New Imbued Cards!

Hello fellow VAMPIRE: the Eternal Struggle players. Yes, I know this game is called Vampire for a reason. But, after my last tournament, I am still in love with these Imbueds. When ever I appear with them, people start scratching their head and wonder "wtf is he up to now?". Well, anything is possible, except vote I guess. Now the card on the right side --------->

was banned a couple of years ago. And frankly, I did not shed a single tear when it happen. Now the imbueds are much more complex to play and face. Now you really have to focus on a virtue or two! Much more fun. I've never won a tournament with them. But I think that might be because I always fall in the lots-of-gehenna-cards trap.

It's now been 4 years since Nights of Reckoning was released. 60 (now 59) cards that changed vtes forever. I feel it's time to release some more cards with Imbueds! I'm not sure how the set sold, but if they didn't sell enough. A singel starter would be great also. With reprints of some of the most valuable from NoR, like Champion. And new cards. And here I have some suggestions.

What I have noticed while playing them is that they often lack press.

More True Faith's would be cool.

More anti-hunt cards would be cool. Now the unfortunate vampire picked a imbued to slake his thirst. Bad move!

Now, Wormwood whould be good.

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Norwegian ECQ Epilog

Well, then the Norwegian ECQ is over. It was great fun! Good to see all the players that we don't see every tournament. This was also the tournament where I really lost my temper. Now this has never happened before, and I'm sorry. But it was well justified. I'll keep the rest for the Norwegian players. After 3 rounds and a final. The results were:

GW VP F TP

1 patrick 2 7 3 114
2 martin 1 3 2 102
2 chris 1 8,5 0 162
2 hugo 1 6 0 174
2 eric 1 4 0 60

6 stian 0 3 0 158
7 trond 0 3 0 138
8 alex 0 2,5 0 120
9 steinar 0 2 0 120
9 asbjørn 0 2 0 120
11 hugh 0 1 0 102
12 tom åge 0 1 0 90
13 lloyd 0 1 0 84
14 erlend 0 0,5 0 122
15 vidar 0 0,5 0 84
16 bjørn 0 0,5 0 78
17 vegard 0 0,5 0 66 #ME!#
18 antonio 0 0 0 70
19 bernard 0 0 0 64
20 stefan 0 0 0 60
DQ gary 1 4 0 120

And the winner was Patrick Robinsson! With his Brujah vote deck.

But you can read about this here http://www.vtesbergen.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=6043#6043

But now to the most selfish part of this blog. My deck!!!

Deck Name : Unstoppable Gehenna with laptops

Author : Baaliprimogen

Description :

"ARE YOU CRAZY" Earl shouted to Travis. "No, this is what we are going to do. Anna has reached a young vampire called Afifa. Anna belives that Afifa may be the key to end all vampires, for good. And Oslo, Norway is the place to go, before we leave for Paris, France." Earl was shacking his head. He was not convinced any more. This happend always, when several of this Imbued had a meeting. Every one has a great agenda. "Don't you understand! I Oslo there will be atleast 50 vampires! How do you suppose we will survive? Or how shall we protect Afifa!?" Earl hit the table. Travis answered: "Well, Maman will protect Afifa from other monsters. And our secrets will start the devastating Gehenna, which will lead to the destruction of all vampire. Should we fail, well then we will become Martyrs!"

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 1 max: 6 average: 3.75

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4x Afifa, The Herald 1 dom Caitiff:4

3x Travis "Traveler72 5 mar def Imbued:4

2x Anna "Dictatrix11" 6 mar red vis Imbued:4

1x Earl "Shaka74" Dea 6 jud mar vis Imbued:4

1x Maman Boumba 4 inn mar Imbued:4

1x Pedro Cortez 4 mar ven Imbued:4

Library [68 cards]

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Combat [3]

3x Inflict

Conviction [18]

4x React with Conviction

7x Second Sight

7x Strike with Conviction

Equipment [5]

1x Crusader Sword, The

1x Ivory Bow

3x Laptop Computer

Event [21]

1x Blood Cult Awareness Network

1x Blood Trade

1x Blood Weakens

1x Conquest of Humanity

1x Dragonbound

1x Fall of the Camarilla

1x Fall of the Sabbat

1x New Inquisition, The

1x Nightmares upon Nightmares

1x Restricted Vitae

1x Rising, The

1x Scourge of the Enochians

1x Slow Withering, The

1x Thirst

1x Torpid Blood

1x Unmasking, The

1x Veil of Darkness

4x Wormwood

Master [16]

4x Angel of Berlin

1x Barrens, The

1x Church of Vindicated Faith, The

1x Dreams of the Sphinx

1x Fame

1x Fortschritt Library

1x Not to Be

5x Storage Annex

1x Tension in the Ranks

Power [5]

3x Donate

2x Project

Now as you can see, this deck did not work. 0,5 vp is not good. It did however have promise. Maybe Martyrdom was not the correct thing to focus on. The use of wormwood got every vampires down to at least 5 caps. And Fall of the Camarilla destroyed the Inner Circle decks that was present. One table there were 3 IC decks. Storage Annex was also very good in this deck. Project, again, was great. But the deck lacked ousting power. In a casual game, while the finalists where playing, I made an oust. So I guess I just have to play a little more aggressively. Another reason I only got 0,5 vps, was table hate. Now I knew I would get that, so the problem was defense against it. Well, anyway, I ain't planning to go to Paris, so I figuered that I'll play something different.