FOS News 4.3 Introduction Vampire Talk: Sargon Card Talk: Zip Gun Blood Reducing Tech Talk Discussion of a deck that I lost Outro Introduction ************ Hi. So its been since August that a FoS newsletter has been written, but better nate than lever. I've been slacking on FoS tech lately, and as such, have only a very little to say. And I've also recently lost an entire FoS deck, which included 6 temptations and 5 form of corruptions and 12 free states rants all my copies of nehsi, amisa and hesha... oh and two copies of ellison humboldt. So if anyone has some donations they'd like to provide, I'd be very happy. Vampire Talk ************ Sargon 5 cap Baali obf pre dai cel Whenever Sargon successfully performs an action, you get the Edge. +1 strength. Infernal. Sargon and enticement. Sargon and Form of Corruption calling the vote regaining the upper hand (calling your prey). Then someone else calling FSR cause you've got the edge. He's infernal, so watch your pool. Combine with hesha and blood doll. Hesha (your bitch) will be doing some hunting and some enticementing. Note his sweet sweet +1 strength. Don't forget about that, ok? If you're playin' any wakes at all (or special report or whatever) and you're pretty sure you're not getting torped, remind them that you've got a 2 puncher and block with sargon. Then tempt that vampire next turn. Always look for cross table actions, like stealing racks, burning mob connections, whatever. He's the cross table king. Keep in mind that your opium den can not fuel the sargon with stealth. Look instead for CreepShow Casino (good for getting votes passed) and, naturally, your normal stealth. Kick ass with a few Codemnations even perhaps (depending on your type of sargon snakey deck). Languid if you're fearin' getting macked for the -1 strength, doomed if there's mad non stealth voting preys around to make them have -1 stealth and pool loss when blocked, and betrayed if stealth bleed is popular. Then tempt the minion with the condemnation betrayed (that seems my solution to everything...). Card Talk: Zip Gun ****************** Despair for I have a Zip Gun Combat Before range is determined, put this card on this minion. This card represents an equipment card and doesn't count as a combat card while in play. This equipment is a Weapon: Gun. Ammo cards cannot be used with this gun. It does 1R damage each strike, with an optional maneuver each combat. Bearer takes 1 damage during strike resolution when this gun is used, but only once each combat. This card is kept as normal equipment and is not discarded after combat. And now despair as your tempted minions, that I'm controlling until the end of my turn, bleed you, you block, and I zip in a zip gun. And stay at close range. And use it to shoot for one, and you punch for one. God damn I'm hot. Really, its not so bad of a card. It can be used to avoid Immortal Grape, and you'll just get the blood back with a taste or a hunting ground or something right? Well... ok, maybe not. But at least you're not getting punked for like 38 or something. Hmm... yeah long range agg, but who plays with ninjas, right? But remember. When playing with other peoples minions through temptation, them having blood, bad. Just, for god's sake, be careful with those Tension in the Ranks being played more frequently. You do control it, and you don't really want their minion to go to torpor, just to have low blood. Blood Reducing Tech Talk ************************ Back in August I babbled on for many lines of text, wasting mch bandwidth about cards that can be used to reduce blood off of people's minions. Here I shall detail a few that I missed. Gregory Winter Ally, 2 pool Unique Ghoul with 4 life, 1 strength, 1 bleed During your untap phase, Gregory burns 1 life. He can steal a blood (gaining a life) from a vampire controlled by another Methuselah as a +1 stealth (D) action. He can burn a vampire in torpor to gain 2 life as a (D) action. Sure he slowly dies, but you're slowly stealing blood from people! Pack some cloaks to make him succeed and then... you win! Renegade Garou: Play with Mirembe to employ this technique. Smack them for a lot, then steal them. Shambling Hordes: (Dedefra and Sarrasine can get 'em). Go for their brains! Play with a few Baleful Dolls now while you're at it. Add weighted walking stick, if only for the ability to say "Brains... Pretty Stick... Brains...". Foul Blood: Yeah, we'll start to include assimite. Aziz has 2 votes, ser, OBF, PRE, QUI. No fight!fight!die! for this assimite. Nothing but sweet 5 point FSR and waking to play foul blood on their hunts... Ok, so it might torp on occasion too, but if they rescue, that's even more blood that they're losin'! Immaculate Vitae: OK. This card really actually sucks, but, hey... they won't be blocking Aziz now, and um... they don't gain blood from the hunt either! Tainted Vitae: The card doesn't exist... I refuse to talk about it. So... I'm sure there are more cards, but I'm tired of typing, so lets move on to the next section. Discussion of a deck I lost *************************** I'll only say that it was bizzare. I played with amisa, nehsi, ellison humboldt, hesha and aisha. I included Form of Mists and obfuscate stealth. I combined Free State Ranting with a cyptic rider or two with some Disputy Territory (to steal hunting grounds). Add in Temptations, Form of Corruptions and a bit of waking and blocking with intercept locations and special report. Oh and combat defense ala' maneuvers (through high ground and swalled by the night), zip gun, a few sweet broken Earth Meld (and untap) and oh yeah... catatonic fears (more blood reduction. God damn I rock). Alas. This deck is gone, so it only got one play testing, which was a hellish battle between myself and jay playing his tournament winning "can I wear this jacket too?". Protean's broken... Ellison Humbolts special kicks my ass. Him low on blood kicks my ass (in the bad way). So anyhow. If any one in the great columbus ohio area has recently found a deck containing temptations in it, and along with it another deck containing new school ventrue with Salubri, I would very much like them back. I'll trade you a disarm and a decapitate for your honesty. You can contact me at: vermillian69@yahoo.com So if you're the thieve with my fuckin' cards, click on that link now and get a disarm and decapitate (sabbat version, both). Outro ***** So obviously my cohort, Cluas, is dead. Ah well... Here I am, trying to put some stuff on the group. I hope you're enjoyed it. And some advice to everyone who plays in tournaments that Jay Kristoff attends. A game without Jay means potential victory for you. So get the whole table to cross table rush/vote/whatever. Don't listen to anything he says. He likes to cheat and lie. Till next time, happy fuckin' holidays, and stuff. Screaming Vermillian, Paladon and Paragon AND Anarchic Arch-Duchess of Columbus (Take that Vincent Day!)