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I find it a tad bit bothersome that you have to pay full price for a warsphinx as a mount. True, GW has always done this for monster mounts but since the said character replaces all the crew it seems that the warpshinx should "lessen" in value. For example a basic tomb prince with a great weapon, no other equipment, would boot the price of a warsphinx 104 points. While the prince is a separate rider who does have WS5 and T5, when the prince and the mount are together you replace 4 WS3 S4/5 KB attacks with 3 WS5 S6 non KB ones. Not sure if thats worth tacking on 104 points and it appear the only reason to take a warpshinx mount is if you run out of normal space for warsphinx's. Of course this could be a ramblings, havent tested out any warpshinx mounts yet to see if they're any good

My 2nd idea is that while tacking on hatred to any foot unit certainly is nice, with the whole fact that the necrotect benefits animated constructs a wee bit, shouldnt they be able to take some of them as mounts such as the ? Not sure on how much they'll cost though

You are also leaving out the fact that the prince can take equipment.....

Not to mention the war sphinx still retains its abilities.

The sphinx picks up the ability to fight in challenges.
-Matt

I guess the idea is that the Sphinx and Prince on their own are slightly different than together, so they can't just be glued together.

I think it would make sense for the 'Tect to ride Sphinxes. Or even stone cobra-things.

And the big stompy attack becomes WS5.... That's got to be a win.