hey people so tonight was veterans night at my local gw and they let us use the 8th edition rulebook to play our games cant wait for next thursday now. this wont be a full battle report just bits of what happend so 1st off i played a 2000pts skaven army and i got it handed to me bigstyle initiative attacking sux well when your saurus it does - i had 36 saurus charge his 30 plague monks and furnace with plague banner thing he had higher int so attacked i had 14 saurus left after that random charge was hit and miss - his big block kept rolling double ones to charge so i got the charge in but see above didnt turn out to well - his plague censor guys charged 18inch !!!! into my slaan bad times magic was fun, i used fire in this game got off a few good spells such as the fire cage if opponent moves next turn all models take strength 4 hit, 2 miscasts happend this game. i miscast and transferred it to his he only sufferd a strength six hit on his caster, the other his special character miscast a small template strength 10 hit to evryone under (fire was fun because i could add my free dice from slaan plus the lores rule where you can add d3 casting value to your roll if youve already hit the same unit with a fire spell so i was +5 to cast nearly every spell with an extra dice) my salamander can only shoot once the whole game ??? all breath weapons only shoot once a game beter be fixed in the errata for us skrox unit was horrible although his special character had a spell where every model had to test on toughness or die had 28 skinks n 3 krox left with 3 krox and 5 skinks my coc and steg declared charges on his 20 plauge monks bad deployment by me ment coc clipping the forest and rolling to see what forest it was turned it into a dangerous terrained poisned forredt didnt go to well anyway my steg hit the unit with steg spear plus attack plus thunder stomp killed 8 of them i won combat by 3 but he had a rank left so he was testing as stubborn if i had killed 3 more he wouldnt of had a rank i wouldnt of died and the rest of my army wouldnt of been left unsuported next thursday ill see if i can do a bat rep and write down all units etc what happend but 8th seems to be looking good expecially for my second battle
I dont think Salamanders shooting attack is actually classified as a "breath weapon". Its more of a artillery weapon. It should be able to shoot every turn.
my second battle rocked a 1250 pts battle agaisnt vampires and yes i took a slaan so i took lore of light any demons or undead hit by a damging spell role an extra d6 to determine number of hits the highlights were casting timewarp on my krox which doubled there movement, gave them ASF and an extra attack eack plus they got to stomp also casting speed cant remember the name but it gave my saurus int 10 and ws 10 also 1 banishment spell and his general went by by normally 2d6 strength 4 hits nut +1 strength for each wizard using life in a certain range then added the extra d6 hits because hes undead so in the end i got 7 wounds on him but this spell also makes the opponent reroll succesful ward saves also his 3 blocks of skellies couldnt handle my 20 saurus, also this game i ran the skinks 3 units of 10 only lost 5 in this game they beat of dire wolfs and wight knights really preferred this to fire had damaging spells and buffs, magic really shined in this game with helpful buff spells low point was his 4 bases of spirit hosts killing my steg he won combat by one i flee he drifted past me and i died last turn i wanted to miscast because nothing really bad had happend yet i rolled 6 dice for one spell in my last turn did i get a double six no but his spirit hosts did go bye bye
Salamanders attack is definitely not classed as a breath weapon. Our book errata answered that question http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m220263a_LizardmenFAQJuly2009.pdf bottom left of second page So you can shoot every turn.
ah cheers for that i just assumed it was thanks but my opponent was ok with me using it every turn anyway not that i got to i may of got a bit over excitid and i forgot a whole round of magic and shooting agaisnt the skaven player seems i really wanted to do combat woops