Strikes

Hi everybody, Reading the postings, I noticed that, in our group, do not play the strikes as most of the people seem to play them. Here is how we play: - Acting vampire choses his strike (if any) and place it in front of him face down - Opposing vampire does the same - Both strikes are turned face up and we resolve the strike. We have always played like that since the begining of Jyhad and it has always worked well. Most people seem to play the strikes face up. I don't remember reading anything specific about that in the rulebook but I think it does take out a lot of the excitement of combat. What do you think?

[ quoted text not captured ] Your house rule takes away a lot of the advantage that the blocking minion is supposed to have in combat - that is, the ability to choose his strike after seeing what the acting minion's strike is. In Jyhad (and VtES), the only cards that are played face down are the uncontrolled vampires. -- L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | Kirk: How's Ensign Pilsbury? http://www.math.sc.edu/cgi-bin/sjohnson/home | McCoy: He's Bread, Jim. Graphics Specialist and V:tES Rulemonger. |

Gilles Garnier wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > Reading the postings, I noticed that, in our group, do not play the > strikes as most of the people seem to play them. Here is how we play: > > - Acting vampire choses his strike (if any) and place it in front of him > face down > > - Opposing vampire does the same > > - Both strikes are turned face up and we resolve the strike. > > We have always played like that since the begining of Jyhad and it has > always worked well. > > Most people seem to play the strikes face up. I don't remember reading > anything specific about that in the rulebook but I think it does take > out a lot of the excitement of combat. > > What do you think? From the pages of LSJ's "V.How to Resolve a Combat" "D. Strikes. .. 1.b. Acting Minion announces Strike and Target before Blocking Minion does" Our group used to play similar to yours, (although, I'm beginning to find out that a bunch of stuff we assumed was wrong.) Personally, I think it makes things more interesting to have the acting minion strike before the blocker. And besides, if it were the case that Strikes were declared at the same time, I think there would be a few cards that would be useless. rob.

Gilles Garnier wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > Reading the postings, I noticed that, in our group, do not play the > strikes as most of the people seem to play them. Here is how we play: > > - Acting vampire choses his strike (if any) and place it in front of him > face down > > - Opposing vampire does the same > > - Both strikes are turned face up and we resolve the strike. If you like combat this way, then you'll love Rage (my second favorite game). But then again Rage favors combat action over any real strategy. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- pheersum inhabits the mortal shell of eric schultheis. one channels mailto://phee...@netwizards.net. nature says,"go ahead, have as many babies as you want. something will eat them." ---------------------------------------------------------------------

L. Scott Johnson wrote: > In Jyhad (and VtES), the only cards that are played face down are the > uncontrolled vampires. and contested cards....sheesh...and to think people consider you a rules lawyer....*grin*...please don't ever take me seriously, btw.. salem......fat, ugly, and damn smelly....

"salem christ...." <k940...@student.anu.edu.au> writes: >L. Scott Johnson wrote: >> In Jyhad (and VtES), the only cards that are played face down are the >> uncontrolled vampires. >and contested cards....sheesh...and to think people consider you a >rules lawyer....*grin*...please don't ever take me seriously, btw.. Actually, it would be played face-up, then turned face-down (along with the other copy). You don't think I'm going to give up my KRCG just because you put some random card face down and tell me it's a KRCG, do you? :-) -- L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | He who laughs last http://www.math.sc.edu/cgi-bin/sjohnson/home | thinks slowest [ quoted text not captured ]