8th Ed. Trouble vs Ogres

[ZeeDeveel]

You do have to pick the lore during army creation now. Honestly though, Shadow is a very impressive lore no matter who you are facing. The debuffs it has are awesome, and who doesnt love str 8 saurus or even str 6 skinks if necessary.

I love throwing a small skrox unit into the flank of someone and then hitting it with okhams.

Mindrazor doesn't effect armour saves does it? Admittedly I've never used it, but to me that makes it not very appealing. We have poison to take out high toughness targets. So rolling 18+ to allow our Sauruses to do what we already run loads of Skinks for seems a bit meh. I guess it's better if you're running a Skink Cohort or a Skrox unit.

 

[Landjorden]

Ofc it affects armorsaves, if you hit somebody with str 8 they get -5 armor

 

[ZeeDeveel]

O rly? Hmm, as it says specifically in the rulebook "blah blah strength for the purposes of rolling to wound." I thought the specificity of this implied that it did not count towards the armour save. That's a lot better than I thought if that's the case.

 

[Lord Tsunami]

the mind razor - armour save issue was FAQed long ago. it DOES effect armoursaves. check rulebook FAQ.

 

[ForgottenKnight2001]

When only running 2 Salamanders should I keep them as seperate units or grouped? It seems like grouping them, especially against Ogres, would be the best bet.

I'd run them as 2 separate units, but near each other. That way, you have the benefit of being able to concentrate fire, but won't lose both to a round of shooting or a charge, the other can just watch his mate get turned into a fine red paste, then set the guys that did it to him on fire.

 

[Old Mossy]

I only ever run groups of salamanders when I'm running a Life slann, and worried about elven missile spam: lose 1 salamander, you've still got the unit to cast a regrowth on.

To me, salamanders are all about manoeuvrability, so I like to keep them separate. Literally running rings around a unit of knights is so very, very hilarious.

 

[Lord Tsunami]

salamanders vs a dwarf army with all its missile units dead is something that all ppl should get to experience at least once before they die

on topic though. im gonna skip the slann and try a carnosaur against ogres. that just HAS to be fun

 

[Gor-rok]

im gonna skip the slann and try a carnosaur against ogres. that just HAS to be fun

It is. Try the Piranha Blade on your rider, too. Just stay away from the Ironguts or you'll be an Oldblood on foot in short order...