E6 -- Suggests for a humanoid effigy/construct/gondsman

[Talionis]

For E6 (if you don't know what E6 is: http://www.myth-weavers.com/wiki/index.php/Epic_6)

I'm looking for a way to get a construct, effigy, Gondsman, or something that allows me one agile smart humanoid cohort.

I'd like to have the main character be a melee character as well, but I'm open to suggestions. Maybe a caster if they can buff themselves into a melee character.

The idea would be that main character uses the other effigy character as a distraction, to flank, to recon, to start a fight to see how or what the opposing monster does. Maybe they even dress the same so they would work as a mini-Mirrored Image? This would require the effigy/construct to be humanoid.

I could do Effigy Master using the Cityscape Contact feat to increase the skill to 10 for access of one level. That would grant me a 7HD effigy if I remember correctly.

I even considered, Necrocarnum Zombie from Magic of Incarnum one of the soulmelds allows you to create a zombie by attaching it to your Brow Chakra. But unless I wanted to go 6 levels of Incarnate or Totemist, I was only going to get 3HD of cohort that way.

I'm also considering the Soulfused Construct type from Magic of Incarnum to get the effigy some intelligence. I didn't see any additional cost for adding the Soulfused subtype to the construct, which surprised me.I wouldn't mind getting the intelligence above 3 either...

Open to any an all suggestions.

[gorfnab]

Could you import the Summoner (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/summoner) (handbook (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184592)) over from Pathfinder?

[Talionis]

Could you import the Summoner (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/summoner) (handbook (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184592)) over from Pathfinder?

Thank You, that's not exactly what I was looking for. I have read the guide. But I'm looking for a more permanent cohort than a summon. In E6, there just may not be good options, but that's why I thought I'd ask here.

[Talionis]

I'd also really like to use the effigy/construct/gondsman to scout, so seeing through his eyes would be cool.

[Origomar]

Leadership?

[Talionis]

Leadership?

Last resort. Not sure my GM will allow Leadership.

[Inferno]

Artificer gets a lesser version of Craft Construct (Craft Homunculus) which lets them make a handful of lesser (but upgradable) constructs as soon as level 4. And there's a pretty good selection of homunculus' (Homunculi?) across the Eberron books for most uses you should have for one.

Most have decent Int Scores too.

[Talionis]

I don't have a lot of Eberron books, but the Homunculi may be the way to go...

[Inferno]

You could make the Homunculi with a different caster too, if Artificers not your thing, Craft Construct is available in E6, but I imagine there's very little you can do with it beyond the Homunculi.