7th Ed. 1000 point comped Doubles list

[Mezegis]

Greetings Lustria,

In a few weeks time I have a Doubles tournament, 1k points each. It will be heavily comped and scored for painting. Since I’m already going to have a difficult time getting everything painted up, I’m trying to hammer out my list early so I can focus my painting efforts on the needed models.

My partner will be Brets, running some regular and peg knights, men-at-arms, archers, and a trebuchet.

Here’s what I have sofar:

Scar Vet: cold-one, sword of the hornet, ward save, armor and shield
30 Skinks Skirmishers
16 Saurus Warriors with command
5 Cold-one Cav
4 Terradons
1 Salamander with extra food, err handler

This gives my a few points left over, which I’m debating another Cav member, or a few more Saurus. 2nd option would be to take out 10 Skinks and a Terradon and add a Skink priest with Diadem for some magic defense.

Basic set up will be Vet in with the Saurus block for fear defense and to use the sword to try and whittle down any chargers, Terradons run with the Pegs, and Cav with his Cav, Skinks screen round 1 (since we’ll be going 2nd) and some move up, others help defend the Treb.

My questions to the masses are these: A) Is the list balanced enough not to get comped into the ground? B) Which of the options presented should I go for to fill the last of my points?

Thanks!

 

[Caneghem]

That's a pretty good list you got going already, although if your Bret partner is lacking magic defense you might want to pick up the slack. Especially if your opponents are going magic heavy. When it comes to magic defense, you need to take as much as you would normally take in a 2000 point game, possibly more due to the possibility of extra casters.

 

[Walgis]

i would drop coc becouse your partner will have a better cavlary then you. i would take more terradons and defenetly more salamandras (they rock).
other option is to make magical army to give some defence for your partner.
but in my humble expierience i know that the army should go oly magic or only combat. so becouse your partner is bretonian i would take more saurus warriors, 2 x 18 saurus with standart and music, 2-3 salamandras. 20-30 skink sk. (its not a must becouse bretonians will screen you becouse they will be in front of you. and some terradons defenetly. or meiby drop one saurus block and tae a stegadon.
thats my opinion.

if you wish to win you have to make list to work wery good with your partners.

 

[Mezegis]

OK, Well, I’m not sure if he’ll be bringing any magic defense, so it seems like I would need the priest to give us some shot at dispelling something. How about this then:

30x Skink Skirmishers
16x Saurus Warriors with command
Scar Vet on cold one, armor, shield, hornet sword, and ward save
Skink Priest, lvl 2, Diadem
4x Terradons
2x Salamaders with extra food

Brings me to 995, is there anything that can be done with 5 points?

I could lose the lvl 2 on the priest (since it doesn’t add any more DD) and add a couple more Saurus to give them a bit of attrition help, but I’m wondering how good he’d be if the opponents don’t have any mages.

Thanks for the input! Keep it coming.

 

[Caneghem]

OK, Well, I’m not sure if he’ll be bringing any magic defense, so it seems like I would need the priest to give us some shot at dispelling something. How about this then:

30x Skink Skirmishers
16x Saurus Warriors with command
Scar Vet on cold one, armor, shield, hornet sword, and ward save
Skink Priest, lvl 2, Diadem
4x Terradons
2x Salamaders with extra food

Brings me to 995, is there anything that can be done with 5 points?

I could lose the lvl 2 on the priest (since it doesn’t add any more DD) and add a couple more Saurus to give them a bit of attrition help, but I’m wondering how good he’d be if the opponents don’t have any mages.

Thanks for the input! Keep it coming.

Well the diadem only allows you to save the caster's own dice, not the pool dice. So at level 2 you will produce 2 dice which you can then save for dispelling later. You might be better dropping the diadem and going to level 1, then adding two dispel scrolls. That would free up 10 more points, though it depends on how you will play the dispel dice for your team battle. Supposedly you average the dispel dice pool (it's how we tend to play it), so it seems like scrolls might be more efficient.

 

[Mezegis]

Hmm, good point, I hadn't thought about the halving of the DD, I'd only be making 2 (rounding down) for a 100+ point investment. That just makes me want to go non-magic completely.

30x Skink Skirmishers
19x Saurus Warriors with command
Scar Vet on cold one, armor, Ench shield, hornet sword
4x Terradons
5x Cavalry
1x Salamander with extra food.

No can do on the Steg, don't own one, and only have 20 Saurus warriors. I basically have the Battalion box, extra skinks, terradons, and salamanders. I suppose I could use the Temple guard for something, but without a Slann, they seem a bit over priced.

Am I correct in thinking that a Steg should be next on my list to buy?

 

[Caeldan]

Honestly, you sound like you've essentially got about the same type of stuff I have right now... and I'm holding off on buying any Slanns, Stegs, or Carnos until 8th ed to see how much list builds are going to change.

I'll just play 1250 point and under games until then.

(But yeah, my previous plan was Steg, Slann or Carno, then another batallion box)

 

[stubacca3291]

I have always found that the priest with Cloak Of Feathers is very useful in a small game, gives the chance of getting in and out of range quickly, or fly up a building, either is very good.