Quick report on rounds 2-3 of the vtes asian champs

Round 2 seating was Johann (me) going first bleeding Bann who was bleeding Le Fei (Daughters vote) bleeding Louie (Euro Brujah) bleeding G1 (Ravnos eldest are kholo weenie)

I started building up on votes by influencing Lambach for his votes since I kinda sensed this table was vote heavy. True enough, Le Fei called some devastating votes on Louie doing 5 and 4 damage to his pool pretty early in the mid game. G1 at this point started negotiating with me since he felt he had no chance of ousting me with his stealth and combat. So with very little pressure from the Ravnos, I started bleeding Bann every turn. I was pretty confident with my hand since I had a nice mix of untap, intercept and combat. Bann influenced weenies and basically bled for 1 each during his turn. Louie had influenced out Theo Bell and Volker and was pretty intimidating to the Ravnos and Daughters due to the possibility of Immortal Grapple. G1 was kinda screwed since he was between Theo Bell and Lambach. A combat rush predator and a combat wall prey was just too much for his deck so he needed to wall up and bloat with consanguinus boons, basically giving me zero pressure.

I took advantage of this by building up Lambach with raptors and influencing out some other Tzimisce and bleeding Bann every turn.

The critical move of the round was when G1 used a sensory deprivation on Theo Bell, crippling the Brujah’s offense/defense. Le Fei used this move to quickly oust Louie with more votes.

At this point everyone but me and G1 was low on pool (I was using Powerbase: Montreal) so I bled through Bann and Le Fei in one turn with Lambach using a conditioning. (I only had 1 in the deck! LOL)

G1 was playing a slow game, trying his best to get half a victory point for timing out. He told me at this point I had the game win since I got 2VPs and if it times out I get another half VP. I of course wanted to get more VPs as possible so I did my best to oust him.

He took his time on his turn, stalling a bit but he did have some complicated plays (stealth vs intercept, combat ends, bloat with boons etc) while during my turn I basically bled for 1 each and collected pool from the powerbase and edge and finished my turn in less than 2 mins. This wasn’t enough as time was called with G1 down to less than 10 pool on his turn. Ah well. I had the game win anyways.

Round 3 seating was Hidetoshi (khazar giovanni) going first bleeding BK’s Salubri anti combat bleeding Me bleeding Le Fei’s daughters vote bleeding Ayukata’s anarchs

This was my first time to play with the Japanese players so I didn’t know what to expect from their decks. I was pretty confident of blocking Le Fei’s daughters as the only heavy stealth card I saw was forgotten labyrinth in the last game (she used it to beat Louie’s 2nd Tradition).

I brought out Meshenka and I think Caliban or another small weenie so I was pretty much set for defense. This was a relatively fast game for me since Le Fei started out strong with Scout calling out votes dealing 5 and 4 pool damage to Ayukata. I actually didn’t have a good hand for this round since I had a lot of untap but not enough intercept. The critical point was when BK rushed me with his 9 cap !Sal and torpored Meshenka! (He cancelled out my combat card with deathseeker) This would have been ok as I would have rescued her during my turn but he used a weenie to diablerize Meshenka! This left me with a weenie and no votes so basically Le Fei had vote lock. She swept the table soon after this. Awesome vote deck!

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