Will O' The Wisp Review & Proxy

Since reading through the summaries of the new models from Ripples of Fate shortly after GenCon, I've been excited for the new Will O' The Wisps. Now that our local club's GenCon order has arrived, with a copy of Ripples of Fate, I've finally got my grubby mitts on the full rules for them.

The Wisps are 3ss Insignificant Swampfiends, with okay stats and Incorporeal to make up for their low wound count. They also have a nifty ability, Feed on the Lost, which drops Scheme Markers when nearby enemies fail a Wp duel, which works alongside their Wp-targeting melee attack. This ability and its ranged attack action, The Wisp's Call, which forces enemy models to walk towards it, will probably pique the interest of any Neverborn players who favour Pandora - it can pull a victim towards Pandora's Misery bubble, and cause plenty of Wp duels.

But it caught my eye because of a different master - Zoraida. They are Neverborn-only models, but Zoraida's Tarot Reading Upgrade allows her to hire Swampfiends out of Faction. As well as all of the utility above, the Will O' The Wisps have a (1) Tactical Action, Ever Changing Form. This action lets a Wisp take a (2) Tactical Action of another friendly Neverborn model, or one of its Upgrades. There are some restrictions - it can only be taken once per Turn, only during the Wisp's activation (no Obeying it!) and a single model can only be targeted by it once a turn. But even with these restrictions, the Wisps offer some amazing versatility for Zoraida.

Zoraida can pull off a lot of fun tricks with her Voodoo Doll, but it takes a fair bit of setting up - and not to mention her AP. The Wisps not only free up her AP, but can get a target Hemmed to almost two foot away from Zoraida - and out of her Line of Sight! And there's more - the Wisp's melee attack has a Trigger that hands out Slow. For 2 AP. a Wisp can Summon a Voodoo Doll and give Slow to both it and whatever target it manages to Hem. (It can also do something with The Wisp's Call, but there's currently some disagreement on exactly how it works..)

The one big problem with the Wisps is that their models aren't yet released. My solution is simple: a quick and dirty proxy! I dug through some old Wood Elf bits and hacked up so cork and made this:



I think it'll do for now. Hopefully I'll get a chance to try it out soon :)