The Amazon is a skilled warrior and soldier, with excellent speed and fair strength. She is deadliest against Medium and Heavy opponents. She should avoid or run from Tremendous and armored Heavy monsters, who are too dangerous for her to handle even if she obtains heavier equipment.

Chits

Stats

Weight/Vulnerability: Medium

Equipment: Short Sword, Helmet, Breastplate, Shield

Starting Gold Value: 35

Special: Aim (subtract one from missile rolls), Stamina (extra Move phase)

Start: Inn

Ally: none

Friendly: Patrol, Lancers, Shaman

Unfriendly: Company, Bashkars

Enemy: none

Strategy

The Amazon is Friendly with the Lancers. The Lancers have spears, which is a heavier weapon than her short sword. A spear would allow her to take on Heavy armoured or Tremendous unarmoured monsters such as Giants and Spiders (so long as she remembers to Alert it). If she sells her helmet and short sword she will have enough gold to buy a spear at price x3. Selling her shield as well will give her enough for price x4, but that will leave a gap in her defences (a shield can be used to cover Smash). She would have to find the Lancers first though (Chapel or either campfire on a roll of 4). Many of the heavier monsters do greater than M damage though, so it is quite possible that her armour (and her health) will be destroyed very quickly.

With a spear, she will only do M* damage unless she uses her only H fight chit, which has two asterisks, forcing her to Move at M4. This is still pretty quick, but not as quick as she can be if she only spends one asterisk on her Fight chit. She has three choices: attack at M3* and move at M4*, or attack at M4* and move at M3* (inflicting M* harm), or attack at H4** and move at M4 (inflicting H* harm).

Alternatively, see if you can pick up a Mace from the Guard. A friendly Dwarf or Captain should be able to get you one if you can't afford it yourself. The Amazon with the Mace can be quite nasty, since it will attack at time 3 when alerted and can inflict H damage against armour if she uses her Fight H4** chit. When hidden, she can take on the Guard with little damage, and armed with their items and treasures can go Hire the Lancers, which she can then use to destroy the Woodfolk - thereby gaining access to their bows.

The Amazon is fast, but not very tough. Her M3* Move chits allow her to run away from many monsters that otherwise might kill her, but she needs to avoid the Octopus, the T Serpent and Spider, and of course the T Flying Dragon. With her mobility, she makes a perfect scout for a team of characters. She will get first crack at any treasure sites, so long as there isn't a monster there. But she needs support from one of the heavy-hitters such as the White Knight or the Berserker in order to survive there for very long. She will not get her extra Move phase while she is searching a treasure site, so under normal conditions she must Hide and do (at most) three searches per turn.

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