For Meathook, the focus of the Season 3 changes was to emphasise her unique fighting style. First, we added a new, powerful rule to her card—Hooked! Hooked adds a DEF debuff to each of her Playbook damage results, giving Meathook more flavour. Now, you can really imagine her digging those lethal barbs into her opponents to pin them down for her teammates! Coupled with Crucial Artery and Smell Blood, Meathook has quite a slaughterhouse feel to her, a terrifying proposition for any opponent. We also moved the Playbook trigger for Scything Blow down by one column to give Meathook easier access to the Character Play. (Note, however, that Scything Blow will not trigger Hooked since it is not a Playbook damage result.) Lastly, we added more Push results to her Playbook to represent the way she'll be dragging her opponents all over the Pitch with those grisly hooks.

Of course, this opens up a wealth of tactical options for coaches. They can choose to focus on inflicting maximum damage, disrupting enemy models by dragging them around the Pitch, inflicting the bleed condition, lowering opposing models' DEF with Hooked, or some combination of the above. A single model can never do it all, however, and she does need some help from her team. In Meathook's case, we've changed her INF to 2/3. She's still highly effective at enabling the team through Tooled Up and now Hooked, but you'll frequently want to rely on other members of the Butchers roster for the take-downs. Still, even with a maximum of 3 Influence, Meathook is a powerful offensive threat who opponents would be wise to remember due to the combination of Crucial Artery, Hooked, Smell Blood, and Scything Blow!

With Cosset and Meathook, you can get a better idea for how thematic changes can really make the game more fun, and throw in new strategies for Mortician and Butcher coaches alike. With the change to Season 3 fast approaching, let us know what changes you can't wait to see on our forums or social media! Check back Friday, where we'll take a look at one of the new formats for Organised Play.