Quick Question about Nicodem

[Malifoe]

I don't have the book with me, so apologies if I miss the names on anything or I have overlooked an obvious rule.

Can Nicodem, with 3 corpse tokens, cast his create undead spell (Reanimator?) and create a desolation engine? The engine is undead, is not unique or a spirit. It is in another faction, but the spell doesn't limit the possibilities to faction and Nicodem can recruit outside his faction anyway.

This seems pretty powerful, as I am guessing that to play Nicodem at all you need plenty of corpse tokens for zombies anyway. If you take just some of those tokens and make the 12 SS Desolation engine you are getting a great deal, plus the 2 steampunk abominations that it will creat upon death and the two corpse tokens those will create when they are destroyed.

Am I missing something?

[nilus]

I think its is possible. My thought is that its not super powerful since 3 corpse tokens takes time to get and Nicodem is better off keeping some of those as mindless zombies or else he goes down really easy.

[EricJ]

Errata added an ability to the Desolation Engine which does not allow it to be summoned except by the Steampunk Abominations.

He can still however summon 4 Steampunk Abominations and they can summon the Engine

[Malifoe]

EricJ- That's good. It would be lame if the master of zombies was more interested in animating engines.

[EricJ]

The Engine is quite a bit more dead-fleshy than you might be thinking, lol :D

[nilus]

EricJ- That's good. It would be lame if the master of zombies was more interested in animating engines.

Well he can still hire it at cost.