Jérôme Goyet is the 2024 champion of Canada!
From left to right: Mathieu Guimond, Martin Servant,
Jonathan "Jo" Long, Christian Chénard and Jérôme Goyet.
This tournament was played with 24 players in L'Abyss, Montréal on November 23 and was reported by Alexandre Bustros and Allan Birkett:
Standings before final:
1. Martin Servant 2 GW, 8 VP
2. Christian Chénard 2 GW, 7,5 VP, 174 TP
3. Jérôme Goyet 2 GW, 7.5 VP, 168 TP
4. Mathieu Guimond 1 GW, 7.5 VP
5. Jonathan Long 1 GW, 7 VP
Christian Chénard started very aggressively. He got ousted by Mathieu's vote that does 1 pool damage per minion (I don't remember which). That made Jérôme's victory possible. Martin held off the !Toreador Embrace deck and managed to power bleed his prey.
Congratulations to Jérôme Goyet, the new Canadian champion!
The tournament winning deck, by Jerome, inspired by a deck by Vincent Ripoll:
Crypt (12 cards)
1x Joseph Fischer 3 PRO Gangrel antitribe:5
1x Casey Snyder 6 ani cel for PRO Gangrel:6
1x Valeriya Zinovieva 7 goals for POT Brujah:6
1x Indira 3 PRO Gangrel:6
1x Kamile Paukstys 5 ani for PRO Gangrel:6
1x Kuyen 6 ANI PRO Gangrel:6
1x Massimiliano 7 pro ANI FOR Gangrel:6
1x Elisha Tucker 6 goal obf pro PRE Follower of Set:6
1x Vivian VI 7 obf tha PRE PRO Follower of Set:6
1x Adrino Manauara 8 pot OR DOM PRO Tzimisce:6
1x angel Guerrero 7 ANI DOM PRO Team:6
1x Branimira 6 house for pro ANI Tzimice:6
Library: 90 cards
Master (26 cards)
1x Anarch Railroad
2x Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
1x Papillon
1x Poacher's Hunting Ground
1x Powerbase: Los Angeles
6x Protein
1x Scarecrow
2x Tribute to the Master
6x Villein
1x Zoo Hunting Ground
2x Carfax Abbey
2x Club Illusion
Action (10 cards)
8x Childe of the Revolution
2x Constant Revolution
Political Action (1 cards)
1x Revolutionary Council
Equipment (2 cards)
2x Heart of Nizchetus
Modify Action (6 cards)
2x Monkey Wrench
4x Earth Control
Modify/Combat Action (2 cards)
2x Form of the Cobra
Action Modifier/Reaction (4 cards)
4x Form of the Bat
Combat (16 cards)
2x Voracious Vermin
6x Donnybrook
8x Earth Meld
Reaction (23 cards)
2x Protection Racket
6x Bait and Switch
15x Organized Resistance
Thanks to organisers, sponsors and players!
Vampire: Elder Kindred Network Newsletter November 2024
Greetings fellow Methuselahs,
THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF VAMPIRE: THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE CONTINUES
… most notably by a HUGE number of organised events. November had 75 events registered in the VEKN Calendar, in 22 different nations! That is a massive number indeed, possibly the most for a single month ever in the history of the game. A record number of these were also National championships or other high level events, reported in this newsletter. Good times to be undead!
Another preconstructed deck is now at the print shop, and we would like to do another preview from the upcoming Fifth Edition Hecata preconstructed deck. The fantastic art is by Francisco Tébar, depicting a character from the "Trails of Ash and Bone" sourcebook for Vampire: The Masquerade. The Hecata crypt card template is by Ginés Quiñonero.
MIGUEL VEGA WINS THE IBERIAN GRAND PRIX 2024!
89 players participated in this event in Palma de Mallorca on November 16.
Read the full report: Grand Prix Iberia Mallorca 2024

34 players turned up for this tournament on November 30.
Read the full report: Grand Prix Santiago 2024
JONAS STÅHLE IS THE 2024 CHAMPION OF FINLAND!
30 participants played this event in Kervala on November 9.
Read the full report: Finnish National Championship 2024
EDUARDO MATEUS IS THE 2024 CHAMPION OF PORTUGAL!
33 players appeared for this event in Lisbon on November 2.
Read the full report: Portugal National Championship 2024
TOMASZ KLOCZKO IS THE 2024 UK CHAMPION!
26 Methuselahs battled it out on November 9 in Leeds.
Read the full report: UK National Championship 2024
ROY OPITZ IS THE 2024 NETHERLANDS CHAMPION!
24 players on November 24 can´t be a coincidence right?
Read the full report: Netherlands National Championship 2024
JUDGE RULINGS: NETHERLANDS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Hugh Angseesing, VEKN Chairman among other things, helps judge this event:
In November I was fortunate enough to travel to the Dutch nationals in Wijchen. As well as playing some excellent VTES with players from Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany and of course the Netherlands, I was lucky enough to visit Wijchen Castle where they were also holding a Circus exhibition as well as enjoying some Dutch craft beers courtesy of Robin, our host.
I only had to answer two questions but they’re both very common ones, so I repeat them and their answers here.
Q: Can a locked vampire play superior Cloak the Gathering to give another minion + 1 stealth?
A: Yes, generally a minion will be locked when playing action modifiers. Contrast this with Veil the Legions, which has explicit text “Only usable by a ready unlocked vampire other than the acting minion. Only one Veil the Legions can be played each action.”
Q: Can I play a Direct Intervention on the same turn as I played a Wash?
A: No, even though the Wash is giving you back a master phase action in your next turn, this does not allow you to spend a second out-of-turn master phase. See page 9 of the rulebook.
TROY ESPIRITU IS THE 2024 ASIAN CHAMPION!
15 players turned up for this continental championship in Singapore on November 2.
Read the full report: Asian Continental Championship 2024
VTES RULEBOOK IN JAPANESE NOW FOR DOWNLOAD
The rules of the game are already available for download in English, French, Spanish and Latin, but now also Japanese is added to this list of languages. The translation is by Kazuyuki Okuda - many thanks to you Kaz! Check it out at blackchantry.com > Utilities > Rulebook.
VAMPIRE: THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE ARTIST IN FOCUS: LAWRENCE SNELLY
In the long row of VTES 30 years celebration activities, Black Chantry published an interview with Lawrence Snelly, an artist who has been with the game since the very beginning in 1994. Check it out at Blackchantry.com!
BLACK CHANTRY SUMMARY: NOVEMBER 2024
Apart from stuff you could see above (Hugh visited the Netherlands Nationals, Ginés organised the Grand Prix on Mallorca), the ghouls are working hard:
• The Fifth Edition Lasombra preconstructed deck is now in stores, and legal for tournament play since November 30. One of those fancy 1-page strategy guides is available now.
• The second round of playtest of the four 2025 Fifth Edition Sabbat decks has started! This time 98 cards was presented to the playtest groups to try out and give feedback. This round ends January 2.
• The Fifth Edition Hecata preconstructed deck preview season is ongoing, and the product page will be up soon at Blackchantry.com. The deck is scheduled for a January 2025 release.
• The five next New Blood packs (Lasombra, Hecata, Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce) are planned for late first quarter 2025.
• Sadly, more old legacy single cards for print-on-demand will not be up for Christmas shopping. Early 2025 is the new aim, with Dementation and Temporis stuff first.
• The 2-player VTES variant is still on hold for now.
• A reminder: Draft is coming back to VTES! Black Chantry has given VEKN National Coordinators the chance of testing a print-on-demand draft kit for 8-10 players. Are you interested in testing this experience?, talk to your National Coordinator.
• Currently these Black Chantry products are available through Gamepod, Drivethrucards.com and other stores:
Lost Kindred bundle
Keepers of Tradition Reprint Bundle 1
Keepers of Tradition Reprint Bundle 2
Heirs of the Blood Reprint Bundle 1
Heirs of the Blood Reprint Bundle 2
Den of Fiends Preconstructed Deck (Also Spanish, French)
Libertine Ball Preconstructed Deck (Also Spanish, French)
Pact with Nephandi Preconstructed Deck (Also Spanish, French)
Parliament of Shadows Preconstructed Deck (Also Spanish, French)
Anthology I bundle
VTES Card Creator (Drivethrucards only)
25th Anniversary
First Blood: Malkavian (Also Spanish, French)
First Blood: Nosferatu (Also Spanish, French)
First Blood: Toreador (Also Spanish, French)
First Blood: Tremere (Also Spanish, French)
First Blood: Ventrue (Also Spanish, French)
VTES Legacy Card Singles (Drivethrucards and Gamepod only)
Promo Pack 1 (Drivethrucards and Gamepod only)
Promo Pack 2 (Drivethrucards and Gamepod only)
Promo Pack 3 (For promotion only)
Promo Pack 4 (For promotion only)
VTES "Parity Shift" playmat
VTES card sleeves
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle Fifth Edition (Stores only)
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle Fifth Edition Latin (Drivethrucards only)
Fifth Edition: Malkavian (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
Fifth Edition: Nosferatu (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
Fifth Edition: Toreador (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
Fifth Edition: Tremere (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
Fifth Edition: Ventrue (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
Promo Pack 3 (Event promos only)
Fifth Edition: Banu Haqim (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
Fifth Edition: Brujah (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
Fifth Edition: Gangrel (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
Fifth Edition: The Ministry (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
New Blood: Malkavian (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
New Blood: Nosferatu (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
New Blood: Toreador (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
New Blood: Tremere (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
New Blood: Ventrue (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
The Fall of London (Also Spanish, French, Latin)
Echoes of Gehenna
Shadows of Berlin (Also Spanish, French)
New Blood: Banu Haqim (Also Spanish, French)
New Blood: Brujah (Also Spanish, French)
New Blood: Gangrel (Also Spanish, French)
New Blood: The Ministry (Also Spanish, French)
Fifth Edition: Ravnos (Also Spanish, French)
Fifth Edition: Salubri (Also Spanish, French)
Fifth Edition: Tzimisce (Also Spanish, French)
30th Anniversary (Also Spanish, French)
Fifth Edition: Lasombra (Also Spanish, French)
Do you have opinions or questions for Black Chantry? Start a topic on the VEKN forum, or contact the company by e-mail, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
RECENT NEWS IN THE WORLD OF DARKNESS
This month our friends at the World of Darkness crew over at Paradox Interactive published a FREE Vampire: The Masquerade story: "Reins of Power" available for PDF download at Renegade Game Studios.
"It is New Year’s Eve, and the times are changing. The old Baron, a corrupt and wicked fellow, has been unseated by the players’ coterie, leaving a power vacuum that must be filled. The characters must replace the Baron immediately. They may seize the city for themselves or assume the role of kingmaker, throwing their support behind another Anarch."
A one session scenario made for Anarch player characters with this setup, sounds very interesting!
Subscribe to the World of Darkness News show for more news!
CALENDAR
Upcoming tournaments for the coming month (registered so far) are in:
Austria
Australia
Brazil x16
Czech Republic
Finland
France
Greece
Italy x2
Japan
Mexico
Online x4
Philippines
Poland
Portugal x3
Serbia
Spain x11
Sweden
USA x7
For details about these events, see the VEKN Event Calendar.
Remember: Online tournaments are possible - just check the box "Online tournament" when you add the event to the calendar!
CONTACT VEKN
You can contact the VEKN Inner Circle members using contact forms at VEKN.net. Also follow the official VTES Facebook page Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, the official VEKN X (Twitter) account @VEKN_VTES and the official VTES Discord server.
One day you will die. All of this will end. All there is to do is play.
Roy Opitz is the 2024 Netherlands champion!
This tournament was played in Wijchen on November 24. Reported by Robin Vossen, with comment by the champion:
It was a good event, quite a lot of people I expected to show had other things they had to do but we still managed to get 24 people for the event.
And not only Dutch people, we had the Germans, our friends from the south (Belgium) join us as well. But, a lot less expected we also had a player from Poitiers France!
Nobody ever played VTES at the selected venue and we had a lot of positive comments from both the players and the owners of the venue. Besides the actual event, there was a little side event where people could play a little game when they got ousted early by trying to find all cards hidden in a playmat. Those that found it got a ticket to a raffle where they could win such a playmat.
Quite a lot of different decks, from the more old school decks, to Baba Yaga to 419 Scammers.
Standings before the final:
1. Michael Köper 2 GW, 6,5 VP
2. Roy Opitz 1 GW, 7.5 VP
2. Milan Matthes 1 GW, 6.5 VP
3. Jeroen van Oort 1 GW, 5 VP, 130 TP
4. Jozef Patrnciak 1 GW, 5 VP, 102 TP
The event was won by Roy Opitz, he wrote the following to describe the final.
“All players had a good start in the finals, only the Gangel missed at least one Baron in the starting crypt, but after a few Things he also saw his undead existence at some point.
The Ravnos managed 2-3 good bleeds, but were relentlessly sent into torpor by the Potence weenies.
My Tzimisce bounced off the Gangrel thanks to countless Earth Meld or Deep Ecology.
The Gangrel froze in fear of Baba Yaga and repeatedly negotiated nothing-attack pacts with her. Thus Baba Yaga, supported by Beatrice Tremblay, was able to take out the Ravnos in under an hour and the battle with the weenies began. This grind developed in the direction of Baba Yaga.
As I continued to bounce off the Gangrel, they were able to build up further and, thanks to Things, Villein and many Hunting Grounds, had six vampires with full blood out without ever having made a move forwards.
After Baba was also able to defeat the weenies and began to orientate herself more towards the back, firstly because she wanted to secure victory and secondly because she knew about my Rötschrecks, the Gangrel began to go forward and thanks to Club Illusion and Monkey Wrench removed 14 of Baba Yaga's 22 pools in one turn, but one vampire died thanks to Archon Investigation.
Baba Yaga then took out another vampire with a backrush, which I got on my side thanks to Graverobbing on the one hand and on the other (already prepared for some time) played Adrino, who had also hidden in the Gangrel crypt and was thus contested.
Robbed of three Vampires, Jozef still managed to get around Baba Yaga's Henchmen (Carlton and three Procurers) and oust them two turns later.
With 15 minutes left on the clock, but more minions, I was able to oust the Gangrel myself with the help of Club Illusion and finally aggrevated damage on the Gangrel just before the timeout. Thanks to my higher seed, I was able to decide the victory in my favour.”
Roys tournament winning deck: "Anarch Tzimisce haunting your graves"
Crypt (12 cards)
3x Ángel Guerrero 7 ANI DOM PRO baron Tzimisce:6
2x Adrino Manauara 8 ANI DOM PRO pot baron Tzimisce:6
2x Branimira 6 ANI dom pre pro baron Tzimisce:6
1x Clara Hjortshøj 5 PRO ani aus dom Tzimisce:6
1x Marialena 5 DOM PRO ani Tzimisce:6
1x Neserian 6 ANI DOM cel pro Tzimisce:6
1x Prentis Derby 4 ani dom pro Tzimisce:6
1x Whisper 5 ANI DOM pro Tzimisce:6
Library (90 cards)
Master (16; 5 trifle)
1x Anarch Free Press, The
1x Carfax Abbey
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
2x Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
1x Library Hunting Ground
1x Powerbase: Montreal
3x Rötschreck
5x Vessel
1x Wall Street Night, Financial Newspaper
Event (2)
2x Scourge of the Enochians
Action (22)
10x Deep Song
4x Govern the Unaligned
6x Graverobbing
2x Status Perfectus, The
Equipment (4)
1x Ivory Bow
3x Living Manse
Action Modifier (1)
1x Conditioning
Action Modifier/Combat (2)
2x Obedient Flesh
Combat (14)
10x Claws of the Dead
4x Sculpt the Flesh
Reaction (29)
7x Bait and Switch
2x Cats' Guidance
4x Deep Ecology
4x One With the Land
10x Organized Resistance
2x Protection Racket
Hope to see everybody again soon in Wijchen for the next event!
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