Hot Lead Dogs (A,6)

The second deck in my Hot Lead Flyin' deck series, this deck came about when I was trying to make a new Law Dogs deck and I slowly realized that the deck I was making was turning into a version of my Den of Lead deck, and I eventually decided to just embrace that they were basically the same deck. So, refer to that deck from most strategy tips, here I will just cover the differences.

The Core 4

Something I didn't talk about much in the Den deck was the starters, specifically the 4 starters that these 2 decks share: Jake Smiley, J.W. Byrne, Rico Rodegain, and Jacqueline Isham. I've found these 4 dudes to be an extremely efficient set of starters, they are cost 11 with 1 upkeep, have 3 to 4 sundown influence depending on how quickly you find an Outlaw Mask, have 3 high value dudes for Hot Lead Flyin', have Rico's amazing grifter ability, and generally provide 3 or more stud for early fights depending on how quickly you get a Winchester Model 1873.

Strategy

The strategy is basically the same, the only real difference is how you deal with you bounty/Outlaw Masks. What I generally do is immediately start using Law Dogs booting Philip Swinford to give bounty to J.W. Byrne each turn. Once you have an Outlaw mask on J.W. though, you have to boot him for the ability as well, so at that point I would put them both in town square before using the ability.

For using Rico Rodegain, again it's mostly the same strategy, except that you are going to think about starting Clyde Owens against passive decks.

Card Differences

Philip Swinford instead of Travis Moone is fairly obvious here because I can't double up on grifters anyway, and Swinford provides the extra influence and that great card cycling ability.

Lucinda "Lucy" Clover and Mortimer Parsons instead of The Fixer and Jonah Essex, obviously these are on value dudes that have similar stats and uses. These just worked out well.

Xiong "Wendy" Cheng instead of Angélica Espinosa is basically just because Wendy is such a good card, but could go either way.

Clyde Owens instead of Sloane (Exp.1) is where this version really does something different. Clyde is going to be your main card for shootout pressure, just set him up in your opponents home, give people a bounty and force shootouts.

The Evidence instead of Monte Bank is because I don't need grifters here and it was a card I always wanted to run in the Den deck but never had the space for. Could be very useful for an influx of influence or to set someone up to hit with Clyde.

Establishin' Who's in Charge was put in instead of Hustled because I don't have the grifters to run Hustled, and Establishin' is really a great choice to keep up control pressure, especially when you control town square. Plus, this deck doesn't have the option for starting Allie Hensman based on matchups.

Finally, Coachwhip! instead of Ambush is the other place where we have a bigger difference. This gets to happen mostly because Law Dogs have a dude like Clyde Owens who can keep up shootout pressure, hopefully effectively eliminating the need for targeted removal jobs.