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Just abit curious about what everyones favourite lore is, whther from the brb or from a codex what is your favourite and why? Mine personally is lore of light, mainly because everyone I play uses undead and the fact I like the spells, even though the spells are not as powerful as other lores.

Dark Magic, becasue it kicks butt real hard!

Fire, my favorite element.

Heavens.

Great Defense/Offense/Support spells to choose from.

Death, nice combo of damaging spells and psycology ones. Favorite spell is Doom and Darkness. It's basicaly -3 Ld for 2 turns.

I like Heaven because when im casting Comet of Cassandra , it reminds of this:

I like the Lore of Tzeentch especially the number 6 spell Infernal gateway because when I roll 11 or 12 for the strength I flash this at my opponent which makes us both laugh

High Magic, being able to cast a 5+ ward save on my swordmasters and get rid of opposition magical items is pretty awesome.

Wood, for the joy of having my enemy go 'Where did that Forest come from?'

LunaHound wrote:I like Heaven because when im casting Comet of Cassandra , it reminds of this:

Super Saiyan Slann, Power Uppppppppp!

GentlemanGuy wrote:I like the Lore of Tzeentch ...

As one of the few lores I've really used, I actually kinda dislike the LoT. Flicker is fantastic, pandemonium has its uses against other magic heavy lists, and gateway is indeed hot sex ... but the other stuff is fairly meh. Transmog has potential, but the last game I used it for 5 turns straight (miscast and lost flicker ) and only did 1 wound to a peg knight, and that was having the bret dude let it through round after round. Definitely not a 'bad' lore, but I feel like it's more like 2 great spells with some other stuff (vs Lore of Nurgle, which has a lot going for it, not just Bewbs )

Eldar Own wrote:Dark Magic, becasue it kicks butt real hard!

I kind of agree, Dark is a great lore that's hugely offensive. Word of Pain though tops my list, so so so irritating when timed to blunt my charges ... Also, horror gives me fits, not because it's totally crazy (but it is, particularly if partials drop away in 8th), but because it takes a dump on magic res by targeting-but-you-know-not-targeting people with its template.

I'm actually a big fan of Gut magic, as I like buffs a lot, and toothcracker is a box full of awesome. Problem with those RiP buffs is, even if they're as good as you could possibly make RiP spells, they still get dispelled right when you need them most. Hence another boost for Dark, with its RiP-but-you-know-not-RiP spells

- Salvage

I Love high lore, and Fire, I use them with my HE army.

Lore of Fire.
Dragon Mage + free power dice every turn = madness
High Magic
5+ ward just rocks my socks

The lore of Tzeentch, gonna ruin someone's day. Preferably the opponent's.

Actually I've never been too successful with y magic phases in general though.

I think I've got some success from the Lore of Fire too.

Lore of Athel Loren! (Wood )

Because you get to move trees...

Metal Lore, as it goes well with my Nuln Army, plus the main wizard guy is all metal makes it even more fun.

Heavens.

COMET FTW!

Ecurb The Mighty wrote:Heavens.

COMET FTW!

You spoony bard!

For the basic 8 lores, fire in most cases for all the ranged spells.

Otherwise the O&G spells are great (both sets).

Lots of magic missiles, and no LOS spells and some that limit the enemy and boosters for your own units.

The pre-lore magic system is still my favorite.

4th level demonic and necromantic magic had some nasty spells, like opening Greater Demon spewing portals and wind of death attacking all living creatures.

Total unbalanced but fun as hell to play

shadow because its spells are really cool.

Depends on the army I'm playing with.

Empire, I tend to Fire and Life.
Chaos Dwarfs, I tend to Fire and Metal.

Beasts and Life...

stupid Bretonnian magic

I like Death, wish I had it... or shadow would be nice

Lore of Metal for me. Excuse whilst I incinerate your unit of knights with no saving throws allowed, Mmwhaha (Note - much better if you select a wizard who can choose his own spells or knows the lot i.e. Slann, High Elf Mage or indeed Balthasar Gelt)

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:For the basic 8 lores, fire in most cases for all the ranged spells.

Otherwise the O&G spells are great (both sets).

Lots of magic missiles, and no LOS spells and some that limit the enemy and boosters for your own units.

Until 8th Edition, wherein they'll have the Casting Values of Beasts, be more self-harming than Skaven, and have a worse Miscast table than Ogres. "Orcs and Goblins should be an army all about a bunch of big nasty brutes and a lot of smaller vicious brutes. We think the new theme of extremely cheap Orcs with lowered statlines and magical capabilities truly captures the feel of O&G."

Gut Magic is one of my favorite Lores, personally, but that's a book-specific one. Fire's one of my favorite offensive ones, though Beasts is another one I enjoy.

High magic. Nothing says I rock like eating one of your magic items.

The wind of Aqshy

Lores I use...
Shadow - Anything with movement spells is great.
Metal - Kills MSU knight armies
Nurgle- Almost all the spells are great. Buboes, regenerate, kill knight spell, plus the 18" no armor save radius spell.
Slaanesh - I love the Frenzy spell and Tintilating delusions. Being able to control your opponent's movements is really powerful.

Big fan of the Lore of Tzeentch. Spells 1, 3, 4, and 6 are really nasty, and 2 and 5 aren't UNusable...