What's with the Crimson Amulet? I'm sensing that people around here like to use it on their wizards.
I can see that with 8th's emphasis on '(insert stat type here) test or die, no saves of any kind allowed' that you might want to protect your investment, but i've never had much trouble.
To me 8th edition has almost ruined magic. Sure it seems big and badass and the spells all do incredible damage, but in the hundreds of games I've played in 8th edition, magic usually plays a very minimal role. Especially when we are playing empire.
With an Arch Lector and Warrior Priest set-up, almost standard now, you have too many dispel dice for your opponent, and when something nasty goes through its either dispel scrolled, or it's irresistible.
Magic has become all or nothing. You either put all your dice into the big spell hoping for a miscast, or you fail.
As a player also of Dark Elves, among a few other armies, the best combo I have seen has got to be a Dark Sorceress on Dark Pegasus with the pendant of Khaleth.
The pendant means that you only have to role under the strength (6 always fails) of the incoming wound.
Thus when miscasting, and generally taking either a S6 or S10 hit, you have potentially a 2+ ward save.
Be that as it may, when i'm playing Empire with a Lvl 4 wizard, I usually go Lore of Life and try for Throne of Vines, purely to stop the miscast when I'm forced to throw 6 dice at a spell to even have a chance.
How have you all found magic in 8th? And has the crimson amulet ever saved you?
