Tuesday, April 15, 2008

General tactics for kiasyd bloodline

Probably most kiasyd decks are stealth and bleed, because they have 2 disciplines featuring nice stealth cards + dominate (the best discipline for bleeding). Other popular archetype is toolbox (most tournaments winning decks using this bloodline are toolboxes or stealth&bleed with little bit of combat). Disciplines and clan cards allows also combat, power bleed, bruise and bleed, breed and bleed, wall and probably some other archetypes but in most cases its efficiency would be rather low.
Mytherceria and Obtenebration are usually for stealth and combat. Obfuscate have better stealth and few disciplines are better for combat but by combining this two kiasyd can generate large amount of stealth and sometimes stand his ground against combat oriented decks based on other disciplines.
Dominate is mainly for bleed, bounce and moving blood from blood bank on vampires in uncontrolled region.
This disciplines have of course cards for other issues but usually when comparing to other disciplines in comparison to other disciplines are rather weak.
Three vampires in second group have aus/Aus which can be used for
improving intercept, bleed reduction, combat and some other things, but there are some problems with this:
  • Only one vampire have AUS - Bartholomew, he is cap 8 and have only one clan discipline at superior
  • Vampires that have allso some flaws - one don't have obtenebration and second have myt instead of MYT
So for good using auspex in kiasyd based deck is quite big setup if you want to have disciplines on reasonable level.
Two vampires in second group have nec/NEC and have only more flaws than above (this two also have aus/AUS and it is smaller number of vampires, since lacking of good cards for multiacting I don't see any sense in basing on this). I tried adding necromancy in one of my decks but whitout success. It is possible to create deck based on kiasyd and nagaraja (aus nec dom) or harbingers of skulls (aus nec) . First option gives more vampires to operate with but nagaraja have flaw scarce and weary few options based upon their bloodline. The second option sounds better but harbringers have nice range of vampires on their own.
Two vampires in fourth group have cel. Both are cap 7 so it makes more problem than it is worth to use it.

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Hello.
Lately there are no living sites related to bloodline Kiasyd and no newsletter. Because its my favourite bloodline I created this blog to post something like unofficial newsletter or just site about Kiasyd in v:tes.
English isn't my native language and I know that I will sometimes make some mistakes so please be forgiving. I also didn't won any tournament yet so feel free to write when you think I'm wrong about things I post here.