That Engine War list I was thinking about is coming back to me. 3 Engines, and then if Stegs are battleline.... Oh man. I need more Stegadons.
I’m guessing that our dinosaurs will get a lot of love, they wouldn’t call out an all monster army unless they were getting some special treatment
I wonder if skinks will lose the option to have blowpipes and shield together seeing as between the options in their warcry cards and new images only show the shield paired with either the javelin or hand weapon. Kinda hope stegadons are not the only big dino with battleline potential especially with the bastiladons being in the new starter box.
Considering that's the way 99 percent of people build their Skinks, I sincerely hope not. Rebasing models because they are on squares is one thing. Remodeling because they have a load out that was arbitrarily made illegal is a step too far for me.
As old blood's warscroll shown, the shield now irrelevant (they remove it effect from warscroll and rename attack to just Jaws instead of Jaws and Shield). So my guess is that shield now is mere accessory, rather than showing any improvement of some sort.
Are people actual sticklers for wysiwyg? I build my models to be a nice mix of the weapon types. I'll usually just run them as blobs of x weapon, but I like a bit of variety in my units.
Some are. I was running a 40 saurus warriors (30 were with spears and 10 with clubs). I said that this unit is armed with spears, but my opponent start complaining that only 30 are and 10 with clubs. In the end he forced me to remove 10 models (of course they became weaker for that reason and lost bonuses for 30 models when he shot 3 of them in first round). But most people are often don't care.
Looking forward to this Battletome! Seems like we may become the next monster mash faction, and while I'm still excitedly painting up my Saurus, it looks like it's gonna be big stompies with little skinks for years to come!
Hopefully our Dread Saurian will also see some buffs and changes to really turn us into a monstrous horde not to be messed with!
I wanna see Saurus Guards buff. Maybe 2 wounds each model, Celestite Polearm range 2", maybe some mortal wounds shrug off ability. It will be ok if they will be 100 or 110 pts for 5 units for such improvements.
I hope Saurus will get the same treatment though, given that they’re supposed to be the frontline soldiers of the Lizardmen. In fact I want to see a Saurus meta, because Skink spam meta is just so boring.
Effectively, Phoenix Guard is 160 for 10 minimum (so ours SG 5 for 80). If we could have SG, they must be comparable to Chaos Warriors with 2 wounds each and thx to Runeshield ability they can negate MW on 5+. They cost 100 pts for 5. For 110 (ok maybe 120 pts) leave the SG ability to have +2 Bravery and +1 to save while they are in range of a Hero. They could become a force to reckon with: 2 wounds each, 2" range, 3+/3+/-1/1, Save 3+(4+ base), bravery 10 (if we could speculate that all Saurus now have 7 or 8 as base) and negate MW on 5+.
Cast Warriors are that cheap? dang what are they doing to poor cities everything in that book is just 20 30 points overcosted
Yep. My friend running the StD with bunch of Marauders and Chaos Warriors. Marauders are very cheap and very powerful for their price.
The start collect box is a bit odd, considering it is start collect Skinks. Quite possible the divide between saurus and skinks will increase. Maybe instead of bothering with new saurus models, GW simply shift the focus to skinks entirely... Well regardless it is a bit odd and does not bode well for any potential new saurus start collect surprise any time soon, like the StD one.