Greetings, All...
    Subsequent to the dispute about the viability of Assamites in their
current state, I thought I might post my most successful deck with them to
date.  While this in no way represents the clan as the silent killers that
they should be, it does do well in a variety of situations, mostly due to
it's flexibility.  The equipment is of questionable value, I admit, but
often an Embraced vampire with a .44 is just considered not worth the effort
to dispatch with in the hierarchy of events within a game...  Mostly, this
deck suceeds by changing tactics often and unpredictably...  well on with
the decklist, in Glorious ELDB Format

Deck name: Assamite Highlanders
Created by: R. David Zopf

Crypt: (12 cards)
3 Abd al-Rashid (Assamite, 5, CE ob QU)
1 Al-Ashrad, Amr of Alamut (Assamite, 9, au CE ob QU TH)
1 Harika Guljan (Assamite, 3, QU)
1 Kalinda (Assamite, 6, CE OB th)
1 Kanya Akhtar (Assamite, 2, ce)
1 Melek (Assamite, 7, ce OB pr QU)
1 Parnassus (Assamite, 7, au CE QU th)
2 Tansu Bekir (Assamite, 4, ce OB)
1 Thetmes, Calif of Alamut (Assamite, 10, CE do OB po QU, 2 votes)


Library: (90 cards)
4 .44 Magnum
2 Acrobatics
1 Alamut
1 Barrens, The
3 Blood Doll
3 Blur
1 Celerity
3 Cloak the Gathering
11 Embrace, The
7 Flash
5 Forced Awakening
1 Fragment of the Book of Nod
4 Heartblood of the Clan
1 Information Highway
1 Ivory Bow
1 KRCG News Radio
2 Market Square
4 Mask of a Thousand Faces
1 Mr. Winthrop
7 Obfuscate
6 Psyche
1 Sport Bike
5 Swallowed by the Night
5 Taste of Death
4 Taste of Vitae
1 Underworld Hunting Ground
3 Wake with Evening's Freshness
2 White Phosphorus Grenade

In case you hadn't caught on, the idea is to bring up mid-range Assamites
from the crypt, use them to Embrace, then take Heartblood of the Clan
actions ad nauseam to efficiently get up Assamite Elders for free.  These,
along with a horde of raving weenie Embraced vampires make a formidable
force...  Tactic changes can include weenie overrun bleed, bloat (by
transfers off the Elders, and Blood Doll/hunting), and light
combat/intercept.  I know that you'll likely think that this deck doesn't do
any one thing well, but the fact is it has a great number of actions per
turn available to it, and that compensates well for the difficulty in
playing the Assamites...  Comments are welcome.