7th Ed. 2000 Heavy magic list doubles

[slaan]

I'm playing in a doubles game against dwarves and my team mate is going very heavy close combat so i am going to try to overwhelm dwarves with magic and shooting. here's my list, comments/concerns would be greatly appreciated. the rules are we aren't allowed to take duplicate special or rares in a single list

Slann: (Lore of Metal)
Focused rumination, Higher State of consciousness, Focus of mystery
Divine plaque of protection, Rod of the Storm
Sun standard of chotec
BSB

Priest
EOTG
Plaque of tepoc
Amulet of itzl
level 2

Priest
Claok of Feathers
level 2

Skinks
X11

Skinks
x11

Chameleon Skinks
stalker
x6

Temple Guard
Full command
Totem of prophecy
X16

COC
musician, standard
x5

Salamanders
2 extra handlers
x2

question: is it a good idea to fly the Priest with the cloak of feathers into the scouting chameleons so that the Slann can channel his spells through him, or will he get torn apart on the front lines?

Thanks guys

 

[raptorman]

I actually played a very similair game a few weeks ago. Lizards & VC versus Dwarves & WOC. Dwarves are great at dispelling, so dont expect miracles out of your magic phase (I had even more points put into my magic and he still had more dispell dice then I had power dice, of course he was anticipating heavy magic).

As far as the flying skink priest, just keep in mind he has to be within 24 inches of the slann and only magic missiles can be shot through him. I would probably put the chamelons right in the back lines to march block and maybe single out a lord/hero (especially the dwarves giant anvil that cant move!) and only try to get the skink priest with them if it looks like it will be fairly safe to do so (maybe put him with a skink unit until the unit is close to the chameleons, and have your priest fly out of it to join the chameleons).

My one big tip is that we won that battle because the dwarves couldnt get line of sight because the WOC had to get into combat to be any help. It made the dwarves only helpful in one thing, dispelling. if your ally has a good magic or shooting army, you should be okay by playing defensively.

 

[erians]

A pretty decent magic phase. You might want to take a jag charm scar vet, as he has to dispell that every turn or loose a war machine (and he has to use 2 dice to be sure to dispel it). I would also take banehead as your slann already have loads of protection. Lore of Metal and Bane head is an awesome combination, use rule of burning iron to one-shot one of his rune priests.

You dont have 3 core choices, you can replace the cammo skinks with regular skinks or skink skiirmishers.

I dont really see any point in taking both temple guard AND etheral on your slann, he can't be targeted in your TG unit, he gets LO,S!, he has a 2+ ward and dwarven cannons are magical most of the time anyway. CoC are good when they can connect with their targets, but dwarven handguns will kill these guys faaaast as they only get a 4+ save, and after 2-3 casulties your unit is pretty useless.

question: is it a good idea to fly the Priest with the cloak of feathers into the scouting chameleons so that the Slann can channel his spells through him, or will he get torn apart on the front lines?

As raptorman mentioned the total amount of metal magic missles that can be channeled is....1 ! Your slann can already cast like a large target when he is with the TGs so he will have LOS to anything he wants anyway.