Startup Operating Procedure [STARTUP]

milk_geologist 73

OK so the idea here is pretty simple.

SETUP

Beg, borrow and steal your way to scoring Stegodon MK IV, then set up two remotes. One should have some inexpensive ICE (Bloop, if you can rez it?), just enough to make the runner think twice about trashing Nico Campaign or anything else you want to put in there. The other, our main scoring remote, should have Funhouse and an unrezzed Ablative Barrier. Play B-1001 under a Magnet if you have it. Put Vovô Ozetti into your scoring remote.

EXECUTION

Toss your agendas into the scoring remote, advance them out, and win the game.

Oh, what, the runner is trying to break in? Don’t rez Ablative Barrier yet. Kick them out using the tag from the Funhouse. Now they go trash B-1001 — when they come back, rez Ablative Barrier (for free, with Vovo’s help) to pull B-1001 out of archives. Rinse and repeat, using Stegodon Mk IV to unrez Ablative Barrier as needed.

PROBLEMS

Hush and anything else that stops on-encounter ICE abilities completely ruins our plans. We've got Magnet to help deal with some of that.

Anything that trashes our ICE is also a problem, though Ablative Barrier means we can recover.

It takes a minute to set up. Wave can help you find the ICE you need, if that's what's holding you up.

Tāo Absolutely 100% tears us apart.

4 comments
3 Aug 2023 x3r0h0ur

What if you used ping instead? Stegodon isn't once per turn, and you make money doing it?

3 Aug 2023 milk_geologist

That’s definitely more economical! But stegodon actually is once per turn (though really it’s once per turn per agenda, so Ping still might work if you can score two)

3 Aug 2023 x3r0h0ur

You can't make me read the card all the way to the end.

Interested either way. At least with ping it ensures they take a tag in their attempt. Going to give it a whirl.

8 Aug 2023 ergh99

watch out for rollerbladers