Jenny bewitches an opportunistic veteran boxer and learns about the Great War

• The Book of War is a brand new card that opens the door to a lot of new strategies. When looking for Tactic cards to pair it with, Hit and Run was the one that caught my eye, and who better to pair it with than The Red-Gloved Man himself !

• When looking for investigators to pull off this particular combo, Jenny Barnes is the one I settled on : Jenny is an investigator that has a lot to gain in terms of stats while still filling her flex role, who can squeeze extra value out of the power turns the combo offers, and can rely on her resource generation to make progress before assembling the combo.

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• Overview

• Main Strategy

• Lessons from the Book of War

• Springing into Action

• Not-So-Frivolous Spendings

• Conclusion

• Repeatably use Hit and Run on The Red-Gloved Man with The Book of War.

• Make the most of the turns with additional actions from Eon Chart, .41 Derringer, Leo De Luca, or a free weapon from Sleight of Hand.

• Spend your extra money to gather the combo pieces, protect yourself from the mythos and make progress.

• Hit and Run is the deck's key card, and its only target for The Book of War, allowing for multiple uses of The Red-Gloved Man. This gives Jenny an incredibly impressive statline for any endeavor she needs to engage in at the time.

  • Of course, Book of War can run out of uses. This is why Jenny not only needs to make the most of the turns where she has The Red-Gloved Man in play (more on that below), but also to be able to operate without him.

  • Note that one copy of each will allow for 5 uses of RGM : 3 from Book of War, a fourth from Hit and Run (discarding it in the process), and a fifth from RGM himself (which will last for the enemy and mythos phase and be discarded, unlike the previous ones).

  • While drawing both The Book of War and The Red-Gloved Man can be unreliable, Hit and Run will always patiently be waiting underneath Bewitching until the other two combo pieces are found.

• Sun Tzu's most important lesson was on the front page the whole time ! "Throw the Book at Them!" is a bit of a cheeky addition to the deck that could / should probably be replaced with Research Librarian for consistency purposes. However, it does have neat interactios with this deck : With The Book of War, it hits with 7 and can knock the enemy out for a turn, stalling the enemy for the next turn to get more value out of Sleight of Hand, Hit and Run or both, or saving these events for more important purposes.

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With the Hit and Run + The Red-Gloved Man combo being repeatable, the next step is to get more value out of those power turns.

• Leo De Luca is the go-to option for this kind of thing, his extra actions also helping draw through the deck looking for The Book of War, or playing Bank Job and Thorough Inquiry.

• Sleight of Hand is another card to stick under Bewitching, which can empower jenny with the ability to dish out good damage on one of her Hit and Run turns.

  • .41 Derringer is the target of choice for Sleight of Hand shenanigans. With RGM boosting , Jenny will hit for 8 before commits, making the extra action quite likely against most threats.

• Eon Chart : There is nothing I'd rather hold in my accessory slot, the resource cost means little to Jenny, and the extra action is just what the deck needs, so this one is a no-brainer. The upgrade is obviously even better.

  • Both Eon Chart and Book of War use secrets, making Truth from Fiction an interesting option to consider as well.

Jenny Barnes's additional resources help her make progress without the deck's main combo

• Streetwise bumps Jenny's or to 6, which is as high as The Red-Gloved Man himself, and allows Jenny to deal with clues and enemies without having to waste the deck's biggest payoffs.

• Counterespionage and Intel Report i are expensive but powerful cards that Jenny can easily afford. The former can notably protect your hand or play area from cards like Crypt Chill or Umôrdhoth's Wrath, while the latter lets her power through high shroud locations where Streetwise or The Red-Gloved Man may not be enough.

• Using Easy Mark and Bank Job increases Jenny's resource generation further, which makes affording the aforementioned cards alongside expensive assets like Leo De Luca and The Book of War possible.

  • Easy Mark is the deck's third Bewitching target, which helps to draw and play multiple copies at once. In turn, the draw from easy mark contributes to gathering the 2 main combo pieces.
  • Bank Job is easier to pull off with the sources of extra actions at Jenny's disposal, and the extra time spent means very little to Jenny since she struggles to make progress without her money anyway.

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• Thorough Inquiry : Additional card draw to help find The Book of War and The Red-Gloved Man is welcome to get online faster, and the additional action cost is generally not a problem.

• Guts, Overpower Just some staple skill cards to round out the deck. Guts provides additional defense against treacheries, and overpower helps hitting the enemies with the .41 Derringer and reaching the "Succeed by 3" bonus action. Both help with card draw as well.

• I successfully ran this deck through The Feast of Hemlock Vale in 3P. It managed to perform well despite the many sources of disruption the campaign repeatably throws at you, which in hindsight was probably not a very friendly environment to test the deck with. Thankfully, Prismatic Shard helped quite a bit with its many discard effects.

• Other investigators (Zoey Samaras, "Skids" O'Toole, Mark Harrigan, || Roland Banks and Leo Anderson) can also run all the main components of this deck (With Stick to the Plan replacing Bewitching) for the . There is probably a lot of room left for improvement and experimentation with this combo alone, for Jenny and for these other investigators.

• I'm glad I finally found a deck where "Throw the Book at Them!" felt very satisfying. I never would have guessed it would be in Jenny of all people.

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