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Which do you run?

I Don't!

Yet!

Slaan has a lot of problems now that he can miscast.

DE armies that take the Ring on something other than a Unit Champ that can be easily dealt with are going to completely neuter the poor toad.

Ring of Hotek: Any doubles are a miscast. if cast from or into area of 12" around bearer.

Da_Viking wrote:Ring of Hotek: Any doubles are a miscast. if cast from or into area of 12" around bearer.

That's quite a handy toy.. what about irresistible force? does it do away with that?

Anyways, I've been flip flopping between the slann and the oldblood now. You can easily equip the slann to turn that item back around on it's user with the item that forces your opponent to roll a miscast instead. I love the new levels of brutality capable by an oldblood+blade of realities+carnasaur. Against any multi-wound model it will stomp the mudhole out of them. The slann now though, is much more affordable and can be kitted out with differing disciplines to make themselves very useful.

As per brb a miscast overrides a Irresistable force so double 6's become a bad thing.

The other thing is that this can be given to the champion of a unit and you have to kill of the champion to get rid of the ring.

Watch where the DE mages are not because it affects them as well.

A couple more reasons to take the 'Bloods over Slann are:
1) EotG makes Skink Preist almost as good magic-wise, plus all the other effects, and the ability to support another unit in a fight.
2) Blade of Realities.

Da_Viking wrote:As per brb a miscast overrides a Irresistable force so double 6's become a bad thing.

The other thing is that this can be given to the champion of a unit and you have to kill of the champion to get rid of the ring.

Watch where the DE mages are not because it affects them as well.

If you were to put them in a unit though, what unit would you put them into? 12" in the center of your battleline would afford you a lot of magic protection or you could give it to a hero and run him at an opponent's wizard in a unit of cold ones. It could prove useful to stick it on a hero/champion near your black guard or executioners. They do tend to draw a lot of fire.

Are skink priests on foot a good magic missile delivery system for slann?

some people try using the cloak of feathers on a skink. That way he can fly around and do the job as a slann node.