Radiant (Part 1)

Prismatic

Prismatic units are very interesting, fulfilling what other games would have as a kind of mercenary role though split into two sides for full thematic flavour.

Personally I am yet to have Amelial join the ranks of my Noh Empire into battle but I am sure that will happen one day.

Prismatic knights though are much more of an interesting addition into Relic Knights as they make for a very different style of Cadre creation as opposed to the typical six factions, something quite different to many other games.

In this blog I am going to be speaking about the second Cadre I am going to be concentrating on, a Radiant force.

Radiant Relic Knight

When Relic Knights got into the final days of it’s kickstarter the Prismatic Knights were revealed as end bosses and I instantly fell in love with both.

To this day I would say that Harbonath the Void Reaper is one of the nicest models, ever, regardless of game, scale or genre it is a masterpiece.

As I work on the Noh Empire in my Knight’s Tale I think Harbonath will be my treat at the end and hey, I didn’t just back for the bad guys.

Cerci Speed Circuit is my second main faction and now I have a regular opponent with that faction also (Aaron) I thought that maybe it would be better if I spiced things up a bit and took the light side of the Esper wheel on from a different direction.

Candy, the Relic Knight of Radiance

This is what you need to lead a radiant force as she is what will change the hiring restrictions, but before I get to that, a few seconds about the model.

It’s big and beautiful. I stated before that I was in love with it during the kickstarter, Candy’s happy face as she rode a huge mecha with a giant soda pop cannon was enough to get me excited but I was further happy once I built the kit and looked at it in detail face to face.

Mine is going to have to be painted red. As soon as I started to build the kit the main body of the knight had clear inspiration to me, if not then it’s a fantastic coincidence as it seems to resemble a ship from my favourite anime series Cowboy Bebop, Spike’s fighter, the Swordfish.

And how appropriate the Swordfish II as it actually is called is meant to be a remodelled racer, originally designed for high-speed racing now converted into a fighter craft. Almost exactly how I imagine Candy’s Knight.

Mechanics of the Cadre

Prismatic Knights give you a very different way of building a list, just to recap for those unaware, typically a cadre has a Knight (Questing or Relic) of a certain “Esper affiliation” with Cerci for example the Knights are of Creation/Green and this simply means that the units which follow them must also be affiliated to that. So either Green themselves or Radiant which includes creation as one of it’s esper types.

This is simple and is pretty much how and war band, army, crew is built up in other games.

Prismatic Knights however being either Radiant (Creation/Law/Essence) or Void (Chaos/Entropy/Corruption) you would think that maybe they just get to pick from those groups.

You would be right but being these Knights are powerful would the game be balanced allowing a cadre of “All Stars”, probably not, this is where the fix comes in.

If it wasn’t already obvious, Candy being a Radiant Knight can hire and Radiant units, currently of which there are only Uniques but if there were minions or minion squads for Radiant Candy could field them too.

Creation, Essence and Law make up the Radiant side of the Esper circle and what Candy can pick from that is any Uniques from those factions.

Candy cannot take Hell’s Belles for instance as they are minions, but Betty and Lug for example are Uniques and so are more than welcome.

What this does is make for an “All Star Light” style team where you can field from Cerci, Shattered Sword and even the Doctrine but do not get full access to all of their toys.

So where do I start with this force, what do I pick?

Well here is a list of all the current units Candy can take into battle and join me in part 2 where I start talking about which units I am looking to field and why.

Uniques for Candy:

• Candy Heart,
• Cordelia Clean,
• Ayu Beat (collector’s model),
• Suicide Queen (on foot, collector’s model),
• Darkspace Candy,
• Darkspace Zineda,
• Darkspace Fiametta
• Navarre Hauer,
• Rin Farrah,
• Asger Faust,
• Prefects,
• Hasami,
• Betty,
• Lug,
• Isabeau Durand,
• Austrician the Ogre,
• Fiamata,
• Master Wu,
• Togan and Cecilia

-Ben (@psientologist)