AoS 1500 Seraphon list for a tournament

[Rafael]

Hi everyone! I have a tournament next 28th May and I need your help with my list. At this moment I have the following units:

1x Scar Veteran /Oldblood on Carnosaur
1x Stegadon
3x Terranodon
1x Scar Vet on Cold One
15x Saurus Knights
40x Saurus Warriors
10x Saurus Guard
24x Skinks
1x Skinks Starpriest
1x Slann Starmaster

And... I'm thinking in this list...

1x Scar Vet on Cold One
5x Knight
5x Knight
5x Knight
1x Skink Starpriest
10x Skink
10x Skink
3 Terradon
10 Saurus Guard
1 Saurus Scar Vet on Carnosaurus

Firelance Starhost
Shadostrike Starhost

1500/1500.

What do you think?. Do you change anything or all? Better the Slann or the Starpriest?

 

[Crowsfoot]

List look good but I would be tempted to try and get more models in the list at 1500 points maybe swap the guard for warriors just to have extra bodies.
But your list looks good

 

[Aginor]

I have played a very similar list, and it comes down to one thing: Those Knights are glass cannons, they die really quickly. Make sure you are the one charging.
Since I don't have guards I used the points for 20 Warriors though.

EDIT: And don't forget the Serpent Staff if it is possible, it can be really nice on those Knights or the Carnosaur.

 

[Bowser]

I would probably go with something like:
Leaders
Saurus Scar-Veteran on Carnosaur (260)
- General
- Warblade
- Trait: Legendary Fighter
- Artefact: Quicksilver Potion
Skink Starpriest (100)
- Artefact: Phoenix Stone
Saurus Scar-Veteran on Cold One (100)
- Artefact: Quicksilver Potion

Battleline
5 x Saurus Knights (120)
- Lances
5 x Saurus Knights (120)
- Lances
5 x Saurus Knights (120)
- Lances
10 x Skinks (80)
- Boltspitters & Star Bucklers
10 x Skinks (80)
- Boltspitters & Star Bucklers
10 x Saurus Warriors (100)
- Clubs
10 x Saurus Warriors (100)
- Clubs

Units
3 x Terradon Riders (140)
- Sunleech Bolas

Battalions
Firelance Starhost (60)
Shadowstrike Starhost (120)

Total: 1500/1500

 

[Rafael]

So, Do you think that 20 Saurus Warrior are better than 10 Saurus Guard with the Starpriest?. The Saurus Guard have a save of 3+ with the Starpriest near and the Saurus Warrior have a save of 5+.

It's better play with the battalion firelance? or make a strong unit of 10 Saurus Knight and other of 5?

And the Slann... what do you think?

Thanks for your advices!

 

[Crowsfoot]

The guard are better no doubt but you need more model count, if you look at @Bowser list it is 60 models strong where as your is 45 that extra model count will help you block off units more effectively and save your more expensive units to deal damage, the warriors and skinks are screens and good ones, if you went spears with the warriors you can deploy behind skinks to shield them and still get them into combat without risk of melee.

Slann is too expensive and you would have to dedicate units to protect him, it is a shame you don't have any Chameleon skinks!

 

[Bowser]

I believe the slann is a bit expensive unless you are going for a summoning army, but that would be better for 2K+. And as @Crowsfoot said, you would devote a lot of your 45 models to protecting it. I like using the Batallions for the extra artefacts, and the abilities just up your unit value. The firelance adds a lot to the 4 units. An extra 15 points per unit to give them these buffs is well worth it. The Shadowstrike is a bit more costly, but still 30 points per unit to give them a lot of benefits, you could drop the Warriors and skinks for 15 chameleons, but I went with more models to give you more outs.
But if you like a more specialized and only 3 drops then I would do a unit of 10 chamos and a unit of 5. Then you drop the Scar-Vet, the firelance and the shadowstrike and you're done set up.

Hopefully that all made sense.

 

[Rafael]

Perfect!. One more question, Do you prefer Sunleech Bolas or Javelin with terradon? And Master of the Skies or Javelin or Bolas with the Alpha?

 

[Aginor]

No Master of the Skies, IMO it isn't very good. I prefer the Alpha.
Javelins have more range, but the way I use them I prefer to take the risk and use bolas to have more rolls potentially hitting.

 

[Bowser]

Bolas all the way, damage output is great!