monstrous arcanum: dread saurian

Sadly no. Officially you can only use Dread Saurians in Storm of Magic or Monstrous Battles. Many people house rule them in or add monsters options to both side (essentially make it a Monstrous Battle).

 

Monstrous battles give give both sides 25% or 50% bonus points to spend on Scroll of Binding Monsters depending on the player's preference.

So a 2000 point Lizardmen army would be normal, but it would also have 500 or 1000 points of Scroll of Binding Monsters. It's basically a Storm of Magic game without the magic rules.

Storm of Magic and Monstrous Arcanum both have a lot of Scroll of Binding options. Some White Dwarfs have some and some other supplements that pop up here and there. I'm not sure if there is a comprehensive list.

 

The Monstrous Arcanum book is a supplement released by Forge World, it's official part of 8th edition Games Workshop lore but like everything Forge World sells, it's expensive.

Basically you have to talk it with your opponent first. You cannot just show up with a Dread Saurian in your list to an official event with permission. But most players will allow you to use Monstrous Arcanum stuff if you ask nicely, especially if you have a cool model representing whatever you plan to use.

Technically, if you play a Storm of Magic game, you can use Monstrous Arcanum monsters without obtaining special permission. But I haven't played a lot of Storm of Magic games. I only played at one tournament at a game store but it kind of fizzle. We each had three matches and each match was supposed to take an hour. Guess what? An hour is not sufficient for a 2000 point Storm of Magic match. I don't think I ever managed to finished the third turn.

There is a special scenario in Monstrous Arcanum which I have never seen an event for but looks like a lot of fun and it is a lot less fussy rules wise than a full Storm of Magic game.

If you like beautiful artwork and interesting fluff it's probably worth buying the book (though it's not cheap), but if you only want the stats for the Dread Saurian, the book is probably a waste of money.

Unfortunately there is no other way to get stats for the Dread Saurian apart from buying the out of print book.

For all I know, since 8th edition is now out of print we MIGHT be able to put the stats and points costs for the Dread Saurian on L-O without drawing Games Workshop's ire. I am not sure.

Logically, they shouldn't be opposed because the net result is GW will sell more models, but logic doesn't always fall in Intellectual Property arguments.

 

Okay we the L-O have figured we could post 8th edition stats but not full PDFs

Enjoy

Dread Saurian
M7 WS4 BS0 S8 T7 W6 I3 A6 Ld6 Monster Unit Size 1 450 points

Armor Save 3+, Terror, Swamp Strider, Multiple Wounds (d3), Coldblooded, Rending Jaws: single special Chomp attack with Heroic Killing Blow. I'm not sure if this is in addition to the 6 regular attacks or if it counts as one of them.

Options (you can take zero, one, some or all of them)
Tepoc's Crystalline Eye (75 points) gain Ethereal

The Blazing Configuration of Chotec (35 points): Gain Flaming Attacks, 2d6 S 3 flaming impact hits

Quetzl's Flawless Heartstone (35 points): Reduce Movement to 5, raise Toughness to 8, gain Unbreakable

The Shadow Rebus of Huanchi (25 points): Gain Ambusher and Swiftstride. Models making stand and shoot against Dread Saurian must re-roll successful hits

 

450 points and Ld6. Those are big limitations on it's stats.