Theoretical Political AI Chief

                            by Jack Henry-Rhoads
                               jackhr@TFS.NET

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I was thinking the other day about weird ways to win as the corp. I always
liked the way that AI cheif Financial Officer allowed you to recycle cards
and stopped the runner from decking you. A while earlier I was thinking
about the Rescheduler/Political Overthrow combo which makes it near
impossible to access Agenda from the HQ and the R&D since you only have
three agenda. Then I simply combined the two and wrote the following in my
NR notebook:

Theory: Never have an agenda in hand during runner's turn. Do this with
Rescheduler until you score an AI Chief Financial Officer. When you score
the AI chief the runner cannot mill you and it becomes an untrashable
Rescheduler but is even better because the odds for scoring agenda from R&D
do not go up as the archives fill.

You can then collect bits and score more AI chiefs which will remove more
agenda from R&D making the odds that much more worse for the runner.

The only thing left for the runner to do is to struggle through the large
ICE on R&D to most likely not get anything or run into an ambush.

The runner will either give up our you will score enough AI chiefs or
Political overthrows to win.

Here's the deck I scribbled in the notebook. There is room for improvement
but it should work.

Jack Henry-Rhoads - 1998

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The Deck

   * Agenda
        o 2x Political Overthrow
        o 4x AI Cheif Financial Officer
   * Ice
        o 2x Banpei
        o 1x Cortical Scrub
        o 1x Crystal Wall
        o 2x Data Wall 2.0
        o 1x Keeper
        o 1x Liche
        o 1x Mastiff
        o 1x Mazer
        o 2x Quandry
        o 1x Toughnium Wall
   * Operations
        o 5x Project Consultants
   * Nodes
        o 7x BBS Whispering Campaign
        o 6x Rescheduler
        o 9x TRAP!
   * Upgrades
        o - none -

Notes

Score your AI cheifs like a1: install the chief, a2: Project consultants,
a3: advance once and score. If you lose A chief in the early game it is a
problem. Hopefully you win with a TRAP! flatline but if not you can try to
bluff the runner into thinking that a PO is just an unrezzed TRAP! and then
going for the triple Project Consultants. Both are very hard to pull off.