7th Ed. are horned ones worth it?

[diablarist]

im not sure if they are, or if a cold one is a better ider, as it leave more points for magic iteams ect. what do you think?

 

[skinkyone]

the fact they are a magic item puts me off

unless it is a skink priest then i would take one,
m8 March 16

 

[diablarist]

but then it eats in to your points to buff him up woith some magic iteams, would clock of fetheres not better?

 

[hellbreaker]

the horned one is a magic item, and hence can be destroyed by "vaul's unmaking" doesn't sound good to me.

 

[strewart]

It was a stupid idea for GW to make it a magic item instead of a mount option for heroes, absolutely not worth it IMO. I can find many better uses for my magic point allowances than a mount. Leave the horned one at home.

As to Vaul's, an interesting idea... Vaul's makes the magic weapon/item become its mundane version, so a magic great weapon becomes a normal great weapon etc. So Vaul's turns a horned one into a normal cold one I believe.

The only way I could justify a horned one is if it gets magic attacks (it is a magic item afterall), then in some cases against ethereal it might be good. But the rider is still going to do a lot more than the mount anyway so even then its a stretch to consider it.

 

[jay.sar87]

For a skink cloak of feathers would definately be better. I think the horned one would only be taken as a points filler. It's pretty much worthless because, and correct me if I'm wrong, if it's put in with a cold one cavalry. If the cold ones go stupid then the horned one is wasted. And besides, it's not like a great cold one. It's M and I is increased by 1. The only bonus is that it's not stupid. 35 points for that? Totally not worth it.

diablarist, it's really up to you. If I was forced to use one, he'd have to be a pretty sturdy Hero, and even then you only get 15 more points to spend on magic items. I think I'll stay with a stupid cold one

 

[strewart]

Yeah you are right, if you put it in a unit of cold ones then they can still go stupid and halt the horned one anyway...

I can't see how you would possibly need a points filler, especially not one as silly as the horned one. If you cannot find 35 points worth of useful magic items to take on a character, then you don't need that character.

 

[diablarist]

wow, not even a token argument in its defrnce i thought as much, i just hoped there was some awesome thing i was missing

 

[DonkeyHotep]

You could give it to a Skeenk Chief, and then he could be stubborn iwth the horn of kygor Nearby!
(note that I don't particularly care for the horn of Kygor, but it is a funny item nonetheless)

 

[Caneghem]

M8 seems like an interesting prospect, but you are still looking at only one character, who won't be very well armed with so many points in the horned one. I guess you could put one with a skink chief to give him that extra movement and armor save... but why not just put him on a terradon in that case?

Yeah, I can't really think of a good reason, but maybe GW will come out with a cool horned one model.

 

[Aparach]

I bought the inxi-huinchi riders back in the 5th edition (dogs of war) and Inxi huinchi himself rides a horned one. As for modeling and converting, you could always try to put the head of the horned one on a cold one..

Back on topick I would just join in the voices against the magic item. It sure should have been made a mount option rather than a magical item.

 

[asrodrig]

It was a stupid idea for GW to make it a magic item instead of a mount option for heroes, absolutely not worth it IMO. I can find many better uses for my magic point allowances than a mount. Leave the horned one at home.

As to Vaul's, an interesting idea... Vaul's makes the magic weapon/item become its mundane version, so a magic great weapon becomes a normal great weapon etc. So Vaul's turns a horned one into a normal cold one I believe.

The only way I could justify a horned one is if it gets magic attacks (it is a magic item afterall), then in some cases against ethereal it might be good. But the rider is still going to do a lot more than the mount anyway so even then its a stretch to consider it.

This is a really good idea. Unfortunately, I'd put money on GW deciding that this is not the case.
To me, it's an interesting option to model, but not much else.