Roland solo. Hard completed

Nice deck and write up! I'm using a similar deck in a 3 man group, but i'm not sure about dynamite. It's a great card for szenario 2 and 3, when cultists spawn far away, but do you have the time to gather enough ressources?

@DjangoThank you. Well i always have money for such kind of cards. I spend actions for money\cards while waiting for monster and playing game slowly overall (1 doom token left on agenda deck\4 cards left in deck and etc). First 1-3 turn i just draw cards\money as madman and equip weapon\ally asap. Dynamit is strong card in bad situations and you can use it for most important test (Willpower).

I see. I'm playing Roland in a 3 man game and he's the main killer. As we draw 3 encounter cards each turn, there's lots of cultists to kill in szenario 2, so i don't have much time to draw and gather ressources.

Different question, what do you think of Disc of Itzamna (kill enemy without a check)?

Roland's ability trigger only if enemy is defeat. Enemy can be defeated only if they taking damage (Rules reference page 8). Discard or parley will not provide clue for us (IIRC). So i found that card useless in solo deck and only slow us.

I see, didn't know that. But it's still useful when there are no clues at your location? Other question, what about the card Deduction, if you search with flashlight and shroud 0?

Only a few locations have 2 clues with 1-2 shroud (in solo play!). It will be poor card cuz:

1. Book icon is useless for test with flashlight cuz you will pass anyway (unless autofail).
2. You can use flashlight again and put another useful card in deck. I just dont have space for that card in my deck (1 Turn vs 1 Cardslot in your deck).

About monster that spawn in location without clue. If they have weak damage (rats\ghoul\acolyte) - just take damage and move to locations with clue (only if it cost you 1 turn for move). For something big - you can use dodge and move. Otherwise - fight.

You can't use 4 cops.

@Antura0 cops at beginning + 2 upg cops buyed. 0+2=2. No?

I've just given this deck a whirl, and it lives up to the strength @Prowersuggests - it's definitely a different playstyle to the 'Roland's bag of tricks'-style deck, which often leans on a few more cards to give him a rounded, part-fighter, part-investigative whiz role. This is his core ability - clue for defeating an enemy - distilled. Great fun to play, great to see the potency of a full hand of cards. I even wound up with Stubborn Detective as my basic weakness, which Roland rather loves - another enemy to whack. Thanks `@Prower!

Small correction: "5\6 cultists killed. Most important - got as many unique cultists as you can." You actually can collect all 6 unique cultists. There is a sixth one in the encounter

@omegalife2002yeah i know. I resigned while last 6th cultist was in play. :(

@zozoyour welcome

`@omegalife2002: For the 2nd scenario you must "gather" 6 cultists, where "unique" refers to the asterisk in front of the cultist's name. So acolytes and wizard of the order do not count toward winning the szenario.

With 2 Characters it's easy to get all 6 cultists, but with only 1 i tried two times and got only 5 each time (6th cultist was on map).

Ressources is a main problem with roland. I've had many situations, where i couldn't play Dynamite Blast or Working a Hunch for 1 or 2 missing. Skids is the better killer, cause with Burglary and Hot Streak you usually have enough of them.

@DjangoI was more referring to the fact that there are 6 to collect, rather than the ability to do so. I haven't played the second scenario solo, so I haven't seen that particular difficulty yet!

No problem. I made this mistake the first time i played with a friend, so making sure others don't repeat it. We thought, you could have 1 of each cultist once in the victory display, so we had 4 asterisk ones, as well as one acolyte and one wizard of the order.

What did you sub out for Enyclopedias and Elder Sign?

@ProwerCould you tell us what would you trade for the Encyclopedias and the Elder Sign? Thanks!

@anapiros Overpower for Encyclopedias. Elder sign is useless so i didn't use it and dont know what i would trade for it.

Don't replace Overpower or any of the skill cards that replace themselves, exept Manual Dexterity. Speed checks that actually matter in the game are too rare.

You could replace Unexpected Courage with Elder Sign Amulet and either commit these to will tests (what Unexpected Courage di for you before), or play them when you run low on sanity.

Hi there, it says only one pack required, but seems you must have 2 packs for some of those. For single core deck what would you replace ?

@VincentXIII the one pack is the core set, and it's assumed that he has two copies of the core set, as that provides a full playset of the player cards for the game.