From:	Felix Hoefert <FHoefert@********.DE>
Subject:	Re: Crash Confusion...?
Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:14:19 +0200

Bourgault, Patrick wrote:
>
> >My original Question:
> >
> >>> It says that you can trash ALL the electrical challenges
> >>> on target objective.
> >>> However, it's not very intuitive as to when you can do
> >>> this. Can you only use this program on a shadowrun?
> >>> Can you use it during the legwork phase? And are
> >>> the Challenges immediately trashed? Or only when
> >>> they are revealed?
> >
> >Felix Hoefert responds thusly:
> >>You can use this program at any time. Every player trashes the
> >>Electrical Challenges on the Objective that are in his stack
> >>immediately. ---Felix
> >
> >while Matb says:
> >>Generally, things that affect a shadowrun can only be played during a
> >>shadowrun, and only by participants in that shadowrun. You can't, for
> >>instance, trash Razorback in your safehouse to take out an Elite
> >>Security Mage who just popped up in the Ares R&D Depaertment.
> >>Similarly, Crash is usable by a Decker during the shadowrun phase --
> >>think of it as a Steamroller without the dice.

Just for the record: I still don´t agree. Crash affects Challenges on an
Objective, not a Shadowrun specifically. For instance, it could be used
by my decker in the legwork phase to remove all electrical Challenges.
Then I could play new Challenges onto my Challenge stack, just to make
the Objective safe if I wouldn´t achieve it. This would be specifically
useful if the Objective banned Electrical Challenges, and I had put some
on it before it had been revealed. Then I would decide on what Runners
to take on a Run for this Objective and make the Run. IMHO, Crash wasn´t
worth its cost if only usable in the Shadowrun phase. I think we need
official ruling on this, though. ---Felix