From:	Phillip G Jaros <phillip_jaros@**.US.SWISSBANK.COM>
Subject:	Re: Team Play
Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 1997 01:59:34 CDT

Bull wrote:
>Has anyone given any thought to or tried playing some kind of "team" game
>yet? I mean, something other than just the standard "we need a combined
>100 points to win, but otherwise we're playing with no special rules..."
>
>I'm thinking something a little more involved, that would let two players
>support each other a little more, without just blatantly allowing a player
>to give his partner runners and stuff...
>
>I'll play around with this idea a little later, if I can...

Well the one time we tried to play a team game we went by the following
rules <warning the game was rather fun, but it really turned into a
blood bath>:

The game is basically played the same way with each player keeping
track of their own nuyen. You cannot put a Runner into play for
your teammate, nor can you give one of her runners a gear card.
You may play specials on any ones Runners (of course). Contacts
can only be used by their owner and Locations can be visited by
a teammate's Runners. Also pumbable cards can only be payed for by
the cards owner, unless you have The Fatman contact in play (yes
he is a great card for this type of game).

Team 1 Player 1: During the shadowrun phase this player may either
attempt to complete a run on his own or turn up to 5 runners to join
their teammate on a run.

Team 2 Player 1: During the legwork phase he may turn up to 6 runners
to prevent Team 1's Player 1 from meeting up with Team 1 Player 2's
runners. Resolve this combat like an intercepted shadowrun. Any
surviving Runners from Team 1 continue on their way to the objective.

During the shadowrun Phase this player may also start a Run, or turn
some of their runners to help their teammate on a run.

Team 1 Player 2: During the legwork phase this player can turn runners
in the same way that the previous player did.

During the Shadowrunning phase he may tap enough runners to bring up
the teams total runners up to 6. If Player 1 sent 5 runners but only
3 made it there alive, Player 2 can send 3 Runners on the Run.

Note: You do not phase your teammates challenges only your two opponents.

Interception of the shadowrun (if there are no Challenges on the
objective):

Team 2 Player 2 has a chance to turn a runner to intecept the run (if
an interception of this objective has not been attempted yet).
Team 1 Player 1 can turn some runners to try and prevent this
interception from occuring. If all of the intercepting runners
live through this counter strike they must continue on the interception.
However, if they are all killed, it doesn't count towards the one
attempted interception per objective and Team 2 Player 1 could send
a couple of Runners to intercept the run (without any of Team 1's
runners weakening them before they get to encounter the Shadowrunning
team.

Play then continues on in this fashion until one team can capture the
reputation points needed to win (we played until 70 pts) and the game
took quite a bit of time. If you do play this way, don't get to attached
to any of your runners, since they most likely will die at some point.

If you have any questions about the clarity of these rules send them
to me, since we made up the rules on the fly and this is my first time
trying to type them up. (And it doesn't help that I've been working
for nine hours - only 4 more to go)



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