question - Is anyone against me making a major change to khador warcasters?

[robbert229]

I was thinking about replacing the multiple named warcasters with a single warcaster with an option for the different versions. As of right now you can have different sorchas as long as they aren't the same.

[JimOrtiz]

I've been using conditional "Max in Roster" modifiers in the Cygnar catalog. Essentially setting max in roster for Stryker1 to 0 if Stryker2 or Stryker3 is in the roster, etc. for each version. The list provides a validation warning if two versions are selected at the same time. It does mean any old versions need to be modified when a new version is added.

Thinking about it some more, we could add a shared entry to each version that's max in roster 1 instead: Kommander Sorscha Kratikoff |_ Link to: Sorscha Kratikoff

The validation error would be something like "Roster limit exceeded on Sorsha Kratikoff, max in roster: 1".

The nice thing about the modifiers or shared entries is that they'd work when PP creates Epic Warcaster versions of the Character Junior Warcasters. You can't change a category in a sub-selection that way.

I do feel like it'd be better if the rule was applied to all the catalogs the same way. I think my vote is for a shared "Character Name" entry. It'd be relatively quick to apply to all the existing catalogs, and is more maintainable than my current modifier approach.

[ghost]

So have a character entry and then their different versions from there? Kind of like this:

Sorscha Kratikoff -Kommander Sorscha -Forward Kommander Sorscha

If so I think this would work nicely.

[JimOrtiz]

I was thinking the opposite of that: Kommander Sorscha -Link: Sorcha Kratikoff Forward Kommander Sorcha -Link:Sorcha Kratkoff

That way in the builder, you have the names that match the books, and the shared entry has the restriction across all versions.

Edit for clarification The main reason I lean in this direction is that "Epic Warcaster" versions of the new character Junior Warcasters seems almost inevitable: Kovnik Andrei Malakov (Solo) --Link: Andrei Malakov Kommander Andrei Malakov (Warcaster) --Link: Andrei Malakov would allow only a single "Andrei Malakov" to be added to a roster. On the other hand: Andrei Malakov --Kovnik Andrei Malakov (Solo) --Kommander Andrei Malakov (Warcaster) won't work, BattleScribe won't allow you to have child entries with different categories that way.

[Obiken]

I like the suggestion. I'd say go ahead, and then we can test how it works.