Jimbozig posted:

How many players? The more players, the more viable/cheesy this becomes. At 3p or 4p, assuming the enemies start with a bit of extra Advance (+1 for 3p or +2 for 4p) or some similarly-effective trait, doing it for 3 rounds gives you about a 30% chance of losing in those 3 rounds. The 70% of the time that you pull it off, you end up with an edge, certainly. But overall it's not too strong compared to other strategies.

With 5 or more players, it gets stronger. Also if the opposition doesn't have any extra Advance or any way to make draws hurt, it is stronger than the numbers I suggest.

Overall, I agree that it is too broadly useful - the number of conflicts where it is strong is too large. Maybe Targeted Effort could be tweaked a bit. If you want to test things, try adding a -1D to Targeted Effort and see if that fixes things. It might be too weak at that point, though.

Ideally I think that going strong on defense with a targeted effort to take out a key enemy trait for a round is a perfectly good idea and makes sense in the fiction. The problem only arises when it gets spammed every round.