Lords Slann, Rumination, BSB, +1Ld banner, Cupped hand Core 20 Saurus Wariors, FC 16, Skink, FC, 1 Kroc. Special 16 Temple Guard, FC, 10I weapon for champ. 6 Chameleon Skink Rare Salamander + 1 Handler Ancient Stegadon Not sure whether to drop a rank on the Warriors and skink to pick up 12 skirmishers.
Very small blocks will not cope well against big units of skaven slaves or anything that is stubborn/steadfast. The slann cannot take the banner I believe you cant give it to the general or something. You can give it to the templeguard and boost the slanns leadership that way though. You havn't stated what lore your using on your slann Id drop the Skrox unit to get like 20 skink skirmishers in there. You could drop the ancient (if you took a killy lore like fire on your slann) and fit another block of saurus in to get some more numbers on the board so 2 units of 20 saurus and the temple guard giving you 3 fighty blocks while the slann is bombing stuff with fire.
Yes he can and with the new FAQ noone can complain about our slaan getting LD 10 and still using their pressence on other units. It was considered rules abuse before now everyone can do it but only slaan can achieve it with just one model, other armies really need to take the banner on the unit the general is goung to be joining.
Yeah I did fear that anything smaller would be broken in one turn. I was not aware of any restriction in terms of Slann taking the banner of discipline. I don't think the rules specifies that the General can't take it, because its odd for the BSB to be the General. The only think it does specify is that the unit can't benifit from the generals Inspiring presence. This is not an issue as the unit itself doesn't use inspired presence, it uses the highest Ld, which happens to be the generals. As for Lore I mostly take Life, though might take Light just to see the results. I'm attached to my Krocs, I did start with two in there, but dropped it to one, they do make the skinks a bit more killy. The same is true for my A. Stegadon, so far its staying power and brutality has made it the lizzard of the match. Plus its a really big dinosaur.
Tried Focus of mystery for Cupped hand in my first game. Oppenent kept dispelling Throne of vines and a bad dice roll took out my temple guard while in combat. Next time I took the cupped hand and I got most the spells I wanted and I could play agressively hopeing for a missfire if he dispelled my throne