8th Ed. 1500pt friendly list vs ogres!

[Vadraha]

Hey guys, trying out some saurus cavalry with a carnosaur. Planing on trying to redirect a huge deathstar unit of ironguts and try get into the flank with the saurus cavalry with a wyssans to hopefully cause a lot of damage. The list is as follows. Any comments would be appriciated! cheers

Characters

Saurus Oldblood
Light armour
Charmed shield (to hopefully help against the cannon)
Carnosaur

Saurus scar-veteran
Light armour
Spear
Enchanted shield
Cold-one

Skink priest
Level 2
Lore of beasts
Cloak of feathers (for shits and giggles)

Core

The saurus will be the mainstay unit that will take the brunt of the damage so i'm thinking maybe they should have the wyssans?

24 Saurus wariors
Full command
Hand weapons and shields

10 Skink skirmishers
Blowpipes

10 Skink skirmishers
Blowpipes

Special

12 Saurus cavalry
Full command


I'm hoping this list should work. The only way I can see it not working is if he charges the saurus and they flee. But if I redirect with the skinks right I should be able to hit him with both units and a carny and eat some ogres.

 

[Shadoer]

My thoughts

1. You Need a BSB

I'd take your one ScarVet on the Cold One and upgrade him to a bsb. Otherwise you are going to fail a bunch of stupidity tests. Another thing you should consider is putting the Skaven Pelt banner on your BSB to give your Saurus Cavalry frenzy and that extra kick they need to punch through enemy lines

2. Magic Defense

You might as well swap out the cloak of feathers for a dispel scroll and keep him in a unit of skirmishers.

 

[Vadraha]

Thanks dude, makes sense. I only just realised that that banner gives you frenzy against everyone too I thought it was just against skaven for a while.

 

[Shadoer]

Thanks dude, makes sense. I only just realised that that banner gives you frenzy against everyone too I thought it was just against skaven for a while.

NP. Yeah it's a common mistake I made to at one point. Just the Skaven in the title makes it sound like it's our "Death to Skaven" item.

 

[Vadraha]

One last thing . Does the banner affect the mounts?

 

[Gor-rok]

It specifically says "all models in the unit" have the frenzy, so I'd say yes. Horses and such in Warrior of Chaos lists used to get frenzy from their upgrades until their new book specified they did not anymore, so there's precedence.

That's another 12 attacks you're getting out of the unit (assuming you run 6-wide), which is not too bad value for the points. It does leave the BSB with less defensive gear than I'd like, but maybe the gamble will pay off.

At 1500 points, some Ogre generals will use a firebelly as their wizard instead of gut magic, in which case your chaff skirmishers will be cleared away pretty quick. Just something to keep in mind if you're counting on redirecting him.

 

[Vadraha]

Cool thanks . Even if he does that it's less damage my saurus and cavalry will take