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Hello,

I havent played warhammer fantasy battles for a couple of years, i've been collecting and painting stuff but now i want to get back in there, so i have some questions about VC.

I have never realy played with magic before and i want to try VC, but i've no idea how the magic phase goes, its been to long and in 5th edition we didnt realy use magic much
I usualy had a lvl 1 mage with 2 dispel scrolls wich it would have still at the end of the game ^^

Question #1 Do vampires automaticly get invocation of nehek, and have to roll for the other spells? a level 2 gets to roll 2 and level 4 gets to roll for 4 spells?

Question #2 Can i give my vampires magic armor and weapons without giving them Avatar of Dead or Dread Knight?

Question #3 How many extra models do i need for a 2k points game if i focus on raising skeletons.

Question #4 Can you cast spells over and over? on the same mage.

Thanks! ^^

Question 1 - Absolutely right, apart from Necromancers who are instead bought spells, and never roll.

Question 2 - Yes you can. Expressly permitted in the Magic Items section.

Question 3 - Not that many to be honest. The ressurection spells will tend to be stuck raising whats been killed, though an additional couple of boxes should see you right.

Question 4 - You can only with Necromancy Spells (Invocation and the first 2 I think...might be first three) which each Mage can cast as long as the Power Dice hold out.

Allright thats awesome!

Thanks allot for the answers! now im even more into VC

ill start tinkering some lists together

OH, and important thing about repeat castings....

Remember that each Wizard can only use the dice he himself generates, and anyone can access the basic two in the pool.

This changed in 7th Edition, as Level 2's only ever seemed to be Batteries for the Level 4.

ooh i thought so already, actualy i didnt know they could do that in the previous editions

By the way one more question! what is the base size of ghouls? is it the same as skeletons or somewhat larger?

its the same

One note about Question 3: I find that if you have a casting lord with Lord of the Dead you will be raising LOTS of new skeletons. I buy 10 man units and usually get both of them up to about 25-30 by the second turn. If you go with a fighty lord you are probably better off buying larger units to start and then topping them off with IoN.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Ill start this out slowly and build more and more points hopefully, so i think ill get 2 boxes of zombies first including the rest of the army i've put a list on army list forum i hope its good

But i was wondering now, how many spell dice, and dispell dice do Necromancers each phase?
I think level 2 vampires get 2 casting dice, and 1 dispell dice but i have no idea what level Necromancers are ^^

Necros are always level 1, so 1 and 1 dice

Allright thanks! ^^

Watch out when you play HE. Their 0 level spell is drain magic, adds three to the min. to cast requirement. Or six if they get it off twice. Bear that in mind.