The first Vtes night after the release of HttB, but most of the Methuselahs are still in the process of looking over the cards and constructing new decks, so we have yet to see a major influx of Bloodlines. Of course, we still see Kiasyds from G1, !Salubri from Yipeng, Samedi from Ben and so on, but I think the real effects will only be visible in a couple of weeks' time.
Meanwhile, I got a constructed game, and a 1-pack storyline draft game yesterday. I've decided to change the way I chronicle games a little bit, since I always get things here and there wrong because it is simply impossible to remember too many things while keeping an eye on my own game progress. So from now on, I'll only look at the game from my perspective and mine alone, ignoring any other situations that I missed out, either because it is not important to me, or simply because I didn't care.
The night started with a constructed game on a table of 5.
The seating order is as follows:
YiPeng's !Salubri HttB starter, bleeding
My Cryptic Mission, bleeding
BK's Malkavian Vote, bleeding
Alvin's !Malkavian Stealth Bleed, bleeding
Darren's Assamites.
I had quite an obvious advantage in the sense that my predator's deck is a brand new starter deck and therefore is not optimized to exploit the new-found might of the !Salubri. Also, my Cryptic Mission is perfect against BK's Malkavians as he has very few ways of getting blood back to his vampires, unlike other PRE-capable voters who will replenish their blood with Voter Caps.
Moreover, I was lucky with the draw this game, I had an Information Highway in the first round and influenced Thelonius onto the table, the following round saw a Vessel on him, and he recruited Thadius Zho. I then have Magdelena Schaefer, Dr. John Casey and Brooke, all on the table by turn 3, spent transfers to bring new crypt to uncontrolled region, and ended with another Vampire Heinrick Schlempt. These are all the minions that I work with in this game.
My prey brought out Tryphosa as his first vampire, and then proceeded to Minion Tap her till she only had 3 blood left. My predator has Nkechi and Rashiel, both with Vessels, supported by !Ventrue Mariel St John and another one whom I can't remember. Nkechi got a Baseball bat as a toy.
Over the other side Alvin is bleeding Darren heavily with Kindred Spirits plus Eye of Chaos, making Fatima contract backwards and took out both Alvin's !Malkavians. An attempted attack from Rashiel was blocked by Heinrick, and I promptly sent both of them to torpor with Burst of Sunlight (Heinrick was actually burnt due to Rashiel's attacks, but Rashiel ended up in torpor with no blood either, I considered it a reasonable exchange.)
I sent a couple of Cryptic Mission to YiPeng to slow down his !Salubri since they are my most immediate worries. At this point BK called a Conservative Agitation and wanted to send 4 points of damage to me instead of his prey. I bargained with him to avoid this predicament, and in exchange I promised not to Cryptic his 3-blood Tryphosa for a turn.
The game came to a point when Alvin had only 2 pool left and only Uncle George standing, BK had 4 pool left and Tryphosa with no blood (thanks to my Cryptic Mission), but he still had Umada to help him kill Alvin. Darren was down to 2 pool as well from the incessant bleeding from Alvin. YiPeng had too many pool. I have about 10 at that point.
BK tried to convince Darren to eliminate at least one, preferably 2 of my minions so that I couldn't kill him for sure (since both of his Vampires were tapped), but Darren instead chose to contract backwards and sent Uncle George to torpor instead. YiPeng tried a final attack against Thadius, but instead, couldn't handle Thadius's maneuver and I sent Nkechi into torpor instead.
Aided by a timely Conditioning, I bled BK to death, and then killed Alvin, followed by ousting Darren, all in a single turn. YiPeng called it a day and let me win.
Final VP count
Me - 4 VPs plus GW
Game 2 was a 1-pack draft, we start with 12 pool, unlimited transfers, unlimited recursions, and up to 3 uncontrolled region slots.
My drafting position was as follows:
Me - G1 - Dzaki - Damien
I sacrificed my winning chances by letting go of a Wider View in preference of financial reasons - a Summon History (which of course, is practically un-useable in a draft environment.), but hey, it's a Summon History, what can I do but succumb to greed?
But I was lucky enough to get another Wider View after that, and I decided to take a Horde strategy by taking a lot of small vampires of 4-caps and below. So I drafted 2 Blood Brothers (Volo and Drypto I think), a 5-cap Salubri (Oblauye) and a The Horde (just in case). My hand was filled with useless cards, except Wider View and Three's a crowd. Everything else was wallpaper for the deck. But I kept my deck at 7 cards so I'll always have Wider View every round to bloat. I thought it was enough.
The seating for the game was as follows:
G1 bleeding Dzaki bleeding Me bleeding Darren
All went well for a while, with me bringing out both Blood Brothers by round 1 and started the Wider View bloating. Dzaki only has one single vampire and couldn't deplete my pool at all, but his consistent bleeding prevented me from bringing out my 3rd vampire, which would prove to be my downfall.
G1 had a 10-cap vampire with the ability to bleed with Gremlins and burn 1 blood to get +1 Stealth. That handled Dzaki pretty quickly. My bleeding was stuck as Darren had 2 vampires, one would bleed for the edge, and the other one would Off-Kilter and gain 2 pool, which I cannot deplete with 2 vampires with no bleed enhancement.
I ended up as the only one losing pool since G1 also had a Wider View and could maintain his pool from the loss incurred by Darren, and so can Darren from my attacks, but I will lose 1 pool every round since I could neither defend against G1, nor gain more enough to maintain my health.
I conceded since it would only be a very long prolonged repeated game. G1 claimed the table.
Final VP count
G1 - 4 VPs plus GW
(o.o)
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