Getting mauled

After having written a stiff 1k on the second short story I went to our weekly pubgame to play some VTES.

I got mauled, badly.

There is a science to building the decks you play with, and there is another for picking your opposition for the day. I can safely say I failed horribly at the latter. Oh well, that's life. Maybe next week.

Trying out the new cards

I tried a few of the new cards during our weekly pub game. One construction worked exceedingly well. Not saying I made a particularly well designed deck, but the cards came as needed and in the end I fielded a juggernaut.

Other games saw my decks crushed, which is as it should be. Still, it looks promising for this little expansion.

Fun Pre-release

The Sword of Caine mini expansion promises to be a fun addition to the game I favour. It's yet another step in the direction of promoting the combat aspect of the game, something I'm only happy to see.

Tournament February

Went so so.

Brought my slightly polished !Ventrue bleed/vote -deck.

Made final round without too much problems but the final itself was a dead end.

It's definitely time to start developing a few new decks.

EC 2007

I've made a blog dedicated to the 2007 European Championship in V:TES.

Storyline

Well, the header refers to the card game I enjoy and not my writing.

We ran the Gothenburg V:TES storyline tournament earlier today. Interesting.
I personally performed abysmally, but I don't think that invalidates the deck I'm tuning. I believe it's more a matter of weight rather than if an idea is good.
In my case I'm probably too light on votes.

Stealthy !Tor are more fun to play than I had assumed.

Well, I'll tweak the deck a little more before I give it another try.

Post tournament

Eventually I chose a vote/bleeder.

Did so so. Final table, but the composition of my !Ven deck was not optimized. A few more wakes and deflects would have made a huge difference. Well, for a first build it wasn't too bad.

Best of all, it gave me back the hunger for new decks and new ideas. Be warned, soon Scotsman will see all kinds of peculiar decks -- most more interesting than actually good.

Tournament

Tomorrow's a tournament, and I haven't built a deck yet.

So what should I do?
A bleeder?
A voter?

Maybe something that can push opponents to torpor? But I've been in that neighborhood for quite some time, and it doesn't seem to be a winning strategy for me.

A Toreador blocker or a voter of the same clan? Been there, done that and quite literally got the T-shirt.

Most likely some kind of bruise bleed. Bleed defense has to be handled somehow. I'll see about that.

Scotsman and VTES, or rather the why not

The games this Monday were close to get canceled.
Gothenburg has had its fair share of rain the last weeks, more than its fair share to be true.
With major roads flooded and trains prevented from running mass transport in Gothenburg collapsed regionally.
Calling a taxi was impossible. In some cases it turned out impossible to reach the switchboard at all.
The largest local newspaper didn't have a functioning website any longer and all the time rain poured down.
Taking a bus from the place we visited to Scotsman should be doable in thirty minutes. Walking the distance takes an hour and a half. We spent over two hours failing to get onto buses that didn't arrive.

When I finally made it down into the pub enough time had passed that the pop-quiz they run Mondays was just about to start. We spent the time quizzing and gaming at the same time. Needless to say neither went very well. Lack of concentration was a main reason for horrid tactical decisions.
For me, well, it's time I ripped my old decks apart and tried my hands at something new, but it seems I'll have to wait until after Christmas when Santa arrives with another box with cards.

Scotsman ten years

And as if the celebration week for our local hangout wasn't enough the city's been invaded by Iron Maiden fans. Let's put it this way -- the first three hours no guessing was needed concerning the origins of what came out of the loudspeakers.
We still managed to get a couple of games out of the evening. Abysmal performance by me, but hey, old decks that needs trimming. Was fun to play again.

Scotsman VTES

Had a really wonderful evening of VTES yesterday. Got thoroughly routed twice and made a small comeback in the third game.
The new expansion really is a good one. Kudos to the creators.

Playing VTES

Tonight is Scotsman night. Our weekly VTES get together which promises a few really good beers, and that's an 's' there.
With a few rebuilt decks all that remains is to cram one together from scratch.

Tomorrow I'll have time dedicated for writing again. Already looking forward to it.

More VTES

Time to write a proposal for the EC. Budget, staffing and an attempt to fix the event chronologically as well as geographically. The former is of course more important than the latter -- Gothenburg isn't that large a city.
There's an opening for running it in tandem with the early August Gothenburg party. We'll have to see if that is a realistic option. Hotels may be a problem for arriving guests. If possible it would be fantastic. The city's lively as it is during summer, but it surely comes into full bloom during the main events, and the party is one of them.

VTES, no writing

Meeting today about the EC 2007. That would read European Championships 2007 in V:TES, a fun strategic card game I'm playing with some regularity.
August or September next year we'll run the tournament here in Gothenburg. Looking forward to it already.