Game from 18/06/10

What's happening, Metuselahs?

Time to update the blog one more time. This was about a game I played on 10th of June with my beloved Anarch Fatima M-16 Multirush deck. And the game went like this:

Anneke/Anson Tor Wall > Anarch Fatima (Kerath) > Aching Beauty Toreador > Ventrue Hardy&Friends

So, I didn't draw Fatima on my initial Crypt. Actually it was 3 Anarch Converts and 1 Parnassus. Influenced out Parnassus, made him Anarch with a Convert and started fetching more crypt cards.... Next card was Zahir, Hand of Silsila, then another Anarch Convert and finally Fatima! Conclusion: such a slow start. Luckily, my predator was a wall that didn't bother me much until I got Fatima out.

And what can I say? Still lacking Assault Rifle so things were moving with philosophy. Aching Beauty Toreadors ousted the Ventrues and then they were torporized due to my predator's guns and after I could visit him with Fatima.

A bag of pool was all that remained from my prey so we could say that it was just a 1 vs 1 between the not-so-chill wall of my predator and my Children of Haquim.

There were 3 vampires torporized in the Aching-B Toreador side, so 3 pool drain every turn due to my predator's Dragonbound. And my predator started to bleed. I got rid of Carlton and torporized part of his kindred but made a mistake. A big mistake, I must say.

Fatima sent Anneke to torpor and then decided to pay Constanza a visit. My anarch chick was confident with her power and had a Groundfighting in my hand to potentially cancel something nasty that would be prepared by my predator.

Before distance? Nothing. Distances? Long with the rifle, then Constanza short with Magnum's maneuver. with a maneuver that he got before with Ashur Tablet's Strikes? Fatima shoots, Constanza plays Fast Hands at superior. I try to play Groundfighting because I couldn't choose my strike due to the effect of a card. But it was a mistake I made, that didn't restrict me to make a hand-strike against Constanza. Bye, Assault Rifle. Game was about to be over and my prey still had pool.

I really should have used the groundfighting to go to long distance...

The math game had started. What could I do with these turns remaining, being so short on pool and paying for a Pentex Subversion being contested between a minion of my predator and Fatima. I needed some bloodbags to be punched while Dragonbound ousted my Aching Prey.

These Anarch Converts made the day. Their sacrifice after my torporized Fatima failed to eliminate all pesky Toreadors (& a single Brujah) could make me grab my pool until my prey was Dragonbousted, I got a VP and then ran over by my predator. The Toreador Wall had the GW.

Pretty interesting to play against a Toreador Wall of Anneke, which ironically was my first deck when Keepers of Tradition was released.

Enjoying that the game is back, Metuselahs!

Games from 18/09/02

What's happening, Metuselahs? 

As you know, V:TES is back and quite strong I must say. A total of two tables gathered on Saturday 9th June to bleed again some more. Sadly, I generally just got some pics from my games.

First game: 

DoC Baronessess (Kerath) > Santaleous Malk Votes > Le Dinh To + Giovanni Shambling Hordes > Biothaumaturgic Aggressive Tremeres > Jaroslav Pascek Wall of Bundis

Pascek was my predator so basically it was hard to make things pass. Still, the votes were hard for those that were not blocked due to the rest of the table having enough to push me back even Benefit Performances or Fanfares for Elysium. Too many mistakes were made, like thinking of Madrigal as a "sort of Bewitching Oration"... but had to be played before votes were cast.

First the Shambling Hordes  ousted the Tremere. Afterwards I got ousted by the Jaroslav deck... the Malkavian did his thing and bled the necromancers to death and in the end the Brujah got ousted also by the malkie.

What can I say about this game? Great for learning again how to play. Just one late Fee Stake for my girls and the before mentioned mistakes with others made a hard but entertaining game to come back.


Second game:

On the second table things got quite interesting. I pulled the Ventrue Lawfirm + Alastor and tried my luck.

Istharri Bamba > Brujah Princes POT+CEL > Ventrue Lawfirm (Kerath) > Toreador for+cel Aching Beauty

How was this game? Voting was struggling having all votes as prey/predator for me. A mistake I made that made me learn was the sweet difference of one single vote that the Agate Talisman from the Toreador can make. In addition, I could experience what suffering an Aching Beauty deck as predator could be, very fun twist.

In this game, Brujah Princes first ousted me after rushing all my vamps, then took care of the Toreador and finally 1 vs 1 where he torporized all of the Istharris.

PS: heheh... some things NEVER change.... (my only pic from the other game table)

Next entry will be the game on 18/06/10 where I could play again Fatima and her M16...

See you later, Metuselahs!