Greetings everyone!
Cause and Effect needs your input. We would love to get your ideas on the following three areas. If you only have something to say one or two of these areas we would want to hear that as well. Answers can be sent to as well.
1) Guests. What guest would you like to see in the future and what deck and/or subject would you like us to discuss with that particular player.
2) Deck Clinc. Do you got a deck that you would like us to take a look at and propose an improvement to. Send us a deck list and description of the deck and the problems that you've encountered while playing it. Also if there are any parts that you DON'T want to get changed, let us now.
3) Ideas and Themes. Any practicular theme or deck that you would want to see in a show.
Thank you for taking the time and energy into helping us.
Isak Esbjörnsson Bjärmark
Options to investigate:
- Getting the right proportions in a Carna deck
- Council of Doom - can it be revisited? Is Order 66 the new version of it?
- Multirush decks
- Palla Grande decks (vote? art scam/patronage?)
- FSR decks
- Blood attrition generic module (allies, masters)
- Madness Network decks (not only the AUS version I played)
- the importance of bans in the past (PTO, ..)
- Assamite Vote decks (Death Star, Army of Allah, eventually some Tegyrius stuff)
- Nosferatu Royalty (and probably "the differences between being Ruben and not being Ruben")
- Ventrue Obfuscate
- Stanislava decks
- (leading to) Baltimore Purge (Stanislava, Moncada, Tyler, ..) - is it playable in a deck in which it's not the main strategy?
- Sensory Deprivation decks (and comparision with Sensory Overload)
- Spirit Marionnette
- How to use Inceptor
- Metagaming against ANI
- Metagaming against voters
- Metagaming against bleeders
- Daughters of Cacophony decks (bleed, vote angle)
- Una decks (the differences, the key cards, which action(s) to block)
- Summon History decks
Beside discussion of specific deck or card discussion I would like to hear more about "generic" topics, e.g.
* table/threat assessment. You had this and that decks at the table and player X won, because he backousted, or let his prey oust, ...
* final table seating: if your top seeded or second seeded, how did you choose your position at an exemplary table.
* crypt selection for your deck. How do approach the selection. Clan first? Disipline first? Special ability and then build around it. Each of you could explain how he came to a particular crypt selection for a given deck.
And I think I could name a few topics more, the above is just the ones I came up with at this moment.
As a !Brujah enthusiast, I'd like to hear your opinions how to survive and win with a bruise & bleed deck in a "usual" tournament environment. Where "usual" means bleed redirection, votes and heavy bleeds with stealth. In central Europe, there is also heavy emphasis on hordes. (That B+B arhcetype doesn't need to be exactly !Brujah centered, but as a !Brujah enthusiast... yeah.)
As a side note, I have certain knowledge about this, but still lack the skill to play well enough with that knowledge.
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I didn't watch all of the Cause and Effect (I was a bit rebuked by the low sound quality of the first episodes, but it has improved dramatically).
Would it be possible to have a summary of each episode to see which points were discussed?
Prince of Paris, France
Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director
Apart from Pascals awesome list
- An episode with focus on Gehenna cards and what can be done (There's plenty of cards that trigger on Gehenna cards, is it possible to make something out of this? I'm still attempting to build a decent gehenna deck that does not contain imbued...)
- Also, Imbued
- Anarchs (Non-baron angles. What three-ways are worth playing? How does one "think" when including three-ways, how do you balance disciplines etc?)
- Fun with Clan Impersonation! (I ended up in a discussion yesterday where we finally realised that all our strange deck ideas somehow always seemed to end up with "and then you do clan impersonation: malkavian...") Bonus points to you if you for this episode all clan impersonate each other
> extrala wrote:
> I made something like this:
> www.extrala.blogspot.com/p/cause-effect-webcast.html
>
> Not really an explicit description of the contents, but still ..
>
Well, I always use your blog to go on the cause and effect webcast, but hadn't notice that page.
It's what I was looking for, but it would be better with some more details
Well, if any good soul can provide you with these information
Prince of Paris, France
Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director
Ankha and Lönkka:
Extrala's "subpage" does a great job of summarizing the different episodes. Each episode have a short description associeted with on youtube. I think that it gives fair idea of what the episode is all about. If you want to see something else I'd love to here what that would be.
Isak Esbjörnsson Bjärmark
> Forhead wrote:
> Ankha and Lönkka:
> Extrala's "subpage" does a great job of summarizing the different episodes. Each episode have a short description associeted with on youtube. I think that it gives fair idea of what the episode is all about. If you want to see something else I'd love to here what that would be.
>
Well, was I was looking for would be something like:
Episode 5 -- Cryptic Mission decks / Guest: Hugh Angsessing
- News about the new set and the design process [4:15]
- Cryptic mission deck:
- basic concept [18:20]
- strength of the Cryptic mission card and when to use it [xx:xx]
- crypt discussion
- how to play it
- importance of superior THA vs inferior tha with Mirror Walk
- group 1&2 vs other groups
etc.
Prince of Paris, France
Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director
Ah, okey. I agree with you that that would be a very good description, though it will require a lot of work. I'll take it up with the others. Thanks!
Isak Esbjörnsson Bjärmark
> Ankha wrote:
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> > extrala wrote:
> > I made something like his:
> > www.extrala.blogspot.com/p/cause-effect-webcast.html
> >
> > Not really an explicit description of the contents, but still ..
> >
> Well, I always use your blog to go on the cause and effect webcast, but hadn't notice that page.
> It's what I was looking for, but it would be better with some more details
> Well, if any good soul can provide you with these information
>
When I still had loads of time for VTES blogging, I did that for C&E Webcasts. Seems I only got to do it for the first 4 episodes.
pulledfangs.blogspot.com/search/label/webcast
Hope this helps.
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As for the quests I would love to see episode with Erik Torstensson. Ypu could talk about evolution of girls decks.
As for the ideas for episodes I will copy the post I wrote in "Ideas for next season thread.
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> 3. Some episodes on anarchs. Possibly more than one, to cover different archetypes
> 4. Analysis of some popular tournament decks, like the one you did for !ventrue grinder
> 5. Analysis of possibility and ways of including imbued in standard vtes deck. What imbueds are best for it, what problems could be fixed by it, etc.
> 6. Some episodes on laibon decks (maybe more than one)
> 7. Baaaaaali
> 8. Some episodes on bloodlines (Ahrimanes are more like typicall clan in a sense of deckbuilng and play style; would be interesting hearing something about trubrujah, harbingers, nagaraja, samedi)
> 9. Ian Forestall and decks featuring him
> 10. Summon History decks
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As for the deck clinic I have plenty of deck lists I can send you and I will
> Jesper wrote:
> Still havent seen any of your shows. But im quite surprised noone have mentioned bali and more importent Nergal
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Really, where's Ginés when you need him ?
I'd love to hear a bit more about stuff that's not really seen that much, say, Group 2 Baali instead of the Nergal powerpump (or the various versions of it). Those are interesting factors and things to discuss, surely, but don't forget those aspects of the game and vampires that are close to being forgotten!
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Group 2 Baali are not really designed to be used together, all of them are star vampires that are meant as centerpieces of their own decks. I could give you the list of the deck I made around Giotto if you want something to review in your show for that Baali episode.
I would really like to see episode about rush/combat strategies, since I think they are most complicated in this game and most difficult to win with.
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