Editing Warhammer/Tactics/8th Edition/Wood Elves (section)

====Lore of Beasts====

The Lore of Beasts lets you run train on things that you normally would not be able to run train on.  Arguably, it has the best signature spell of the 8 base Lores.  +1 Strength and Toughness make even glade guard dangerous in hand to hand.  They are still rubbish, but they may hurt someone.  If applied to Treekin, they will each have Dragon-like stats, and go from being 'decent' to 'good' super fast.  It really shines on wild riders and warhawks, though, since it takes them from squishy, to survivable, and from dangerous to just death.  High initiative Strength 5 will scare anything. The +1S also gives your army an option at S4 ranged hits if cast on a unit of Sisters of the Thorn. It will also give you the amber spear which helps you deal with monsters and a couple of character buffing spells which can help your shadow dancers. Curse of Anraheir has great synergy with all the forests you might bring along (Acorn of Ages). Making a third of an enemy unit that follows you into a forest die is pretty great (the spell says all terrain. Doesn't this also apply to open terrain? In that case, lose 1/3 on the open terrain then 1/3 of what's left on the forest. If it's a faster unit chasing your fast units, maybe another 1/3 on open terrain on the other side of that forest, killing a total of 7/9 of the unit on average).