Our first Vtes night in 2010. Probably due to the new year, today's turn out is a little low, boasting only 10 Methuselahs, and most of the newer players didn't turn up, probably due to school or work. Nevertheless, we started the night with good spirits.
I managed to get 2 games this night.
Game 1's randomized seating as follows:
My Misery Tour deck, bleeding
G1's !Salubri deck, bleeding
Donkey's Una deck, bleeding
Jeff's Malkavian Celerity deck (Welcome back!)
I brought out Pariah as my first Vampire and enhanced him with a Presence and a Vessel immediately, I then supported him with Zachary. G1 had Nkechi, Langa, and eventually Dela Eden and Aredhel. Una was Donkey's first and key Vampire, but he also engaged the service of Maria Stone and Skryta Zyleta. Jeff brought out Nik, and then Zoe and Did Meyers.
G1 proceeded to call out his Brothers-in-arms, soon he had about 2-3 running around. A Path of Retribution was played and G1's deck started to pound on Donkey with zest. Donkey's attempt to prepare Una was met with stiff resistance from Jeff's London Eveningstar enhanced Vampires. Zoe concealed weaponed a Submachine Gun and employed Jackie Therman as her driver, and became the most feared Malkavian on the table. Una's many attempts were thwarted by Zoe, and the several bleeds didn't manage to go through the Malkavians' Spirit Touches. Zoe Bum's Rush my Zachary and sent him to torpor with a Blurred Submachine gun shot, and right starting from there I went to defensive mode.
I bled G1 for 1 or 2 a round with Pariah until I see an opening against my predator. Jeff wasn't updated with the new Fame rules so his deck's main "Fame" ousting wasn't able to be executed now. Since Didi Myers didn't have a gun, Pariah took a risk and entered combat with her and sent her to torpor with a Claws of the Dead. One of G1's Brother-in-Arms then diablerized her and took the Submachine Gun, after making a deal with Una not to burn him during the Blood Hunt.
By this time G1 was in a good position as he was barely threatened by me, and his combat was deadly enough to deter Donkey from really dealing very well against him. My Social Charms kept my pool healthy enough to influence Harry Reese to augment my entourage and he rescued Zachary to beef up my defense.
At one point Una was torpored by G1's Eye of Unforgiving Heaven, and Harry went ahead to rescue him. All of us (except G1) were facing extinction, so I decided that I should help G1 sweep instead. (probably my worst mistake) I allowed G1 to bounce my Social Charm to Donkey and actually stealthed through and Aired for 4 bleeds. I then make a casual comment that whoever got the first VP will have Pariah's loyalty.
Donkey Vesseled and Minion Tapped his Vampires to survive, and actually manage to kill Jeff and got the first VP. Pariah instantly became Una's dog.
My combat against G1 was ineffective, but my bleeds were. At one point G1 was reduced to 2 pool while I still have Harry Reese untapped. Unfortunately that's all I could do and G1 survived by playing 3 Ashur Tablets to regain his Telepathic Misdirection and 3 pool.
I allowed Donkey to oust me, but Donkey had too thin a deck left to deal with G1, so Donkey conceded and we prepare for the next game.
Final VP Count -
G1 - 2 VP
Donkey - 2VP
Game 2's randomized seating-
YY's Assamite Assassins, bleeding
Keith's Mental Patients, bleeding
QX's YY Kiasyd bleed deck, bleeding
My Army of Shadows deck, bleeding
G1's Assamite Black Hands.
YY influenced (I think was) Joe Boot Hill followed by Yazid Tamari, and equipped them both with a Sports Bike. Keith had a number of Vampires, but the only ones I could remember was Dolphin Black. Only one of Keith's Vampires had Superior Necromancy though, so his Compel tech took a while to execute. QX had Pherydima and Roderick Phillips March, and trained Roderick into a Capitalist. I went to Zillah's Valley and influenced Moncada, and supported him with Romiro and eventually Guido. G1 had Izhim and Djuhah as usual, and soon tacked them with Tatoo Signal.
While YY and Keith went on a few sparring, nothing very significant happened over there. Keith ended up with at least 5 Vampires, and was doing the Sudario Refraction to cycle his cards. One single Mental Patient Escaped the Asylum but did nothing while waiting for a superior Necro Giovanni to come to work. So Keith just bleed with Kindred Spirits and that was quite damaging to QX since he didn't draw into Deflections.
Meanwhile QX seemed to have a very bad hand as he hardly bleed me with anything good. A couple of Governed the Unaligned, a single Threat, and some Bonding was all he could do. I kept my Vampires untapped to Deflect it to G1, causing a lot of damage to him. I made a mistake during a round where Romiro ran of blood to Deflect and was bled about 6 that single turn - the previous turn I saw that QX had no bleed enhancers, which is why I took the risk, but well~
I perform a single Creation Rites with Ambrosio, and throw down Power Structure and Powerbase Madrid, securing my vote superiority. A Black Forest Base then allowed me to bloat a little while slowly but inevitable bleeding and KRC-ing G1 to death. G1's Weeping Stone didn't really help him and eventually he succumbed to my Deflections and bleeds.
Meanwhile, QX was not doing that well against Keith's multiple attacks, and eventually was ousted by the many Kindred Spirits. Moncada was Contracted by the Assamites, but was lucky enough to equip a Zaire River Ferry. His in-built 1-pool cost to direct an action was also effective in deterring YY from immediately getting rid of him. I made a deal with YY on not attacking my vampires, in return of not causing any pool damage.
But I deviously Banish his Yazid instead. In retrospect I should've wait a little and let YY deal more damage to Keith, since I had very little defense against a now running Compelled Patience combat package.
I did manage to oust YY though, but after that I simply couldn't keep my Vampires from going into torpor one by one. Though Ambrosio was pretty safe on his Ferry, he couldn't block anything...neither can my Mylan Horseed...thus ended the Lasombra's attempt to dominate this table.
Final VP Count-
Me - 2 VP
Keith - 3 VP plus GW
(o.o)
1 comment:
First vamp was Skryta Zyleta. Joe was a 'No Show'. It's a Black Hand deck, not Assamites. :)
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