Asuryan's Disciple

After a long hiatus from doing anything I am finally starting to paint again.  Currently working on my Sword Masters.  In the mean time I figured I would post a little document that a frined of mine and I put together.  Using my Battle on Beale 2009 list, we came up with what in general I would choose for spell lists depending on whom I was pitted up against.  It is a nice little document that really was, and still is, quite useful.

4^th Lvl Archmage: Staff of Solidity or Book of Hoeth
2^nd Lvl mage: Seer Staff
1^nd Lvl Mage: Ring of Fury

Beasts of Chaos

Lore of Fire – Wall of Fire, Fiery Blast, Burning Head, Fireball

Lore of Fire – Burning Head, Fireball

Lore of Fire – Fireball

Focus on killing Ogre-sized models (Minotaurs, Ogres, Dragon Ogres, etc.) with Fireball & Fiery Blast.  Use Burning Head vs. multiple low-leadership units.  [Lord only: Wall of Fire is good vs. fully ranked Bestigor unit]

Bretonnianns

Lore of Metal – hoping for Spirit of the Forge, Rule of Burning Iron and Distillation of Silver-  should get at least two of those.

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning Iron and Distillation of Silver

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning Iron

Rule of Burning Iron kills characters and knights with ease.  Distillation of Molten Silver can butcher peasants (and Grail Reliques).  [Lord only: Spirit of the Forge slaughters knights and lone characters.]

Lizardmen

Lore of Metal – Spirit of the Forge, Rule of Burning iron, Distillation of Molten Silver

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning Iron and Distillation of Silver

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning Iron

All Saurus characters and Skink characters on Stegadons all have huge armor saves.  Butcher them with multiple Rule of Burning Irons.  Distillation of Molten Silver slaughters skirmishers.  [Lord only:  Spirit of the Forge hammers Cold One Knights and to a lesser degree Stegadons.]

Vampire Counts

Lore of Metal – Spirit of the Forge, Rule of Burning iron, Distillation of Molten Silver

Lore of Metal – pick Rule of Burning Iron and Distillation of Silver

High Magic – Drain Magic (automatically given), Shield of Saphery (default), Curse of Arrow Attraction

                                Or

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning

Rule of Burning Iron is awesome for killing vampire generals (it overcomes regeneration and ignores armor saves!).  Focus fire on him because if he dies you virtually automatically win the game.  Distillation of Molten Silver is fantastic for killing Cairn Wraiths, Varghulfs, and Corpse Carts.  [Lord only – Spirit of the Forge slaughters Blood Knights and the Black Coach.]

 

Wood Elves

Lore of Metal – Spirit of the Forge, Rule of Burning iron, Distillation of Molten Silver

Lore of Death – pick Dark Hand of Death, Wind of Death

Lore of Death – Dark Hand of Death or Wind of Death

Metal Lore (Lord only) – Spirit of the Forge (and to a much lesser degree Rule of Burning Iron) slaughters Treemen and Treekin (ogre-sized trees).  Both of them take double damage from flaming attacks.  Distillation of Molten Silver slaughters wussy skirmishers.         

Lore of Death – Dark Hand of Death & Wind of Death are good for killing skirmishers.  Steal Soul is great for picking on characters (and healing yourself above your starting wound total). 

Warriors of Chaos

Lore of Metal – Spirit of the Forge, Rule of Burning iron, Distillation of Molten Silver

Lore of Metal – pick Rule of Burning Iron and Distillation of Silver

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning Iron

Metal Lore – Rule of Burning Iron is good vs. mounted characters (even wizards are 3+ armor save).  Distillation of Molten Silver is good vs. more lightly armored troops.  [Lord only: Spirit of the Forge absolutely wrecks armored units and lone characters.]

Dwarves

Lore of Metal – Spirit of the Forge, Rule of Burning iron, Distillation of Molten Silver, and Commandment of Brass are all decent

Lore of Heavens – Second Sign and Thunderbolt

                                Or

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning Iron and Distillation of Molten Silver

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning Iron and will hope for either Brass or Silver

Rule of Burning Iron is good vs. dwarven characters (Warning: some may have a rune that makes them immune to flaming attacks.  But surely they ALL won’t.)  Distillation of Molten Silver is good vs. more lightly armored dwarves.  [Lord only: Spirit of the Forge wrecks dwarven armored units.]

Daemons

Lore of Light – Cleansing Flare, Healing Energy, Burning Gaze

Lore of Light – pick Burning Gaze, Healing Energy

Lore of Light – Burning Gaze and whatever else

Ogres

Lore of Fire – Wall of Fire, Fiery Blast, Burning Head, Fireball

Lore of Death – Doom and Darkness, Wind of Death

Lore of Death – Dark Hand of Death

Lore of Fire – Focus Fireball and Fiery Blast on elite Maneaters and Ironguts (they die just as easily as normal ogres, but hit a TON harder).  The Burning Head is great for panicing Leadbelchers, Yhetees, Gnoblars, Butchers, and regular Ogre Bulls who are more than 12” from the general (they are all Ld 7 or worse).  [Lord only – Wall of Fire can pin a, surprisingly useful, ranked unit of Gnoblars in place.]

Lore of Death – Dark Hand of Death and Wind of Death are identical to Fireball and Fiery Blast.  Steal Soul can take wounds off enemy characters and give them to you.  Doom and Darkness cast on the Ogre General makes him Ld 6 so he or others near him can be panicked with the Burning Head. 

Empire

Lore of Metal – Spirit of the Forge, Rule of Burning iron, Distillation of Molten Silver

Lore of Life – pick Master of Stone, The Rain Lord

                                Or

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning and Distillation of Molten Silver

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning Iron

Rule of Burning Iron kills knights and armored characters and can consistently wound (and therefore slow down) a Steam Tank.  Distillation of Molten Silver chews up more lightly armored troops.  [Lord only: Spirit of the Forge kills Steam Tanks dead.]

Orcs and Goblins

Lore of Shadows – Pit O’ Shades, Creeping Death, Unseen Lurker

Lore of Death – pick Wind of Death and Doom and Darkness

Lore of Death – Dark Hand of Death, Wind of Death, Steal Soul, Walking Death, and D&D are all OK

Fire Lore – Fireball & Fiery Blast are good at killing Orcs and Goblins.  Burning Head can panic multiple low-leadership units.  [Lord only: Wall of Fire is good vs. fully ranked units of Savage Orcs, Black Orcs, etc.]

Death Lore – Dark Hand of Death & Wind of Death are identical to Fireball and Fiery Blast.  Steal Soul is good for hurting characters and healing yourself.  Walking Death can make one of your fear causers become a terror causer which is great vs. low-leadership troops.  Doom and Darkness can insure that a unit fails its break test or terror test, etc.  Drain Life can take out a large number of small units (i.e. fanatics, squig hoppers). 

Shadow Lore – Creeping Death is good vs. armored units.  Crown of Taidron is a better version of Drain Life.  Shades of Death is identical to Walking Death (i.e. makes fear causer into terror causer).  [Lord only: Pit of Shades is powerful against Shamans and any Orcish troops—Init 2.]

Dark Elves

Lore of Metal – Spirit of the Forge, Rule of Burning iron, Distillation of Molten Silver

Lore of Metal – pick Rule of Burning Iron and Distillation of Silver

Lore of Metal – Rule of Burning Iron

Rune of Burning Iron is good vs. armored characters, knights, etc.  Distillation of Molten Silver butchers T3 elf troops.   [Lord only: Spirit of the Forge destroys Hydras and knights.] 

Skaven

Lore of Fire – Wall of Fire, Fiery Blast, Burning Head, Fireball

Lore of Fire – Burning Head, Fireball

Lore of Fire – Fireball

Fireball and Fiery Blast are good at chewing up elite stuff like Plague Censer Bearers, etc. (i.e. not just big units of rats).  Burning Head is great vs. non-ranked units (which panic easily).  [Lord only: Wall of Fire can devastate a large ranked unit.]

High Elves

Lore of Beasts – Whatever I get will be fine

Lore of Beasts – pick Beast Cowers and Wolf Hunts

Lore of Beasts – Whatever I get, all spells can be cast with 3 dice

(if it is magic heavy I seriously think  about High Magic for one low level mage)

Even at only S3, Crow’s feast is decent vs. T3 unarmored elves.  Beast Cowers can freeze Dragon Princes, Chariots, and characters on Dragons.  Hunter’s Spear is good vs. heavily armored troops.  The Wolf Hunts can be used to get a charge in the magic phase with your chariot or dragon princes (just move them to within 2” of the enemy and its automatic if you get the spell off).  Having multiple castings of Wolf Hunts can make this much more likely

 

Tomb Kings

Lore of Heavens – Comet of Casandora (especially if there is a casket out there), Thunderbolt, Forked lightning, Second Sign

Lore of Life – pick Master of Stone and Howler Wind or Master of the Woods (for the pesky priest that he has to keep within 12” of his troops to magic aid them)

Lore of Light – Burning Gaze and whatever

Light Lore – Burning Gaze has nasty d6 S6 hits for a default spell. 

Heavens Lore – Tomb Kings are super fast so Uranon’s Thunderbolt and Forked Lightning both allow you to attack from maximally far away.  [Lord only: Comet of Casandora is good to drop on their Casket of Souls as they can’t move it so they will waste dice/dispel scrolls trying to stop this.]

Lore of Life – This Lore is attractive if you are facing an uber-shooty TK army.  Mistress of the Marsh can significantly slow an enemy unit.  Howler Wind can protect a large section of your army completely from TK’s numerous archers.  Rain Lord can halve the number of times a Catapult can shoot.  Master of Stone is good vs. stuff on hills.

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