8th Ed. I have a question about skrox?

[CN45]

I was looking over the FaQ for lizardmen and i run across a rule for Kroxigors Great Reach rule is to be Ignore. Then why should i take them in my List?

 

[DanBot]

The current Lizardmen book is written for 7th edition and in 7th edition supporting ranks got 0 attacks. And in 8th edition monstrous infantry get 3 attacks. So basically the great reach rule does nothing in 8th. It means nothing.

 

[CN45]

Ah, so they would get to still attack with there 3 GW attacks?

 

[DanBot]

Yep.

 

[Arli]

And an even better thing about the removal of the great reach rule, the Kroxigors cannot be attacked until they are in base contact with the enemy! You have a skink meat shield to absorb those wounds. The bigger the block of skinks, the more damage it can absorb.

 

[Stonecutter]

The other big advantage of skrox is that they cannot be stomped or dreaded 13th. This makes them very good at taking on big monsters that would otherwise kill a pile of saurus or TG. Best part is while the monster is killing a few skinks per round, it is taking 6-9 x S6 hits back. If the skrox are within 12" of the slaan, they can usually hold up a big nasty for an entire game and frequently kill it. They are terrible at taking on ranked infantry over the front but their speed makes them very good flankers.

 

[CN45]

Now what about Ranks? Lets say i take 25 skinks and 2 Krox. so 25 skinks would give me 5 Ranks if i go 5 across. Now with the kroxs base size being 40mm and skinks are 20mm they would be like having 2 ranks. would that mean Id have 7 ranks?

 

[Rhodium]

Now what about Ranks? Lets say i take 25 skinks and 2 Krox. so 25 skinks would give me 5 Ranks if i go 5 across. Now with the kroxs base size being 40mm and skinks are 20mm they would be like having 2 ranks. would that mean Id have 7 ranks?

No, with only 2 Krox, that is only the width of 4 skinks so you would need two of your skinks to sit in the second and third ranks to complete the ranks , I.e

s = skink
K = Krox

s s s s s
s KK KK
s KK KK
s s s s s
s s s s s
s s s s s
s s s

So because you need those 2 skinks next to the Krox, you only really have 23 skinks so that is 4 ranks of five and 3 left over. So the last rank is incomplete and doesn't count. Therefore in total you would have 6 ranks (4 with just skink and 2 with skinks and Krox) if you took 27 skinks and 2 Krox, went five wide you would have seven ranks

 

[Eladimir]

My best success has been 6 wide, 3 Krox and 30 skinks.
Enough ranks to last and enough attackes to rack up some wounds. Damn you WS 3