WHFB - 7th noob question

[alion0148]

hi im at the time not in possesion of a rulebook and

with the army i play my friend sayd that my vamps couldnt cast spels if the wore armor bit in al the list i looked at the casty vamp always has some magic armor can somebody say if i can wear armor and cast spells or not??

 

[Arion]

1st of all, no question is a 'noob' question.

2nd, I had to read over your post twice to be sure I got the meaning, please use grammar.

3rdly: Vampires may wear armour and cast spells, they are the exception to the rule, I'm not sure where it states this, I'll get back to you, I'm slightly tired as its late.

Simply, you are right, your friend is wrong.

 

[S'tan]

I wondered about this a few times myself. It's only logical and right that they can, but I actually couldn't find any reference to this in the new book (then again, I didn't read it word-for-word looking for it.)

I remember that in the good ol' days, when I was playing an army I could classify as 'Blood Dragons' that there was an entry that read something like ''The vampire may still cast spells even though he's wearing heavy armour''.


But yes, despite the lack of any real evidence (yet), you're right and he's wrong.

 

[TMS]

I might be wrong on this, but I believe that the big rule book states that armour does not prevent any wizard from casting spells. However, most wizards cannot even opt to choose any kind of armour except for a barded horse at most. If you can't buy a mundane shield, for example, you are not allowed to choose a magical one. Same for different types of armour, such as light and heavy.

Vampires are however free to buy any magical armour that they want.

 

[Kalandros]

Wouldn't be much point to the Chaos Sorceror Lord with Chaos Armor & Enchanted Shield ;P

 

[S'tan]

Chaos is different. The old chaos book explicitly stated that the sorcerer may still cast spells through chaos armour and I suppose the new one does too. Don't know about shield though...

 

[Fodderboy]

I had this come up in a game a little while ago. Sparky has it right. If you can by armour, you can cast wearing it.

GW just pulled armour from the equipment options for most casters.

 

[alion0148]

ok btw my grammer is that bad becose i have dislectick

 

[Vulf von Carstein]

Well, in 7th Ed there is no rule forbidding wizards from casting spells if they are wearing armour, but you cannot buy magical armour unless you can also buy mundane armour. Most wizards therefore cannot wear magical armour, as they rarely can buy mundane armour

 

[alion0148]

thanks thats what i wanted to hear

 

[Vulf von Carstein]

No problems