8th Ed. 2400pts herbivore's delight

[nicque-ta-ma]

I haven't taken my LM out since, I think 4th ed (when were they first released?) and been thinking about getting some dinosaurs. Before starting I imagined a bunch of bastilidons and stegadons supported by a slann (debuffing toughness and death-sniping mages) but I ran out of points

Slann
BSB, harmonic convergence, focus of mystery, channeling staff, standard of discipline

Skink Priest
Lvl 2, Dispel scroll

Saurus x 30
Spears, full command

2x 10 skink cohort
Musician, banner
2x 10 just musician (total 4)

3x bastiladon w/ ark of sotek
10 chameleons
2x jungle swarm
2x Ancient steg w/ sharpened horns, one w/ engine of gods other blowpipes

The standards on the cohorts is for blood and glory but is probably not necessary (if dropped = min core). I orginally had 2 skink priest cos i was hoping for comet but now there is just one I should prob just take a lvl 1 for wyssans. Anyway, let me know if you think this is a good idea and how it could work better, thanks

 

[Stonecutter]

The biggest risk I can see is there is really no place to safely park the slaan. In the saurus, he must go in the front rank and even with ld 10, cold-blooded, spear saurus can lose big time and need insane courage to hold. This could easily happen against any elite infantry that starts with 3 ranks. The steadfast will be gone once the saurus lose 10 models, which is a single round against WoC, white lions, etc. if the unit isn't buffed. The simplest solution is crown of command. A secondary concern is the absence of magic CC attacks. Against any vamp ethereals, there will be big trouble if they are not destroyed before combat. To this end, I think changing out a beastieboy for a scarvet cowboy would be worth it. You are really only giving up a single bound spell, which will leave the list with 3 bound + slaan casting.