Sympathy for Sick Children v1.0

Ajar 1624

Spinal Modem Chaos Theory with the flexible breaker suite. Who doesn't have sympathy for a brain damaged little girl?

The deck is very straightforward: draw, economy, breakers, Indexing. Not necessarily in that order, of course. It's strongest in the mid game; late game against deep servers with large ice you need to pick your runs with care, since each one can be very expensive. Use Infiltration judiciously to make sure you aren't wasting your time.

Same Old Thing can be Levy #2, Stimhack #2, or Indexing #4, depending on your needs. Public Sympathy is there to help mitigate the effects of brain damage. If you want to live more dangerously, swap in an R&D Interface for Public Sympathy, and maybe even a second one for Same Old Thing.

5 comments
22 Jan 2014 Ravarix

Not sure why you're going for the Spinal Modem. The MU is useless because your full suite + Opus = 5 MU. The 2 recurring credits is nice, but not sure it's worth the 4 credit investment + brain damage downside.

22 Jan 2014 scumblr

Full suite is six? 1 each for Corroder and Gordian, 2 each for Garrote and Mopus.

Nonetheless, all you're really getting is 2 recurring credits and 1 MU. Corroder on Dinosaurus would give you that pretty well per run, assuming you'll be facing some STR 4+ barriers, which seems likely, and then there's no risk of brain damage.

22 Jan 2014 v01d

Full suite is 6 because you install only a copy at a time. I would replace 2 opus for 2 SMC so you gain a bit of flexibility. In this case I would also add another Stimhack as basically it pays for SMC+Garrote, probably removing the modems and infiltration in favour of easy mark.

22 Jan 2014 Ajar

With SMC and no Spinal, I'd also need mem chips or something to get me to 6MU.

Dino forces a choice of which breaker to put it on each game; with Spinal I can spend the credits on any breaker. I'd love another Stimhack, though. Maybe the way to go is to drop the spinals and go up to 2-3x Stimhack and a couple of mem chips.

23 Jan 2014 Ravarix

Apologies, I missed that Garrote was 2 MU.