At first glance I wasn't sure how to interpret this in terms of netrunning. I originally thought that Sun Tzu was talking about the size of one's army. Having a lot of bits in Netrunner helps, but it is clearly not the be-all and end-all of the game. What are bits if one doesn't have a single icebreaker or a single piece of ice to use them with?

I decided that although the connection might be a bit tenuous, Sun Tzu may well be talking about contingency plans, that is, plans for different situations that may arise.

As a crude and understated example, think about what happens when a runner has only one type of icebreaker in his deck. The corp only has to install one of the two odd types of ice that the breaker doesn't apply to. The rule works in reverse as well if the corp stacks only one type of ice. We know that this *never* happens so blatantly, but...

I have seen many players make the mistake of concentrating their forces too much on one front. The corp may stack lots of ice in front of subsidiary data forts, only to leave the central forts unprotected. This does have the potential to lose games. A corp that has many lines of defense will force the runner to work around any or all of them in order to accomplish anything, and the same goes for the runner when he has strategies for many different types of attacks. It naturally follows, then, that the person with few will fall victim to the person with more (many, as Sun Tzu said).

Ryan "The Gryphon" Kelly

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