8th Ed. First List Attempt 2500pts

[Onyxtitan]

Hey guys,

So, I've been out of the game for a long while, and after popping into GW the other day, I notice that every book bar Ogres, Tomb kings, Brettonians, Beastmen and Skaven has been redone since I last played. On top of that, I've never played Lizards before, so I really am going in blind with this. Thanks to some wonderfully helpful people on the introductions page, I've read through a few tacticas as well as other people's lists, here's what I've come up with.

Lords

Slann
Wandering Deliberations
Harmonic convergence
Channeling staff
BSB

Heroes

Saurus Scar Vet
Great weapon
Light armour
Cold One
Dawnstone
Dragonhelm


Skink Priest
Level 2 (Beasts)
Cube of Darkness


Tetto'Eko

Core

25x Saurus
Full command
Spears


25x Saurus
Full Command
Spears


24x Skink Cohort
Champion

10x Skink Skirmishers
Javelins

10x Skink Skirmishers
Javelins


Special

25x temple guard
Full Command
Lichebone pennant


3x Ripperdactyl Riders

Rare

Ancient Stegadon
Sharpened Horns


Total: 2500pts

Any feedback is greatly appreciated. I can't tell you how uncomfortable it makes me not taking a combat lord dolled up to the nines in gear, but I'll save that for another day

Cheers,

Seb

 

[Pinktaco]

It looks fine, but you shouldn't go above 625pts of core. We can use the points elsewhere.

If you're using your rippers for warmachine hunters I'd consider using either cameleons or terradons. They're more reliable (frenzy issue).

Personally I would consider getting 2 salamanders.

So I took the liberty to give my version of your army:

Lords

Slann
Wandering Deliberations
Harmonic convergence
Channeling staff
BSB

Heroes

Saurus Scar Vet
Great weapon
Armour of Destiny
Cold One


Skink Priest
Level 1 (Beasts)
Dispel Scroll


Tetto'Eko

Core

30 saurus w/ full command.

2 units of 10 skink skirmishers (javelin).

23 skink cohort with musician.

Special

25x temple guard
Full Command
Razor Banner (armour Piercing).


3x Ripperdactyl Riders

Rare

Ancient Stegadon
Sharpened Horns


Total: 2249pts

So here's the deal. There is 251pts left for you to do with what you want. Want another ancient stegadon? Go ahead. More rippers? Or how about a couple of salamanders to go along with those rippers? Maybe more templeguards?

My opinion? I love me some ancient stegadon so that would be an obvious choice. I think I would take 2 salamanders + snacks, make the rippers into cameleons (my preference, others like terradons) and put the rest into the templeguards.

Oh and about those. I went with razor banner because S5 + AP is awesome. Even Armour Save +1 units should fear them.

One thing though. If you really want to utilize slann + tetto you could consider getting the book of ashur instead of the channel monster. I also figured that you didn't need 2 x lvl 2 and a lvl 4. Again my preference, but I like the scroll better than the cube due to it always working. Failing on a 1 is just lame.

As always these are just suggestions. Ask more if you feel like, otherwise then have fun and tell us how it went

 

[Onyxtitan]

Thank you so much for such a detailed reply . I must say, GW seems to have done a really good job with this book, with so many different things being playable.

While I have huuuuuuge love for the stegadon, the salamanders seem almost too good to pass up, can't believe I skipped over them on my first pass (also snack is now my new favourite bit of Warhammer slang). As to chameleons/terradons, I went with the latter because flyers are something of a novelty for an old hand Ogre player such as myself, plus I think the models are particularly tasty.

I think the overspend on core came as a knee jerk reaction, I played ogres in 7th edition against primarily Chaos and Dwarves, so after I'd bought my heroes and lord, I just filled near every remaining point with copious numbers of ironguts.

As to the Slann, which would you recommend, the power dice advantage in the Channel Monster seems a more hefty boon to me, but I can see why you might want the book.

Lords

Slann
Wandering Deliberations
Harmonic convergence
Channeling staff
BSB

Heroes

Saurus Scar Vet
Great weapon
Armour of Destiny
Cold One


Skink Priest
Level 1 (Beasts)
Dispel Scroll


Tetto'Eko

Core

30 saurus w/ full command.

2 units of 10 skink skirmishers (javelin).

23 skink cohort with musician.

Special

32x temple guard
Full Command
Razor Banner (armour Piercing).


3x Terradons

Rare

Ancient Stegadon
Sharpened Horns

Salamander + Snack (Best terminology ever)

Salamander + Snack


Total: 2500pts


I'm afraid it'll be a little while before I get to play, I'm still building my first 20 saurus at the moment, btu I can't wait to have the list done and to get some games in.


Thanks again!!