Hi all, I've decided to start a new army project. . I've only just got my orcs finished, but this idea has been bouncing around in the back of what passes for my brain for a good few months now, and it's time to get it going. The focus of this project will be on improving my painting and challenging my skills. I will also be trying to make an army that works well on the tabletop, but I'm not building something to go and win events with. As always, I'm happy with giving a good account of myself and finishing in the top half. So theme: Yin yang, darkness and light. I'll be effectively breaking this army in half. One half will be painted as "shade" or "shadow" and the other half as "light" or "brightness". Tying the two halves together will be the basing, and the mirroring. In this army, perfect symmetry is important and is more important than game functionality. Here is the current projected list. 2 slann (both ethereal, one a BSB, one the general. One with light magic, one with shadow) 2 all-adventure saurus on cold ones 2 units of 10 skinks 2 units of skrox, 4 Krox and 32 skinks with standard and musician 2 units of 5 chameleon skinks 2 units of 3 terradons 2 single salamanders 2 single razordons The shadow side of the army will be using the razordons, matching the salamanders of the light side. The shadow slann will use the lord kroak model. The horde units of skrox will give me plenty of space for interesting fillers, as will be flying bases of the slann and terradons. In game terms I get 13 drops in my deployment which should give me plenty of scope for picking my fights with those hordes. I will be expanding the army to 3000 points with blocks of saurus probably, but also by upgrading the slann who are currently both very stripped down in order to fit both into the list. I'm currently looking at options on basing and thinking about test models in the next week or two. Any comments or ideas welcome Ta, Joel.
I saw this on the other forum as well. I think its a very cool Idea with some creative painting it could look amazing. And two slanns will be potent, however my concern for this list is Close Combat. A Slann with no temple guard really is a sitting duck, even with the "ethreal" which isn't actually ethereal only makes you immune to any attacks that aren't magical. All that said its your army give it a go and see how well it does before adding anything in.
I saw it on another forum as well. My comments from there were also concerning the temple guard. As well as my standard (IMO) more chameleons, more salamanders remarks.
Love the idea! I agree about the Slann protection issues, but as you said, You're willing to give up functionallity for the look of the army.