| From: | Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Underworld Thoughts |
| Date: | Sun, 22 Mar 1998 09:00:40 -0800 |
>
> That's the one complaint I have about the game though, It seems
like everyone's deck is a Melee deck. Who cares about sleazing the
challeges when you can blow through them all with a Stomper or two.
There needs to be more objectives that require certain skills to
obtain so you would need a runners with skills, not stats. It's like
playing a hack & slash game sometimes...
I'm an exception to that rule I guess. My Poisoned Elves deck is
entirely built around sleazing, and very little direct fighting. I've
never been a big bruiser player in games though (I was always the
thief in RPG's).
Actually, there are plenty of Challenges that give the Big Bullies
cause to stop and head back to the safe house. Underworld even adds to
that. They can't directly hammer through Maglocks, Nets, Sim
Sensation, Gut Check, Corpse Light, Chomps-2000 (1st Time), Minefield,
Booby Trap, Incubus, Mafia Goons, ScatterBrain Raid, Lone Star Beat
Cops, ...
Some Things Never Change and these types of Challenges also do great
on Urban Brawl and Cermak Blast when the Big Bully player thinks he's
going to just pound through it. ;o)
Lone Star Beat Cops is one of my favorites against Skwaaaaaark.
Anti-Social triggers it, and you get to choose which Runner is
arrested (goes back to his owner's hand). All that free cyberware goes
to the trash, and Skwraaaaaak now costs another 10 to bring back out
(20 total for the game). Works for Gore-Tusk just as easily.
Ask Tony how frustating this can be, I think I caught him with Long
Arm of the Law for the same effect three or four times in our games
yesterday. (The cards were mainly in my deck for Anti Torgo measures,
but the worked wonders on Skwaaaaaark too. :o)
One other thing of note to consider with players that use Skwraaaaaak,
Torgo and Stomper (stamina bruisers). The Virus tokens as introduced
in Underworld are nice stamina equalizers. While a vanilla Skwraaaaaak
can take 3 points of damage and still be dealing his full 8 attack
value, 3 virus tokens drop him down to a 5. This can lead to possible
combos.
-== Loki ==-
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