For 4 resources, you get 5 attacks at +1 for two damage. As a baseline, this is better than the .45 Automatic, though with two notable caveats: 's have more baseline fight and therefore don't need as much of a combat boost, and you can't unload round after round into an enemy unless you succeed so well that you would've succeeded by 1 without the Mauser's boost (or, if you do over-succeed and don't need to fight, just gain a small refund of its cost).

The best level 0 weapon in the class up until now is the .41 Derringer, and that card makes the damage conditional on whether or not you needed its boost, which is a way worse risk, so the one thing that makes the Derringer possibly more attractive is the higher boost to fight tests. Rogues almost all have a combat score of 3 (Sef has 2, Preston has 1 and can't take illicit guns anyway, Tony has 5), so a +2 boost instead of +1 is not irrelevant. The key then is to slot this gun in people who want to test really high in their fights. Right now there's two standouts for this: Tony Morgan (who often uses his 5 to profit off of Lucky Cigarette Case and other triggers) and Winifred Habbamock (whose card draw is unmatched in her faction and is geared towards "Succeed by" skill cards as a result). With modest boosting from Delilah O'Rourke or out of faction boosts like Ace of Swords, "Skids" O'Toole could also be quite capable with this weapon. With High Roller almost any Rogue could do it, but especially Jenny Barnes is capable here, especially if she's Well Connected. The resource refund is also not irrelevant to any big money strategy, and I should once again point out the synergy here with Delilah O'Rourke. I'll even shout out Leo Anderson who could easily run this as a net cheaper .45 Automatic and dual wield this with a reliable melee weapon like Enchanted Blade or Machete.

This weapon is a game changer for Rogues. Before it, the Rogue role of "flex" was rather questionable, as they had a notable disadvantage to Guardians as simply being unable to reliably churn out the requisite damage integers (really, 2 per attack is the baseline for a decent fighter). It has, along with some recent Rogue cards (like Delilah), really fleshed out that potential role. And while I'm beyond excited for all the goodies in Winifred's pack, and particularly for Winifred herself, I'm mostly just happy that our boy Tony finally has four weapons worth running at level 0- pay your respects to Kukri now.

Shhhhh. We dont talk about how ridiculously good this card is.

Just put it in your big hoarding deck that started with a 5 investigator, stock up on the best spells in the game and go hog-wild.

You did'nt hear this from me. shhhhhhh.

Disclaimer: She is a cog in an engine decktype that takes a LOT of time setting up and lotsa resources already, make sure you have a lean and focused deck built for getting the engine built ASAP.

Fast, can give you much more ammo then Extra Ammunition. Brilliant brilliant card.

The extra cost is no problem, characters have more money than most. The extra XP is perfectly worth the bonus ammo and saved action. Just ask Leo Anderson, he allways has some ammo in his supply pack, Mark Harrigan too!

Jokes aside, there's a variety of firearms so all the fighty dudes would do well to at least consider this card a bit.

Edit: wups, Mark cant take it! Still good tho.

Heads up, seems liek this think was a projected release intended for the upcoming lady Winifred. Yeah. It's gonna be cool.

Smack a variety of small/middling events with a variety of pips, such "You owe me one!" or Followed in there and then dump them on tests to score free cards.

This is one of those cards Wendy Adams, Rita Young, Silas Marsh and other 4+ characters use to dig themselves and/or friends out of trouble. It seems EXTREEMELY niche, but for that niche, it's very useful. The more players you get at the table the more likely the niche and more useful the card.

The kicker is that "another enemy at your location" clause, since it allows them to evade threats other than those engaged with themselves.

The reason Expeditious Retreat is in my opinion uniquely good is that it really delivers on it's intended task, like a Decoy or Bait and Switch as a means to keep pressure off a friendly fighter or clue-er and along with those other cards you've actually got a useful cardbase of mechanics to depend on.

This effect, "managing enemies" as I call it, is getting more and more useful.