Editing Tzarina Katarin (section)

==Tabletop==
Katarin debuted as a playable character all the way back in '''4th Edition''', specifically in the 4e army book for [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|the Empire]]. If this sounds weird, the 4e version of the Empire had kind of absorbed the rules for the mercenaries from the past three editions, allowing it to field allied [[ogre]], [[halfling]] and [[Kislev]] troops. She was the first and only Kislev special character in this edition.

{| class=wikitable
! || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld
|-
| '''Tzarina Katarin:''' || 4 || 4 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 1 || 10
|-
|'''War Horse:''' || 8 || 3 || 0 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 1 || 1 || 5
|}
Katarin got her rules updated in Kislevs mini-armybook in 6th edition, where she could lead the allied contingent of Kislev forces. She's a level 4 wizard who can only use the lore of ice and is a whopping '''495''' smackaroos, which is expensive even in an edition when named characters were over priced. She's equipped with '''Fearforst''', a killing blow, no armour saves ice sword that would be fantastic in any combat lords hands but in Katarins it is just good, and '''The Crystal Cloak''' which gives her a 4+ Ward save and causes attacks thrown her way to suffer -1 to hit and wound. The special rule '''Protectors of the Khan-Queens''' means that if Katarin is the leader of the Kislevite allied contingent then you can ignore the limit on how many Gryphon Legion you can bring and finally, she has '''Beloved of Kislev''' which gives any unit she joins Stubborn and lets all units with 12" of her re-roll failed psychology tests.

Over all she's a good wizard and force buffer, but you'll want to keep her out of the fight as even though Fearfrost is a good weapon, her low WS and attack (singular) means that you won't get a lot of mileage out of her in combat (unless you roll Form of the Frostfiend for one of her spells, in which case throw her at some infantry units). She's also too expensive by around 100 points as comparing her to other named wizards such as [[Balthazar Gelt|Gelts]] 6th edition incarnation, she is a little lacking. But she does have access to a unique lore of magic that only she can use so there are upsides.