The Blood Brothers have always been a bloodline which I've wanted to try out. In the role-playing game, the Brothers are a thaumaturgical experiment by the Tremere antitribu, which resulted in a circle of beings that not only share a hive mind, but also senses and even body parts, thanks to the Brothers' unique Discipline, Sanguinus.
In V:TES, the powers of Sanguinus has been translated into a number of relatively powerful cards. For example, Walk of Caine allows the Blood Brothers to bleed at a high rate, albeit at a high cost. Unwholesome Bond, at superior, makes it easier to bring out the Brothers from the uncontrolled region. Shell Game provides a meas
ure of stealth, while Gestalt allows the Brothers to intercept.
It is in combat, though, where Sanguinus shines, with cards such as Octopod, Brothers' Blood, Free Fight, Coordinate Attack, and, of course, Coagulated Entity, allowing the Brothers to hold their own in a fight.In theory, anyway.
The difficulty level in building a Blood Brothers-based deck has always been on the high side. Even within a given circle, with only five minions belonging to the same circle, one always runs the risk of having too many duplicates in the uncontrolled region. Also, mixing members of different Blood Brother Circles, even if they belong to the same group, is futile, because Sanguinus will only work with members of the same circle. This means that, even if the Chicago and Torrance circles both belong to group 2, mixing them means you're planning use only Fortitude and Potence, which would be a waste.
It's even worse with the group 4-6 vampires (Mexico, Kiev, and Budapest), since the latter two circles have different sets of Disciplines: Kiev switches out Potence for Protean, for the most part, while the Budapest Circle replaces Potence with Vicissitude.ew
There are two minions, though, which can be mixed with other circles. Angelo, the Red Lister, can be placed with either the group 2 (Chicago or Torrance) or the group 4 (Mexico City) circles, while New Blood can be placed with any circle, regardless of group. By using both vampires, the crypt for group 2 and 4 Blood Brother decks can be expanded to seven, which improve the variation of crypt building.
Despite the difficulties, players have tried to make workable Blood Brother decks. In the next post, I'll take a look at one way to use the Brothers.
2 comments:
A group 2 mixed with group 4 deck is not possible.
Indeed the rules of the game say that a deck should be made with a crypt of one group or two consecutive groups.
So You could make a deck with groups 2-3 or 3-4 but not with 2-4 thus.
To clarify, I'm not saying that you mix the groups that cannot be mixed. Angelo, being group 3, can be placed either with the Group 2 Circles, or the Group 4 Circles.
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