Azhgore said:Gojira said:All that said, I think the book isn't that great anyway. It's a bit hit and miss and you could easily lose 3 dice on a 5+ spell. Granted you could cast the 13+ spell on 1 dice but there is only one of those.
i like how u say that losing 3 PD on a 5+ spell is easy, but then make it sound like its harder to get the 13+ spell off with 1 PD when the chance to get either is exactly the same.. biased much? o.o have you used the book yet? if you havent then i suggest u give it a try. even if you do cop the unlikely event of losing the 3PD to the 5+ spell in 1 of ur turns, ill be surprised if you don't finish the game feeling like it was fun and useful.
Whole-heartedly agreed, although I'm probably the biggest supporter of the Book on these forums. The Lore attribute is down right scary in terms of effectiveness. I'll give you an example.
Last night, playing Ogres, my vampire thrall who had the Cursed Book cast Miasma on 1 PD. This thrall was on the flank in a zombie unit about to get tarpitted by 2 fodder units of knoblars. My General, Mannfred (yep, the real deal... practicing for a tourny which is allowing certain Specials, including Manny) was on a one way track towards a head-on collision of 8 iron guts with a Tryant Lord (Crown of Command) and BSB.
So, since I had tons of PD (10?) thanks to Mannys MotBA, he let the Miasma spell go (Mournfang reduced movement).
HOWEVER, what my opponent didn't expect was when I swapped Manny with the Thrall, then 6 diced purple sun, irresistable force horizontally across the battlefield from the zombie unit into his iron gut unit, killing every iron gut in the unit and killing a mournfang (rolled 27 dice and 5-6 got more PD, yep, 8 more PD). Then Spirit leeched (killed) his BSB with lower leadership from Doom and Darkness. My next turn Manny and his unit charged the knoblars and averaged an extra 4 DD and PD for 2 more turns thanks to his sword and chopping up knobblars! Tarpits are grrrreat for Manny!
Yeah baby... THANK YOU cursed book... Because it's hard to target the most important piece of your army when he's teleporting around! An yes, I tabled Ogres (3 purple suns helped too hehe)
Lastly, it really makes me chuckle when ppl don't realize its full potential... Cursed Book is as cool as last editions Blood Drinker or Helm of Commandment... it should be a must take, IMO. But this is a new edition, so when you see it everywhere, ppl will start to catch on.