“A fairly standard vampire game, which is to say that OFAB and unskilled guys are a bad combination for winning games. The first half was fairly uneventful, although I did get screwed out of 2 SPPs and a re-roll, because Etreum disconnected and the re-load was, of course, not as favorable.

The second half went pretty much as I expected. Unable to string together enough actions to stop him, his cage rumbled through pretty well, and he set up the standard elf-stall. Seeing this in the future, I started fouling to try and prompt a score. Although he still managed to stall out the half, I was able to make it an unattractive proposition, including a -1 AV on his doubles thrower. Even more importantly, I was able to lure him into making bad actions like retalitory fouls, which almost cost him when he was kicked out, but a lucky argue the call saved his player and probably the score.

Ultimately, like all vampire games, it came down to the fact that OFAB is just too brutal. Left with no thralls, there was no chance of stopping him. My very last turn pretty much summed up the whole game, when a 3 dice block failed and I went down. Vampires can engineer a lot of likely actions, but because they lack skills and have to use re-rolls on OFAB, everything is on the knife's edge.”