8th Ed. 1500 pts tourneylist, restricted to batalion box + bit extra

[Cowboy jet]

Hi, Sunday I'm playing my first tournament and submitted this list.
I only bought a battalion box and slann, and recently got a stegadon. So those are the models I'm limited to.
(ow and some extra skinks of course)

I played with the stegadon twice and really loved it. I found this stegadon of doom build http://www.lustria-online.com/threads/stegadon-of-doom-build.6693/
And just have to try it, even though an ancient stegadon wont fit in 1500 pts.

This is what i came up with:

Kai Qu Chupayotl (lost defenders of Chupayotl)

Lords
General:
Slann Mage-Priest: Qua Chaq Chaq (Blood of the Dark Depths)
Discipline of the Ancients:
focus of Mystery
the Focused Rumination
Magic items:
Cupped hands of the Old ones
Lore: Light

Heroes
Skink Chief
Magic items:
Stegadon’s War-spear
Mount:
Stegadon

Core
Saurus Warriors 20x
+ Spears
+ Full Command

Skink Skirmishers 10 x

Skink Skirmishers 10 x

Special
Temple Guard 10x

Cold One Cavalry 5x
+ Standard Bearer
Magic items:
Huanchi’s Blessed Totem


Precisely 1500 points

And this is how I plan on playing it:
1 Protect the 3 units drawing fire: Stegadon, Slann/TG, Cold one Riders. With:
a Pha’s (buffed so take 3dice (from pool) for 97% casting chance) all units in 12” -1 to hit
b Screen with Saurus warriors.

2 Get to war machines with:
a Skinks
b Cold one Cavalry: Charge ~ 19” with huanchi’s blessed totem. ~15.5” without.

3 Shoot highest armored enemies with:
a Shem’s (buffed = 15+ = 4dice (from pool)) D6 S6 hits (-3 armor save)
b Stegadon Giant Bow, ignores armor save

4 Get this charge of: Stegadon of Doom:
Speed of Light + Birona op Skink Chief, when charging:
2D6 +1, S5 impact hits, from stegadon (1d6 from war spear)
5, S5, re-roll to hit, from stegadon
4, S6, re-roll to hit, from chief (+2 strength from war spear which counts as lance)
8, S3, re-roll to hit, from crew
D6, S5, thunderstomp, from stegadon
~28 hits

I think its solid but any thoughts? how might I improve or expand if i get money for new models

I'll let you know how it did in the tournament as well.
Thanks CJ

 

[Elmquasmash]

Well, I know how you feel about only having so many models so you can only do so much I'm on the same boat with a similar sized army as you. I would suggest first getting some more temple guard as your Slann would do much better in a unit of 20 or so Then get some Salamanders and Chameleon Skinks (or convert some of your regular Skinks into them) and get some more Saurus Warriors. That would get you to a basic 2000-2300 point army (along with another hero or two) list! You can also try taking what you have and making a larger list for where you would like to be and that way you can get an idea of what you will be needing

 

[Cowboy jet]

Thanks for the tips!

I did alright last sunday, won 2 out of 3. The loss was against a dwarven gunline.
So I'm totally going for the chameleons, like you suggested. To take out some warmachines quicker

I'm dropping one unit of skinks for that.

The 10 TG seems to be enough in 1500 pts. especially since the enemy has 3 big targets to focus on.
The CoC were the winner for me as most went for the stegadon first. 5 CoC work great in 1500 pts.

I'm also thinking on dropping the spears on my saurus, if i then also drop the magic banner for the CoC which i didn't actually use, i could maybe increase the saurus to 25.


I also could drop the chief (since the chief and steg got killed first all the time)
and then i can even get a salamander in 1500 pts.
I could then take a normal or even an ancient steg instead.
The ancient steg would even survive a bit better.

Oke, just wrote that all down and....

This would be a pretty nasty list then for 1500 pts, everything Lizardmen have to offer is in there:
Slann Mage-Priest: Lore: Light
focus of Mystery, the Focused Rumination
Cupped hands of the Old ones

Core
Saurus Warriors 25x
SB & Musician

Skink Skirmishers 12 x

Special
Temple Guard 10x

Cold One Cavalry 5x

Chameleons 5x

Rare
1x Salamander +1 handler

Ancient Stegadon

Or is this spreading it to thin then for 1500 pts?

If i then fill it out with some more saurus a nice scar vet and the extra Temple Guard like you said I will indeed be going towards a nice 2000-2500 points.

I will start posting some painting pics as well.