The Stockholm League – August 16, 2017 and final result

First: A big WELCOME to the league Hannes and Teo! Hope to see you next week!

Second: A big CONGRATULATIONS to Kim, who in spite of Erik turning up to take 1 victory point this last week, managed to grab a game win and secure the league victory.

Two tables were played in the last round of our ten week league.
Standard tournament rules apply + printed proxy is allowed.

Table 1:
1. Kristofer (Assamite Janni rush) 4 vp, 1 gw
2. Donk (Toreador/Brujah Anson vote/bleed)
3. Henrik (OBF/DOM bigcap Alonso sb/vote)
4. Erik (Guillaume Giovanni Tablet sb) 1 vp
5. Robert (Lasombra with ANI Nahir & Anton combat toolbox)

Table 2:
1. Kim (!Ventrue anarch grinder) 4 vp, 1 gw
2. Hannes (Ventrue lawfirm)
3. Teo (Gangrel toolbox)
4. Donk (Tremere Gerald Windham toolbox) 1 vp
5. Ober(!Gangrel toolbox)

League standings:
Kim 86 rtp
Erik 74 rtp
Daniel H, Randy 40 rtp
Robert 30 rtp
Donk, Henrik 28 rtp
Kristofer 24 rtp
Ober 10 rtp
Kari, Zich 8 rtp
Patrik 6 rtp
Jan Erik, Jonas, Peter S 4 rtp
Erik W 2 rtp
(1 gw = 8 ratingpoints, 1 vp = 4 ratingpoints. Note: Players can play more than one game each round if their participation are needed to complete a table where at least one player has not yet played a league game this round, but only the best result each round counts for rating. If more players than 5 want to play such a table, lowest vp-count this round has priority. No league game begin before 17.00 or starts after 20.00.)

The first round of the next league is played at Dragon´s Lair, Kungsholmstorg 8 next Wednesday about 1800-ish. Be there!

The Stockholm League – August 9, 2017

Three tables were played in the ninth round of our ten week league.
Standard tournament rules apply + printed proxy is allowed.

Table 1:
1. Piotr (Tremere toolbox)
2. Randy (Baali Huitzilopoctli & Arika “Gubbarna” bigcap sb) 3 vp, 1 gw
3. Zich (Giovanni Shamblers with Anu + Archon Investigation)
4. Kari (Giovanni anarchs with for toolbox) 2 vp
5. Daniel (Giovanni with PRO sb)

Table 2:
1. Henrik (Ventrue De Sade bleedfirm vote/bleed)
2. Patrik (Gangrel/!Gangrel Aksinya wall) 1,5 vp
3. Donk (!Nosferatu Cailean wall)
4. Erik W (Saulot anarch wall) 0,5 vp
4. Kim (!Ventrue anarch grinder) 1,5 vp

Table 3:
1. Daniel (Gangrel anarch with PRE vote) 2 vp
2. Kari (!Toreador toolbox) 1 vp
3. Zich (!Ventrue toolbox)
4. Piotr (Toreador with cel gun-rush)
5. Robert (!Tremere + others with dom, guns and Gehenna sb) 2 vp


League standings:
Erik 70 rtp
Kim 62 rtp
Daniel H, Randy 40 rtp
Robert 30 rtp
Henrik 28 rtp
Donk 24 rtp
Ober 10 rtp
Kari, Zich 8 rtp
Patrik 6 rtp
Jan Erik, Jonas, Peter S 4 rtp
Erik W 2 rtp
(1 gw = 8 ratingpoints, 1 vp = 4 ratingpoints. Note: Players can play more than one game each round if their participation are needed to complete a table where at least one player has not yet played a league game this round, but only the best result each round counts for rating. If more players than 5 want to play such a table, lowest vp-count this round has priority. No league game begin before 17.00 or starts after 20.00.)

The next round of the league is played at Dragon´s Lair, Kungsholmstorg 8 next Wednesday about 1800-ish. Be there!

Burning Wrath Stockholm 2017
Sep 2 2017 12:00-20:00
Venue: Dragon´s Lair, Kungsholmstorg 8, Stockholm, Sweden
Facebook: Burning Wrath Stockholm 2017
Standard constructed tournament with proxy cards (see www.vekn.net)
Rounds: 2 + Final
Time Limit: 2 h
Fee: 30 SEK
Grand prize: 1 complete set Berlin Anthology
Welcome!

Ashur´s War Journal – August 2017

This is a special edition Ashur´s War Journal just to inform you how bad my draft at Ropecon went. The main tournament was better - I got to the final with Ventrue princes with sticks with 1 gw 6 vp. To bad I had to hunt Tiago Brum playing the same crypt as me, and he created that deck concept back in 2009, so you can imagine the result. Very competitive decks and players. You can watch that game in it´s entirety at Youtube. (My tabletalk wasn´t the best in that game, but at least it wasn´t the worst at the table!)

But the fun part of the Ropecon weekend was of course the draft. It´s been a while since I drafted real boosters, we instead have built draft cubes for drafting V:TES, because it´s good to have boosters available for newbies. Anyway, I appreciate this opportunity to do the real thing.

The boosters was 5 Third Edition, 1 Black Hand and 1 Sword of Caine. I guess my not so innovative base idea is get some stealth and some bleed, if I don´t bump into something extremely exciting early on that changes that plan. Nosferatu Antitribu and Brujah Antitribu is also always interesting when drafting these sets, being the clans with Nosferatu Kingdom and Gang Territory = permanent pool gain.

I ended up with this library:

As you see, I got double Elysian Fields. The first one was first pick in the first booster, so it decided to focus on Lasombra from start. Sadly, I didn´t find a lot of dominate bleed cards, but ...



... I drafted two (actually three) Virgine, Prodigy, who can increase every bleed by one by buring 1 blood. Naively, I thought that would be enough to do some easy ousting, especially if I also happen to smack that Capitalist on her.

The random Tzimisce is not in there for his looks, but for his permanent +1 stealth on all actions. I actually managed to equip him with Local 1111 to fuel Virgine in the first game. That was fun, but not fun enough.

Key defense is Rumour Mill, 2x Darkness Within, 2x Guard Dogs and 2x Touch of Pain. Nothing too fantastic. A single Redirection would have been nice.

The preliminaries was just two rounds, not three, and no easy ousting was done by me. I managed to get 1,5 vp totally in those two games. Rather tragic.

But at least fellow Swede Kim Nilsson won the tournament. She played a strange wallish auspex-celerity brew which I don´t understand. But if it works - it works!

Draft is always great fun. Actually often enjoy it more than constructed games, because of the non-predictability. Thanks to the organizers and thanks for Ropecon generally - a great event.

Feel free to comment below.

The Stockholm League – August 2, 2017

"It´s not a wall deck, it has Trochomancy!"

Two tables were played in the eigth round of our ten week league.
Standard tournament rules apply + printed proxy is allowed.

Table 1:
1. Robin (Brujah Jaroslav rush/wall)
2. Robert (Setite bigcap G5-6 sb) 0,5 vp
3. Henrik (OBF-DOM Alonso vote/sb) 1,5 vp
4. Donk (Ravnos Kholo weenie vote)
5. Ober (OBF-DOM Arika vote/sb) 1,5 vp

Table 2:
1. Kari (Ravnos Suspension of Disbelief sb)
2. Kim (ANI-AUS-FOR G4-5 Mordechai & Inyanga wall) 3 vp, 1 gw
3. Kristofer (Assamite Tariq anarch wall)
4. Peter (Eurobrujah rush) 1 vp

League standings:
Erik 70 rtp
Kim 56 rtp
Daniel H 32 rtp
Henrik 28 rtp
Donk 24 rtp
Robert 22 rtp
Randy 20 rtp
Ober 10 rtp
Zich 8 rtp
Jan Erik, Jonas, Peter S 4 rtp
(1 gw = 8 ratingpoints, 1 vp = 4 ratingpoints. Note: Players can play more than one game each round if their participation are needed to complete a table where at least one player has not yet played a league game this round, but only the best result each round counts for rating. If more players than 5 want to play such a table, lowest vp-count this round has priority. No league game begin before 17.00 or starts after 20.00.)

The next round of the league is played at Dragon´s Lair, Kungsholmstorg 8 next Wednesday about 1800-ish. Be there!

The Stockholm League – July 26, 2017

This machine kills ANI-weenies.

One table was played in the seventh round of our ten week league.
Standard tournament rules apply + printed proxy is allowed.

1. Daniel H (Gangrel pre-vote with Bernard the Scourge) 4 vp, 1 gw
2. Henrik (Ventrue G4-5 princes with sticks)
3. Jan Erik (Ventrue lawfirm) 1 vp
4. Peter (ANI midcap wall)
5. Kim (ANI-weenies with anarch tech)

League standings:
Erik 70 rtp
Kim 36 rtp
Daniel H 32 rtp
Donk 24 rtp
Henrik 22 rtp
Randy, Robert 20 rtp
Zich 8 rtp
Jan Erik, Jonas S, Ober 4 rtp
(1 gw = 8 ratingpoints, 1 vp = 4 ratingpoints. Note: Players can play more than one game each round if their participation are needed to complete a table where at least one player has not yet played a league game this round, but only the best result each round counts for rating. If more players than 5 want to play such a table, lowest vp-count this round has priority. No league game begin before 17.00 or starts after 20.00.)

The next round of the league is played at Dragon´s Lair, Kungsholmstorg 8 next Wednesday about 1800-ish. Be there!