On Sunday, January 13, 2013 11:38:48 PM UTC-7, ErikPeter wrote: > > ...finally! > > I was pretty familiar with the rules and basics, but having never played I > didn't know what to expect in terms of how the game actually played out. As > it happened I did pretty well as a shaper and scored most of my points > against R&D--stumbling across either 3-pointers or (goddamn) Snare most of > the time. I won two and lost one (against Jinteki, starter decks) but we > were both learning the ropes. I had a couple of solid, effective runs where > I was- able to perfectly break all the things I needed to (e.g. a blind > tinker on innermost ice, outermost ice proves to be Chum, and I have > Battering Ram to break both of them) and one of those ended in a loss > (surprise! A Junebug with two counters). > > There's definitely a lot of planning involved in playing it safe, but I > liked to gamble since running aggressively (esp. R&D) seemed quite > profitable early when he didn't have much to stop me. Pulling random VPs > from R&D felt pretty cheap, winning that way before he had scored any, > moreso. Though apparently he was having trouble drawing ICE that wasn't > super expensive. > > In two of the games I had magnum opus out early, but he had PAD campaign > to match me, and we drew a lot of those 9-credits-for-5 events/ops. In the > other game neither of us had much money most of the time. It made for a > very different game! All in all I think I got a bit lucky as the runner > (not quite flatlining a few times when I probably should have), in addition > to having more experience with the rules (hell, he didn't even know how ICE > worked exactly the first he was spending a ton of credits rezzing it in > front of me). > > But man I am excited to do some deck building and play some more... maybe > next time as the corp. >
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