Y5-P5Xk
as of right now, there is no way for the corp to interact with them directly
I assumed he was talking about how purging datasucker tokens would mess with Atman usage.
What decks are those? Not seen them...
http://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/8916/n-e-a-r-p-a-d
Basically, NEH with 3x DRT, 3x Encryption Protocol, and a shit load of asset economy and recursion. Play them faster than they can break them. DRT is amazing denial when they're 5 to trash, and you can interns them back in.
What I'm seeing here is a lot of support for Darwin. Get out Grimoire, put three Progenitors out with Hiveminds on them, and then play Darwin. Darwin is now STR 6, and if the corp purges, STR 3 plus the one you get to add for free. Now, getting three copies each of two cards is pretty impossible, but even getting two Progenitors to protect a Hivemind and Darwin means that you're at worst STR 3 when your turn starts. Get DAVID for STR5+ and a single Incubator for those pesky STR 4s, and you're in business.
The deck seems slow at first, but all you need is Darwin and a Cyberfeeder to get started. If they purge early game, that's just more time for you to set up. By the time late game comes, you should have your Hiveminds and Festers ready for action.
edit: Hivemind is unique, it seems.
edit 2: Virus Breeding Ground is also pretty neat, and it's immune to purging virus counters. One click per counter is pretty nasty, but it might be better than Incubator.
that deck seems....weird
like I can see it running out of gas in lategame when it's got a ton of money but no way to leverage it into a win
If the runner accesses a Snare! or TGTBT, you can rez DRTs which will actually fire. It's essentially a shell-game deck that scores in undefended remotes and tries to tag the runner.
I honestly couldn't tell you if it's remotely competitive or not. If I was going to mention it to new players, I'd notate it under a 'Shell Game' archeytpe.
and interns might be overkill, 3 of them definitely is
In hindsight, that isn't really a huge deck type yet, I don't think I saw anyone play it at Worlds, so probably not worth including.
I was indeed referring to the practice of Atman at 4 and using datasuckers to keep grims/archers/inuzumas low.
Huh, cool.
I've never seen or played it. I imagine its fun though. I'm not sure its common enough to include in the archetypes bit but I'm glad you pointed it out.
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Amazing art, really cool ability.
Also the new Shaper console is going STRAIGHT into my PPVP Kate deck. Wooooowww
Is it wrong that whenever I look at Game Day, I immediately think PACKERS WON THE SUPERBOWL! WOO! from MST3K?
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When I look at it I see someone playing it with 3 Origami installed.
Just... Wow.
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Doesn't it say 'in' the server, meaning only assets and upgrades rather than ice?
Comet seems pretty nuts in a PPVP Kate deck.
Problem is that it's hardware so it is likely to end up in the heap from the oracle...hm.
I just realised that her ability lets you install a second card when using things like Clone Chip or SMC. That's super interesting!