Scrappy explained that Christopher Hill is the 'engine' of the deck as he can cast both Hexes and Miracles. Avarice can go look for the few strikes in the deck to get some production up and running and once Karl makes money, he is aced with the home's ability. This is very versatile, as Scrappy can search for any card he needs to deal with the situation facing him.
The other characters in the deck are replacements for the starting dudes if anything horrible happens in the first turn. Singing Feather is there to upset Ezzie and Becky deals with Dixie Rail nonsense.
With the actions, Shallow Grave supports the low number of characters in the deck if they get aced, which can then be brought back into play with the home's ability. The cheating cards are obviously to punish wanted dudes, which this deck thrives on. Eureka's Rage gives a whole new hand of spells to put on his characters.
The spells are designed to make your dudes wanted, boot them, rip out their influence, control and ace them and use Calm, Shadow Man and Cloak to prevent shootouts along the way. A very effective deck!
So Well Done to Daniel, and good luck at Durham University.

STRATEGY

Get Strikes out ASAP to create plenty of Ghost Rock income early on to pay for Gadgets and more Dudes. None of the strikes have any Control points so hopefully opponents will not bother too much about them. Create as many Gadgets as quickly as possible. All 15 have a difficulty of 5 or 6 so all will create a Control Point for me every time. As lowest value in the deck is "7 all are guaranteed to succeed every time as well !
All Dudes other than the Starting Posse are Studs. Eric "Santa" Zarkov creates free Ray Guns which when given to the likes of Mr Slate Exp., Peevie Exp., Eagle Rock etc. make nasty 6/7 Stud Dudes ! (Or 8/10 Studs using those Flaming Barrels & Hot -Loaded Rounds !!) As deck is stacked with only 5 values pulling Full Houses in shootouts should be no problem. Use Benny to reduce cost of Gadgets by 2 and obviously make full use of Christmas Day which will come once every 3 turns !
"The Claw" allows you to "Turtle" at home safe in the knowledge that you can send home booted opponents Dudes who may call you out if you dont fancy fighting them. Alternatively make opponents dudes wanted with "Red-Handed" if they cheat and then Lynch Mob them or give them some "Mob Justice" if they dare to call you out at home. If necessary send out your Studs tooled up with Ray Guns and Zappers to destroy the enemy or drive them back home so that you can take control of the town.

The Deck In Play On The Day

Both my first 2 round games and the final were all very close run affairs indeed !!! I was fortunate in the first 2 rounds that I got plenty of strikes out within the first few rounds of play and also created plenty of Gadgets early on as well. Fortunately none of my opponents in any of my games attempted to cut off my Ghost rock supply by taking control of my Strikes which meant that I was always very quickly producing 10 plus GR per turn. With free Ray Guns, Benny Hibbs ability and regular Christmas Days affording Gadgets and new Dudes was no problem. Also in both the first 2 games I managed to get 2-3 copies of The Claw out as well which really helped. I even managed to Lynch a few Dudes but never got to use Mob Justice though !! The deck obviously cheated occasionally in Low Ball but on the whole I got away with it with just 2 "Yellow Traitors" being played on me all afternoon.
The Final was really weird in that even though I have 15 Gadgets in the deck unbelievably I did not get one into my play hand until round 4 I think !!! Fortunately the "Hughes Gang" opponents Sy and Chris seemed more intent on having a go at each other as I did not seem to stand a chance of winning for most of the game ! However as I had got some strikes out I was building up a nice Ghost Rock pile and luckily for me I managed to create a whole pile of Gadgets towards the end of the game and in the last couple of turns sent out a couple of my tooled up Dudes to take Control of a couple of the opponents deeds to sneak a last gasp victory !!!!!!!

A big 'Thank You' to all who came to participate at the Camden Callout 3. Twelve players turned up to fight out control of Gomorra, mainly the usual suspects but also some new faces too.

Thankfully for the Sweetrock players there weren't any Maze Rats to pee on our bonfire this time hahahahahaha

This is very much a Fu Leng BJ swarm deck, the nice and interesting twist being the Confederate Barracks making life even easier for the BJ's as they make dudes to make money to make more dudes to make more money. The game is won by playing the The Lode or the New Town Hall and probably swamping both with a vast amount of dudes.
The deck is also very aggressive in the number of jobs in it (five in total), with plenty of Deputise to keep the drifters earn their upkeep. I can see Bribing the Town Council being used to fetch a deputise if its needed urgently. There's only one cheating card in the whole deck however, so it relies heavily on Mr Bones.
Starting with Rhett is nice in that you can put pressure on the other player from the beginning, by sitting in their home and stealing their money. The same can be said for Laurence come to that, but this applies to deeds, not locations.
Of the dudes, Devil Bats is very much essential in any swarm deck and Megan can be useful calling out while booted. What strikes me is the cheapness of the dudes ensuring cood card cycling. The more dudes a player has on the table, the more chance they have of winning overall. This deck probably aims to get full houses & dirty 4/kinds in shootouts.

Camden Callout 1

20^th August 2000

I would like to thank all the participants for turning up. These are the results from the draw.
They are in random order...

Steve "Bad Maps" Bailey	Won 3 Drew 1
Chris Farnan	Won 1 Lost 3
Sy "Blackjack" Hughes	Won 1 Lost 3
Darren ?	Won 1 Lost 3
Paul Francis	Won 1 Lost 3
Nick Ashton	Won 2 Lost 2
Vince Bamford	Won 3 Drew 1
Robert Lee	Won 2 Drew 2

The 4 finalists were:
1st & 2nd Play off was Steve Bailey Vs Vince Bamford
3rd & 4th Play off was Robert Lee Vs Nick Ashton
These are the final results from the Camden Callout.....

• 1) Steve "Bad Maps" Bailey - Law Dogs Hunters Office.
• 2) Vince Bamford - Sioux Union.
• 3) Robert Lee - Sioux Union.
• 4) Nick Weston - Agency Original Home.
• 5) Paul Francis - Law Dogs Hunter Office.
• 6) Darren ? - Landed Mazerats.
• 7) Chris Farnan - Sweatrock Original.
• 8) Sy "Blackjack" Hughes - Blackjacks Original.

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