V:EKN Clan Brujah Newsletter, July 1999



  Gospel of rage

  Faction of hate

  Deviate from the absolute

  Born of revenge

  Raised on cement

  Chaos created government



    KMFDM, "Anarchy"



BUREAUCRACY OF BRUTALITY



  From the Brujah Clanbook: "Brujah elders usually have great influence

within the clan.  This is not because younger members particularly respect

them for their wisdom and long lives.  Rather, it is because everyone

knows that they have incredible power and will use it ruthlessly against

anyone who opposes them."  

  In the World of Darkness, elder Brujah must attempt to preside over

Rants in which 95% of attendess disagree with them out of general

principles, 3% agree with them and want to fight somebody over it, 1% will

frenzy for no apparent reason, pissing off the other 99%, and the

remaining 1% won't cause trouble (most likely because they're too drunk).

Needless to say, this sort of thing isn't easy.  For this reason, elder

Brujah don't rely on being respected for their age -- they get respect

because when they don't, other Kindred get hurt.  Badly.

  That, in a nutshell, is what this month's deck is all about:

Brujah Princes hurting other Kindred badly.  

  This deck was created by Torbjorn Graslund, of Stockholm, Sweden, and

sent to me via email in early June.  Torbjorn tells it better than I

could, so here it is in his own words...



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The deck is built around the two Brujah Princes Donal o'Connor and 

Constanza Vinti. 



"Princes on Steroids"

4	Donal O'connor		CEL POT DOM, prince

4	Constanza Vinti		CEL POT DOM, prince

2	Jimmy Dunn		CEL POT for

	Dre			cel pot

	Jacob bragg		cel pot



Master  --13--

4	Blood dolls

3	Minion Tap

2	Elysium the Arboretum

	Elder Library

	The Rack

	Slave Auction

	Dreams of the Sphinx



Minion --77--

7	Bum's Rush

4	Ambush

12	Torn Signpost

12 	Immortal Grapple

8	Blur

5	Pursuit

9	Taste of Vitae

6	Flash

5	Govern the Unaligned

2	Conditioning

7	2nd Tradition



This deck uses the standard Brujah hand-combat engine Rush/TS/IG/Blur/Taste

for 9 damage and an occasional heavy bleed. The crypt will not allow

more than two or three vampires to be brought into play. However, the princes

will be able to take multiple actions each turn (unless faced with deep stealth 

opponents) by rushing in your turn and blocking in your preys/predators turn 

through 2nd tradition. 

  

I have noticed that combat decks often have trouble with pool management (at

least my decks). This is why almost all the master cards gives blood.  GtU

is also a very valuable card in this respect as it functions as either a

heavy bleed or gives 3 pool. It is also possible to water the combat angle

down a bit, add 5 more Minion Tap and 6 5th traditions, to get into some

serious pool gain. 



This deck is built with the meta game in Stockholm in mind that includes a 

lot of light intercept/light stealth, 5 to 7 people a table, and heavy combat. 



Other cards that could be considered in this deck design is:



-Side Slip/Guardian Angel (Do I see a lot of aggravated damage?)

-KRCG/Rumor Mill/Guardian Angel etc. (Do I face a lot of deep stealth?)

-Remove some Pursuit/Flash (Do I need all those manuevers?) 



To make it more fun to play these cards could also be considered:



-Anathema (Can I pass votes with my one or two princes?)

-Grave Robbing (Always fun)

-Decapitate (Why let them go to torpor when they can BURN!)



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THE REVISED DECK COLUMN



  I didn't receive any feedback on last month's deck, Smiling Jack Pays A

Visit, and I haven't had enough spare time to playtest it.  I'll post

commentary on Torbjorn's deck here next month.



OTHER STUFF



Thanks again to Torbjorn for sending me his deck. :-)

See you all in a month (or so).