Dead Man Walking - Execute galore?

[Usjdkdb]

So I've been always really fond of Parker, basically exclusivly playing him in M2e and trying him out in M3e, but the changes were a bit to drastic for my liking. Now with his title I wanna try him out again and reading him the action standing out to me on his card is his Lasso. 4" Push on anything in 10"? That seems pretty good, considering Parkers bread and butter in 2e was a 5" push. Granted that had an 18" range, but most of the time 10" would've been enough.

I feel as though one can heavily lean into the execute Trigger on his action and continue that trend by adding Montresor and Rusty Alice for additional Executes. Than add in Pride for discards and maybe a Dead Outlaw to a) discard more and b) be able to use Montresors Obey. Im pretty sure you would want to play with 8-10 stones to hit all those executes, so that leaves over points for a scheme runner like the Midnight Stalker or another beater like Sue. It feels weird not to play Mad Dog, but I dont think he is necessary in the list at all.

Monty also synergises with all the staggered on Parker and is a pretty decent tarpit anyway.

The entire crew is super disruption heavy with displacements and discard actions. Coupled with the constant threat of execute you should be able to depleat most of your opponents recourses by the end of turn 2.

What do you guys think? My meta agrees double masters are stupid, but replacing either Monty or Alice with Jack Daw would probably also work. Its also really pushing the theme if the 'damned bandit' which I really enjoy.

[Azahul]

I've never really been able to make Execute spam work in Daw (or at least not consistently, it has come up occasionally), even with all his additional discard, so I'm a little dubious. I'd be interested to hear how it works though. Montresor is on my list of models I want to try out with my own Parker2 build but he is a touch expensive. Still, with all the staggered from Parker and Pearl I do think he has potential.

[Usjdkdb]

I didnt even consider Pearl for the list. I've so far only tried her in Basse and there she performes like an iverpriced frontiersman. What does she do for you?

[Azahul]

40 minutes ago, Usjdkdb said:

I didnt even consider Pearl for the list. I've so far only tried her in Basse and there she performes like an iverpriced frontiersman. What does she do for you?

Well if you look one topic down in this forum you can see I did a write-up on how I run Parker2:

 

Long story short though Pearl provides an insane amount of healing and her bonus action is a way to actually make Perdition go off outside of Parker's own activation, which adds up. Combos well with Benny doing his thing.

[Usjdkdb]

Thank you, I wasnt aware that write up existed. It was a pretty interesting read and definitly gave me things to think about. 

I always thought the lasso was the bees knees on that card and sort of wrote perdition of as something that will only occasionaly happen. 

Learning how good repositioning an Alice or a Mad Dog is in M2e, I simply jumped at that action first.

[Azahul]

14 hours ago, Usjdkdb said:

Thank you, I wasnt aware that write up existed. It was a pretty interesting read and definitly gave me things to think about. 

I always thought the lasso was the bees knees on that card and sort of wrote perdition of as something that will only occasionaly happen. 

Learning how good repositioning an Alice or a Mad Dog is in M2e, I simply jumped at that action first.

Oh, 100%. The Lasso is the best action on his card. I generally prefer to be hitting enemy models, but a no TN action that can put you in range to score points you couldn't otherwise reach is really valuable. And if it means getting Mad Dog in range Turn 1 for a full three shots, happy to spend the action then.

 

It also lets you set up some lovely clumps of scheme markers Benny can turn into rat swarms later in the game, which is very fun.

[Usjdkdb]

I'll need to try out Benny then. I havnt given him a shot yet. I only used the Obediant Wretch in M2e for activation control. 

[Davos]

I'm eager to try this concept as well, though I'm thinking Parker, Dead Man Walking as 2nd master hire into Jack Daw.  I think Parker could super activate the Hanged and bring the Staggered engine online super fast.  Keep us posted on how your experiments go!

[Azahul]

20 minutes ago, Davos said:

I'm eager to try this concept as well, though I'm thinking Parker, Dead Man Walking as 2nd master hire into Jack Daw.  I think Parker could super activate the Hanged and bring the Staggered engine online super fast.  Keep us posted on how your experiments go!

...Hanged have Draw Out Secrets. How come they're better at proccing Perdition than Parker's own Keyword?!

[Maniacal_cackle]

35 minutes ago, Azahul said:

...Hanged have Draw Out Secrets. How come they're better at proccing Perdition than Parker's own Keyword?!

Because the true joy of Malifaux is finding the cross keyword combos!

[Azahul]

52 minutes ago, Maniacal_cackle said:

Because the true joy of Malifaux is finding the cross keyword combos!

It's a bit depressing when that joy only works in dual Master combos. So rare to have an event where that works...

[Maniacal_cackle]

5 minutes ago, Azahul said:

It's a bit depressing when that joy only works in dual Master combos. So rare to have an event where that works...

Wait a tick, only works? Didn't you make a list that perditions like mad?

[Azahul]

31 minutes ago, Maniacal_cackle said:

Wait a tick, only works? Didn't you make a list that perditions like mad?

It is almost entirely in Keyword though. Shush.

 

The Hanged comparison in particular though is funny because their version uses a Tome trigger which actually works the way Parker2 is seemingly designed to work.

[Davos]

25 minutes ago, Azahul said:

It is almost entirely in Keyword though. Shush.

 

The Hanged comparison in particular though is funny because their version uses a Tome trigger which actually works the way Parker2 is seemingly designed to work.

Lololol yup, i noticed that too when i was building the list.  Not only does it "work" as Parker is intended, its easier to get cause they can 1) stone 2) attack Mv with a +1/2/3/(4?!?!) advantage (que evil laughter)