What's to be released in December?

By Silverback3, in Mutant Chronicles

Paptimus said:

You're asking about Karak and the Ice golem ?

Here are the stats (collected from Gencon attendees)

Karak : Unique, Gold, Double base, Three blue dice, 4 health, +2 accuracy, 3 Ilian command, 1 Dark Symmetry Icon, 1 Art icon, allows an Ilian army to recruit non-Unique Brotherhood figs. But if he dies, all the brotherhood figs in your army take 1 wound.

He's sold with a unique item : Kark's command tent, which allows you to get 1 more slot in all three ranks. He also gets a lot of command cards which can only be played by him. A gold one allows him to get an additional action every activation, a silver one gives him 4 more health, another gold one allows him to resurrect when he's killed by sacrifying a brotherhood fig, and other ones give him flight (bronze) or Infiltration (bronze)... He can become a one-man army (though he'll be totally harmless against Vulkan prototypes immune to blue dice :P ).

The Ice golem is a Silver, Double base, two yellow dice, 6 health. He ignore ice terrain markers, but regains 2 lives when sitting on one. He has a special action to put ice tokens on enemy targets he manages to hit.

Ilian command cards are :

-Through the void (bronze, 1 icon, buyback 3 bronze) allows you to double accuracy on one of your dice.

-Summon golem (bronze, 3 icons, buyback 1 bronze) allows you to teleport one of your golems on an hex within LoS

-Shattering Blow (gold, 1 icon) Allows you to instant kill a unit with an ice token on it (ouch !)

-Freezing wind (silver, 2 icons) Roll three green dice. If you have sufficient accuracy, put an ice token on the target. Don't deal damage.

-Ice storm (bronze, 1 icon) Put an ice terrain marker on an hex within LoS. That hex is now hindering terrain.

-Chill touch (silver, 1 icon) Add a red die to your attack. If the attack hits, the target unit can't be activated durint its player next turn.

So Ilian will be an ice-themed faction, with a lot of tricks... The faction seems to be more "shooty" than Algeroth. Adding hindering terrain on the map is great, and instant killing figs is not too shabby either. A lot of Ilian command cards are 1 icon only, so all of Ilian's troopers will be able to use them.

Wow shooty and trixie, and can even use some Brotherhood troops too. This force looks like it will be interesting. I guess I'm off to the store tomorrow.