Anyway. On with the show: these are the three decks I played, and you can pretty much rate them yourselves
as to "Best, Second Best, and 'what the hell does that do?'" :)
Second Round: The Combat Deck
Crypt: (12 cards)
1 Adrianne (Toreador, 6, au ce po pr)
1 Appolonius (Brujah, 10, CE fo po PR, Primogen)
1 Black Cat (Brujah, 5, CE po pr)
1 Crusher (Brujah, 9, CE fo PO PR, Primogen)
1 Hasina Kesi (Caitiff, 1, po)
1 Hector Sosa (Brujah, 4, PO pr)
1 KoKo (Nosferatu, 2, po)
1 Lupo (Brujah, 2, po)
1 Nik (Caitiff, 1, ce)
1 Tiberius (Nosferatu, 5, an ce ob po)
1 Tura Vaughn (Brujah, 8, CE do PO PR, Primogen)
1 Uma Hatch (Brujah, 3, ce pr)
Library: (63 cards)
3 .44 Magnum
3 Acrobatics
1 Al's Army Apparatus
1 Arson
1 Assault Rifle
1 Bastard Sword
2 Blur
1 Boxed In
2 Bum's Rush
2 Celerity
2 Dead-End Alley
1 Deal with the Devil
1 Deer Rifle
1 Distraction
1 Elder Library
4 Fake Out
2 Flash
2 Growing Fury
1 Haven Uncovered
1 Knights, The
2 Legal Manipulations
2 Loyal Street Gang
1 Lucky Blow
1 Majesty
1 Major Boon
2 Manstopper Rounds
2 Mighty Grapple
4 Nimble Feet
1 Presence
1 Protracted Investment
1 Rampage
1 Saturday-Night Special
2 Shattering Blow
1 Slashers, The
1 Slum Hunting Ground
1 Social Charm
1 Submachine Gun
1 Sudden Reversal
1 Taste of Vitae
1 Thrown Gate
2 Thrown Sewer Lid
With as many weapons, Celerity cards, and Potence strikes as I had, this deck built itself first and more or
less did its thing
independently of anything near it. Other than that, I benefitted quite nicely from going first that round,
and having Nik, Uma,
Tiberius, and Koko in my opening crypt - and Hasina and Hector as my next two vampires. I had all four
minions out by the fourth turn, and Stu promptly made a good decision to contest Nik cross-table just to keep
me from winding up for a potential sweep. I retrieved Hasina from him later, but my prey was able to get some
small pool gain going by then via Blood Doll/hunt combos - and had decided to quit blocking me (and as a
result was keeping his vampires longer).