Will these Mercs being magespawn....be able to be summoned by like deathspeaker aeradon...cause that could get rather annoying. Plus what will the mercs look like...all humans? Mage spawn have never been smart and now that they except...i guess....cash? for their services...does that mean we will see shyft and that mage spawn get smarter? and become the ultimate race or sumthin?

i believe yes to the deathspeaker summoning them, but the thing is that they have to die first to be summoned. secondly, only the circle of nine is the smart magespawn group, and they are magespawn only because they dont fight for any specific side and fight instead for money, so the answer to the question of magespawn getting smarter is no
and no one knows the race of any circle of nine, but i doubt that they all are human

I am sure that you would need to field a pretty big army to have enough points to use deathspeaker to summon these mage spawn. Conquest type games would be interesting though.

ya that's true.....think....the dark riders summoning the circle of nine and all their stupid buddies.......haha

There's been some smart magespawn before. Like the Lich. The kruggs are semi-intelligent. In marrow's description it calls him a stranglely intelligent skeleton. The drakona are also intelligent. There's probably more, things like spectors might be smart too.
So, there's been smart magespawn before.

the general populace of MS is stupid

the circle of Nine are very intelligent:) , oh and they might all be over 214 points. so aeradin may not be able to summon them, who knows:p

Sin

Actually I was hoping they would b very viable in a 300 point game so I hope they are under 200 points. Preferrably around 150 points with great abilities and stats...I didnt know drakona were magespawn, I thought they were draconum faction?

We know that one of the Order of the Ninth Cirlce is a dwarf by the name of Jargus Hammerfist, I think. It's been a while since I remember that story, but he's the guy that kills Dagon.

He be makin dagon a deading!

Actually, the Merc was Terk. He was working for Jargus and the BPR. :)

I knew it was something like that. I guess Jargus just stuck in my head. Needless to say, that's one mercenary that we know of.

ehh, possibly, but then he may have simply been a scrying chamber NPC

I am almost certian WKs won't screw things up that bad. The Order of the Ninth Circle most certainly are NOT magespawn, and therefore should not be Summonable. My guess is that the rules booklet that will come with the boosters will include a ruling stating that any figure with the Order of the Ninth Circle Subfaction is unsummonable, and do not count as Magespawn for Shyft purposes (if they ever return).

Yeah it will probely be a part of there sub faction ability