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.

London League — Week four

Couldn't make it this week as I got hit by a nasty cough.

Thankfully Matt and Mike reported the results of the games and took some notes — thanks guys. I reworked the text here and there — but it's essentially their reports...

London League — Week three

As expected, turn out was low after a great UK Nationals (congratulations Hugh) — that said the games were very interesting with no one running away with things.

Most of this was written on my phone while commuting — so please excuse the dribble...

London VTES League — Week two

This is the second week of the London league, brief report below — we still need to decide on an end date. Also, the UK VTES nationals are on this weekend at our local haunt. Make it along if you can...

The London League

So on Monday night we agreed that a league would be something cool to do.

It should encourage return visits and also provide an archive of the evolution of our play group. We typically have enough players for one table, at times two. In terms of scoring this is how it currently works:

• 1 points for particpating in a game
• 2 points for a VP
• 3 points for a GW
• Minimum four players to register

VTES EC non-report, great time.

Well, I've almost recovered from the EC — four days of VTES and 10 hours of sleep.

Tournament wise it was a poor showing on my part, a paltry 1 VP in the nations cup, 0.5 on day 1 and a big fat 0 in the FCQ. Am disappointed with my performances in the nations cup and on day 1 as the result was down to poor play — the FCQ less so as I decided to play a fun deck that I've been toying with.

English ECQ Report

There's a tournament report of the English ECQ posted at the Anarch Free Press here.

All in all, it was a good day — I freakishly managed to qualify by drawing 6th place (talk about close). Managed a GW in the closing minutes of the final game — sweet.

Please excuse the lack of posts. I've lost a number of epic tournament reports due to bloggers poor interface — but hopefully I'll get my posting mojo back soon...

V:EKN VTES Set — Detailed Insight

One of the members of the design team (Jeff Kuta) has posted a detailed breakdown of the progress and some of the issues regarding creation of the new VTES set. The post reveals quite a lot of frustration, but this degree of openness can only be a good thing. It's quite a long post — but is well worth the read...

Important facts about the first V:EKN set in development

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UPDATE — a response from the V:EKN: Open Letter to Jeff Kuta - From the IC

VTES Tournament Report

On Saturday another tournament took place at the Jugged Hare in London. I'd consider the turn out fairly reasonable for early January with 16 players attending — 4x4 player tables. I can only offer my limited perspective as once again I was drawn into the event and failed to keep tabs elsewhere.

This time round I played a deck which had been tested and tweaked substantially over the previous weeks on Lackey CCG — a Ur-Shulgi based Alamut vote and bleed deck. The deck was originally based around a tap and bleed concept involving Condemn the Sins of the Father although after play testing this was reduced to a minor attack / defence mechanism.