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THIS MONTH'S ISSUE
There was a good response to last month's Dirty INWO Tricks, although some of the resulting debates may have raised afew blood pressures. In addition to sparking reams of debate, I've noticed a lot of people sharing the nasty surprises they like to spring on their victims. My faithful assistant, Richard Nixon, has been busy cataloging and classifying the dirty tricks (he loves his job!), some of which we stripped from messages on completely unrelated subjects (how *did* a Dirty INWO Trick get posted to soc.politics.martha.stewart?).
This month's issue includes a couple of tricks involving General Disorder, my mea culpa for giving Lynette Cowper, our beloved Purple Net-rep, a hard time about the card before I ultimately saw the light and caved (but I'll never give up on KillBjorne, Lynette!). The Coloring Within the Lines Award goes to Matthew Kudzin, who has found a *legal* way to approximate Aaron Curtis's "Miraculously, No One Was Injured" Trick, aka Dirty INWO Trick Zero. Finally, my personal contribution this month owes a nod to the Rev. Pee Kitty, who some time ago came up with the idea of powering a Scandal with a March on Washington. In looking at the cards I decided it probably wouldn't work (you need Media Attribute *and* an Alignment in common with the target for Scandal, and March on Washington only substitutes for *one* Alignment or Attribute). But he got me to thinking...
In other news, there is as yet no "official" Dirty INWO Trick Web Site, but I have asked someone if he was *really* serious about wanting to maintain a site. Expect an announcement as soon as I know myself.
So without further ado, here are this month's Dirty INWO Tricks!
************************************************************************Matthew has come up with a legal way to disarm a KillBjorne or Abduction Moon Party deck, and it doesn't involve proximate cause or a Supreme Court Nomination. Near Miss will turn any destruction (whether a disaster or otherwise) into mere devastation. Matthew noticed that you aren't restricted to playing the card only on your *own* Places, so when the hammer comes down on the Moonbase, "help" your opponent by playing Near Miss on it. Multiple Near Miss cards can also defuse a Fusion Seppuku deck. Safety first!
************************************************************************Mean ol' Mr. Cthullhu always pounding your Places with disasters? Do Combined Disasters always seem to land on *your* doorstep? Terry says if you can't beat 'em, help 'em out with General Disorder (+ 10 to disasters, but the attack can only devastate). If you add the Red Cross, you can tidy up the mess in one turn. "Not so good if the disaster is an attack intended to soften up the group though," Terry notes. Voice of experience, Terry?
************************************************************************You can't play an Upheaval!, and then argue that the Local Police Departments just refuses to flush so you can't discard the Group you chose. Well, you *can* argue that, but you'd be wrong. So what's the next best thing? Discard General Disorder. He comes back after one turn to any open control arrow. Unless you do this once too often, and someone's ready with an And Stay Dead!
************************************************************************Maybe Jeff is just a sore loser. He came up with this evil little trick combining Las Vegas with the Liquor Companies. Use Las Vegas to wager Plots in the usual way. If you lose, block your sucker from drawing her spoils from your Plot deck using the Liquor Companies. Feel free to raise the stakes if you can get extra tokens on the Liquor Companies (see the DotW "Beggar Your Neighbor" by Brian Strassman for hints on how to do this). Remember: gambling is fer suckers! Play INWO instead!
************************************************************************Aaron suggests using Sorry, Wrong Number, which eliminates the bonus for the proximity to the Illuminati card, to dismember an unprepared opponent. In a multi-player game, the victim of this Zap! could have an arm of his secret empire taken by each of his opponents in turn before getting the next Illuminati token. And if you add Resistance is Useless!, you can make *his* empire *your* empire very easily. Aaron says: "Ouch. The moral is: always end your turn with an Illuminati token or a Zap! canceler at the ready." Don't you love stories with morals?
************************************************************************If you love those Media plots, but don't have any room for Media Groups in your deck, power up a Media Connections using March on Washington. Hey! Instant press mogul! Look out Rupert Murdoch!
************************************************************************If you have a dirty INWO trick that you'd like to share, either send it to me via e-mail or post it under the subject "Dirty INWO Trick." Or maybe I'll just have my assistant Tricky Dick filch them from your other posts...
My criteria is simple: the trick should be legal, it should be feasible (no "master plans," please, that's deck building) and it *must* be illuminated; when someone who's never heard it before (probably me) hears it, they ought to go "wow!"
It should also be focused on clever use of the cards; no tricks that require a lot of social engineering. That's the major distinction between these ideas and the "Stupid INWO Tricks" in the INWO Book (although the distinction is fuzzy; Stupid INWO Trick number 6 could also qualify as a Dirty INWO Trick.)
I re-write the tricks rather than quoting the originators directly to allow for my comments and a certain amount of uniformity. If I quote anybody directly, you'll see those cute little quotation marks and then an attribution, just like in professional newspapers. Unlike them, I'll attempt to make the quoted material accurate.
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