Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Beginner deck: Assamites

Truth be told, I wanted to build this deck to assuage myself that a Lords of the Night (LotN) starter set was a good buy. And that the Assamites could hold their own, outside of anarch Amaravati/Revolutionary Councils (Fire the main Cannon!). Here's the deck list, I have seen it played twice with middling results. Mostly because prepping each vampire takes a fair bit of pool ( 4-5 from capacity of vampire, 2 from Mark Vs, and maybe 1 from Clandestine Contract). Mind you, I mainly have only LotN and LoB to work with for the clan specific cards.

There are a couple of ways I can change this deck, which is currently not going anywhere specific;
1. Bum's Rush and Haven Uncovered to go full rush combat.
2. Screw defence and load up on Losses, Quietus skill cards, and OBF stealth.

Here's the decklist:
Crypt: (12)
2x Bertrand d'Anjou(G4)
2x Evan Rogers(G4)
2x Hafsa, The Watcher(G5)
2x Kamau Jafari(G4)
2x Layla bint-Nadr(G4)
1x Alu(G5)
1x Sajid al Misbah(G5)

Library: (80)
Master: (11)
4x Quietus
3x Blood Doll
1x Celerity
1x Fame
1x KRCG News Radio
1x Market Square

Action: (20)
6x Haqim's Law: Leadership
6x Loss
4x Clandestine Contract
4x Web of Knives Recruit

Action Modifier: (6)
3x Faceless Night
3x Lost in Crowds
Action Modifier/Combat: (3)
3x Swallowed by the Night

Combat: (25)
16x Flash
6x Taste of Vitae
3x Taste of Death

Equipment: (5)
4x Mark V
1x Ivory Bow

Reaction: (10)
6x Nest of Eagles
4x Black Sunrise

3 comments:

  1. I don't see this being a good beginner's strategy. Not enough defense to not get ousted. Combat just falls over to combat ends.

    I'd be inclined toward just removing the Mark V's, which are clunky and expensive, 10 or so Flashes, two or all of the Clandestine Contracts. Alternatively, can keep some of the rush combat and go with more Taste of Death.

    I've had mixed success with a weenieish New Assamite crypt, not caring about whether my dudes had the right disciplines to play everything, and trying to bleed forward with lots of unimportant combat cards. 4cl deck, btw. You lose to fierce predators, but that's going to happen with Ass decks unless you tech them out with Boon or BH or whatever.

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  2. Quietus is not really a winning discipline and it doesn't get you that much in this deck. Ian has good advise about his weenie-ish assamite deck. Try it sometime. It's toolboxy and a good survivor.

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  3. I am rather iffy about this deck; rush decks aren't my thing. Like what you said, assamites being subpar w/o BH tech makes this deck dead on the get go.

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