THE CATHAYIAN ARMY LIST
With any large empire, there must come a large army and military force to defend it. With the Cathayan Army, the vast varities of Troops is one which cannot be easily matched. They possess many different troop styles, types and tactics. Ever since the first Cathayan Armies were lead through battle from the Emperor Kwan and Xheng, have these mighty men forged a powerful rule, which cannot be disputed. Every soldier in battle is considered unique, and everyone is important. No one is expendable!
Army Selection:
0-50% Charecters (Including Heavenly Charecters)
25%+ Units (Not Including Heavenly Troops)
0-30% Heavenly Troops
0-20% Monsters
0-20% Allies - Ungols, Indhi, High Elves and Nippion.
The main Cathayan Army is divided into 2 groups. The Heavenly Army and the Cathayan Army. The Heavenly Army’s varieties of troops is not as diverse as the Cathayan Army, but is much more stronger.
Special Items Used by the Heavenly Army:
Heavenly Sheilds: Offer +2 to the armour save instead of the origional. Parallel to the use of the Enchanted Sheild. Costs 25 Points
Heavenly Blades: Used for Champions and higher ranking troops. Does D3 hits per attack. 50 Points
Jade Armour: Used for Champions and higher ranking troops. Offers a 4+ Magical Save, with an additional 4+ Dispel and reroll special save of 5+. Costs 130 Points.
Heavenly Armour: Used only by Generals. Offers 4+ Special Save and 4+ Dispel. 175 Points.
Charonite Emblems: Offer +1 to Initiative and Leadership. 15 Points.
Charonite Mail: Same use as Heavy Armour but does not use movement penalties. 7 Points. This also applies to horse barding, but for an additional 10 points, meaning 17 points for a troop wearing Charonite Mail, with a horse with Charonite Barding.
The Broken Rank Tactic:
The Broken Rank Tactic was a skill developed by the Cathayan Emperor Kwan during his battle against the Skaven. During the process of Hand to Hand combat, where the rear two ranks are not engaged, they are permitted to encircle the enemy by charging the enemy at the sides. However when a unit does this, they lose all their rank bonus. During combat, when this occurs, after the 2 rear ranks have left the main group and are fighting, if there are still 3 more ranks, without combat, they count as a single rank bonus. If there is a fourth, then rank bonuses are added once more. If there is a fifth, then there are 2 rank bonuses.The Regiments charging at the sides, are still a part of the regiment, and so are affected by magical items such as the Dread Banner, or the Banner of Sheilding. Thus, they can still be broken if the main regiment is defeated in hand to hand combat, or shooting.
Note that only Heavenly troops and the only acception of Kwan Broadswordsmen and Palace Guards can use this tactic. No other regiments are permitted.
SAVES: All saves are calculated with normal armour, and not custom armour, therefore you must add additional saves to their original score. However, there are diffrences between weapons, but have many equivalents within the western worlds of the Empire, Ulthuan and Bretonnia.