5 Decks with 2 Core + Dunwich - Roland

Important! This deck had an error in the set of card, instead of Hyperawareness I meant Inquiring Mind. The corrected version of the deck is here: https://arkhamdb.com/decklist/view/36837/5-decks-with-2-core-dunwich-roland-3.0

The goal

Like in a 5-deck structured deck series with the 2 cores I wanted to create 5 decks with core investigators having 2 cores and full Dunwich expansion in my hands. The goal was to have 5 decks ready at the same time, so the cards should be distributed in 5 decks, not 4. Why? To offer my friends a choice between 5 decks and to start playing with no extra time for preparation. At the same time I want all of the decks to be functional, not for true solo, but at least if I take any pair of those to play two-handed solo.

While the 5-deck structured series was really short on cards so that any card had to be taked (and in fact 2 cores lack cards for 5 complete decks at the same time), here we have more room to play with decks, quite many cards are to be left aside. However for some neutral cards one hase to choose carefully where to use them - for example there are only 8 copies of Emergency Cache and Unexpected Courage, one of the decks stays without them. Moreover there are onnly 4 copies of cards like Manual Dexterity, Guts and similar.

The deck

Roland is obviously here to fight in the first place. Thus he gets the best weapons, apart of his Roland's .38 Special he also has .45 Automatic and Machete as well as attack improvements such as Vicious Blow and Overpower. Taunt also can help when you need that bonus of machete (or simply are afraid of hurting your friend) and do not have enough actions for combat (and in the end it has good skill symbols).

At the same time he can go on with the clues, either after defeating with his own ability and Evidence!, but the Flashlight can also help. With weak enemies around he can go on investigating and killing at the sam time with the help of the Guard Dog.

Since Roland's personal weapon works better if there are clues in the location we decided to add him another card working also only with clues in the location, Hyperawareness as well as a way to drop the clues, Dr. William T. Maleson. We beleive those cards better fit Roland, not Daisy.

Roland has a low sanity so need a way to cure it, so the Smoking Pipe is the only real solution (First Aid is too slow for him and will go to Skidds). But a way to heal wounds will also help, so we take Emergency Aid, it can also heal the Guard Dog for 2 hit points.

The remaining slot is filled with Emergency Cache.

The 5 decks:

Agnes

Daisy

Roland

Skids

Wendy