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Lady Nymeria

The only female General amongst Malekith’s subordinates. Perfected the strategy known as ‘Death by a thousand cuts’. Prefers to fight from the back of a chariot.

M5 WS7 BS7 S3 T3 W3 I9 A4 Ld10

300 points

Equipment: Heavy armor, hand weapon

Ermine cloak: A heavy fur-trimmed cloak concealing a magical aura of protection. Magic armor. Gives +1 to armor save and 5+ ward save.

Death: A long rapier, forged from ithilmar and black magic. Magic weapon. Has the Killing Blow rule. May be used as an additional hand weapon.

Special Rules: Eternal Hatred

Disabling Strike: Any model that suffers an unsaved wound but is not killed by Nymeria in close combat suffers -1 to Strength and Initiative per unsaved wound, for the rest of the game. The effects of this are cumulative.

Mounts: Nymeria may be mounted on Shadow for 150 points. Shadow is a Cold One Chariot without the Stupidity rule. If done so, then Cold One Chariots may be taken as Core.

Lets run down the Mary Sue Checklist.

1) Heroic Killing Blow- Check
2) Always Strikes First- Check
3) 4+ or Better Ward Save- Check

So basically you are falling into the typical fan character mode where you decide that she needs to be OMG awesome, and that she deserves all the best rules from the rulebook with no downsides at a bargain price.

Give her some interesting rules... not just another ASF HKB 4++ character. Those are a dime a dozen, everybody believes their special snowflake needs those rules...

 akaean wrote:
Lets run down the Mary Sue Checklist.

1) Heroic Killing Blow- Check
2) Always Strikes First- Check
3) 4+ or Better Ward Save- Check

So basically you are falling into the typical fan character mode where you decide that she needs to be OMG awesome, and that she deserves all the best rules from the rulebook with no downsides at a bargain price.

Give her some interesting rules... not just another ASF HKB 4++ character. Those are a dime a dozen, everybody believes their special snowflake needs those rules...

in reply to your points:
1. HKB making up for here being S3
2. ASF hardly matters due to Hatred and I9
3. most everybody can take a 4+ ward for 45 points: she is not 300 points...
however, have toned some stuff down: HKB reduced to just KB, dropped ward to a 5+ and dropped ASF

I hate to say this but the character doesn't stand out. It seems a bit generic and well...boring... May I ask if you own the DE book?

yeah why?

The mount seems incredibly unsuited to the character. If I am interpreting it correctly, she is supposed to be a character that dances around and whittles an enemy down over a long time with debilitating strikes. Chariots are big, blunt force clubs that are meant to shatter lines with a single charge. These seem very at odds with one another.

On the same topic, why would she make them Core? That makes absolutely no sense.

 curran12 wrote:
The mount seems incredibly unsuited to the character. If I am interpreting it correctly, she is supposed to be a character that dances around and whittles an enemy down over a long time with debilitating strikes. Chariots are big, blunt force clubs that are meant to shatter lines with a single charge. These seem very at odds with one another.

On the same topic, why would she make them Core? That makes absolutely no sense.

This is sort of what I meant by do you own the de book but you have said you do so I don't really know what I'm going on about now... Anyway curran is right but I would also say, if she is supposed to whittle them down cut by cut, why the hell does she have killing blow!?

 akaean wrote:
Lets run down the Mary Sue Checklist.

1) Heroic Killing Blow- Check
2) Always Strikes First- Check
3) 4+ or Better Ward Save- Check

KB and 4+ ward seem to be requisites. At the VERY least a 4+ ward for anything in this forum. I tease about it a lot.

If you go through all the SCs in all the army books, I'm going to throw out the completely random guess that <10% have a 4+ ward and far fewer have KB. Yet on this sub-forum it's more like 75% and 50%, respectively.

People always make the assumption that if an ability costs X in the BRB or another army book, adding it to your SC should cost exactly X. But the fact that you're creating unique combinations is a cost in and of itself. Almost no SC is worth their points strictly if you take the lowest cost to purchase those abilities one by one. Anyway, that's my periodic rant I make.

The making something Core that isn't Core is an expensive ability. It's a defining ability. Making someone a combat god, KB, ward, with cumulative attribute reducers (need to limit to 1) is awful good. You seem to have an angle here, and it's cold one chariots. I'd say concentrate on that. Give her a good chariot. Make it faster, better save, more whatever. And that's how she earned her place. Maybe give her some global chariot ability like all of them are +1M. That is the strategic bonus of an SC and why you're paying a premium for them. Because they can do stuff beyond normal heroes and lords. You can build an army around a hero that gives you chariots and makes said chariots better. That is common in O&G and TK and WoC, etc.