Technical Difficulties…

I’ve been having some problems logging on to wordpress this week but I’ll be fooling around with more stuff over the weekend.

How did this deck win?

Deck Name:	Barons Vote and Bleed with Recklessness
Created by:	Johann
Description:	Reckless Agitation with presence barons and some bleed support

Crypt [13 vampires, average capacity: 4.08]
1x	Rain	AUS cel chi dem pot pre	7	Toreador antitribu:4
1x	Father Juan Carlos	PRE aus cel pot tha	6	Brujah antitribu:4
1x	Nickolai, The Survivor	aus dom pot pre tha vic	6	Tremere antitribu:4
2x	Axel Von Anders	PRE cel obf pot	5	Brujah antitribu:4
1x	Gabriel de Cambrai	aus cel dem obf pre	5	Toreador antitribu:4
1x	Gatjil Munyarryun	POT cel obt pre	5	Brujah antitribu:5
1x	Margaret Milliner	dom for nec pot pre	5	Giovanni:4
1x	Raphael Catarari	OBF PRE aus pot tha	5	Nosferatu antitribu:4
4x	Anarch Convert		1	Caitiff:0

Library [80 cards]
Master [13]
1x	Anarch Railroad
1x	Archon Investigation
1x	Club Illusion
1x	Coven, The
1x	Dreams of the Sphinx
1x	Information Highway
1x	Powerbase: Los Angeles
2x	Twilight Camp
4x	Vessel
Action [14]
2x	Fee Stake: Boston
1x	Fee Stake: Corte
1x	Fee Stake: Los Angeles
2x	Fee Stake: New York
1x	Fee Stake: Perth
1x	Fee Stake: Seattle
4x	Gear Up
2x	Undue Influence
Action Modifier [26]
4x	Bewitching Oration
2x	CrimethInc.
2x	Forgotten Labyrinth
2x	Loose Cannon
2x	Monkey Wrench
2x	Perfect Paragon
4x	Power of One
3x	Smoke and Mirrors
5x	Voter Captivation
Action Modifier / Combat [4]
4x	Force of Personality
Political Action [11]
2x	Diversity
2x	Exclusion Principle
1x	Firebrand
6x	Reckless Agitation
Combat [12]
4x	Groundfighting
4x	Majesty
4x	Unholy Penance
Crafted with: Anarch Revolt Deck Builder [Tue Jan 20 23:54:37 2009]

New Vtes Expansion Rumors

We might get new Laibon vampires after all! Some interesting news came from the newsgroups and from the white wolf live journal.

KOTEK art direction is currently in process. That can only mean one thing: Kindred of the Ebony Kingdoms! It’s always good to have additional laibon vampires and toys!

Decks used in Friday Night Fight

Since it’s been well over a week now– its kinda impossible to remember the details of each game. Especially hard since we all finished past 1am haha. I did try something new though: I finally made a Trophy deck!

I know its been years since Kindred Most Wanted showed up but this is honestly the first time I’ve tried making a Trophy deck mainly because I always thought the trophy mechanic is a bit clunky and definitely hard to pull off properly.

What do you need for a trophy deck to work? A lot.

1. A red list minion or a way to make someone red list
2. A way to rush AND burn the red list minion
3. A way to avoid or prevent blood hunts if you diablerize the red list minion

Thats a lot of requirements right there. Do the benefits match the pain you’ve been through? Honestly i don’t know but i think it breaks even. Barely.

Not counting any votes, there are currently 2 actions to make someone a red list. Red List and Public Enemy. Of the two i think red list is less situational but that all depends on your metagame of course.

In order to play Red List you need a titled vampire. Relatively easy for most decent combat decks. Another good effect is that the victim can’t block your action. I’d still try to add some extra stealth in since this is the main point of a trophy deck. No red list minions equals at least four wasted card slots in your deck.

With all of that in mind, I settled on the archons of vtes to try out the trophy mechanic. I needed a safe, fool-proof way to avoid blood hunts and the choices were either Theo Bell or Muaziz. I didn’t even bother to consider Samat Ra (setite) or Tariq (assamite red list) since they didn’t have the necessary combat disciplines i needed.

Comparing Potence and Thaumaturgy, potence can cancel dodges and combat ends, send a vampire to torpor with disarm, burn a vampire outright with decapitate. With respect to thaumaturgy’s anti-fortitude cards, it was no contest.

Using Theo Bell equals Euro Brujah. So hello to Donal, Constanza and Volker. Add in Anvil for an extra titled vamp for 6 and the crypt was set.

For my trophy selection, I added Trophy: Hunting Ground, Trophy: Revered, and 2x Trophy: Domain. That would give me a nice intercept effect similar to No Secrets from the Magaji and a Rack effect and +2 bleed for the oust.

I saw some decks on the newsgroups (I’m looking at you xzealot/norm) and most trophy decks had only about 4-5 trophies and about 4-5x red list actions.

I personally thought 5 redlist actions isn’t enough for a 90 card deck so i added an extra one or two.

On the first game it worked pretty well, not as well as i’d hoped but good enough. I managed to get 2 trophies on Theo Bell (hunting ground and domain) and even one on Anvil (revered).

I also added 5x Brujah Debates so that might have affected the deck (good on some games terrible on others).

I’ll post the deck list here later over the week.

I also cobbled together another deck that i’ve never tried before: Anarch Barons. I played tons of anarch decks but i’ve never really tried the political aspect of it. I’ll also post the decklist here in a few days. I thought it was a clunker of a deck since it had a lot of moving parts (6-8 disciplines ftw!) But the surprise of the night was: it swept a table haha. While the strongly favored Euro Trophy just managed 1-2 vps. Odd how things turn out.

That’s it for now. Deck lists to follow!

Friday Night Fight Photos

Mark and Razi during the first turns of the game.

Upcoming games!

I’ll be scheduling some casual Vtes games for the weekend so I’m currently busy tweaking and making new decks. I’ll post the results of the bloodbath next week.