Counting cards? — No thank you.

So call me lazy, call me un-disciplined — but after playing and designing decks on Lackey, I'd find that when building them in real life I'd get card creep and end up with more than 60 cards. I also got tired of counting the cards each time I made changes to physical decks, so I thought I'd try find a solution.

I came up with the below PDFs:

Essentially each A4 sheet holds 30 cards (60 cards on the A3 version) and as you add cards to the deck you lay them on the sheet by priority or card type — simples. It may seems pedantic but I tried it last night when prepping for the Danish ECQ and it worked really well — it seemed to provide a better feel for the deck.

You can download the PDF's here:

     A4 (30 Cards) or A3 (60 Cards)

Let me know if you find them useful...

English ECQ — May 18th

English Continental Qualifer or The ECQ 

Saturday 18th May 2013
Burton-on-Trent
‘Beer & Pretzels 2013’
Burton-on-Trent Town Hall

Website for event
http://www.spiritgames.co.uk/
Beer & limited food available at the venue

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V:TES Tournament 13th April — Burton

London League — End of first League

It's been a while since my last post, life outside of VTES has been busy — so asides from playing time's been limited.

So the results are in for the first London League and it turned out fairly close with only 2 game wins in it. Norbert took the runner up position with 117 league points and I pipped the top spot with 135 league points. Special mention goes to Boris with the highest GW ratio of 35% — very impressive and largely due to his deliciously filthy presence bleed deck.

Not sure about the next league and how we will work it, but this weekend there's a tournament at our local haunt The Jugged Hare from 12PM come and join us!

Final Standings:

London League — quick recap

Have had a hectic start to the year, so time for posts is limited. There's a tournament in London on the 23rd of February and we will restart the league afterwards. So only a month or so left for scoring points in this one guys!

A few of us played an odd tournament over the weekend. It was very low scoring — so much so that the final was cancelled and another round added. Well done to John Best for winning with 1GW 3VP!

Here are the results for the games over the last couple of weeks:

Player	Deck	VP	GW
Mike	Tzimisce Bleed	0	0
Ke	Aching Beauty	4	1
Nikki	Nosferatu + Blood Brothers	0	0
Norbert	Nosferatu Royalty	0	0
Ke	Salubri Anntibru	0	0
Mike	Tzimisce Vote	0	0
Norbert	Nosferatu Royalty	4	1
Nikki	Setite Vote	0	0

Player	Deck	VP	GW
Boris	Weenie Pre	1	0
Mike	Nadima & Friend	0	0
Nikki	Nosfuratu	0	0
Fernando	Classic Lawfirm	0	0
Norbert	Globtrix Wall	0	0
Ke	Mata Hari Turbo	0	0
Nikki	Gargoles + Ian Forrestal	0	0
Fernando	Classic Lawfirm
Ke	Mata Hari Turbo	1	0
Norbert	Ravnos Breed	0	0
Boris	Low-cap aus + pot	1	0

London VTES Tournament

The next London tournament has been scheduled — see the details below and register on the the VTES London meetup group. Hope to see you there!


VTES Tournament London
Saturday, February 23, 2013 — 12:00 PM
The Jugged Hare
London

Standard VTES constructed tournament with 3 rounds and a final.
Jugged Hare opens at 11am for a 12pm start. Organised and prizes supplied by Hugh as per normal.

Click here to register (not required)

London League — Drunk with Friends

Not much of a report this week as there were too many games, too much alcohol, played too long ago to report accurately.  The usual venue was closing early on our regular night (new years eve!), so in order to play some games and make the most of a more relaxed environment it was hosted at my house.

Below are the games we played and the results. We next play Monday the 7th at the Jugged Hare — make it along if you're in or live near London. All players welcomed!

London League — Week six

Unfortunately this this the first opportunity I’ve had to write about these games and the memories are now somewhat faint — also having played a few games online since then doesn’t help...

VTES, IKEA and 60 cards

It turns out we can thank the swedes for more than 60 card decks.

As part of the constant pursuit for gaining control of my card collection, I turned to IKEA's catalogue searching for something cheap and practical to store cards in. Previously I had been using 5000 capacity card board boxes to store cards — but they were large and cumbersome.

I found a cheap practical solution — multiple sets of Helmer drawers. Each one can hold approximately 12,000 cards and the draws come up completely (which is great when working with single disciplines or clans). They were only £25 / €25 an absolute bargin.

I simply sliced up the boxes they came in for dividers and glued them in place — here are some pics.

London League — Week five

The fifth installment of our weekly games. This week we had a new player joining us, Artur.