Challenge RC9 (L'Aquila) help

[thedude808]

Renaissance Challenge 9 seems to give a lot of people some trouble so I decided to put together this list. In this challenge your agents have 0 power and your sites have 0 influence.

This is a list of cards that can help you score in these conditions

This list is not intended to be an exhaustive strategy for the challenge. It is intended to be a reference for players, especially new players, to know which specific cards can help them score. There are many cards that can help you win the challenge and may be necessary for a particular sequence. However, I am focusing only on the cards that can help you score in a region. I tried to be as thorough as possible, but if I missed something, please let me know so I can fix it.

There are three "instant win" cards that a strategy can be built around that does not involve controlling two regions. I will list those first, and then list cards by Expertise (color).

Instant Win
Juno
Femme Fatale
Novella Catacombs

Golden (Gold)
Jacopo de'Pazzi
Merchant's Guild
False Hopes
-If both you and your opponent have a score of 10 in a region, no one controls that region.

Crime (Black)
Lanz
-His power must be boosted before he can score triggering his ability, with a Magnetic Influence or Militia Training or something.
Change of Plans
Secret Catacombs
Thieves Guild
La Volpe

Faith (Red)
Seeking Sanctuary
Papal Influence
Basilica di Santa Maria Novella
Basilica di San Marco
Borgia Cardinal
Judgement Day
Pontifical High Mass
Crypt della Visitazione

Media (Purple)
Silvestro Sabbatini
Calling All Stand-ins
-The power/health of the virtual agent is rounded down to the nearest whole number
Micheletto Corella
-His power must be boosted for him to score triggering his ability.
Art Gallery
Caha
Motivational Speech
Man of the People
Clothes Make the Man
-Can help score by copying any action on this list that is not a surprise.
Caterina Sforza
-Can help score by copying an agent that has power greater than 0.
Copycat
-Any agent you copy with Copycat will have its power reduced to 0. This makes Copycat similar to Clothes Make the Man but more expensive with one exception. Copycat can copy an agent with an ability that boosts an agent's power, boosts a site's influence, or directly scores (i.e. Papal Influence).
Cristina Vespucci
-She cannot target herself. Her ability can only target an agent in play that has already finished launching.
-She cannot be played if there are no agents already in play because her ability has no target.
Magnetic Personality
Lorenzo de'Medici
-I have not tested him, but his ability should make him 5/10 if you launch him when you have 20 income or more.
Pietro Rossi

Order (Blue)
Militia Training
Egidio Troche
Carlo Grimaldi
-His power must be boosted for him to score triggering his ability.
Borgia Tower
Castel Sant'Angelo
Teodor Viscardi
Beautiful Heiress
Knight Templar
-He cannot target himself. His ability can only target an agent in play that has already finished launching.
-He cannot be played if there are no agents already in play because his ability has no target.
Charles de la Motte
Just Cause
Templar Sanctum
Giovanni Mocenigo
Royal Intervention

Scholar (Green)
Master Engineer
Scientific Espionage
-Can help by stealing an action on this list that is not a surprise.
Leonardo's Workshop

There were several other cards that I thought would help score, but after testing them, I found that they did not.

Cards that do not help like I thought they would.
Forgotten Temple
-After you exchange sequences with your opponent, the "challenge" applies to these new cards as well. When you draw an agent, it has 0 power. When you draw a site, it has 0 influence.
For the Cause
-If you target one of your own agents, it becomes a 0/1 Militant with no ability instead of a 1/1.
A Call to Action
-It puts a 0/1 virtual Militant in your HQ instead of a 1/1 virtual Militant.
Cahin
-It puts a 0/1 virtual Militant in you HQ instead of a 1/1 virtual Militant.
Carnevale
-It puts 0/2 virtual Militants in each free slot of your HQ instead of 2/2 virtual Militants.
Auxiliary Ego
-The agent you copy will have 0 power when it appears in your hand.
Pick Your Poison
-If you choose an agent or a site from your opponent's sequence, the agent will have 0 power or the site will have 0 influence when the memory appears in your hand.

[Tuism]

Good stuff man! Very comprehensive! Can I move this one to the FAQ section? I think a lot of people ask for this and we can point them at FAQ.

[thedude808]

Yeah. I wasn't sure where to put it, and I figured it could always be moved later so I just put it here.

[TemplarTyler]

I noticed you put Cahin in the 'not as well as you thought' sub heading... I would say he does have a slight use... If you are able to use him, once or twice... you are giving yourself 2 or 4 millitants... if then you bring in the Silvestro... you have 4 that are now powered instead of one.

That is a tactic I used. Along with the Order cards you suggest.

[thedude808]

Apr 3, 2012 10:17:38 GMT -5 TemplarTyler said:

I noticed you put Cahin in the 'not as well as you thought' sub heading... I would say he does have a slight use... If you are able to use him, once or twice... you are giving yourself 2 or 4 millitants... if then you bring in the Silvestro... you have 4 that are now powered instead of one.

That is a tactic I used. Along with the Order cards you suggest.

Yes, that is a good tactic. That is more of a strategic play. Almost any card can be helpful in an overall strategy for this challenge. I tried to limit my list to cards that help you score in and of themselves.