Steady-Handed Katana wielder True Solo

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Roland katana deck for true solo. I have tested running this in Dream Eaters waking side and came out with a victory.

Roland is one of the few investigators with access to Katana as well as Steady-Handed and the combo is surprisingly consistent when you are aiming for 4 over the fight value (in standard). All tokens from -1 to -3 gives you the Katana +2dmg exhaust which should kill most enemies. Vicious blow should help with beefier enemies. Steady-Handed also takes care of horror healing for the most part.

Clue gathering is done by extra intelligence from Death and Milan ending up in 5 intelligence, which should be good enough for 3 shroud locations or lower. Higher shroud values can he handled by killing enemies in those locations with Rolands ability using On the Hunt, or by Working a Hunch, Mysteries Remains and Perception.

Deck works quite well on first scenario already and upgrades mostly bring consistency as you want to get set up very early due to limited time in true solo. Were using the replacement weakness and signature due to it being much more lenient weakness and the pistol cannot fit into Rolands hands. Mysteries Remains also acts as an extra Working a Hunch. Upgrades after this could go to for example On the Hunt (3).

Put Emergency Cache, Ever Vigilant and Prepared for the Worst into Stick to the Plan.

 Cost  Total
   Crack the Case  →  Death • XIII 1 XP 1 XP
    +  Stick to the Plan ••• 6 XP 7 XP
   Emergency Cache  →  Ever Vigilant 1 XP 8 XP
   Emergency Cache    Emergency Cache •• 2 XP 10 XP
   Vicious Blow    Vicious Blow •• 2 XP 12 XP
   Vicious Blow    Vicious Blow •• 2 XP 14 XP

(View at arkham-starter.com)

Link to lvl 0 deck: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/4311485

Some struggles with the deck included fighting 1 fight monsters with multiple health as it is very hard to get the extra damage from Katana with 6 vs 1 fight. Also the deck is very reliant on finding Katana and at least one +1 book. I also tried using Chemistry Set, but it was not worth the slot, even with steady-handed.

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