Warcrow: Instructor

Some officers fight. This one makes everybody around her better at it instead, which is a different sort of value and a harder one to read off a profile.

Her purpose is to raise the ceiling of the unit she joins rather than to win duels herself. She prepares troops for the worst thing standing opposite and puts extra bite behind their attacks, so what you get back depends completely on where she ends up. Attach her to something you were planning to keep in reserve and she is wasted. Attach her to the block that is meant to carry the game, and an ordinary Feudom formation becomes a problem your opponent has to plan around.

That makes her one of the more instructive purchases in the range for a newer player. Working out which of your units is the real one, then committing a support character to it, is most of what list building in this game rewards.

Before you decide:

• A commanding officer meant to be attached to a unit, not run alone
• The Feudom is Warcrow's knightly human faction
• Warcrow is Corvus Belli's fantasy rank and file wargame, not part of the Infinity range

The model arrives unassembled and unpainted unless the publisher indicates an exception.