Paranoia (GG2016): A 3-player encounter

[Khyodee]

So Paranoia is a 3-player scenario with a very crazy mix of scoring (expect lots of laughs and randomness).

Game Size: 35ss
Banned Models: All Henchmen, Mechanical Rider, Mysterious Emissary, The Sow, Gremlin Taxidermist
Banned Upgrades: I'll Love It and Pet It (Lenny), Maniacal Laughter (Resser), Spare Parts (Resser), The Faces of Oblivion (Karina)
Optional Bans (recommended): Summoning Masters

Most of the bans here are summoning related other then the henchman. This is banned for a couple reasons; some of them can summon and it makes undercover entourage master only.

Deployment: See picture
Strategy: Collect The Bounty
Schemes: Take Prisoner, Neutralize The Commander, Undercover Entourage, Frame For Murder, Public Demonstration, A Quick Murder

Additional the following notes are made for the schemes:
Take Prisoner - Only Master can be chosen for this scheme
Undercover Entourage - You must go into an opponents deployment zone that is on the opposite side of the table.
Frame For Murder - Replace henchman with enforcer on the card, so you can score full points dying to a Teddy.

So you start the game by determining deployment. Since it's three players, the highest flip chooses when they wish to deploy (1st, 2nd, 3rd) or the side. The middle flip then makes his choice and the lowest flip picks twice (so they may be forced into one corner, but they also get to then pick to deploy 3rd as well). The middle flip then chooses whatever he didn't pick the first time (say he chose to deploy 2nd first, then he picks his deployment zone now) and the first player takes whatever is left.

Then players declare factions and build their 35ss crews (make sure you build a crew that can do any of the schemes). Once all crews are revealed, players determine their schemes randomly (best way to do this is each player uses his own scheme cards and draws 2 randomly). Each player must choose different opponents when noting models for schemes (aka if you get take prisoner and public demonstration, you can't pick models from the same opponent for both).

Now let the insanity begin!

 

[Khyodee]

Couple quick updates after playing a game of this. Collect The Bounty as it turns out is great for this format as "Kill Stealing" is quite entertaining.

 

[Gnomezilla]

Hey what the heck, no editing this as I'm trying to set it up!

(We kind of forgot it had a set scheme pool, the first time we tried it out. Was fun regardless. Thank you for dreaming it up & sharing it!)

[admiralvorkraft]

With Undercover Entourage, do you mean "across the center line"? Might it make more sense to designate that Entourage is scored on the clockwise deployment zone?