LOTS - Caster Styles
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Different warcasters play in very different ways, from assassins to support. A warcaster's playstyle will be driven, in my opinion, primarily by their spell list, secondly by their feat, and thirdly by their personal abilities & weapons.
Often, a warcaster will be able to play in multiple ways, depending on what sort of army accompanies him/her/it or even just depending on the current battlefield situation.
That being said, the "main" playstyles can be summarised as follows:
- Support casters - Support casters are often "squishy" with poor DEF/ARM and a habit of spending all their focus on spells. They also don't have particularly great combat stats.
- Army support - This sort of warcaster has a lot of spells to make their army hit harder and/or more accurately. A good example is Deneghra1.
- Jack support - Same as Army Support, but with a focus on jacks. A good example is Master Necrotech Mortenebra.
- Assassin support - This sort of warcaster has spells that make a single unit/model able to outmaneuver the enemy and/or deliver a powerful attack. A good example is the Witch Coven.
- Tank - Tank casters have good DEF/ARM and hitpoints, and tend to cast no spells and instead camp focus for the ARM bonus. They then wade into the enemy lines and laugh at their puny attacks. A good example is Terminus.
- Assassin - An assassin caster is similar to a tank, but with less durability combined with either more maneuverability and/or greater range on their attacks. They often rely heavily on their feat to actually conduct the assassination. A good example is Caine2.
- Scenario caster or Control caster - This type of caster has spells that limits the enemy maneuverability, with a focus on driving them out of scenario zones so that your army can control and score the zones. A good example is Krueger2
- Attrition caster - This is a variation on an army support caster, with a focus on tying enemy units up with units that can't be killed easily, and/or return to play as quickly as they are killed. A good example is Morvahna2.