| Name: |
Terrorist Reprisal |
| Commonality: |
Rare |
| Playingcost: |
2 |
| Type: |
Prep |
| Game Text: |
Play only if the Corp scored any Black
Ops agendas during its last turn. The Corp
discards five cards at random. |
| Illustrator: |
Mark Collen |
| Sets: |
v1.0 |
Condition often fulfilled
In order to gain bits the Corporation often scores Corporate War, which has an excellent difficulty/ agendapoints ratio as well. Also
Political Overthrow, which is used to maximize the cardcount on business cards is Black Ops. The
current (June '97) test of World Domination decks lets you use this card against a fun deck, too ;).
Corporate Coup, Politcal Coup, and
Detroit Police Contract are also Black Ops. That is to say Black Ops agenda are popular.
Discard HQ
All cards in HQ are discarded. You often face only one subsidary datafort. This is used for everything the corp wants to do. Therefore
agendas have to queue in HQ, before they can be advanced. If the Corporation is into speedadvancement, agenda has to wait for sufficient
bits and the right Operation (Management Shake-Up,
Falsified-Transactions Expert, Systematic Layoffs, ...).
In any case HQ is rife for the picking.
The next action is off course a run on the up to now unprotected Archives.
Surprise Factor
The Corporation cannot see this Prep coming. And it has no countermeasures. It can preempt and install ice on Archives, which is needed on
forts containing agenda in any event.
Comparison to Synchronized Attack on HQ
Terrorist Reprisal is cheaper. Terrorist Reprisal needs only one action. Synchronized Attack on HQ
needs a run right before it can be played. The complete HQ is archived. With
Synchronized Attack on HQ the Corporation can spend bits to retain cards.
If the Runner is interested in depleting bitpool the Synchronized Attack on HQ is a valuable
weapon. But it performs the same, when the pool is already depleted.
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