At a glance
- Type
- Legendary Lord
- Battlefield role
- Warlock spellcaster and weapons-team commander
- Race
- Skaven
- Faction
- Clan Skryre
Availability
- The Prophet & The Warlock unlocks Ikit Claw in Immortal Empires. Warhammer II ownership alone unlocks Queek and Skrolk, rather than Ikit.
Clan Skryre and the Forbidden Workshop
Select Clan Skryre in Immortal Empires. Ikit’s campaign is built around improving its machinery through the Forbidden Workshop. Food and Warp Fuel fund projects for weapons teams and war machines; workshop progress also opens further inventions.
Choose upgrades for troops you actually field. An improved weapon still needs an army that can protect it. Keep food available for expansion instead of spending every resource as soon as a workshop project becomes possible.
Doomrocket and Doomsphere
The Warpstorm Doomrocket is a battlefield weapon crafted through the workshop. The Doomsphere is a separate device built beneath an enemy settlement through an Under-City. One changes a battle; the other is part of a campaign operation against a city.
Treat either device as part of an attack plan. Arrange the infantry and firing positions before committing a battlefield weapon, and have a territorial plan for the aftermath of an operation against a settlement.
Keep the weapons firing
Ikit combines engineering with sorcery. Build around protected firing positions, with Clanrats holding approaches and Stormvermin covering threats that would otherwise reach the weapons teams. Leave gaps for guns to fire through.
Reposition a threatened weapon team before it becomes trapped in melee. Ikit’s inventions reward preparation, but concentrating every specialist in one place makes the army vulnerable to a fast attack around the flank.
The Forbidden Workshop
Ikit Claw is the Skaven lord in The Prophet and the Warlock, not a Warhammer II base lord. The 4 April 2019 FAQ calls him the arch Warlock Engineer of Clan Skryre and puts him on a collision course with the Prophet of Sotek. The Forbidden Workshop is the campaign, and food and Warp Fuel fund the weapons teams. The same FAQ has him claim the Star Tower in that pack's war. The claim belongs to the 2019 article.
Clanrats stand in front of the guns, and Stormvermin cover the flank that would reach them. The Warpstorm Doomrocket is a battlefield weapon. The Under-City Doomsphere is a campaign device under a settlement. Thanquol's Doom, the novel, has its own Doomsphere in a dwarf war that Ikit usurps. The novel's device and the Under-City are not one event. Tehenhauin is the prophet on the other side of the lord pack.
Sources
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- The Prophet & The Warlock — Creative Assembly / SEGA — store.steampowered.com