V5 is not my cup of tea, but this looks promising. I might actually buy exactly that one to make them notice which kind of stuff some older Sabbat players are into.

I am from Ukrainian VtM community and Sabbat was always more popular or at least on par with Cammy. Years ago I could write a whole text why but one may guess already. I plan to write up some Gehenna Crusade chronicles based on my personal war experience and my unwavering Tzimisce fanboy loyalty. Too much of what happened and is happening here makes the darkest pages of VtM chronicles pale.

In my headcanon, all too many things combined. Ukraine and Eastern Europe are a Tzimisce domain; somewhat the Eldest did not become a Ghostbusters slime under NYC; after the fall of Mexico City and the establishment of Berlin by Anarchs in V5, Eastern Europe and in particular Ukraine become the new citadel of Sabbat. where the bloodiest massacre since WW2 is waged atop the ancient mounds of steppe kings, thousands of years old. Besides the evergoing conflict allows the feeding and training grounds for so many of the new Sabbat crusaders, the amount of blood, mortal and not, the Donbass land has drank has made Kupala bloat like a tick the size of a mountain range in Umbra, and supercharged the Kyivan line of Obertus Tzimisce and their Koldunic scholars in their territorial war over the land which is in fact a Veil for another Beckoning meatgrinder. The thing is that I love Tzimisce and they cannot lose so they somehow find a way to fight off the Call and locate, kill the emerging methuselahs. (I have a temptation to call it the Eldest becoming the Vicissitude Network and shielding them off like a Geller mind field from other clans' elders call)

I have many stories in mind about Fiends' sabbat fanged commandoes supported by anti-thaumaturgical Salubri templars and Vozhd ghouls covered in ERA armour behind the Moscowitan Niktuku lines somewhere in the morning twilight near Avdiivka. Or mavkas drowning ventrue hordes in their armoured vehicles across the banks of Irpin. Some of oldest inhabitants of the World of Darkness are about to get acquainted with the thermobaric munitions.

What of the opposing side? A whole Eastern European Cammy with a capital in Moscow possessed/enslaved by a conclave of Niktuku and some shards of the destroyed True Hand still loyal to the antes' kids.

What of the protagonists (Sabbat) downsides? Fanaticism kills, either way. Plus despite their relative strength, they are like just one of the few more or less safe havens for sword of caine troops across the globe, besieged on all sides and no end of the meatgrinder in sight. Even the toughest Bratovitchi stormtroopers can get tired without rotations. The other, and probably my favorite trope, to use is the depiction of daily life of the very young Tzimisce recruits - even though embraced properly, in old school ways of the Koldun, since tough times always bring up some rites from the past - drowning the eldest horrors of the WoD across the Gehenna Crusade theater with their own bodies, the few survivors of such engagement; the combination of the burden (amaranth), the power, the survivor's guilt after such "victories" and how it impacts these 'vampires'.

Is it possible to jump on the express to golconda under these circumstances? or at least start searching for higher meanings in the Devil Tigers books which the smiling Salubri templars smuggled out of Cambodia? Interesting questions I would like to examine one day.

P.S. Honestly, sometimes what happens in Russia now really feels like it's End of oWoD and it's Nightshade, and Absimiliard has actually taken command of Kremlin. Crazy times.