Ok I haven't played Warhammer in over a year. I sold all of my old armies and thought I would never play again. Feeling a void in my life I got a new rule book and chose Lizards for this go around (I've done High Elves, Brets, Empire, Chaos, and Dogs of War... DoG were really fun!). The way I build new armies works like this. I write a base army of 2000 points that I get first, and then I make any specialized 2000 points armies after so that I can mix and match as I see fit for each game or tourny. I try to make base armies well balanced so that I can build a number of specilized armies from it. Here's the list I wrote up for Lizards as a base. Slann Mage-Priest Higher State of Consciousness, Battle Standard, Cupped Hands of the Old Ones Skink Chief Ancient Steg, Stegadon War-spear Skink Priest Skink Priest 20 Saurus Warriors w/ command, and spears 20 Saurus Warriors w/ command and spears 10 Skink Skirmishers 10 Skink Skirmishers 10 Skink Skirmishers 20 Temple Guard w/ command and Sun Standard of Chotec Total is 2000 even. Tactics for it would be pretty straight forward. March skinks in front of blocks of Saurus, get the Saurus and TG into combat asap and charge their hammer unit with the steg. All while the Slann is eating them up with magic. And with 6 disspell I can stop most of their magic. Thoughts? Should I drop the steg and add something else? Should I drop the slann, or a unit of saurus from something else?
Seems like a decent list, although one Skink Priest on a Stegadon will support your Slann enough that you could probably drop the two extras, and add some Special or Rare choices, like Terradons or a Salamander.
I put a chief on the stegadon. I think the war spear on ancient steg is more adapt to this list because it can wipe out a hammer unit before they reach my saurus rather than having then slow down my march forward.
After reading up on lizard tactics I made a few key changes so here's the new list. Slann BSB, The Becalming Cogitation, Cupped Hands of the Old Ones Skink Priest Ancient Stegadon EotG, War Drum of Xahutec 20 Saurus Warriors Command, Spears 20 Saurus Warriors Command, Spears 3x 10 Skink Skirmishers 20 Temple Guard Command, Sun Standard of Chotec 10 Chameleon Skinks