In the past couple years, my gaming group has added several new players. To encourage these players to paint and get into the action we have conducted a round-robin style warbands league. We play monthly and while most of us enjoy larger games, the warbands league only required 200 points of painted troops for the first month. The next round consisted of 300 points, and further going up to 400 and 500 point levels in future game days. The first warbands leage we ran was awesome becuse I was a new player and managed to pull out a lucky victory against a 15 year O&G veteran to the game. However, amazingly enough, that was one of the only victories I could muster. The next year, I was ready to do teh warbands league and decided to run with another army style. Seasoned by experience and knowing what I wanted from my list, I changed things around. In the 200 point round versus 8 other opponents from various types of armies (HE, WE, O&G, Ogre, Empire, Dogs of War and Dwarves) I was able to win every single game with only one tie. I attribute the good leadership characteristics of Lizards plus the sarus excellence in close combat. Needless to say, it was quite a surprise to all the other players in my game circle who are used to facing an "easy opponent" when they star across the table at me. My list contained the following: 200pts Sarus Warrior Unit 10 Warriors (Full Command) Champion <--- Army General 5x Skink Skirmishers Blowpipes & Handweapons 5x Skink Skirmishers Blowpipes & Handweapons Tactics that worked nicely were as follows. March the sarus right up the center of the table. Barring heavy missle fire, the skinks would run the flanks instead of the screening my unit of fighters. The skinks are great for marchblocking and shooting anything that dies to poison, reducing it's numbers so that my meat grinder unit can destroy them. The other usage for the skinks is that they can be used to distract a particular menacing unit while you work on other larger threats with the sarus. Either way, it was an emence amount of fun!
The list I'm suprizingly enjoying to play is a Skink / Kroxigor list. Skinkpriest as the general, a few skinks and a Kroxigor. Altought in the past I ran with a JSoD and Krox list, with a few skinks to suck up core. Found that one fun also. In general I find warbands to be a lot of fun.