8th Ed. A little help required: dusting off my Carnosaur

recently I've been wanting to dust off my Carnosaur model, and give it some more action(because, despite the model being probably the coolest in the Lizardmen Army, it is the single model in my army that has seen the least amount of battle-time.
So I decided to put him up again for a change, but how to use him?

One area I will feel like I'm neglecting will be magic, that's a given, since I can't have my Carnosaur and a Slann at the same time. (I'm fighting in a very small club and none of the others have armies that can go over 2000 points...)
I mean, putting my general on a Carnosaur would be 355 points right off the bat, and adding in a slann would both be overkill and exceeding the points-limit.

Further more, What should I do to harness myself better against opposing magic?, knowing full well the weaknesses that Stegadon's these days have.. (I lost two of them in my last match against ogres T^T and his giant monster-killing cannon)

Are there any things I can do to compromise for my lack of magic in a Carnosaur led army of around 2000 points? o...o

 

what armies will you mostly be fighting?

 

ogres, skaven, Vampire Counts, Dark elves and a player with High elves and Lizardmen as well o.o

 

Maybe take couple of skink priests with a scroll and cube....

 

Yea I aee why steg suriviveability would be prety low.
maybe just a couple preist on foot for magic defence and some monor spells.
perhaps you could try a fast attack force with a lot of skinks, skrox, salamanders and Saurus Cav.

 

would Terradons also be a good addition to an army like that? o.o

 

could work, maybe a unit of 5 if you have the points.
oh and chamelions, i meant to mention those.

 

I've only got points for 4, and models for 2 T^T the others are unpainted and un-ensembled o.o... I suppose that if I put the un-assembled wing on the plateau it will work, but it won't look as good as it could T^T. but I think I can get it working like this ^_^