Lore of Undeath - House Ruled

Hi Guys,

Was going to run this by you fine folks to see your opinions or if you can see anything that would terribly break the game.

With the new "Lore of Undeath" being accessible for any race how would you feel if each wizard using it could raise the relative units from his army book (as opposed to undead).

Example:
Old text (paraphrased as I am not writing rules on a forum)
'Summon 150pts worth of undead infantry'
New text
'Summon 150pts worth of infantry from the casters armybook'

I love the idea of a new lore to play with but don't like the idea of having skellies/ ghouls/ gheists marching next to my Ogres!

Thoughts/ Opinions?

Cheers

Tozon

Well, house rules are house rules, but...

Shouldn't the Lore of Undeath summon undead in essence? It'd be more like the "Lore of Conjuration" or something crazy like that

If your peers are up for the changes though, awesome! We'd end up with like 60 Gnoblars per summons, which would be quite silly in of itself

My reasoning more is like it was summoning the recently dead.


I love the idea of the lore but hate the idea of having a loads of skellies in my army ^^

zombie ogres? Ogre Skeletons? Undead Mournfang? Etc..easily knock up some house rule of what undead means:

Unit gets: -1 WS and BS, -1 I, +to LD possibly and gains undead rule and fear, crumble etc.

Maybe rule that only units killed in the game already can be risen, if none dead for example just old humans bodies etc in the area..

K

A unit that is undead is specifically balanced for those qualities - being SLOW to move, mostly useless in combat and essentially fodder troops. Their entire army books are costed around the fact that they can be brought back to life. I really think that allowing you to summon 150pts of your own troops would be unbalanced whatever your adjustments. Undead Ogres? Treat them as crypt ghouls and summon them with the monster summoning spell.

Imagine bringing back 150pts of Chaos Warriors of Khorne with additional hand weapons...even with -1WS they're just not points costed to be brought back...

BB