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At some point, I'd like a ranged Gator unit. I'd even take a ranged Trog unit. I don't think a single unit would mess up the Contract theme.

They tend to go out of their way to mention that you have to gift a Gatorman something to get 'em to talk to you(read:not kill and eat you) and that they especially like things they can't make themselves, like steel and technology, but there's no modeled indication of this practice beyond Wrongeye's bottle of booze(his favorite gifts, as indicated by Barnabus' Gavin Kyle file). Give us some blunderbuss or crude crossbow Gators!

 tommse wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

EDIT: I was thinking Epic Strangeways as a character Journeyman but there already is one.

Strangeways is not a Warcaster because he hasn´t got the gift. He´s extremly handy with jacks hence the pseudo-focus but he´s not a magician. At least that´s what a short story in the SiX anthology says.

Actually he has the gift, if you look at his rules his abilities are classed as "magic abilities"

 sing your life wrote:

 tommse wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

EDIT: I was thinking Epic Strangeways as a character Journeyman but there already is one.

Strangeways is not a Warcaster because he hasn´t got the gift. He´s extremly handy with jacks hence the pseudo-focus but he´s not a magician. At least that´s what a short story in the SiX anthology says.

Actually he has the gift, if you look at his rules his abilities are classed as "magic abilities"

He's Gifted, but that doesn't mean he's got THE gift that lets him connect to a Cortex. He'd be a Warcaster already if he did. There's a difference between Warcasters and having magical abilities.

House Vyre unit and solo. Magister?
House Vyre Light Jack(s)

Huge warjacks for Menoth!

 THEDARK1RI5ES wrote:
Huge warjacks for Menoth!

You mean like this?

That's a big robot.

troll pgymy cavalry of some kind
they can ride tiny bears or something

 greenskin lynn wrote:
troll pgymy cavalry of some kind
they can ride tiny bears or something

Have them log rolling kegs into battle!

I thought the gift originally was defined as having magical abilities and was awakened during the Orgoth occupation. Cortex bonding came later and is the defining trait of a warcaster but it is not what is referred to as the gift.

 greenskin lynn wrote:
troll pgymy cavalry of some kind
they can ride tiny bears or something

They would be so cute! I mean, fearsome...

 Platuan4th wrote:
At some point, I'd like a ranged Gator unit. I'd even take a ranged Trog unit. I don't think a single unit would mess up the Contract theme.

They tend to go out of their way to mention that you have to gift a Gatorman something to get 'em to talk to you(read:not kill and eat you) and that they especially like things they can't make themselves, like steel and technology, but there's no modeled indication of this practice beyond Wrongeye's bottle of booze(his favorite gifts, as indicated by Barnabus' Gavin Kyle file). Give us some blunderbuss or crude crossbow Gators!

I figured a throwing weapon would fit better, since they are quite large and physically powerful. Smaller, more complex weaponry doesnt make much sense to me. Perhaps a unit wielding pilums that could apply a debuff of some kind when thrown while granting set defense in melee, likely gifted to them from the Skorne. It would probably be somewhat short range, maybe 8" mediocre power too - 10-12 most likely.

KingKodo wrote:
I thought the gift originally was defined as having magical abilities and was awakened during the Orgoth occupation. Cortex bonding came later and is the defining trait of a warcaster but it is not what is referred to as the gift.

Or, you know, they just gave him the Magic Ability rule to streamline the rules; as he did not have anything of the sort in his Mk1 rules.

 Grimtuff wrote:

KingKodo wrote:
I thought the gift originally was defined as having magical abilities and was awakened during the Orgoth occupation. Cortex bonding came later and is the defining trait of a warcaster but it is not what is referred to as the gift.

Or, you know, they just gave him the Magic Ability rule to streamline the rules; as he did not have anything of the sort in his Mk1 rules.

How is that streamlining the rules? [correct me if I'm wrong]

With my red-tinted Khador glasses on...

Epic Zerkova who's on par with eHaley, and has spells that make up for Khador's lack of arc nodes.

Character jack with affinity Zerkova that takes her Lens of Tarvodh and becomes a pseudo-arc node.

Epic Kryxchev who might actually make a Khador jack-spam list possible.

Khador can't effectively make use of jack marshalling as it has no low-cost ranged jacks. Give us one. Not a light jack, but a heavy 6-point jack with an ok gun on it.

Alternatively, give us a jack marshal or something else that can allow us to effectively use a melee jack without focus input from the warcaster.

Iron Fang axers. The great bears had to some from somewhere. A unit of weapon-master axemen would be awesome.

Something to improve Man-o-War units. A unit attachment that speeds them up somehow, like how the Iron Fang Kovnik revolutionised Iron Fang Pikemen.

BEAR CAVALRY

 sing your life wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

KingKodo wrote:
I thought the gift originally was defined as having magical abilities and was awakened during the Orgoth occupation. Cortex bonding came later and is the defining trait of a warcaster but it is not what is referred to as the gift.

Or, you know, they just gave him the Magic Ability rule to streamline the rules; as he did not have anything of the sort in his Mk1 rules.

How is that streamlining the rules? [correct me if I'm wrong]

Part of MkII was making things that were like other abilities in all but name(mostly for fluff reasons to personalize characters) all under the same ability. You no longer get "What's X do? Oh, so it's essentially Y from this piece in my army?" conversations as there's now a group of, for lack of a better term, USRs that they can Copy and Paste onto new cards.

It's streamlining in that there's no longer 20 different but same abilities to keep track of to say/do one thing.

Cephalyx Warcaster and some more Cephalyx units.
Because giant mind control spiders.
I would honestly prefer them not to be a whole separate army (it doesn't make much sense) and I'm sure PP can do something to balance them internally without making them Banez 2.0.

 Zuul wrote:
That's a big robot.

Of course it is

 FastusMustachius wrote:
Cephalyx Warcaster and some more Cephalyx units.
Because giant mind control spiders.
I would honestly prefer them not to be a whole separate army (it doesn't make much sense) and I'm sure PP can do something to balance them internally without making them Banez 2.0.

If they aren't Banez 2.0, why should I take them instead of Banes? Does not compute. This also seems to imply that Banes are unbalanced, but I suppose that's a discussion for another thread.

 FastusMustachius wrote:
Cephalyx Warcaster and some more Cephalyx units.
Because giant mind control spiders.
I would honestly prefer them not to be a whole separate army (it doesn't make much sense) and I'm sure PP can do something to balance them internally without making them Banez 2.0.

I'm just going to leave these right here...

Ok, if they make a worthwhile Cephalyx caster that'd be darn awesome. I imagine it would be heralded with "Really? Cryx gets yet another caster and even more awesome units?"

PLASTIC Nyss Hunters.

Plastic Nyss Hunters would probably make me rebuy the whole unit. I am sick of fiddling with these guys.

Trollblood hunstman- a ranged version of the skinner? Maybe a solo or a UA that could help bump up the range game?

On that note, how about an Officer to tag along with the Sluggers so they don't suck so bad? I keep picturing a Troll done up all Rambo style.

Ranged gators- homemade bombs made out of empty liquor bottles! Maybe big slings they can use to throw balls made out of sharp bones and teeth? Spiny pokey things like sea urchins? I dunno. I want more reptiles though.

Plastic bog trog shamblers? That would have been nice...