Iv wanted to try Hive in RP for awhile, seems well placed in the meta and decent early game, how have you found it and would you ever want more than 1?
Throw an hidden dice, and then always chose 1. Runners seems to chose 0 a lot when you are using dice.
So, after at least a month, waking me from my slumber, this is your solution?
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Hive seems OK. Just OK. It is rather expensive, and does become pretty marginal late. Though, if you are going with the 2,2,3 scoring plan then it never becomes useless. I don’t think I’d go for more than one. Ichi 1.0 may be better. Calimsha’s Sherlock include looks interesting, though that seems quite expensive too.
I came up against the Valencia Keyhole deck again last night (Eater, Keyhole, Vamp, Magnum Opus, Blackmail). That seems to totally murder this deck unless you can get your Caprices (plural) out early. You want a Caprice to protect that early score from Blackmail, then you want a Caprice on HQ/R&D when the Vamp/Keyhole starts going, respectively. After getting murdered by that deck the first time I put some Clone Retirements in to wipe the Bad Pub early, but that is pretty bad in other matchups.
Anybody have any experience/tips for combating the combo Val deck?
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I think i’m pretty ok having one (really) bad matchup if all my other matchups are good.
It isn’t like this kind of Val decks are tier 1 anyway.
Oddly enough iv been playing around with clone retirement purely for the val matchup, and that led me to try out archer as well, i think with people not really building to counter multi-sub sentries at the minute it could be a good fit, although admittedly, not rush any more.
Crisium is really the only non terrible option to slot against Val decks.
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EBC isn’t too horrible too as rezzing a Lotus Field on a remote can be devastating.
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Yeah I forgot about EBC, that counts too.
Ebc also helps against leela.
EBC in remote, res tollbooth, sack it for sundew, win game.