8th Ed. Why not take Life?

[Bibamus]

if i play against a tomb kings player and i want to distroy his casket of souls realy bad, what lore shout i take?

life. dwellers below insta kill the casket since it has no S value, same against anvils of doom

 

[JohnMavrick]

Amoungst our group we have a High Elf player whom regularly takes the Lore of Shadows. When my turn came up to play him I naturally took the Lore of Life because I just really like the lore. However my eyes were openned when I played against him. By the Old Ones! That lore was sucking the life right out of my army and I was flailing around like a helpless babe! The hex spells he was casting left, right and up the middle were making his already close combat powerful army into a beast in hth.

 

[liath]

I'm looking at taking death this weekend for it's ability to generate power dice. That combined with the Slann's free one could be amazing (of course I could just die ;-) )

We postponed our game but I tested out Death.

Worked fairly well but I got some terrible rolls (Including forgetting half my spells and reducing my mage to L1) which resulted in me not causing a single wound with death, my L2 Skink Priest actually did better! Main problem I had was the 12" range on most of them. Not ruled out but not convinced.

On the other hand salamander, terradon skink chief and scar vet earned their points!

 

[ancient stegadon]

lore of death is awesome but i never use it with lizardmen sinde i don't want my slann and temple gaurds to get a purple sun on them when i roll a misfire ;p

you might take the risk if the unit has a potion of speed so the will have I 5 for that turn.