Help me balance this league for fun play.

[Irishrover13]

Hi all,

My friend asked me to throw together a league using the mummies and skeletons from Reaper's Bones collection. He bought them for a different project and want to re-purpose them to be a company. He has the two singles and then one pack of warrior mummy's and 2 of the normal mummies and skeleton archers and 3 skeleton spear men packs. I am not really that into the undead but he does want to try IHMS so who am I to not give it a whirl. I saw mummies as very tough and mean I used the Mummified Priest as my baseline and the skeletons as cheap fodder and filler in a otherwise very expensive group. I have yet to write much of a back story for this group and mostly I am looking for help balancing this company to make it fun for him and for me to play against. (Sorry about the lack of coherency I have a cold and recently took cold medication which makes me loopy.)


Servants of  Anubis
 
Narmer,  Pharaoh's Ghost
Pluck: +3
FV: +2
SV: +0
SPeed: +2
Cost: 98
Abilities: Leadership 2, Erudite Wit, 30 points of mystic powers,
Equipment: Crown of Upper Egypt, Staff of Set (As Amulet of Isis, Immortals Armor (As chain shirt)

Scorpion King
Pluck: 2+
FV: +4
SV: +0
Speed: +0
Cost: 77
Ablities: Terrifying, Numb, antivenom, tough, Leadership 1
Equipment: Steel breastplate, Khopeshes of Set (Khopesh of Osiris)


Warrior Mummies
Pluck: 3+
FV: +3
SV: +0
Speed: +0
Cost: 51
Abilities: Terrifying, Numb, antivenom, tough
Equipment: Chain mail, Sword, Shield

Mummified Servants  
Pluck: 3+
FV: +2
SV: +0
Speed: +0
Cost: 44
Abilities: Terrifying, Numb, antivenom, tough
Equipment: Ancient Wrappings (Lined coat equivalent), Hands are equivalent of clubs

Skeleton Archer
Pluck: 6+
FV: +2
SV: +0
Speed: +1
Cost: 15
Abilities: Anti-venom
Equipment: Spear, Shield

Skeleton Archer
Pluck:6+
FV: +0
SV: +2
Speed: +1
Cost: 14
Abilities: Anti-venom
Equipment: Bow
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[Craig]

This sounds like an interesting project, so let's have at it shall we...

Servants of  Anubis

Ok, if this is the theme you are going to want to lay off references to other Gods. Egyptian Gods like Osiris, Anubis and Set were not know to be buddies.

Narmer,  Pharaoh's Ghost
Pluck: +3
FV: +2
SV: +0
SPeed: +2
Cost: 98
Abilities: Leadership 2, Erudite Wit, 30 points of mystic powers,
Equipment: Crown of Upper Egypt, Staff of Set (As Amulet of Isis, Immortals Armor (As chain shirt)

I'd swap out Erudite Wit for Terrifying and Immortal. You could just give him Akhenaton's full stat line and be done with it.

Scorpion King
Pluck: 2+
FV: +4
SV: +0
Speed: +0
Cost: 77
Ablities: Terrifying, Numb, antivenom, tough, Leadership 1
Equipment: Steel breastplate, Khopeshes of Set (Khopesh of Osiris)

With a Pluck of 2+ and Tough this monster is unlikely to need Numb, and given the image from the film I'd replace the Khopeshes with the equivalent of a Steam Claw.

Warrior Mummies
Pluck: 3+
FV: +3
SV: +0
Speed: +0
Cost: 51
Abilities: Terrifying, Numb, antivenom, tough
Equipment: Chain mail, Sword, Shield

I can understand the wish to be Terrifying but if these are foot troops it makes them very expensive so I'd lose it. After all you don't want people running from these, you want to hold them in close combat.

Mummified Servants  
Pluck: 3+
FV: +2
SV: +0
Speed: +0
Cost: 44
Abilities: Terrifying, Numb, antivenom, tough
Equipment: Ancient Wrappings (Lined coat equivalent), Hands are equivalent of clubs

Again with the Terrifying.

Skeleton Archer
Pluck: 6+
FV: +2
SV: +0
Speed: +1
Cost: 15
Abilities: Anti-venom
Equipment: Spear, Shield

Very vulnerable to being killed on the first strike. Either make them Pluck 5+ or Tough.

Skeleton Archer
Pluck:6+
FV: +0
SV: +2
Speed: +1
Cost: 14
Abilities: Anti-venom
Equipment: Bow

Very vulnerable to being killed on the first strike. Either make them Pluck 5+ or Tough.

There you go

[Irishrover13]

Thanks Craig.