6 Degrees of Separation Theory

gumonshoe 2987

Criminal, and hence Andromeda, may be uniquely placed to smack down corps come data and destiny; not that she isn't there now with the release of film critic. The general idea is this: Andromeda is already good at connections, but between lovegood, critic, & source she can be better than normal by forcing the corp into playing the remote game and taking longer to advance stuff, while using cards like muertos gang member & inside job to harass early rush servers which are prevalent these days. The backbone of forcing this style of play is: Lovegood, Critic, Source. You can blank The Source on your turn to steal agendas and keep your opponent from ever scoring their own. Critic allows you a second escape hatch around the source, as well as allowing you to get harder to get agendas.

Lovegood wouldn't be worth an install for this alone though. Thankfully, criminal cards suck and you rarely want them to have text when you trash them to aesops (which is also a connection). Both Rolodex and Muertos Gang Member work better with aesops with these connections. And if we're playing aesops.

Cache & Bank Job make plenty of sense, too. Our barrier to economy is usually 0 or 1 credit, which is a pretty good place to be.

This thing is very untuned, though. I'm betting the underworld's might be a mistake. Hostage you probably want 3x? But you hate having to use them. You've got R&D pressure should you want it. Maybe lose dyson and go to 3x desperado if contacts goes away. And then for early game pressure Sneak Door makes a lot of sense. Especially since we've got Aesops in house, perhaps moreso in Andromeda than normal. If you're a very slow deliberate player you might want Logos instead. And if we reduce the connection count enough, we'll want either dirty laundry or hedge instead of favors.

I assume others have tried this out, but haven't had time to read much lately. Thoughts? Experience? Direction you'd go?

2 comments
28 Aug 2015 FarCryFromHuman

Off-Campus Apartment, while exposing you to some vulnerability, seems huge here. Clicking for cards just sucks, especially when your installs are so cheap. If you go that route, you probably want Fall Guys as well, which double as in a pinch (or 3 off Aesop's).

This doesn't strike me as a run often deck, so Desperado could potentially go for Forger, which gets you the 3 slots from Dyson Mem Chip back.

28 Aug 2015 Phoenix

Drug Dealer and Dr Lovegood is also an unbelievably good combination! Free card draw is nothing to be sniffed at. Also a connection.