I'm Peter D Bakija, and I've decided to host this here V:TES web page, mostly to archive all my Nosferatu Strategy Newsletters, but to also occasionally post tournament reports and what-not. If nothing else, it lets the world know that we have a good V:TES community in Ithaca, NY.
I set up a listserve to keep Western NY VTES players in contact, and kind of keeps players in Ithaca, Binghamton, Syracuse (which has a web page listed at the links at the bottom of the page), and various other nearby locatons in touch, mostly by announcing events. It is a pretty low traffic listserve. If you want to check it out or join, go to:
As we have a good supply of pretty good V:TES players in Ithaca, I figure I might as well make a local deck archive, featuring decks from various players from Ithaca and the local environs:
I'm the official organizer of the VEKN VTES clan newsletters, and along with publishing my own monthly newsletter, I coordinate the efforts of the other Newsletter writers.
The Nosferatu (you know--the creepy, bald, pointy eared guys from, say, either version of Nosferatu. Think Klaus Kinski with blue makeup on) were the vampires of choice, in my book, so I write strategy newsletters all about them. Here they are:
Nosferatu Newsletter 1: Basic Strategies.
Nosferatu Newsletter 2: Deck--Dr. Doomlittle.
Nosferatu Newsletter 3: Basic Vampires.
Nosferatu Newsletter 4: Deck-Sheldon Rush Combat.
Nosferatu Newsletter 5: Nosferatu Specific Masters.
Nosferatu Newsletter 6: Deck-Weenie Nosferatu Rush.
Nosferatu Newsletter 7: Expansion Vampires.
Nosferatu Newsletter 8: Deck-Political Pool Gain.
Nosferatu Newsletter 9: Potence and the Nosferatu.
Nosferatu Newsletter 10: Sabbat Vampires.
Nosferatu Newsletter 11: All Diablere Special!
Nosferatu Newsletter 12: Deck-Joanie Loves Chachi.
Nosferatu Newsletter 13: Obfuscate and the Nosferatu.
Nosferatu Newsletter 14: Deck-Tiberius has a Home!
Nosferatu Newsletter 15: Deck-6 Sheldons, One Deck.
Nosferatu Newsletter 16: Animalism and the Nosferatu.
Nosferatu Newsletter 17: Hey, hey, It's Marty Lechtansi.
Nosferatu Newsletter 18: Poor Little Daliyah.
Nosferatu Newsletter 19: Ymmm. Selma the Repugnant.
Nosferatu Newsletter 20: Judah, Judah, Judah.
Nosferatu Newsletter 21: It's KoKo. He Looks Really Angry.
Nosferatu Newsletter 22: Look! New Vampires!
Nosferatu Newsletter 23: Deck-Courier Discard
Nosferatu Newsletter 24: Deck-Disguised Weapons!
Nosferatu Newsletter 25: Deck-Beast-a-mania!
Nosferatu Newsletter 26: Deck-Nosferatu Politics
Nosferatu Newsletter 27: Deck-Fortitude Stealth and Bleed
Nosferatu Newsletter 28: Deck-Dr. Doomlittle Redux
Nosferatu Newsletter 29: Bloodlines and the Nosferatu: Any Good?
Nosferatu Newsletter 30: The Nosferatu and Samedi Bloodlines deck!
Nosferatu Newsletter 31: More Bloodlines Reviews
Nosferatu Newsletter 32: Deck-Nosferatu backed Weenie Bleed
Nosferatu Newsletter 33: The Camarilla Pre-Constructed Deck
Nosferatu Newsletter 34: Tier 3 Nosferatu!
Nosferatu Newsletter 35: Deck-Tier 3 Nosferatu Parity Shift!
Nosferatu Newsletter 36: Deck: We Got Flight!
Nosferau Newsletter 37: Nosferatu and the Anarchs!
Nosferatu Newsletter 38: It's the Samedi!
The Ithaca Jyhad meets, pretty much, every Friday night at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. We play lots of stuff (VTES, Shadowfist, SFB, Titan, Bridge, etc.), but are always looking for more VTES players--drop me a line if you want to come by for a game!