Hello all,
Currently my only experience with 3E has been small henchman led games, looking to scale up to full 50ss games using Jack Daw. I understand that a key point to the crew’s synergy is handing out curse upgrades and staggered so I have included Montresor, guilty and hanged into my crew, I have enough soul stones for 2 more modes and I’m struggling to choose between undead outlaws or the drowned, and hoped for some advice. Here are my views at the moment:
Outlaws:
-have some experience from the smaller games.
-have better threat range with revolvers+run and gun
-in my current experience the are good for outflanking and increases the crews damage output with early game shots.
-I know their abilities can help with scheme markers but I so far have rarely used them. But they can also help the crews low mobility by giving out fast and pushing models
The drowned:
-currently no experience using them
-can see from rules they are a good source of ‘staggered’ from both terrain and startle
-have similar range & movement to the rest of the crew, but can ignore some terrain, and can use the terrain they generate to block enemies path (and can generate more with Montresor’s ‘cursed to watch’)
-and make up for their shorter range by being more potent melee fighters with vengeance acting as a deterrent to enemies trying to attack them.
So I am unsure on wether to have the longer reach of the outlaws or the more damage focused drown. (Will also add that I’m not sure on the crooked men, before someone brings them up)
I realise there is nothing stopping me experimenting as I only play friendly games, but they seem to be few and far between, so I thought I’d see what more experienced players had to say on the matter.
