ミドリンのNasir

Basic strategy : Turn 1 : empty your account and run (Personal preference R&D) Next turns : improvise, depending on situation :þ

A good starting hand is, as any shaper, some tutor (Self-modifying Code (aka SMC), Code Siphon) or what you want in hand and a Personal Workshop. If you're not used to windows when you can spend credits on workshop, you just have to know that you can do it before the ice encounter. For example, if there is a parasite on your Personal Workshop, and you have credits, when the corp (let's say a NBN) rez a Pop-up Window you can spend credits to install parasite on it BEFORE encountering it, so you will never encouter it, and lose what you have in your pool. In works in a same way with clone chip and SMC [as personal workshop]. As any shaper you will need to adapt a lot on what is played by the corp.

Let's explain why I choose some of what is here.

SMC , Clone Chip and Personal workshop are just must includes in 3. Some players choose to not include the shop, but in very usefull to have a Micro-wave oven in play :)

Code Siphon allows you to install femme fatal easily or an Atman at any value (not with siphon ability, it's not an install cost, but you can spend Toolbox credits for it). I prefer it to Test Run, in a way that you don't have to install it back.

Imp : a lot of infuence, but it's worth it. Simply because there is a lot of assets you can't trash (let's say a SanSan city grid ). Because it's hard to have money when you access cards, it help to trash what will be either needed by corp (scorshed, SanSan, …), or for you in a while (NAPD contract, which is difficult to steal as Nasir, or Fetal AI ), agenda that you should trash, either to force the use of Jackson by the corp, or slowing it by preventing it to have anything to score. Not more than one imp (like any other program) because there is a lot of recursion and crad to take it from everywhere (except your grip).

Let's talk about link and ZU now (yeah the order of that text doesn't make any sense). As for NAPD, having money available is possible, but will hardly be the case when you encounter trace. For exemple Hunter (yes not very used,but it's an example) you will receive only 1 credit the first time you encounter it, and you will have to avoid a tag if you have workshop installed. So link can be very usefull, and then, ZU comes immediatly with that. After some games, I though that Gordian Blade could be as good, it's up to you to take what you prefer. If so you can possibly replace Dyson Mem Chip by some others chip (like CyberSolutions Mem Chip). Gordian Blade can be boosted for all the run, allowifg you to pre-spend credits during a run. Or use Cyber-Cypher, with scavenge to change the server if needed.

Big ice like Wotan & cie, could be break the first time it's encountered, but for needed time, D4v1d is a good solution to ice like that.

Sharpshooter for big destroyer that cost not that much (Archer, hello). Mimic for others (you have Datasuckers, with Atman, others sentry will not be a problems).

Now let's explain Stimhack. I loose everything on Stimhack when encountering a newly rezzed ICE. That's how it works. It's sad. But we can't do anything about it. So why including it ? Simply because you can use SMC before encountering it, and you will need only 2 credits to install any program from your stack with it, and you can use Personal Workshop on anything on it (like a The Toolbox, or 2 R&D interface, or anything you want). So it allows you to adapt to anything whatever the corp rez. Ho, and remember you do lose credits from Ghost Runner and Net Celebrity.

Particular timing 2.0 : tollbooth. A tollbooth will make you have 5 credits. Since it's your turn, your ability takes place before the one of tollbooth, so if you have 0, you will have 8, and then you will have to pay 3 on tollbooth. So the first time you encounter it you will always have 5 credits to break its subroutines. And with Femme Fatale ? If you but your Femme Fatal in play before the tollbooth is rezzed, and the corp rezzes it, if you bypass it with Femme Fatal, you won't get the 8 credits from rez cost. So you will get either 5 or nothing.

Here it is.