After a couple of small housekeeping segments, we turn over the majority of this episode to the seminal article "Playing the Opening" from the prolific Alex Rockwell, a discussion of specific gameplay approaches in the first few turns of a game of Netrunner, largely focused on what the Runner wants to try to do, but with plenty of lessons and advice for Corp players. Presented in four segments:
Title card: Prepaid VoicePAD
2:10 Anonymous Tip: Top 50 countdown
4:45 Red Herrings: Errata from last episode
Muckraker |
Wotan
8:30 Archived Memories: Playing the Opening
INTRODUCTION:
Economy ice:
Pop-up Window |
Caduceus ||
Cheap ETR ice:
Ice Wall |
Enigma
Runner economy cards:
Kati Jones |
Wyldside |
Personal Workshop |
Daily Casts |
Professional Contacts
EXAMPLE 1:
Bastion |
Indexing |
Neural Katana |
Archer |
Hadrian's Wall |
Tollbooth |
Swarm |
Data Raven |
Grim |
Rototurret |
Shadow
EXAMPLE 2:
Flare |
Ichi 1.0 |
Hunter |
Melange Mining Corp. |
Inside Job |
Tinkering
EXAMPLE 3:
Haas-Bioroid: Engineering the Future |
Sneakdoor Beta |
Corroder |
Emergency Shutdown |
Parasite
EXAMPLE 4:
Jinteki: Personal Evolution |
Yog.0 |
Sure Gamble |
Plascrete Carapace |
Fetal AI |
Snare! |
PAD Campaign |
Himitsu-Bako
EXAMPLE 5:
Andromeda |
Desperado |
Dirty Laundry |
Datasucker |
Ninja |
R&D Interface |
Adonis Campaign |
Wall of Static |
Eli 1.0 |
Heimdall 2.0 |
Account Siphon |
Forged Activation Orders
CONCLUSION:
Hedge Fund |
Gabriel Santiago |
Bernice Mai |
Celebrity Gift
Medium |
The Maker's Eye |
Noise |
Chaos Theory |
Snowball |
Atman
51:35 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Clones, part 5 (Clonal Health Maintenance, and The Novice's Guide to Clonership)
Reboot Project home page
A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point
Reboot Project Discord server
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2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay