8th Ed. Heroic Saurus characters on foot

For anyone interested, here's my (almost) finished new Oldblood, Chopzalotl. He just needs some work done on the base, including adding some nice lush tufts of grass.






I'm still daydreaming about interesting magic item combos to equip him with, so let me know if you have any ideas. Some of my friends have been telling me compelling anecdotes about the Sword of Anti-Heroes! Could be pretty fun for only 30 points...

 

I always like the idea of a blender Saurus character. The concept worked amazingly for me back in 6th, using the scimitar of the sun/maiming shield combo. I still remember the traumatized look on this O&G player's face in a tournament I played in when I managed to hit and wound with all 8 attacks.

 

Yeah I loved that in 6th!! Don't forget her could have the blessed spawning of Sotek, for an extra attack on the charge!!

My Sword of Bloodshed 8 attack Oldblood had a nice recent outing in a little 1200 point game if you're interested in checking out my battle report. At a certain point he slaughters six Chaos Marauders in a single round!

https://www.lustria-online.com/threads/1200-points-vs-warriors-of-chaos-nice-photos.26760/

 

I've been dwelling on the concept of an Oldblood armed with the Fencer's Blades, mainly cause if I can get my brother back into playing Warhammer, he's likely to be playing as Legions of Chaos, Beastmen heavy with a Chaos Lord or Daemon Prince as general. I just can't get the idea of an Oldblood tooled up to meet a Chaos Lord or DP in a challenge out of my head. The load out for him on foot would be light armour, Fencer's Blades, Tal of Pres and Potion of Strength.

 

I run an oldblood building similar to yours, Itzlok, who is simple but highly effective. He only takes the sword of bloodshed and the stegadon helm, light armour and shield and will run either mounted on his carnosaur, or just ranked in a unit. If he's just in a unit I tend to not challenge and just try to get the best charge position on low/medium toughness units. Those 8A at WS6 S5 plus S5 D3 impact hits will usually hobble a unit, and his T6 make him almost impossible to wound, and if a wound gets through he's got a 1up armour save and a parry.

 

Unfortunately your character is not entitled to a parry save because he is armed with a magic weapon...

"A magic weapon cannot be used alongside a shield to gain a parry save." [BRB, page 501]

 

You, sir, are most correct!

 

That's a cool build. Perhaps the ultimate guy for bullying baseline troops!

I've always loved the toughness 6 the Stegadon Helm gives you. I use it for my other Oldblood with the Talisman of Preservation for a very defensive general.

 

Yeah he smashes through standard units. I like to run him as above and then my ScarVet with piranha blade in a unit of SW as a challenge maker/character killer. The D3 wounds is gnarly on anything with more than one wound. The two of them together do a solid job of clearing rank and file and characters, but are squishy against artillery and magic missiles etc. so the aim is to always get them into combat ASAP

 

If you love characters on foot, I have been looking at strats that are mostly utilised by ogres but I don’t see why it couldn’t work for lizards.

The basic principle is that you take a block of Saurus and load the second rank with characters equipped up to the eyeballs for killing.

You take a skink chief on terradon/ripperdactyl to flank them.

The idea being that you use the “make way” rule to ensure you win the combat on your opponents turn, use the skink chief to enable you to restrain pursuit on the Saurus, combat reform so you are in a position to charge another unit on your turn (which is next! again move the Saurus characters to the second rank) and use the skink chief to run down the now (hopefully) fleeing enemy units.

Rinse and repeat.

 

So today I actually tested my Fencer's Blades Oldblood build through a trio of challenges each vs Wulfrik the Wanderer, Crom the Conqueror and Undivided/unmarked Chaos Lord with Sword of Might, shield and Talisman of Preservation. 3 fights per opponent. Won against Wulfrik all 3 fights, only taking 1 wound from Wulfrik the second fight and my Oldblood was left on 1 wound the third fight. 2 wins and 1 loss vs Crom, though Crom was left on 1 wound during that loss. And lost 2/3 rounds vs the Chaos Lord, being left on 1 wound on that single win.