Ok, so I had a complete rethink of my Lizardmen and here's what I came up with. The three armies are progressions of each other. Lizardmen 500 points Heroes Skink Chief Additional Hand Weapon Light Armour Charm of the Jaguar Warrior 81 points Skink Priest Diadem of Power 100 points Core 11 Skink Skirmishers Scouts 77 points 11 Skink Skirmishers Javelins & Shields 66 points Special 5 Saurus Cavalry 175 points Total = 499 points I picked a Jaguar Skink of Death over a Saurus one as I figured that would save me a few points. The Priest is there to provide some Magical Defence as well as take a few potshots at some weaker units. The Core units are pretty standard, the odd number of models in each unit are just point fillers. The Cavalry are pretty simple too, they'll just head down a flank and support my Scouts I guess. Lizardmen 750 points list Heroes Saurus Scar-Veteran Army General Blessed Spawning of Itzl Blessed Spawning of Sotek Cold One Sword of Striking Light Armour Shield 167 points Skink Priest Diadem of Power 100 points Core 12 Skink Skirmishers Scouts 84 points 13 Skink Skirmishers Javelins & Shields 78 points 13 Skink Skirmishers 78 points Special 6 Saurus Cavalry Musician Champion 240 points Total = 747 points I have replaced the Jaguar Skink with a Saurus on a Cold One for his better Leadership. He'll probably just hang around near the Skinks and provide some Leadership until he gets into Charge range of the enemy. The Priest is the same. I added another unit of Skinks and beefed the squads up to 12+. The Scouting Skinks will just get in behind some terrain or something and maybe take out a lone Mage or something. As I've said before, The other two units will hang around the Saurus for his Leadership. As you can see, I've just added a Musician and Champion into the Cavalry unit. they'll fulfill the same role, just sweep up one side of the board and maybe get a flank charge somewhere. Lizardmen 1000 points Heroes Saurus Scar-Veteran Army General Blessed Spawning of Itzl Blessed Spawning of Sotek Cold One Sword of Striking Light Armour Shield 167 points Skink Priest Diadem of Power 100 points Core 13 Skink Skirmishers Scouts 91 points 13 Skink Skirmishers Javelins & Shields 78 points 13 Skink Skirmishers 78 points Special 8 Saurus Cavalry Musician Champion 310 points 3 Kroxigor 174 points Total = 998 points Ok, the Heroes are the same, no changes here. Again, not a lot of changes here, just a unit filler for the Scouts. I have sinked a fair few points into the Special choices this time, adding 2 more Cavalry and a unit of 3 Kroxigor. The Cavalry will still fulfill the same role, while the Kroxigor use the Skinks as a shield before charging through them at the finish line, if there are any left to charge through that is! That's basically it from me, any C&C would be much appreciated.
Well, here we go: Imho you are hanging on SCOR a bit to much....I like the models. There gameplay is less impressive..... Try fieldig some terradons or something...the are ace vs enemycasters or warmachine. Last but not least...no sallies They ROCK!
Ok, I get your drift, SCOR are not great in low level battles. Should I leave them out completely until 1500? Would you run a Jaguar Saurus in 500 points in place of the Skink Chief?
If you ask me....Yes i would definitly go for kroxes at low pts.lvl. They have T4 (as do SCOR), they cause fear (as do SCOR) they have 3 wounds each, no stupidity and can charge trough your skink screen. (They do have 2 inch less charge range tough). At higher lvl your SCOR can (and will) become a force to be reckoned with (especially with huanchi's banner). When facing shooting then, they will have allotta targets. So more options to stay alive. At low lvl they have only one target........ and to answer your second question...Yes i would still run a scar-vet at 500. Not as tooled up as the "real nike-saurus" but still sturdy. The reason still is it's leadership. cold blooded 6, or cold blooded 8 (when facing fear causing enemies, you will "feel" the difference) I would run 1 scar-vet, a blok of saurus warriors, some skinks (2 unit of 10) and some sallies......But that's just a quick fill in for those numbers. Because i never really plaed that! The format sounds great...good luck!