[LEAF] Blast of Sorcery: Lore of Beasts

[Naggie]

The second article about the three lores we can select with our mages has now been uploaded onto the LEAF site. It was written by Hyarion and contains a lot of useful ideas for where and when to use the different spells as well as the lore in itself.
http://leaf.woodelves.org

Any comments and feedback is highly appreciated. let us know what we can do better!

~ Nag

[Guardian]

All I can say is: It isn't there!

[Guardian]

And now it is there! And it's great!

[Naggie]

All I can say is: It isn't there!

I post this thread a minute before the actual article, to get the link to this thread correct. Hence the short time of no article. Another reason could be that you need to refresh your cache to see the updated navigation.

~ Nag

[Beithir Seun]

A very nice article. It's very inciteful so should prove very useful.

[Noxmenno]

The oxen stands:

Casting this spell on a depleted unit of Glade Riders or Wild Riders (with a Standard/Warbanner) will save you a lot of VPs.

It's not possible for a fleeing unit of wild riders to have a banner, because the only way to get them fleeing is by breaking them in combat.

[Bad Beast]

the problem i always seem to have with the oxen stands, is that none of my troops ever seem fleeing when my magic phase rolls around, since you have to figure they had to either panic or break from combat or flee as a charge reaction during my opponents turn, then fail to rally during my turn, this means they have already done their flee movement twice, normally they are off the board at this time, or they rallied at the start of the turn

[Hyarion]

I agree, but it doesn't always happen like that, and for when those situations do come up, the spell is gold. However, if I don't roll Bear's Anger then Oxen Stands is almost always the spell that gets switched.

[mydnight]

in spite of bear's anger + alter and great weapon being a favourite quoted terror, the few times i've used lore of beast i find the alter charges too far and out of the pathetic 12" range of anger, unless you cast it the turn before, but that means no more magic phase. maybe a mage on eagle or unicorn would work

[David L]

However, if I don't roll Bear's Anger then Oxen Stands is almost always the spell that gets switched.

That should probably be included in the article.

[Mist Walker]

The oxen stands:

Casting this spell on a depleted unit of Glade Riders or Wild Riders (with a Standard/Warbanner) will save you a lot of VPs.

It's not possible for a fleeing unit of wild riders to have a banner, because the only way to get them fleeing is by breaking them in combat.

If the enemy doesn't pursue it's possible

[Gropah]

Don't you always drop your banner when broken in combat? And if the enemy doesn't pursue, it's lost for both sides..?

[Noxmenno]

If the enemy doesn't pursue it's possible

What Gropah said.