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Peter D Bakija wrote:
> Fabio Sooner wrote:
>
> > The most cheesy deck I've played in a tournament was Gio tap n' bleed.
> > But I wouldn't try that again, not when aiming for the top seed...
>
> Yeah, we can only assume that the Nergal deck is going to be completely
> crazy...
He'll be more powerful than you are used to. He probably cannot take
on all four other players. If he was as powerful as some players are
thinking then everyone would **have to** gang up on him. Since he's
probably *NOT* powerful enough to take on all other players, that opens
up the game to the possibility that someone will leave Nergal around
and try to take him out later. If, for example, Nergal bleeds your
prey for a lot and sends his vampires to torpor, you'll be given the
choice of bleeding your prey or rescuing his vampires to help kill the
Nergal deck.
>--as it is, what with him being everyone's predator and everyone's
> prey, there is nothing keeping the other 4 players from saying "Huh. Lets,
> uh, make sure this guy is destroyed first, and then finsh out a 4 player
> game!", meaning that all 4 players can team up on him right out of the gate.
That's possible. They'd probably be successful too. In practice it may
not work out that way, though. Sorta like the guy with one bullet who
holds off the mob..."which one of you wants to take the bullet?"
> Then his life is likely to be pretty short...
Of course, any Nergal deck player worth his salt is going to do his
best to make it in someone's best interest to oust their prey. Will
you, for example, continue to attack the Nergal deck--risking your own
vampires' health and maybe making it impossible for you to win the
"normal" game that follows? Will you do that when your prey is
tapped-out and has only 1 pool left? Maybe you
will. Do you also trust the other players enough to tap out repeatedly
in front of them? Will your opinion change when your own pool is down
to 1 and your prey has 1 pool and no blockers? If a player breaks the
arrangement and does something self-serving isntead of attacking
Nergal, how will the other players treat them? Will players lie about
their ability to harm Nergal in an effort to preserve their own
resources for the "normal" game? For example, holding onto a Bum's
Rush and telling everyone you don't have any rush cards--just so you
can keep your own vampire alive?
Sorta like the infernal auction seemed like it might result in
"infinite pool" for someone, things like greed, self-interest, and
self-preservation may intervene.
-Robert
Robert Goudie
V:EKN Storyline Director
vtesstory@white-wolf.com