Snowflake League

The house rule was initially implemented to keep the broken power scroll in check, but now specifically neuters Teclis and the Book of Hoeth. Changing IF from doubles to triples does the following:

Casting a spell on 3d6, you have a 44.44% for doubles and a 2.78% for triples. On a 4d6, 72.22% for doubles and a 9.72% for triples. On a 5d6, 90.74% for doubles and a 21.30% for triples. And trying to get triple 6's means that IF is pretty much non-existent in other armies. This house rule is actually worse than just banning Teclis/Book of Hoeth completely.

By nerfing magic two things happen that ruin the balance of the game.

First is that Magic is the chief disincentive for big units (and boring 3 unit armies). Dwellers Below, Pit of Shades, Transmution of Lead, Purple Sun are popularly seen as "overpowered" because people can't accept that they can't have their cake and eat it too. 8th edition gave big units a lot of lucrative perks (steadfast, step up, and horde). So when people take 3 unit armies and die to an IF purple sun on turn one, they blame the game and not their gimmicky army list. Magic is there so that their is actually an incentive to take more small and medium units.

Second thing I should mention is that Initiative has been drastically nerfed in this edition with the new step-up rules. This becomes a problem for armies whose initiative values influence their point costs (and becomes an advantage for armies who have low initiative values). I think that GW took this into account and included 2 spells in two different lores that specifically put low initiative models (Purple Sun and Pit of Shades) in check.

So I think that the House Rule is unjust and it needs to go. It favors low initiative armies like Dwarves, VC, Tomb Kings, Ogres, Lizardmen and Orcs/Goblins. It favors deathstars and 3 unit armies.

As a High Elf player myself, it would be like me making a house rule saying that you have to roll two scatter dice on templates from war machines and you only get a direct hit if both dice a "bull's-eyes" because I refuse to stop taking a 40-man Swordmaster unit that gets completely pummeled by templates.

Teclis and Book of Hoeth are actually two different worlds. Teclis is 115 more points, but you are getting:
Loremaster (knows all spells)
+D3 Power+Dispel Dice each phase
Ignore the first miscast each phase
Dispel Scroll that has a chance to destroy the spell
LD 10

So I personally think that Teclis is kinda over the top (and can potentially be abused), and even if he isn't overpowered, he is still not fun to play against. Book of Hoeth seems reasonable to me in this regard. I personally play High Elves, so that should at least add something to my argument.

I'll come by with my Empire and I have a friend who'll be bringing his Lizardmen/Wood Elves. Just wondering, is there a certain time we need to be there tomorrow?

@dr. fumbles

I am gonna be there at around 12-1ish tomorrow and be there for the better part of the afternoon. I had arranged a 3k game with chris and his lizardmen at around that time because I didn't know who was interested in joining the fun. Of course this plan can change if people show up and wanna get some 2k games going. (heck we can even just change the point limits to what people feel like!)

So to answer your question, no there is no specific time. We are playing games at our individual paces, however, this will be easier when we can efficiently arrange games with eachother, (judging by the activity on here, it might be best to get an email/phone# list going).