While I was surfing on all kinds of warhammer forums, I came to the daemonic legion forum. There will be a new book for the daemons soon, so I searched for their rumour thread and found it. Excited as I was, wanting to know what they will be capable of I started reading. It looked nice and decent until I came to this one sentence and I was blown out of my shoes:
Nr 4 of the Slaanesh spells:
“#4 Slicing Shards of Slaanesh: Cast on 7+. Magic Missile, range 24â€ÂÂ. Deals D6 S5 hits. Target must then take a Ld test. If they pass the spell ends, if failed they take another D6 Strength 5 hits. Continues until unit passes a Ld test.†(from Confirmed Daemonic Rumours "Roundup") :|
Imagine you have a core of zombies/skellies with Ld 3/2, he gets this spell off on one of those units. The spell continues to nuke down your whole unit because it’s almost impossible to past that Ld test. Ok, vamps have high Ld but you will have to a) keep your general with your main line (so no fast mounted vamp lords) or b) have a vamp in each unit!!
Not only the core of the army can be wiped out easily: Black knights (Ld 6), which normally should operate without a vamp, will have to be baby-sit; our dear wraiths (Ld 5), which also operate at our flanks and so could easily be outside the generals radius, need to be watched carefully.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not whining at all, I just find the spell somewhat different as we normally don’t have to test for Ld (except when the general dies).
So what do you fellow vampires think of this spell from the Prince of Pain and Pleasure? :devil:
Nr 4 of the Slaanesh spells:
“#4 Slicing Shards of Slaanesh: Cast on 7+. Magic Missile, range 24â€ÂÂ. Deals D6 S5 hits. Target must then take a Ld test. If they pass the spell ends, if failed they take another D6 Strength 5 hits. Continues until unit passes a Ld test.†(from Confirmed Daemonic Rumours "Roundup") :|
Imagine you have a core of zombies/skellies with Ld 3/2, he gets this spell off on one of those units. The spell continues to nuke down your whole unit because it’s almost impossible to past that Ld test. Ok, vamps have high Ld but you will have to a) keep your general with your main line (so no fast mounted vamp lords) or b) have a vamp in each unit!!
Not only the core of the army can be wiped out easily: Black knights (Ld 6), which normally should operate without a vamp, will have to be baby-sit; our dear wraiths (Ld 5), which also operate at our flanks and so could easily be outside the generals radius, need to be watched carefully.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not whining at all, I just find the spell somewhat different as we normally don’t have to test for Ld (except when the general dies).
So what do you fellow vampires think of this spell from the Prince of Pain and Pleasure? :devil:
