Khatep soul ark mount

[Mr.Zombie]

Is it worth it? I mean khatep is a pretty God wizard and with the ark he is very slow should I use the skeleton horse?

[Zane87]

Casket of souls shotgun artillery is among the best artillery units in game, especially if used right. He may not be able to run up to the enemies to cast spells, but he can shoot at them which does a ton of damage.

Plus you can still use cheap buffs with him to permanently trigger his casting passive or use offensive spells if enemies get to close, and for everything else you can use a long priest, which you want to have anyway.

So yeah, get the casket of souls. It's a great artillery unit on top of everything else kathep offers.

[tslm]

imo you should have at least 2 liche priests with the other lores of magic in his army anyways. The casket is super powerful and between the heirotitans magic regen and the caskets magic regen and 3 arcane conduits you have basically unlimited winds of magic.

[Andrewbh2003]

its what makes him competitive with the other tomb kings and stand out the only thing separating him from a generic nehekara liche priest is that + his bound vortex and his skills thats it

so yes it is now there are some niche situations where you would not want him on a casket but other than those few his casket is by far the best options

[Cleftin Twain]

Definitely worth, but don't use him like a normal casket and put him in the back of your lines. Instead put him near the front behind your main holding line. Reason being is his AoE bound spell and Sandstorm can do serious damage to those expensive infantry units the AI can field (the casting range on them is kinda short) all while he is shelling their ranged units.

With the changes to spells no longer having a minimum range Khatep may actually be insane to blob units with as well due his AoE spells so may be worth a try.

[Holy Fool Sehrael]

Using the Tomb Kinigs Expanded mod by Agemouk and prefer both Kateph and the Lich Priests on their horses to be honest. This way they're where I need them when I want them to. The biggest con I see with the casket is the accuracy.