So, another weekly meeting of Warsaw Netrunners. It was my third evening. So far I visited them once per two weeks, to give me some breathing room after another portion of getting my ass kicked.

Today there were more people then last time, at one point at least seven games were played!

I brought my core Anarch Noise and Jinteki - Personal Evolution decks. With one small modification: I decided to get rid of the Private Security Force, and instead put there three NAPD Contracts. PSF looks useful at glance, but it’s very rare to have runner tagged and at two cards to kill him with this card. And Contracts are quite taxing for the runner with their bonus price for stealing.

I played eight games and to be honest most of them were very one sided. The least fun was of course the one against typical Near Earth Hub Fast Advance Astro Train deck (NEHFAAT - try to say this without disdain in your voice.. bleaaah).

How it works? NEH identity gives corporation card when it makes new server, so it pays less clicks overall to draw. And it needs to draw to get the Astro Train rolling. AstroScript Pilot Program is a NBN agenda from the core set which gives you ability to score next agenda with advancment token less. If you manage to score one, you can score next out of your hand successive turn. And repeat it once more to get six points. And you can help yourself with Biotic Labor, also from core set, which gives you another click. And if you still can’t win, you can always install agenda on the server with SanSan City Region card.

So yeah, you can score agenda with advancement cost of five with this combo in single turn. If you have lucky draw, of course. If not, you can always help yourself with Jackson Howard to get the train rolling.

My today game against this deck was over after six or seven turns I think.

Another funny one was my Noise against another Personal Evolution Jinteki player. This one I roleplayed as crazy hacker who doesn’s really care about how damaged is his brain. So I died after some unlucky R&D access that left me with zero cards at the beginning of corporation’s turn.

Seventh game was very lucky for me, I scored 6 points in five or six turns, I think, but then my economy stopped and I got tagged with SEA Source and killed by Scorched Earth.

My last, eighth, game was my Personal Evolution against Chaos Theory from the Shaper faction.

I got quite good first hand, with Hedge Fund, Melange Mining, two pieces of ICE (Enigma I think and Wall of Thorns) and Nisei MK II Agenda. I installed Melange, played Fund and installed Enigma in front of my HQ.

On my second turn I rezzed Melange and spend all the clicks to earn cash from it. Runner thrashed it, bounced from the Enigma and started to prepare his shaper rig with Opus Magnum and Personal Workshop already in place.

And here’s the funny part:

I installed Nisei with Wall of Thornes in front of it. He facechecked, received net damage but… I didnt have enough cash to score it next turn. And he didnt have the cards. It took me three turns to finally score it.

I was very lucky with the net damage, thrashing him some crucial cards. I managed to build up my defences on this first remote, with Akitaro Watanabe and some ICE, and I scored another Nisei.

So I had two Nisei MK II with tokens on them to spent. It’s great card, because it can mean that runner need two times the resources to get to the card he wants on any given server. With two of those tokens at my disposal?

Yeah baby, I was almost home.

So I installed and started to advance the NAPD Contract on this server. He jumped on it, spent the money on ICE, but didn’t have enough to stole Contract. So I scored it. And then I installed second one.

I had three pieces of ICE defending it, my Wall of Thorns had the token from Femme Fatale on it, but still it was a lot of money to spent on. He got through with most of his credits, I used the token from first Nisei. He gave up.

And that was my first “serious” win! Victory against someone who I didnt teach how to play Netrunner. Even if I knew, that my opponent was a little bit tired.

It felt sooo goooood.

“You are the first person I ever defeated here” - I declared to my opponent, maybe a little too loud from excitement. And everyone around us cheered for me.

After three evenings in the League, my win/lose ratio is 1:17.