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From: Tim <typhoeus@*********.NET>
Subject: Re: Crash Confusion...?
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 23:25:33 -0700
> My thinking is that a challenge card isn't an electrical/etc... card
> until it's revealed. Otherwise you would be trashing cards that would be
> bluffs (in the case of No Indoor challenge requirements etc...) or cards
> that would be bugs/zombies/urban brawl teams.
> So, my official stance is...Treat it like a Steamroller without the
need
> for rolling a die.

I have to second this idea. Crash is a revved-up, one-use steamroller
because:
1) It does not require a roll
2) It can get rid of those pesky electrical challenges that are attached to
the objective without the team having to face them (i.e. Motion Detectors
and the like)
3) You have to turn the program just like any other, and there is no clause
that Crash runs for the entire shadowrun like Steamroller does, so doesn't
negate the electrical challenges (there are enough cards to do so already)

Perhaps the text should read trashes all _revealed_ electrical challenges
just to alleviate confusion.

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