For some (not so) weird reason, nobody wanted to sit between the two intercept decks, so they were left next to each other. The final table layout was Teemu (intercept), Heikki (intercept), Petri (bleed), Tuomas (bleed), Marko (bleed + politics). I chose to be downstream from an intercept deck, since even though intercept would hurt me (don't have the stealth to cope with a dedicated intercept deck), most of my actions would be downstream. That proved to work, somewhat, and I was a bit careful with my non-(D) actions in order not to get a Tremere "go to torpor" response. However, Tuomas' immense amount of bleed bounce and nice GtU-powered bloat proved to be a problem -- I bled him lots, all the time, but somehow he kept hanging on. I finally did manage to oust him, but only after he had ousted Marko in turn, and Teemu had ousted Heikki. In the end it was me in pretty poor shape vs Teemu's Auspex horde, and it wasn't much of a contest. Teemu ousted me, gaining 3VPs and tournament victory. Grats to Teemu, especially for winning as the only non-Dominate deck on the table. | For some (not so) weird reason, nobody wanted to sit between the two intercept decks, so they were left next to each other. The final table layout was Teemu (intercept), Heikki (intercept), Petri (bleed), Tuomas (bleed), Marko (bleed + politics). I chose to be downstream from an intercept deck, since even though intercept would hurt me (don't have the stealth to cope with a dedicated intercept deck), most of my actions would be downstream. It was a good starting spot for my deck, and as such worked out pretty well. However, Tuomas' immense amount of bleed bounce and nice GtU-powered bloat proved to be a problem -- I bled him lots, all the time, but he kept hanging on since neither me not Marko could block his bloat actions. I finally did manage to oust him, but only after he had ousted Marko in turn, and Teemu had ousted Heikki. In the end it was me in pretty poor shape vs Teemu's Auspex horde and Smiling Jack, and it wasn't much of a contest. Teemu ousted me, gaining 3VPs and tournament victory. Grats to Teemu, especially for winning as the only non-Dominate deck on the table. |