Card draw simulator
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An_Undecayed_Whately · 1185
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them... maybe you can hire Leo, Leo & Associates
This aims to be a big-money deck focused on bonus actions to win scenarios with brute force.
There's no epic combos here, just keep shoving money and bodies at problems until they are overcome.
Your Peace of Mind is Our Priority
Routine enemies go down without effort by passive stabbing and loyal doggos. Bigger enemies just require bigger guns, sometimes played for free. Vicious Blow is there to get you over the top in a pinch.
Now Hiring, Hazard Pay Offered
Leo only values his VP of Operations and his Chief Financial Officer. The rest of the goons, interns, and security personnel are entirely disposable. They're all intended to be soak, so there's no need to let the boss get his hands dirty. In fact try to get some of these disposable mooks on the table pronto, it will help insulate the C-suite from going down to Bought in Blood.
We Ensure Productivity and Results
Eventually you should gain extra actions from Leo De Luca, Haste, and Quick Thinking. Those extra actions combo very well with Keen Eye, which gives a boost to investigate and fight actions for an entire phase. So you ought to be able to sustain fights and clue-finding.
Efficiency Experts You Can Trust
In addition to gaining bonus actions, you should be getting lots of stuff for zero actions here: free money, free uses of your gun, free card draw, free damage, free testless damage. You shouldn't often need to click for cash or draws. This lets Leo focus on consequential actions.
Save the World? No Sir, Just Paying the Bills
All of this hiring and boosting costs money, so we rely on two copies of Lone Wolf to passively boost income. Towards the end of the scenario Leo can sock away excess in order to give a jump-start to the next scenario in the campaign. In a pinch don't hesitate to utilize your hoard to save your skin for difficult tests (or against a weak stat).
True Solo Campaign-Ready
For campaign starter swap out the XP cards for the Side Deck. When upgrading priority should go to Charisma and Keen Eye. Then swap in Ever Vigilant for the redundant Keen Eye with your 7th XP. Then save up for SttP to start every scenario right. The least-vital upgrade is probably the slightly cheaper version of Leo, make that the last upgrade.
If playing in Standalone Mode, remove Embezzled Treasure and swap in a second copy of Daring or maybe Money Talks.
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Sep 04, 2023 |
Sep 05, 2023Re: card draw, Daring gives you draw whether or not the test fails or passes and grants +3, so in this case I prefer it over Overpower. In any event most of the draw engine is from Lucky Cigarette Case, which triggers most turns, much more useful than ephemeral skill cards. I’m still not familiar with Scarlet Keys, but Stylish Coat looks promising! It plays nice with Faustian Bargain and Emergency Cache, but relies mostly on surfacing one copy of Lone Wolf before playing. Worth considering!! As for the .45 Thompson I’m skeptical. In true solo you’re facing fewer enemies and weaker bosses. You rarely need to invest so heavily in combat. And both cards do 2 damage. I suspect that keeping the extra hand slot open (allowing for a Flashlight or the zero-action kills from Survival Knife) is too important from a versatility standpoint given the XP cost and resource expense for equipping it outside of Sleight of Hand. Please let me know if you try this! I think it would be a blast for Carcosa, maybe even for Dunwich. |
Jun 22, 2024How do you even get clues? |
Jun 22, 2024Keen Eye is permanent card and its bonus lasts for entire investigator phase. There’s lots of cards that generate resources to fuel it. |
Cool deck! I'll definitely try this out someday because Leo Anderson has become a favourite of mine. Three suggestions, though: I think the card draw needs to be a bit stronger, which is why I'd prefer Overpower or Overpower to Daring, and why I'd add a Glory or two.
Next, since you can only have one copy of Lone Wolf in play, why not also run a Stylish Coat to gain two resources each round?
Finally, to make even more cash, I'd upgrade the measly .45 Automatic to the advanced .45 Thompson as a target for Sleight of Hand. Maybe this upgrade would be worth running Bandolier to enable holding the Knife also, though this would clash with the Stylish Coat combo just mentioned. But then the extra cash from that weapon would compensate for the Coat, I'd assume, especially if you go full beast-mode. So maybe no Bandolier after all.
Anyway, there're lots of cool synergies in your deck, and I appreciate the thematic focus of Leo Anderson as a leader wholeheartedly committed to sacrifices and collateral damage.