From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: The Fat man
Date:	Sun, 16 Nov 1997 09:46:35 -0800

Eugene Chan wrote:

> Could someone explain to me what is so good about the Fatman
> (contact).

> Sure, it may be fun to annoy someone by helping someone else's
> challenge but is it really worth the cost of bringing him out in the
> first place? And Is there any point of using him in a two player
> game?

The Fat Man's nuyen cost is indeed.. fat. Unfortunately, you can never
tell just how useful he is, because you never know what you're opponent
will play - that's his greatest weakness (le sigh).

But - ignoring chance and sensibility - what combos are there?

Stiletto and the Eyekiller challenge - suddenly they *will* bump into
the Eyekiller. Similarly, in a cooperative game, you can bolster your
friend's team stealthiness to slip them past a challenge. This works
with Tin Man/Marek/Clutch et al. as well.

Security Consultant/Blindsided and any pumpable Challenge - duh.

"Pumping off" the +/- pumpers to trash them (works well with
Tactics:Converge). Unfortunately, not many people tend to play these
guys, anyway.

And.. ummm.. that's about all I can pry out of my skull.

Making the Fat Man able to pay any costs leads to some confusing issues
(if I pay Highbrow's cost, does he turn? Whose deck? etcet).

FWIW, there are some other "homebrew" Runners with other pumpable costs
(besides the fairly standard +x/+x) on both my and Forrest's webpages.


-Mb