Dr Zhukov - Is he really this bad???

[Wasteland Jack]

Ok, just this past weekend I played, and guess who I came up with yet again.

That's right folks, the incredulous Dr. Zhukov. We were playing coop versus the nazis.

Ok so I tried to optimize his abilities, but never did I get any puzzle tests nor did I get Cunning tests. I kept getting agility (chases) or Lore tests. I got shellacked. The only saving grace was I did pull an ally on a random event card which helped with agility (damsel) eventually, but too little too late. The nazis had raided two temples (10 & 8) and got 2 other artifacts by them. Plus they had the Dark Rituals card in play from early on.

I wonder how many puzzles/tech keywords there are to warrant his scientist a truly good benefit. The whole Academic 5+ for fight dice really cripples him I think, and so you can easily escape, what's the point you don't get the glory. I don't know, but I think I am going to start leaving him out of the deck.