Name: Gennadios
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Salubri
Capacity: 6
Disciplines: AUS OBE FOR
Independent: Each time Gennadios rescues a vampire controlled by another Methuselah, he untaps and gets an additional +1 bleed. Scarce.
Source: Cb-Sa,p32
Salubri are missing a bridge vampire in g3. I thought it would be funny to have a "good Samaritan" kind of vampire.
Prince of Paris, France
Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director
> Ankha wrote:
> Name: Gennadios
> Cardtype: Vampire
> Clan: Salubri
> Capacity: 6
> Disciplines: AUS OBE FOR
> Independent: Each time Gennadios rescues a vampire controlled by another Methuselah, he untaps and gets an additional +1 bleed. Scarce.
>
> Source: Cb-Sa,p32
> Salubri are missing a bridge vampire in g3. I thought it would be funny to have a "good Samaritan" kind of vampire.
>
2 things......
Id make the untap mandatory and the bleed bonus optional,
And give him +1 stealth on actions directed at vampires in torpor or something similar.
> Ankha wrote:
> Name: Gennadios
> Cardtype: Vampire
> Clan: Salubri
> Capacity: 6
> Disciplines: AUS OBE FOR
> Independent: Each time Gennadios rescues a vampire controlled by another Methuselah, he untaps and gets an additional +1 bleed. Scarce.
>
As an individual vampire, the design seems decent enough - though Blanche Hill's 'free' hunt action is quite pokey at the cost of a level of Auspex, and Eurayle's untap action is potentially interesting if you set yourself up for it. Getting other people's vampires into torpor may not be the most efficient thing for a Salubri deck to do to exploit the special, but not too shabby, overall.
Looking at the spread of vampires in 2-3 and 3-4, though, in group 2 you have three vampires who are 5, 6 and 7. Then in Group 4, you have a 3, a 6 and an 11. If supplementing those, it might be nice to pitch a vampire at a gap in capacities, such as an 8 or 9 cap. (There are no Salubri 9 caps.)
> jamesatzephyr wrote:
> Getting other people's vampires into torpor may not be the most efficient thing for a Salubri deck to do to exploit the special, but not too shabby, overall.
>
Well ... There's always Baltimore's Purge ...
> Pascal wrote:
>
> > jamesatzephyr wrote:
> > Getting other people's vampires into torpor may not be the most efficient thing for a Salubri deck to do to exploit the special, but not too shabby, overall.
> >
> Well ... There's always Baltimore's Purge ...
>
The 'not older' text would be annoying with a 6 cap, though if you could team up with a high cap vampire or a high cap Lasombra, though AUS/OBE/FOR isn't the most compatible of discipline spreads for Lasombra.
But... you play some or all of:
- Baltimore Purge
- Renewed Vigor at for/obe to get yourself out of torpor, or take a leave torpor action
- a rescue action to get someone else out of torpor, and sadly Renewed Vigor isn't a rescue action for these purposes (the verb it uses is "move")
- possibly one or more Freak Drives to untap yourself
Which is potentially several actions and some blood.
From this, you've probably garnered:
- +1 bleed
- some table hate, as you won't have rescued everyone
At which point, my questions are mostly: Honestly, would I be better off playing Cameraphone, J.S. Simmons, Tasha Morgan, Laptop Computer, maybe a smattering of Ailing Spirit or other bleed actions etc.?
The vampire is far from worthless - 6 cap OBE is solid enough - but I'd fear it might not distinguish itself enough from other playable vampires. Matthias has a history of being very good. Blanche Hill's special is not very flashy, but could get you quite a lot of blood, and Repulsion would be very nice on her for that. It might be of more interest in 3-4, but in 2-3 I fear it would get overlooked as a bridge vampire.
Since he untaps each time he rescues a vampire, and since it's not submitted to NRA, you could rescue more than one vampire without FD in the case you play Baltimore Purge (but diablerizing with Tyler seems stronger in that scenario).
Still, I don't think a deck can be built around his special. It's more a circumstancial bonus (though it will probably serve at least once in a game), that's why he has the 3 disciplines at superior.
Prince of Paris, France
Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director
> Ankha wrote:
> Since he untaps each time he rescues a vampire, and since it's not submitted to NRA, you could rescue more than one vampire without FD in the case you play Baltimore Purge (but diablerizing with Tyler seems stronger in that scenario).
> Still, I don't think a deck can be built around his special. It's more a circumstancial bonus (though it will probably serve at least once in a game), that's why he has the 3 disciplines at superior.
>
Without the special, I think he's a little on the light side - with the specific caveat that I mean that compared to the other vampires you might choose to play instead. In a normal clan (non-Scarce) he'd be pretty versatile, used in loads of decks. In a Scarce clan, you're often only getting one vampire of that clan out, maybe two, so you probably focus on the ones with exciting oomph. I just think it lacks that spark of interest that says "Hey, there's a deck to build around me" by being distinctive, especially around the vampires in group 2. In group 4, possibly less so, given Mr Noir is a bit odd, Saulot is huge. Eurayle is interesting, and might work better alongside weenies, so you might get some sort of interesting Eurayle + weenie Presence deck going on, but maybe you prefer the three disciplines at superior. If there were a few more cards like Resurrection (obe/val), maybe he could be fun to tag along in a !Salubri/!Ven grinder.
Short version: it's just not really saying "I provide new opportunities for exciting fun times" to me, and I like it when Scarce vampires have some sort of grab factor.