Could someone give me some tips on building a book of lightning army? Whats the main strategy? (Zapping your opponent Id assume...) Which domain would be good?

clear skies...

also, you need a leadership fig so you can shoot every turn, and the BoL wielder needs a high attack because a miss damages you!!!

then, very strong bodyguards since lots of figs are :mi: these days, and in addition, the Item Magestone Bracers gives a -3 to your attack!

What about Healing? In case your Lightning rod gets damaged to much?

IMHO, Anunub is the best Unique to run your BOL engine. As mentioned by jgklaw, a leadership figure is a must. I prefer the Rage Paladin since he has Ghostform. I also include a *** Crystal Protector to provide healing support. Also, if you have points available a figure with Hex (but not critical).

Since BOL weakens your defense you should plant your BOL engine behind the biggest pc of blocking terrain available and put him in the corner. His role is not to fight in melee, but to deal damage from afar.

Also, as jgklaw said put in some bodyguards and general harrassers. Your choice is a bit more challenging because so many people are playing soaring figures today. I would suggest a few Zombie Centaurs to provide bodyguard support, claim objectives and generally be a harrassing pain.

One thing you need to be aware of with BOL is that the required wielder, healer and Leadership support will take up about 2/3 of your build total. That's a lot to invest in todays tactical environment. There are several domains that can now damage you either by shutting down your ability to make ranged attacks, and the new DR domains that can cause auto damage. Also, you have uber soaring figures that can jump ontop of your BOL wielder quickly. I wonder if BOL is competitively viable anymore in a 300 pointer ?

Give it a try. It's fun to play.

Steve

My BOL armies run no more. I don't like to invest that much into an iffy situation. I saw a guy Crit miss with the BOL 3 times in a row when I played against him.

jgklaw, the Magestone Bracers don't affect BoL at all. You ignore all modifiers to the attack when using it.

How about 2 leadership warriors? Right now Im thinking Blood Shaman for healer and Hex.

Maybe: *Blood Shaman- Healer and Hex generator
Annunub- Wielder of BOL
*** Rage Paladin-Leadership. (Maybe put him ontop of a stone whatchtower, since he has ghostform this would make him pretty much invincible)
Horned hunter-Leadership, also good for scouting or last minute objective grabs.

Now all I need is Harrasment and Bodygaurds. Right now Im thinking some type of Troll smasher, Or *** Zombie centaurs. Of course Ill probably throw in a Deathsinger ** for revenant.

You only need one figure with Leadership. The token alternates each turn, and you can use the non-Leadership figure every turn.

1. Fire, give token to Anunub.
2. Fire, give token to leadership figure, Anunub clears because he wasn't given a token.
3. Fire, give token to Anunub, Leadership figure clears.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 until something is dead. :p

Ahh, okay. I always thought since you gave Annunub an action, just not an action token that you would still have to skip a turn once you used BOL 2 turns in a row.

They changed that, specifically because of Leadership. The rulebook says, remove tokens from those not given actions. But that would mean Leadership figures, Strong Flier'ed figures and maybe others... would lose their tokens the same turn they received them. Now the FAQ changed the wording so that only figures not given _tokens_ clear at the end of the turn.

would it be smart to throw in a storm maul for added damage?

Nope. In a 300 point game, you need bodies, not more relics.

Also, Khurga is a good leadership figure. The Leech trolls are nice healing figures.

Hi ALL ...

well... for a FUN army ... you can always create an army with BOTH the BOL and SM and a LEADERSHIP fig ... so every 2 turns you can deal 8 Damage :D

Last year we had the Amazon Draconum ... this year we have the BOL and SM ... what else will Wizkids come up with next year? ;)

CHEERS

Here is a rough build of the BOL and SM FUN army :p

Anunub 77
BOL 60
Sytha 30
Storm Maul 79
Zeph Wyndfenner 38
Crystal Protector *** 15

Total 299

Have Fun ;)

CHEERS

ack! if someone plays Kossak or Relaphon, you'd lose automatically!

or if anyone played any army with several fast pieces, the problem with having BoL and SM in the same army, is there is no support at all...

anyone that does reach you, even say Caldera, who BoL can't target and SM could at most do 1 click per turn, will just rip you up horribly! Not to mention, Ley Burn, Storm Gale, Blasted Lands, Twister or Death Domains would be pretty bad for you!

in Conquest it's worth playing...