Editing The 9th Age/Tactics/The Vermin Swarm (section)

====Character Mounts====
'''Vermin Guard Litter''' A great defensive boost, more attacks, a boost to commanding presence, and it is still standard infantry so it can hide in units.  A great mount choice and a steal at 75 points.

'''Vermin Hulk Bodyguard''' More attacks and health but less armor and the only unit you can hide in are vermin hulks, which isn't a bad choice and if you want a unit of those roaming around you might as well have a chief roll with them.

'''Monstrous Rat''' One fast boy that you won't be able to hide anywhere but give you a fortitude 4+, great attacks, and a breath weapon with toxic attacks.  Don't put your general on one, but a chief missile will be hard to put down and can do some work.

'''Plague Pendulum''' A melee monster.  Adds 8 attacks with battle focus and hatred and give your plague daddy +2 armor and an aegis 4+.  It comes with impact hits 1d6+2 and grind attacks 1d6+2 that can only be dumped to its front facing, but that should rarely be a problem.  You can only roll with Plague Brotherhood, but that would be where you want him anyways.  Occultism is a good lore for this monster, get Pentagram of Pain for some dakka and self sustain, Hand of Glory will make this monster stupid tanky as well as boosting the survivability of his unit.

'''Doom Bell''' A magic blaster.  It tanks up your magister like the pendulum, but also adds Channel 2, increased range, and a solid debuff to enemies.  Above the masses increases the range of the magister's spells by 3", changes his front arc to be all around, 360 degrees, and can blast spells while his bell is in combat, sadly the way callous works he can't blast the unit he is in combat with.  The bell itself gives a -1 to off/def skill to enemies within 18", at the start of your magic phase you can pump it to -2, but if you roll a 1 on the d6 test the bell breaks and damages everyone in base contact.  More entertaining than actually bad, get it into contact and start ringing, only good things will happen.  Has to roll with rats-at-arms or vermin guard, rats are better if you're on a budget and just need bodies, vermin guard can actually kill things.