From:	Felix Hoefert <FHoefert@********.DE>
Subject:	Re: Wanted and Cortex Bomb
Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 1998 21:14:55 +0200

David Reis wrote:
>
> At 11:27 AM 7/22/98 +0200, you wrote:
> >"Jens P. Dräger" wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi folks...
> >> During a little tournament on the weekend the following question occured:
> >> I used a Wanted on one of my opponents runners and sent Cherry Bomb with a
> >> Katana and a Cortex Bomb - she turned and attacked the target runner.... So
> >> far so good. But what now? According to the rulebook the target runners
> >> whiles away time in his safehouse when Cherry arrives - of course I chose a
> >> target runner who would kill her in combat and thus the Cortex Bomb went
> >> off. All the other runners in my opponents safehouse should now also be
> >> affected, right? So all his Thrashs and weak elven deckers got wacked...
> >> Unfortunately this had been the decisive move of the whole game and my
> >> friend and I argued for some time whether the Cortex Bomb might affect all
> >> other present runners (I argued that if he had had a bodyguard in his
> >> safehouse he would also be able to let that one take the damage intended
> for
> >> someone else - so if it is possible to interfere with a bodyguard, a Cortex
> >> Bomb should therefore affect all unturned runners in my opponent's
> safehouse)..
> >> Hope you can help me to figure this out!
> >>
> >
> >Sorry, You´re wrong here. The Wanted!´s target Runner is no longer in
> >the safehouse when he´s attacked. The Rulebook states that Runners leave
> >the safehouse for a fight and return to the safehouse when the fight is
> >over. The Cortex Bomb wouldn´t help you much unless the attacked Runner
> >is much much bigger than Cherry. ---Felix
> >
> >
> The group I play with uses house rules that differ from the official line.
> In our games, the Wanted runner is in the safehouse, so a Cortex Bomb or
> Adam Bomb effects everyone in the safehouse. This is one of the strategies
> I built my "Face the Music" deck on. I built an all-rocker deck with Adam
> Bombs, Cortex Bombs, and Wanteds in it to cripple my opponents'
> nuyen-producing runners. I know such a deck is cheesy, but I was tired of
> the big bully decks walking all over my mage and shaman decks.
>
Using house rules is one way to deal with bully decks - I choose to wait
for Corp Wars for usable strategies. It is possible to build a deck to
beat bullies, but that won´t help you in tourney play against many
different decks. A working anti-bully deck needs to either steal all the
money or kill the trolls as soon as they come into play.