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What do you think is a mercenary you shouldn't take a list without? I don't use any right now but I am trying to decide a good merc solo....

Preferably one that is or is lower than 37pts and will work for Khador. I have a mainly melee army and need a solo to support it. Probably a ranged one.

I'm thinking Orin Midwinter, Eiryss, Alten Ashley, Gudrum the Wanderer, Alexia, or Gorman Di Wulf. any of these better for an all melee army?

How much infantry are you taking? I'm thinking Eiryss or Alexia.

Kell Bailoch is pretty cool. Of the Merc solos I have I use him the most.... actually I think it should be said that up until recently, the only mercs/minions I had were Kell and Alten Ashley. I've recently purchased an Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios and have yet to use her.

My army consists of all warrior models because my warcaster is eVlad. I have the manhunters and yuri, the great bears, fenris, the Drakhun, doomreavers, Kayazy assassins, and widowmakers and Nyss hunters for a little ranged support.
So why do you think I should use Alexia or Eiryss? Actually I think Eiryss would work well, maybe better than Alexia.

Hey dj, do you think Kell or Alten Ashley would work better for me assuming that half of my opponants I go against have Hordes and the other half have warmachine?

alten ashley/eiryss--> just switch them depending on opponent.

Alexia is 52 points. I think that disqualifies her.

Gorman is probably my favorite merc solo. There's always something useful he can do.

CircleKhadorKid wrote:Hey dj, do you think Kell or Alten Ashley would work better for me assuming that half of my opponants I go against have Hordes and the other half have warmachine?

I'm not sure. I've never used eVlad so I'm not sure how either of them would go for you. I almost wanna say go for Kell. Standing still he's got 2 shots that hilt on a rat 10 (8 + standing still bonus of 2); and those two shots will always at least do 1 damage... thats 2 pings on a column/branch of a beast/jack or 2 infantry. But I find I almost never stand still with my armies... I keep having to position to get line of sight. So if you're going to be moving and only getting one shot any way you might want to just go for Alten Ashley. He's got better mobility with pathfinder, his gun is pow 12 (versus Kell's pow 10; even without the autoping pow 12 is going to hurt something), plus he's a little more resilient if he gets stuck in melee or even being shot at (str 6 mat 6 def 14 arm 14 vs Kell's str 5 mat 5 Def 13 Arm 12).

nice, thank you. Usually people point out how he only works against warbeasts, but I keep forgetting that he can still stand alone with a RNG 14 POW 12. And yeah, my army is pretty fast for only having 2 calvalry so I think I won't use him. Besides, I have the widowmakers.

Aslo, I forgot about Alexia being 52pts.

And btw, Vlad is really cool. His feat gives 3+d3 khador warrior models +3 to all stats, boosted attack and damage rolls, and an additional attack with each melee weapon! With this feat, and my army all warrior models, it's easy to get the charge and take out my enemy. I like to protect the doomreavers and Fenris until they get close and then I go Feat on them and with their berzerk they kill EVERYTHING.

So with my last models, I wanted to prepare for the oddballs like stealth models and invisible