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I was wondering if there is any one lore in particular that just plain kills????? as they all look reasonably balanced to me

so what im looking for is some either deadly combo's with existing units and a spell, or army and lore, or a good reason why one lore is the best.

so far to me shadow has been way too much fun with lizards
espicially with unseen lurker pumping out a 18(or 24 if you marched then charged) inch charge with a ancient steg with war spear flying back skink priest and using them to cast crown of taidron (all units withing 12 take d6 str 4 hits) on a closly packed empire g-line
and of course making fear causing blocks of saurus(even better when your skink preist for your engines just casted celestial shield on them)
just makes shadow my fav so far

I personally like using Lore of Metal. The army I normally play is DE, and their normal lore is good enough for most opponents. But then occasionally you will face a bret, empire, or WoC list with many knights. S4 (which seems to be the most common magic strength) doesn't cut it vs a 1+ or 2+ save. Hitting them with Lore of metal can obliterate a unit in a single turn. (which is all you usually have vs knights). Lore of fire is similarly useful if you opponent brings multiple regenerating units, or a single death star unit. I would say for an offensive magic army, lore of fire and lore of metal are the best choices. Neither have "bad" defaults, and only have a couple of situational spells between the two.

Life for lizards=board control and healing stegs
Metal against dwarves & brets
Fire for general purpose

I like Lore of Death. It's got a nice combo of damage spells and psychology spells. Plus it's funny having terror causing zombies.

Fire. I like to burninate stuff.

beasts is great as an all around lore, every spell has its uses and the casting values are low.

The dwarven lore of dispel dice.

RZ

I'm not too fond of magic in fantasy as you have to:

1. Plan on it not working for you.
2. Plan on it working for your opponent.

Not really a fun part of the game for me. I think I'd like it better if magic were more reliable
(though I guess magic items tend to represent the stable part of magic).

For Slaan I like fire, as most are shooting based spells and I don't plan on getting into combat
Metal for when I take on heavy armour enemies.

I've never taken beasts.

Very much depends on the opponent. Lore of Light is very handy against Daemons and Undead as your guaranteed spell (i.e. the one you can swap another spell for) is Pha's Burning Gaze which gives you a D6 S6 hits against these fellows. And they can't be regenerated, cos it's a flaming attack.

I would say that more important than the choice of Lore is being able to control your spell selection. Slann and Vampires can have all the spells from a single Lore, High Elves can take the Seerwood Staff and choose their spells and Empire can take Balthasar Gelt who gets all the spells from the Lore of Metal (as discussed above, very useful against heavy cavalry).

Does no one love my lore of Heavens?!!?!

Small Buffs here and there along with Decent damage spells? Yes Sir!

Agreed with Flashman, it's all down to who you're fighting, and what army they're using - some lores simply won't do anything against certain opponents, such as using the Lore of Light against Non Daemons/Undead, or using Lore of Life against a low shooting high armoured opponent.

Play around with them all, see which works, it's down to experience more than anything, on a personal note, I take Death/Metal/Life the most, as they offer the best balance against my usual opponents (Vampires, Empire, Orcs, Dark Elves and Ogres).

Depends on what role I want my mages to take. Lore of Heavns is great for scroll cadies (Low cast DC's and lots of support stuff)

i enjoy the simplicity of fire and death magic.

Fire. I like burning things, 'nuff said.

conflagation of fire or w/e its called is great if you can pull some luck out of the bag as iv done on occasion and got like 20 hits from it on an opponent lol
metal obviously vs any heavy armoured army
but being a goblin player the WAAARGH magic is awesome fun haha

Lore of Life

Since I regularly play WE, it's always fun to slap them about with their own trees!

Fire (nuff said) Death Shadow and Heavens (who doesn't like shooting comets at enemies?)
although it would be nice if lord kroak still remembered the lore of time and space/old ones but noooooo he had to forget when he died.