7th Ed. 500pt southlands list

[outbreak]

This is the first lizardman list i've made and i'd like some feedback (thinking of eventually making a small skink southlands army for fun) at the moment my planned 500pt list looks like:

skink priest lvl 2
w/ cloak of feathers

2 x 14 skinks with blowpipes

20 skink cohorts w/ shields

1 salamander

total - 501


The other options I'm thinking of is running a skink chief with shield/la instead of the priest, dropping skink cohorts to 19 with the chief in there and then picking up 2 salamanders with the points freed up instead of running the 1. Also possible to drop the blowpipe units to 10 and buff up the cohorts to 28 (wish i could hit 30 but 2 x skink boxs will leave me with 48 models). Suppose it's also possible to drop the cohorts for 3 kroxigor and a salamander and not use southlands rules. Would kroxigor work better as my hard hitting unit or would the ranks of cohorts be better?
Opinions?

PS.. I'm also wondering if skinks come with the right pieces to make cohorts with shields or do i need to make javelin + shield skinks and just rank them and inform my opponent they are hand weapons not javelins.

 

[Bleyden]

Wow, you have a lot of choices.

For a small 500 point battle I wouldnt go for a Priest. The magic advantage wont be big and yoo'll have a T2 guy running around trying to get killed. Also the Ld isnt great. So I would go for a chief.

2 Salamanders will rule at 500 points. Do it.

Kroxigor would be much more hardhitting than just skinks, Krox are very Southlands so you dont have to worry about if fluffwise. Maybe try some mixed units and see how they work.

Overall youre on your way to a very mobile army

 

[Aranigej]

As regards to you hand weapon/javelin query, the skinks in the box come with javelin and shield (or blowpipes). However, seeing as the entry for skink cohorts states that they are equipped with both hand weapons and javelins you have no problems with equiping them with javelins and shields since the are stil wysiwyg