8th Ed. 2k krox heavy, viable?

[Bibamus]

somebody posted about a unit of 18 kroxigors, and i started to make a list with that in mind. without arguing teh insane cost (no point cost ofcourse) of such a unit, i'm curious if such a list is viable in games.

Slann 350
Mystery
Rumination


Skrox 330
33 Skinks
Standard
Musician
3 Krox

Skrox 330
33 Skinks
Standard
Musician
3 Krox

18 Kroxigor 990

1991 total



so basically we have 3 hordes, 24 kroxigors and enough skinks to keep the ranks up. the plan is to slam the toughest unit with the krox horde and let the skinks worry about the rest of the army with slann helping from behind. he can have a 5pt magic item but i have no clue what would be usefull.
as to the lore, life and light are the choices. ASF kroxigors are quite win, but even WS 10 helps a lot. on the other hand life has miscast prevention and revival in an army with few but very expensive (point wise) units.

is this list viable?

 

[kroxigor01]

I don't think its works at 2000 points. You need proper supporting units for the Krox horde to work IMO (not try to wage total war with 2 MORE hordes, you need to fight a limited war across the 240mm of the board you own; The Krox) and you don't have the points to fit them in.

At 2500 you can get a properly tooled Slann and at least 2 proper flank protecting units.

 

[Tubbe]

Against any magical oriented (Even just slightly) this list will fail in my opinion. On top of my head i can think of WoC MoT sorceress whiping 18*3*(1/2)*5/6) = 22,5 wounds of the Krox unit every turn, if that Treason spell gets off, plus magic misiles like MoT or Fire ones will eat these units alive.

Against a shooting list you might do ok, if your oponent has no clue what flee reactions to slow you down, is. If he does your pretty much dead before 3d turn as i see it.

Only lists i see this one beating would be heavy armoured combat lists with a poor choice of flankers.

Sorry if this might seem a tad pesimistic, but hey - Better keep it honest.

 

[Ilnar3]

Treason is only one attack, not 3
Still,
It's like 6/9 wounds, but you do have a slaan,
Magic isn't terrible,

Shooting will be an issue, but the slaan can help with that.
Specially with life.
Hmmm,,,, I actually really like it. Evan flankers shouldn't pose that much of an issue,
I mean, slaan ld 9
Reroll is bsb,
You'd have to play some serious points denial and a rely good weighted flank and I'd shuffle some points around,
Maybe lose a krox from each of the skrox units to take 2 units of 5 chameleons,

Problem is the regen from the lore of life only affects the slaans unit,
Risky,
Definitely take ethereal and the 2++
slan in one skrox unit with regen
Krox unit gets t8

It has potential
Remember too that if a cannon doesn't kill a MI then the shot stops,,,,

 

[Bibamus]

the fun part is that with so many kroxigor the enmy will have a hard time dispelling teh slanns spells, you got throne, stone to flesh and revive to worry about not to mention regen on skrox and as for dispelling.. teh slann should be able to take care of most spells that can really damage asnd let regen/T6(8)/revive take care of the rest.
canoons are indeed the biggest problem and its only a matter of dices since you don't even guess the range anymore, but i see such a list more like a fun list than anything competitive, not to mention i only play DE, WoC and the occasional demon or ogre.



i might try this list if i find anybody in my local area to trade some krox for some skave, 24 krox are a s^%tload of money wich i don't have and probably won't have till hell freezez over and plastic krox appear.

thx for the feedback