The Waywatcher Kindred
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Skarsgard Strengths- Benefit from special deployment rules
- Lethal Shot
- Extra protection from shooting
Weakness- Cannot take great weapons
- Cannot have a mount
- No armour
Uses and composition
Very good Kindred for nobles. The Forest Stalkers rule allows you to deploy the character last and you can deploy them as an individual or as a part of a unit of Waywatcher. They can deploy as normal scouts but with no minimum distance from the enemy or can deploy in plain sight up to 12” away. The Lethal Shot is a good ability but very random. Also it is negated when firing from a magic bow or firing a magic arrow.
Weapons
Depending on the role of the character you may wish to consider a magic weapon of some description.
- Sword of Might. A good generic weapon that increases the characters ability to fight well armoured opponents.
- Rageth’s Wildfire Blades. Cheap magic weapon, great for dealing with Ethereal creatures like banshees or daemons and forest spirits.
Talismans
Stone of Crystal Mere, Glamourweave and the Fimbular Shard are all excellent choices for this type of character. The Merciw’s Locus may seem like another obvious choice as the character cannot take great weapons but when you consider the role of the character and the fact that it should be picking the fights you really shouldn’t engage those types of units with this character.
Enchanted Items
Hail of Doom Arrows springs to mind straight away. The ability of the Waywatcher to deploy and potentially see a target that normally would not be visible allows this items to be used very early on to great effect.
Spites
Annoyance of Netlings and Murder of Spites are very good choices for an assault based character. Pagaent of Shrikes is also good for one that will sit back and snipe. Due to its ability to get close to the enemy units Muster of Malevolents can be a good choice as well. One potential surprise packet is the Blight of Terrors. The ability to force panic checks from Terror on Turn 1 could cause a large headache for your opponent.
Tactics
This fairly versatile character can have several roles.
- Sniping. Taking pot shots at enemy units or delivering the Hail of Doom Arrows.
- Assassin. Taking out lone enemy characters, models.
- Hunter. Hunting warmachines or small units.
- Blocker. Marchblocking enemy units by themselves.
- Disruptor. Sowing terror or forcing enemy units to respond to their presence.
Some of the options for Wargear for these characters are:
- Hunters Talon and Pagaent of Shrikes.
- Hail of Doom Arrows
- Murder of Spites and Sword of Might
- Annoyance of Netlings, Sword of Might (Rageth’s Wildfire Blades)
- Blight of Terrors
- Horn of the Asrai
In addition to this the character can boost the survivability of a small Waywatcher squad and allow it to marchblock and snipe for longer. Opponents will in general send light skirmishing units to take out your Waywatchers and the Noble can provide a lot of assistance in the ensuing combat.