Ushabti

So you'd be like, you know, so, like, if you're doing, like, Tomb Kings, you're, like, gonna use, like, a huge fucking block of archers, and then a huge fucking block of spearmen, or two huge blocks of archers, and then you're gonna take, you know, a dude on dragon or two dudes on dragons, and then lots of casters.

And then your elites, you're gonna do a bunch of Ushabti or, um, maybe Tomb Guard.

You can do, do a double dip, make your big block of infantry Tomb Guard instead of skeletons.

But that's, like, the consensus, like, this is the best, this is the best stuff.

Creating a workaround for a problem that didn't have to exist.

Spell 6 describes how to awaken and activate a Shabti.

A Shabti is a small figurine, usually between 4 to 12 inches tall.

meant to magically stand in for a servant.

An ancient Egyptian who could afford all of the standard equipment for their tomb would be buried with ideally 401 Shabtis to tend to their every need in the afterlife.

Why such an incredibly specific number of 401? Well, they needed 365 workers, one for each day of the Egyptian year, and a gang of 36 supervisor shabtis, each of whose job was to manage ten little workers.

We need middle management, even in the afterlife.

So these little cuties are often depicted holding agricultural equipment with plows or bags of seeds because the chores of the Fields of the Rees, unsurprisingly, included a lot of tending of fields.