At a glance
- Type
- Hero type
- Battlefield role
- Ice or Tempest spellcaster
- Content pack
- Total War: Warhammer III (base game)
- Race
- Kislev
Availability
Content pack: Total War: Warhammer III (base game). Immortal Empires ownership
- Kislev hero type; train candidates through the Ice Court, then recruit the trained hero.
- Part of the Total War: Warhammer III base-game Kislev roster. Recruitment follows the selected faction’s buildings, capacity and campaign access.
Ice Court training
Use the Ice Court to train a Frost Maiden and make the training choices for that candidate. Once training is complete, recruit the hero through the available pool. Account for that process when preparing a new army rather than waiting until the front line needs a caster immediately.
A Frost Maiden is a hero. An Ice Witch is a lord type that can command an army. Both belong to the Ice Court's magical tradition, but they occupy different roles in the campaign.
Patch 6.1 made the training dilemmas follow a fixed sequence and expanded the trait choices. Choose traits for the army's intended use, then assign the trained hero to a force that can protect her while she casts.
Ice and Tempest
Choose the magic variant before building the character's role in the army. Ice and Tempest provide different spell selections; inspect the spells you intend to use and develop toward those needs. A second caster should add something useful to a force already led by Katarin.
Spellcasters need room to see and reach useful targets. Keep the Frost Maiden behind a protective line, and move her before fast enemy troops can trap her. Use a spell when its effect can help the rest of the army win an engagement.
Building the support team
A Patriarch supplies battlefield hymns, while a Frost Maiden supplies spells. With both in an army, position them according to the reach and purpose of their abilities rather than placing every hero in the same melee.
Kossars and Streltsi benefit when enemies are occupied long enough for missiles to work. The supporting caster's job is to help create those opportunities without leaving the army unable to protect her.
Choose the caster for the commander
Boris and Kostaltyn gain a conventional spellcaster by bringing a Frost Maiden. Katarin already supplies Ice magic, so compare the actual spells you want a second caster to use before choosing Ice or Tempest.
Mother Ostankya uses the Lore of the Hag. A Frost Maiden, when available to her faction, brings another magical tradition, while both casters draw on the army's Winds of Magic. Plan the spells you expect to cast instead of counting each hero as a separate unlimited supply.
Sources
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA Support — support.sega.com
- Patch Notes 6.1 — Creative Assembly — community.creative-assembly.com