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Daniela Reyes — Enemy Manager (Chapter 2)
A Chapter 2-only Daniela built as the main enemy manager for a 3-player campaign.
The idea is simple: find a weapon, stay close to your clue-getters, and make enemies regret attacking anyone near you.
Game plan
Mulligan aggressively for Machete, Meat Cleaver, or Right Tool for the Job. Daniela's 5 Combat means she doesn't need much help passing ordinary fight tests, so skills are mostly there for important tests or to cover her weaknesses.
Vicious Blow provides the important damage breakpoint, while Guts and Unexpected Courage help protect Daniela's rather scary 5 sanity.
Don't be afraid of taking damage. Daniela has plenty of health, and Bandages and Physical Fitness let us turn that health into a resource. Physical Fitness is particularly useful for a dedicated fighter: move toward whoever has just drawn an enemy while healing the damage accumulated from previous fights.
Aleksey Saburov is our main protection against horror. Meat Cleaver also gives us another way to manage horror while providing a sustainable weapon that doesn't run out of ammo.
Economy
The deck runs 2× Emergency Cache + 2× Bounty.
Emergency Cache gets our setup online before enemies appear; Bounty rewards Daniela for doing exactly what she was going to do anyway: killing things.
Don't overbuild your board. Weapon + Aleksey is already enough to start working.
Playing Daniela
Remember that an enemy attack isn't always something to avoid. Daniela can turn attacks — including carefully chosen attacks of opportunity — into additional fights.
Sometimes taking a hit, triggering Daniela and then healing while moving with Physical Fitness is considerably more efficient than playing like a conventional Guardian.
Lesson Learned and Scene of the Crime provide some incidental clues, but don't get distracted: in a 3-player game Daniela's job is to make sure the other two investigators are free to do theirs.
If something ugly appears, go there and kill it.