Obf/Dom S&B - The Longest Night (January 19th and 20th, 2002)
Winning Deck
by Anthony Barker
Vampires [12. Min: 10, Max: 22, Avg: 4.08 -Ed]
Agrippina (4) OBF
Badr al-Budur (5) OBF, dom
Christine Boscacci (2) dom
Count Ormonde (5) OBF, dom
Didi Meyers (5) DOM, obf
Gilbert Duane (7) DOM, OBF. Prince
Gloria Giovanni (4) DOM
Ingrid Rossler (4) DOM
Mustafa Rahman (2) dom
Ohanna (2) dom
Roland Bishop (4) obf, dom
Zebulon (5) OBF, dom
Library (90 cards)
Masters (21)
4 Anarch Revolt (Too many, I always had to discard some because I didn’t have enough pool)
1 Asylum Hunting Ground
1 Blood Doll
1 Direct Intervention (To get rid of Bum’s Rush and other annoying stuff)
1 Dominate
4 Dreams of the Sphinx (Deck probably only needs 3, but I just love the card)
1 Elysium: The Arboretum
1 Information Highway
1 Jake Washington (Hunter) (This guy was unreal. The extra blood was very handy)
1 Parthenon, The
1 Rumor Mill, Tabloid Newspaper, The (Not as useful as I thought)
4 Sudden Reversal (To get rid of Havens, Minion Taps and other stuff)
Actions
4 Govern the Unaligned
1 Kine Dominance
1 Far Mastery
3 Scouting Mission
Action Modifiers
5 Bonding
2 Change of Target
9 Cloak the Gathering
1 Command of the Beast
5 Conditioning
2 Elder Impersonation (Great card for getting out of intercept trouble)
3 Faceless Night (Play with Elder Impersonation for best effect!)
2 Foreshadowing Destruction
2 Lost in Crowds
1 Mask of a Thousand Faces
3 Seduction (Not very useful)
4 Swallowed by the Night
Reactions
5 Deflection
1 Malkavian Rider Clause
4 Wake with Evening's Freshness
Equipment
2 Changeling Skin Mask
1 Sargon Fragment, The
Combat
1 Dodge
2 Fake Out (Replace with more Dodges?)
Political Actions
1 Domain Challenge
2 Dramatic Upheaval
1 Rumors of Gehenna
Ally
1 Muddled Vampire Hunter
End of Deck List
Final Round Report
The order going into the Final Round was as follows:
1: Ben O'Neill - Tremere/!Tremere (2 Game Wins, 12.5 VPs)
2: Anthony Barker - Obf/Dom S&B (2 Game Wins, 11.5 VPs)
3: Jason Tampake. - Weenie Dom (1 Game Win, 7.5 VPs?)
4: Dominic Cantazariti - Brujah/!Brujah (1 Game Win, 7VPs?)
5: James Floate - Nosferatu Royalty (1 Game Win, 6.5 VPs, scraped in by 4 tournament points!)
[see the Tournament Results page for a full accurate breakdown of GW, VP and TP for all tournament entrants. -Ed]
After seating positions were chosen, the table was positioned as follows (going clockwise): Ben O., Dom C., James F., Anthony B., and Jason T.
The game started off fairly slowly with Ben finding a nearly endless supply of Forced Awakenings to hold off Jason’s weenie horde. Dom placed a Fame on James’ first vampire Murat. When Dom decided to bleed with Anvil, James decided to try his luck and block with Murat. The resulting combat saw both vampires land in torpor with zero blood. During my turn, I tried to bleed to Jason but ended up being deflected to Ben.
A couple of turns later game appeared to take a turn for the worse for James when Dom tried to place a Haven Uncovered on Murat. Not wanting to see my predator get flattened, I Sudden Reversaled the Haven and saved James from an early demise.
The game continued to move fairly slowly as I bled Jason for small amounts (while unable to draw bleed modifiers), and Ben’s Tremere /!Tremere bled Dom. Finally both Jason and Dom were reduced to 1 pool. Unwilling to take on Ben’s intercept directly, I decided not to bleed Jason for 2 turns to let him have a crack at Ben’s 12 pool. During this time, Jason was unsuccessful in his attempts to oust Ben and all of his minions were reduced to 0 blood by Ben’s blood-sucking vampires. Ben ousted Dom, and I ousted Jason.
Ben then ran into James’ Nosferatu 2nd traditions and was unable to make much headway. I was then able to oust to Ben. However, the 2nd traditions from James caught me out on a number of occasions and several of my vampires made their way into torpor. Eventually after a tough struggle I ran out of deck and was unable to bleed James for the 1 pool that I needed to oust him. James then ousted me by bleeding with Duck, which was actually probably a better way to go than being ousted by the 3 Anarch Revolts which I had previously put into play.
The final standings were as follows:
1st: Anthony Barker - 2 VPs.
2nd: James Floate. - 2 VPs.
3rd: Ben O’Neill - 1 VP.
4th: Jason T. - 0 VPs.
5th: Dom Cantazariti - 0 VPs.
Many thanks to Chris Kellahan (Prince of Canberra) and Dom Cantazariti (Prince of Queanbeyan) for organising/coordinating the tournament.
Anthony Barker.
VEKN Prince of Brisbane.