From:	Felix Hoefert <FHoefert@********.DE>
Subject:	Re: Today´s tourney
Date:	Sat, 2 May 1998 02:37:09 +0200

a . a wrote:
>
> Big 'ole snip.......
>
> >Money stealers are good, but will not stand in a tourney against
> >cheaper
> >decks. Too many Wanteds and Riots to fence off, and after your Ice
> >Queens and Sticky Fingers are gone, the Trolls come back. The only
> >chance is to get the first turn and steal at least his first 3 Nuyen,
> >or
> >else it´s likely there´ll be a Stomper out to take out your deckers
> >and
> >other useful Runners. Not one of the above can defeat a Stomper
> >unarmed,
> >and Torgo will kill any elves.
> >The pure Nuyen stealer decks worked well when most players didn´t have
> >many cards, but today they´re easily put down by most.
>
> 'nother big snip.....
> > Felix
> >
> Granted, all it would take is a Luck of the Irish, or something similiar,
> but I find that when playing against a Brute deck, my best friend tends
> to be In-Fighting.
>
> "In-fighting, 5Y, Special, Play on a target player, All runners
> in target player's safe house take x armour piercing damage. X=
> the number of orks and trolls in target player's
> safehouse.
>
> Flavor-text: Safety tip #16: Refering to orks and trolls as
> Trogs can Hurt."
>
> Against most of the folks I know, the fear of my playing that when they
> have 5-9 trolls and Orks out, can really deter them..... and having 4
> in my decks....... It can hurt a lot. Granted, it can be countered, but
> so can a lot of things.......
>

It´s their own fault if they play that many Trolls. You only need a
maximum of 3 out to win a Wake the Dead game. I´ve found In-Fighting too
expensive for having to keep it for 5-6 or more trogs and sparing the
Nuyen for it. As I said, usually only one or two Trolls are played to
win a WtD. I will post a deck shortly that is a Troll deck to counter
WtD decks - by using their strategy and pushing it to its limit. By my
experience, this deck is impossible to beat in an 80 point game by a
safe chance (except by itself) - even when Media Chick is errata´d. Wait
´til you see it; I´m too tired now to post it.---Felix