Take on all Comers - Reykjavik, Iceland [TWDA]
squidalot
CCP
Grandagarður 8
Reykjavik N/A Iceland
101
540-9100
Fee: 1000 Isk
Icelantic national qualifier for EC 2009
qualifying players:
Hugh Angseesing 8180022
Helgi Friogeirsson 8170023
Oskar Freyr Hinriksson 8170015
Trausti Veigar Hilmarsson 8170010
Bjorn Elieser Jonsson (could be 5730000 otherwise new guy)
thansk to the Iceland guys for having me and demstrating lots of
different uses for red cards other than as action modifers.
Number of players: 13
Winning deck with 3 GW 12 VPS
Deck Name : Gents on the town, twirling their canes v3
Author : Hugh Angseesing
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 8 average: 5.75
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2x Owain Evans, The W 8 AUS DOM FOR cel pre !Ventrue:3
2x Blackhorse Tanner 7 AUS DOM FOR !Ventrue:3
2x Neighbor John 5 AUS dom for !Ventrue:4
1x Joseph O'Grady 7 DOM FOR aus cel !Ventrue:3
1x Jefferson Foster 6 AUS DOM for tha bishop !Ventrue:4
1x Jephta Hester 5 DOM FOR aus !Ventrue:4
1x Louis de Maisonneu 5 FOR aus dom obf !Ventrue:4
1x Lana Butcher 3 dom for Ventrue:3
1x Ulrike Rothbart 3 dom for !Ventrue:4
Library [80 cards]
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Action [11]
1x Abbot
10x Govern the Unaligned
Action Modifier [7]
1x Bonding
6x Conditioning
Combat [18]
5x Hidden Strength
5x Indomitability
2x Rolling with the Punches
1x Taste of Vitae
5x Weighted Walking Stick
Equipment [2]
1x Bowl of Convergence
1x Ivory Bow
Event [1]
1x Uncoiling, The
Master [14]
2x Anarch Troublemaker
2x Blood Doll
1x Channel 10
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x KRCG News Radio
1x Misdirection
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Montreal
2x Vessel
1x Wall Street Night, Financial Newspaper
Reaction [27]
9x Deflection
2x Delaying Tactics
2x Eagle's Sight
2x Enhanced Senses
2x Forced Awakening
2x My Enemy's Enemy
4x On the Qui Vive
1x Telepathic Misdirection
3x Wake with Evening's Freshness
librarian
> Organized Card Game - V:TES - National Qualifier
>
> CCP
actions through? Oh yeah, prevent and hit for 2 w/ WWS. I'd use
seductions, but maybe I'm wrong?
bes t-
chris
Johann von Doom
> Maybe Hugh can comment on this deck, but how the heck did he get his
> actions through?
Patience is a virtue. As Oscar correctly pointed out after seeing a
sort of similar thing I played at Origins, the Vignes Mode is strong.
Congrats on (finally?) winning with this, Hugh.
John Eno
Johannes Walch
Vignes Mode = act harmless and wait for your prey to tap out ignoring
the fact that you have 4 vampires with dominate. Works best if you are
Ruben Feldman, but seems to be ok for others too.
Anthony Coleman
@ Chris, This deck is an attrition deck, very different to Vignes yes
Johannes, hit for two, press, prevent, same again, block their hunts/
blood gain - its a very controlling deck, I like em.
Ant
Johann von Doom
wrote:
> @ Chris, This deck is an attrition deck, very different to Vignes yes
> Johannes, hit for two, press, prevent, same again, block their hunts/
> blood gain - its a very controlling deck, I like em.
I agree that it's a very different deck than Vignes, but my experience
playing a similar deck and seeing Hugh play this one is that it ousts
similarly to how Vignes does - wait until its prey is looking weak and
then bleed very hard. The blocking and attrition tends to be what goes
on while waiting for its prey to make itself vulnerable, moreso than
an ousting strategy in itself. Have you seen it do a good job of
getting VPs by binning vamps?
John Eno
Anthony Coleman
Yeah, I have, the version I made (a while ago granted) used multiples
of Joseph o'Grady and depravity and a few more red cards and it was
pretty good in a fight and did manage to drop 1-2 of my preys dudes
and then carry on bleeding through.
Its easy to underestimate the POWA of just hitting for 2 with presses
and not taking damage yourself, if you wear them down for a bit and
wait for one right master (pentex, misdirect or anarch trouble I find
you can pounce for your VP handily.
Ant
Johann von Doom
wrote:
> Yeah, I have, the version I made (a while ago granted) used multiples
> of Joseph o'Grady and depravity and a few more red cards and it was
> pretty good in a fight and did manage to drop 1-2 of my preys dudes
> and then carry on bleeding through.
Ah, right on. Did you rock some guns in that deck, too? I got a lot of
mileage out of the shotguns I had in mine.
> Its easy to underestimate the POWA of just hitting for 2 with presses
> and not taking damage yourself, if you wear them down for a bit and
> wait for one right master (pentex, misdirect or anarch trouble I find
> you can pounce for your VP handily.
Yeah, I think I'm used to seeing more combat than is present in most
tournament scenes, so I reflexively think that Hugh's combat package
is quite small. hur hur "small package"
John Eno
squidalot
Anyway both Ant & John are right - it's quite flexsible it can wait
till prey is st00pid or (especially in 3 man) can kill prey & predator
to win (as I did to Peter B @ Origins - well I got 2 :P).
librarian
This is where I'm coming from. I.e. JOL.
It might work out in LA, but not on JOL.
best -
chris