Hi folks! This is my first post here! I'm trying to put together a House of Faith list for an upcoming Ash Wastes campaign
I want to make a Cawdor gang themed after Bretonnia (more specifically, Repanse de Lyonesse). I wanted to ask how best to represent these with the profiles HoF has available to Cawdor.
My thoughts so far are a melee focussed leader as my lady inspired by Repanse herself, with access to various group activations/buffs that Cawdor do well. She would be modelled with some kind of double handed sword weapon, mesh armour and, if possible a tilting plate style scrap shield, as well as a Fleur de Lys standard that would work as a cult icon.
My main question is whether to use the Priest or Wordkeeper profile for her? A Wordkeeper can take a greatsword (which seems underwhelming as a melee leader weapon?), mesh, and the scrap shield, and could take a skill like Bull Charge to have a bit of melee weight. I worry that the two-three attacks she'd get with this profile would not give her the combat presence I want though
A Priest could take an eviscerator, which feels a little beefier in combat (though actually doesn't have a huge melee advantage over the greatsword), can't take the scrap shield, and would probably take a piety skill, or maybe rain of blows.
For champions, I'm keen to have a nice heavy crossbow firebrand, but I'm less sure of what to do with my other one - I wanted to make another melee fighter, perhaps depicted as a sort of Bretonnian Paladin in heavier armour and with a (chain) axe and shield, but both the firebrand and deacon profiles don't lend themselves spectacularly to melee. Another thought I had was to reference the Damsel hero type from the Bretonnian roster in my second champ - though quite how I could equip her I don't know!
My questions to the tribe are, how would you go about representing these Bretonnian archetypes in the Cawdor roster? Do you have any other thoughts about what I could do with a second champ? What weapons are good that I could take on a Cawdor leader, that also have a knightly aesthetic?
I want to make a Cawdor gang themed after Bretonnia (more specifically, Repanse de Lyonesse). I wanted to ask how best to represent these with the profiles HoF has available to Cawdor.
My thoughts so far are a melee focussed leader as my lady inspired by Repanse herself, with access to various group activations/buffs that Cawdor do well. She would be modelled with some kind of double handed sword weapon, mesh armour and, if possible a tilting plate style scrap shield, as well as a Fleur de Lys standard that would work as a cult icon.
My main question is whether to use the Priest or Wordkeeper profile for her? A Wordkeeper can take a greatsword (which seems underwhelming as a melee leader weapon?), mesh, and the scrap shield, and could take a skill like Bull Charge to have a bit of melee weight. I worry that the two-three attacks she'd get with this profile would not give her the combat presence I want though
A Priest could take an eviscerator, which feels a little beefier in combat (though actually doesn't have a huge melee advantage over the greatsword), can't take the scrap shield, and would probably take a piety skill, or maybe rain of blows.
For champions, I'm keen to have a nice heavy crossbow firebrand, but I'm less sure of what to do with my other one - I wanted to make another melee fighter, perhaps depicted as a sort of Bretonnian Paladin in heavier armour and with a (chain) axe and shield, but both the firebrand and deacon profiles don't lend themselves spectacularly to melee. Another thought I had was to reference the Damsel hero type from the Bretonnian roster in my second champ - though quite how I could equip her I don't know!
My questions to the tribe are, how would you go about representing these Bretonnian archetypes in the Cawdor roster? Do you have any other thoughts about what I could do with a second champ? What weapons are good that I could take on a Cawdor leader, that also have a knightly aesthetic?
