8th Ed. 1000 point Tourney

[morik]

OK, I need to put together 1000 points of Lizards for a Tournament. Same list for every match. I know there will be High Elves, Wood Elves, Brettonians, Daemons, Beastmen, and Warriors of Chaos (And Empire, I think). Not sure what else. Here is my plan (1st draft):

General: Saurus Scar-Vet mounted on Cold One with Great Weapon, light armor, shield, and Dawnstone
Skink Priest with lvl 2 upgrade

15 Saurus with Musician and Standard
13 Saurus with Musician and Standard (General will be with this unit)
10 Skink Skirmishers with Blowguns
10 Skink Skirmishers with Blowguns

5 Chamo Skinks
5 Chamo Skinks

Salamander unit
Salamander unit

My main question is: "what can I drop (if anything) to add an extra handler to my Salamander units?" Should I even do this (seems like every time I misfire, I lose all 3 handlers).

 

[Raein]

i would maybe combine the units of saurii two small untis seem a bit weak... maybe even swap out your general for a slann or add another skink preist with a dispell scroll to protect you from magic or drop a unit of chamo skinks and get 5 cold one cav... these are just opinons and were ii'm from they mainly play 2.4k tournies..

 

[morik]

We usually play higher points too. This is sort of odd. What about running a single unit of saurus (around 20ish) and throwing the other points elsewhere? That really only leaves me with one unit to absorb enemy charges though.

Can I even squeeze a Slaan into 1k?

 

[morik]

Or, what about dropping a unit of chamo skinks and adding to the saurus units? Each one will have a minimum of 3 ranks (running 5 wide, though I usually prefer to run them 6 wide), plus a couple extra to absorb shooting attacks.

 

[Raein]

i think dropping a chamo skink unit to buff up the saurii would be a good idea, as they will need to be buffed up to take the grunt of any combat/shooty attacks, these are just suggestions. i havent really used slann's so yeah, i think maybe add more strength in numbers to the saurii..

 

[chstout]

Also, on the scar, I'd take the enchanted shield for only 2 extra points and you get another bonus point to your AS. (or alternatively the charmed shield to help with a cannon since you have no LOS roll).