Wendy the Scavenger, beat Core alone

Sneak Attack is listed in your strategies, but is not in your deck.

Oh sry, i meant backstab. Mistake corrected.

What is the knife for? Just to commit as an item you can recover with scavenge? Wendy will not kill anything with it

Yes, it's just to commit. It's the first item to replace. However in case you don't draw a weapon, it's for emergencies.

Maybe a second Leather Coat is more effective, as it also features a "fight" icon.

Do we actually want to play rabbit's foot or leather coat?

You don't play any of the item cards except Baseball Bat and the Elder Sign Amulet (scenario 3). You only commit them to skill tests and recover them with Scavenging as needed, to commit them again.

Should you run low on health, you can certainly play Leather Coat (or recover it with Scavenging and play it). In one game i played the same Leather Coat three times, as i took lots of damage (Hunting Shadow).

As for the Rabbit's Foot, it's much better to commit for skill tests, so you don't play it ever. Wendy also doesn't fail any test if you play it right (see paragraph "why wendy"), so you could never use it's effect anyway. On the third scenario you should play the Elder Sign Amulet, so her neck slot is already occupied.

Thanks, awesome build. Will try.

So I just played this build and died in the third scenario, but managed to get 4 cultist because I had to resign in the second one.

The main issue I had was getting Leo de Luca early. I usually mulliganed 3-4 cards and didn't get leo in my starting hand once. The second issue I had was getting Scavenging to trigger often enough. Without having flashlight or commiting skills, I rarely succeeded by two even against shroud 1-2. Against shroud 3 or 4, I often spend 2 cards and barely managed to get the clue. Seems kinda dicy, but I will try this build again in the future for sure.

Leo is a very powerful card. I played the whole campaign 2 times with this deck and the last scenario a third time, with focus on killing the boss and not gatheriny any clues. In most games i had leo on my starting hand or got him very early, so i guess i was pretty lucky.

Only on the last game i drew him half way through the game and it was difficult to hold on to the ressources/cards, that i wanted to keep. I needed to spend many on immediate threats.

Investigating in shroud 3+ locations can get rough if you don't have the right cards in hand. So it's important to stock up on cards early on, so you can commit them to investigate checks and recover them at the same time.

How do you reliably trigger scavenging and succeed investigations by at least +2?

This might be one deck that opportunist might work in.

The cost to make Opportunist actually work is just too high in my opinion. For me, other card have higher priority, so i wouldn't know what to remove for it anyway.

You can't reliably use scavenging at shroud 3+ (though it's nice if it works), that's why you should wait with investigating low shroud locations once you got many items with investigate boosts in your discard pile (like Rivertown and Graveyard). Also, you can investigate locations without clues to trigger Scavenging (even without Burglary).

Seems a bit strange to have baseball bat as a core asset in a scavenging deck. You cannot use your flashlight if you have baseball bat.

Flashlight is for committing not playing in this deck, mostly.

However you must decide on a case by case which way is better. If you don't have many cards with investigate symbols and can avoid combat for a 2-3 turns, you can play the Flashlight, use it up (maybe Scavenging the Baseball Bat you discarded by doing so) and when the flash is empty, play the bat again.

That's the great thing about Scavenging, it gives you more options, as discarded items are not lost (unless you draw wendys weakness).

Quick question: did you play this on Hard or Standard?

I'm mostly wondering how Wendy's underwhelming books (and no way to raise them) work with the harder chaos bag.

I played on standard (updated description to reflect this).

I haven't tried the game on hard with any character yet, but regarding wendys investigation rating, i also suspect you'll run into trouble. HOwever it might be possible to win, if you only investigage shroud 1-2 locations. HOwever you'll miss out on some victory points this way.

Would you use the same build in a non-solo game?

Generally speaking, "stand alone" builds can be played well in groups, as they can handly any threat thrown at them. This way, other characters don't have to waste actions coming to your rescue.

I've played her like this in a 2 and 3 player game. She's pretty good on her own, as long as you don't fight too much (when low an ressources) and avoid high shrouds, as Scavenging won't help you at these. However you can help other investigators to clear high shroud and then recover cards at low shroud, later.

This may be a dumb question, but for cards like Hard Knocks are you able to activate its ability as many times per skill test as your resources will allow? I've been playing it where you can only use a card like that once per skill test.

There's no limit to Hard Knocks or talents like Scrapper. There's only a limit if it explicitly says so, like Blood Pact or cards that exhaust on use.

hi just played with this deck first 2 scenarios of forgotten age and it was a blast. great deck.

Thanks, good to know this old deck stil has it's uses. There's a lot of cards that make it a lot better, like the fail to win combo, Newspaper and Guiding Spirit.

Newspaper boosts Burglary, if you have no clues.

Found this deck and decided to give it a try as I've never given Wendy much of an honest try before and true soloing was hit and miss in the past. First scenario died last turn before killing the goul priest. Realized a made of ton of errors so I started a new campaign and gave it another go. 8 XP from first scenario, I was pretty stoked! I was following the recommended upgrades as well. Second scenario didn't go as well as I'd like as I only got 3 cultists, 7 XP from that one. Was worried going into the last one as I've struggled with it in the past and this time was no exception. I was running around try to deal with doom tokens on enemies while getting clues. Umordhoth spawned as at the ritual site and I had the other 3 cultist waiting on the main path, I was in the woods.Managed to pull it out on the last turn before Umordhoth finished me off with a luck Backstab draw from a guts use

Such a fun deck with great combos. Will definitely try again in the future, maybe on the Return To sets