Please do continue to share those reports, they are valuable and important to the community and the mere fact you share already shows you care about the community at large. Again I apoligize for using your name I shouldn't have, sadly I'm rather bad at realizing those things and usually only do when it's too late.
it's a decent way to Ensure the FoTM doesn't become too dominant & adds some variation to the game. Though it'l depend on how influential those realm rules are.
Picking spells for your wizards would completely go against what they're trying to do: limit extreme-oriented lists and favour all-around lists.
I agree. I like the approach of keeping stuff random in order to have armies bring balanced lists and/or lists with redundancies, instead of super combos.
I disagree with that on account of the comperativly vast difference in power between the various spells while the other realm rules aren't as extreme.
Probably to help armies that don't have that many artefacts to choose from at all. And that works well btw.
So why not help the armies that have no spell lores?
O we'l probably find something usefull in each realm. However given the relative big difference in effects I suspect it'l be frustrating more than anything else, especially if you're playing with "powerfull" wizard armies like ours that have plenty of wizards, but no spell lore to keep em busy with. Especially for the defensive and buff/debuff oriented spells. The damage spells are far more similar in terms of their effects and thus will be far less frustrating to play around the different realms in that aspect.
When I pick a wizard for my army, I pick him because he's part of a plan. He is either there because he already has access to a spell that I want to use in my army, or / and to unbind enemy spells. The fact that he gets to choose from a spell lore is a bonus, it doesn't change his primary role. Case could be made for the archers or tarpit you mentionned when they suddenly deal 2 damage instead of 1 because of Inferno Blades. They're still doing their role, but they are suddenly much more potent at it, much like the wizard that got access to a spell lore.
That's the case when you have a wizard that has a decent special spell (or spell lore), and that you have enough unique spells. And if the realm spells don't bring mechanics you cannot get in any other way. At that point they're only a bonus providing some redundancy and some flexibility to your wizards. However if you have say no acces to any ward-saves then Ulhu's phantasmal guardian is probably going to be a fairly big deal when you gain acces to it, similarly if you have no heals, but a lot of Multi-wound units, gaining Hysh's glowing light will change a lot. In those cases they're not "nice bonusses" but basicly gamechangers as your wizard isn't just doing +1 damage but gained a whole new and crucial ability causing the wizard to change roles.
None of those realm spells seem to be especially powerfull, the only one I could see being particularly annoying on kroak would be the phantasmal guardian as it pushes his defenses to even more ridiculous levels. But it's not like he really needs that to be mindnumbingly difficult to kill to begin with so I can't imagine that'd be a real issue either.
where's the fun in thatLet's just agree to disagree
One day we will succesfully drag him inPerhaps you might be tempted to start now?
One day we will succesfully drag him in
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