Dead Man’s Hand: Rogues’ Gallery – Roy Magnum

So far I have looked at

• Maeve Newton,
• Calamity Jane,
• Dolores Wood
• John Bridges
• Doc Amos
• Reverend Johnson
• Jonathon Pain

Of the Rogues Gallery of heroes for Dead Mans Hand.

I recently purchased the DMH Down Under bundle – which comes with the Book, Card, Ned Kelly’s Gang, the Bushrangers, the State Police and 2 Rogues whose rules are in the book- these are Jonathan Pain and Roy Magnum.

Having already looked at Jonathan – lets go for the man with a big name to live upto Roy Magnum – does he deliver sufficient bang for his buck?

So who is/was Roy Magnum – now from what I can find out he is a Bounty Hunter, as his ACE is a red card, created by Great Escape Games and is not based on any real person historic or living. If you do fancy wetting your appetite prior to bringing the Aussies into you Dead Man’s Hand games – the link below from the British Film Institute provides some recommendations.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-australian-westerns

If you’d like more historical information on the Bushrangers and Australian “Wild West”

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/australian-bushrangers

As I have treated myself to the “official” miniature I also have his special card, this again is another replacement ACE

• NEVER SAID I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO USE IT – once played for the remainder of the turn ROY gets+2 to shooting with his pistol, but loses the +2 for his BUFFALO Rifle.

Roy is a REP 6 Character, with the standard stats for a 2 REP model but with a NERVE 1 better, he also has a 3 special rule.

CALM UNDER FIRE – ROY never suffers negatives due to under fire markers – really is a RONSEAL ability.

SLICK HANDS – ROY doesn’t need to lose an action to swap weapons.

BUFFALO RIFLE – ROY’s weapon has its own special rules – not only does it have it’s own stat line – also if a shot does not automatically take a character out of action i.e. 19+ .. the target takes an underfire marker and must take a nerve test – so basically any roll under 19 is the same as a 15-18 .. ROYS buffalo rifle has a MAX one shot per turn and an close range upto 60. This now explains his REP cost at 6.

CRACK SHOT – this is an odd one – its not a normal special rule but – ROY when firing his BUFFALO RIFLE gets a +2 bonus, when firing his pistol, unless his ACE has been played he gets no bonus – if his ACE has been played then he doesn’t get the bonus on the RIFLE but does get +2 on his pistol.

So we have a MODEL here that guarantees an under fire marker every shot, can swap between his weapons for free – so 1 Shot with RIFLE and 2 with pistol is an option and has a card where if you play it right means that all 3 shots in a turn get +2.

So I don’t know about you – but I feel that for 6 REP he is definately worth his cost.

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