Wednesday saw Diego and I go head to head in a 2 player game of Vampire the Masquerade: Rivals. In this game we played the two new clans Tremere and Thin-bloods from the first expansion for the game Blood and Alchemy.

I played Thin-bloods, whilst Diego went with Tremere.

It’d been over a month since we last played. So we were a bit rusty on the rules! Plus add on the fact these were completely new decks that we hadn’t even looked at before hand. It was no wonder that this one game took a couple of hours!

It’s obvious that we were not playing the decks optimally, having to look up rules, made misplays, definitely had rules mistakes. But we had fun.

I enjoyed playing Thin-Bloods. You definitely need all your vampires out and attacking en masse. I liked the gaining an extra action on a turn ability that certain actions/cards gave. I also liked the -1 token and using that to reduce the blood potency of opponents vampires. It’s definitely a fun deck to play.

In the end the game went to the wire with either of us being able to get the win. Both of us missed opportunities to grab victory. But sadly for Diego it was me that made the final break through and won.

The next expansion The Wolf and The Rat is now up for preorder on the Renegade web store. This expansion adds two new clans Gangrel and Nosferatu. Plus preorder bonuses of Tamaska and General Flint Alt Art Cards, and until the end of October a Victor Temple Promo card (previously only available at GenCon). Naturally this has been preordered.

I have also ordered the first three organised play kits for season 1. Apparently a season runs from GenCon to GenCon. Once the kits arrive I’ll give me views on them and where the kits are going.

There are plans afoot to finally get Tapestry back to the table this weekend.

During the global events of the last 18 months or more Stonemaier Games had the first expansion for Tapestry Plans and Ploys come out. Or more accurately it may have been just before. But that’s not important. What is, is that those events got in the way of any plans to get Tapestry and the expansion to the table.

After making arrangements to get Civilization A New Dawn with its first expansion Terra Incognita to the table at the next Friday gaming session (it’s going to be tight fitting it in) I knew I had to make an effort to get Tapestry to the table too. TI4 and it’s expansion is going to require military precision planning, so that won’t be soon.

So a shout out went on the clubs discord server for interested parties. Plans were made, written in pencil, and reliant on circumstances beyond our control.

At the moment it’s looking good. But until we are all sitting round a table, game setup and we are taking actions whilst enjoying beverages purchased from our amazing hosts The Luxe cinema I won’t believe it’s happening!

Here’s hoping for best laid plans and all that.