Krellnus wrote:Yes, Kandorak (not catarct) may be used to summon a character with the unit type monster. However I doubt it is intended to be that way (otherwise what is the point of the lower level version?).

If you choose to allow it however, remember that the same logic allows you to do the following.

Ryze, may summon infantry and monstrous infantry characters.
The Dark Riders may summon a character on a chariot or cavalry mount.

 Krellnus wrote:
Yes, Kandorak (not catarct) may be used to summon a character with the unit type monster. However I doubt it is intended to be that way (otherwise what is the point of the lower level version?).

 thedarkavenger wrote:
I'm fairly certain we had a thread on this in which it was proven that character isn't a unit type.

Mc1gamer wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:
I'm fairly certain we had a thread on this in which it was proven that character isn't a unit type.

On page 96 (small rulebook) under Character models "Characters are a special Type of unit that can either operate on their own or join another unit from the same side" So there is an argument that Character is a type. 'Special' Character isn't a type, its a classification. There's no reason why Nagash couldn't summon a Mortarch, and infact, he's done so in a wight dwarf (Arkan!)

 DarthBinky wrote:
It doesn't matter if a "character" is a unit type or not- it's useless mental gymnastics. If you have the keyword on your profile, you can be summoned.

Boosted Kandorak summons a monster from the Undead Legions list. A Mortarch is a monster in the Undead Legions list. The fact that he's also a character is totally irrelevant. Although what is relevant is that you'll need some summoning tokens (or whatever they're called) to summon one- and if you're not using Nagash, you'll need a ton of them.

The fact that non-boosted Kandorak exists does not disprove this. There are lots of other UL characters who are not monsters, and boosted Kandorak does not summon those. By the same token, you could use Ryze to summon Infantry characters, but not one that's mounted (since he ceases to be Infantry at that point).

There's no need to make things more complicated than they are!

 DarthBinky wrote:
I know, it wasn't necessarily directed at you. It's just that this thread was starting to devolve into the same argument that was going on in that other one, and it was just as pointless here as it was there.