[INWO-list] Dirty Trick: The Blue Pill or the Red Pill?

[Glen Barnett]

> Here is a neat way to make a nasty attack at +20 with a single plot card:
> Drug Companies allows you to make an attack that removes an alignment (at 
> +10) "following the rules for attacks to control". Now throw in a Schizm, 
> which can be used with any attack against a group controlled by a rival.
> Suddenly your alignment nudge becomes a lethal blow to your rivals power 
> structure.

I'm not 100% certain this works. 

Schizm is played with "any attack (to control or destroy)".

Drug Companies special ability is to "attack to ... remove one alignment",
and that attack is rolled "as for an Attack to Control".

To me theres a suggestion there that DrugCo's ability isn't an attack to 
control, and possibly Schizm doesn't work with it.

I'm not convinced it shouldn't work, either. This may well be 
an over-interpretation of the text (always a danger in INWO). 

There's actually two levels of assumption required to make it not work.
Firstly, you have to take the wording on Schizm to imply "only"
before "to" in the parentheses. Secondly, you have to call DrugCo's
ability "a special kind of attack, that looks /exactly/ like an attack 
to control but isn't", rather than "an attack to control with a special
effect if it succeeds".

Personally, I'd be inclined to say that anything that works before
an attack to control is over (when things work not like an attack
to control) should work with DrugCo's ability, whenever it doesn't 
become nonsensical to do so, but some people may feel otherwise.

Glen