Episode 35: All the Reason One Needs

2.1: A Netrunner Reboot Project Podcast

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
Play online: Reteki.fun
Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman
Contact me via email: [e-mail]
Episode transcript
2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread
2.1 focused Stimhack thread
Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay