Hey I just bought some rippers and I wanted to know if this list would work. Allegiance: Seraphon Leaders Lord Kroak (450) - General Skink Starpriest (80) Engine of the Gods (220) Battleline 10 x Skinks (60) - Boltspitters & Star Bucklers 10 x Skinks (60) - Boltspitters & Star Bucklers 10 x Saurus Warriors (100) - Clubs 5 x Saurus Knights (90) - Lances Units 3 x Ripperdactyl Riders (140) Battalions Shadowstrike Starhost (180) Endless Spells Balewind Vortex (40) Chronomantic Cogs (60) Total: 1480 / 2000 Extra Command Points: 11 Allies: 0 / 400 Wounds: 73
I don't think this list would work. The saurus warriors and knights won't do much. Same for the skinks, too small block. I think that you have to take bigger block. Something like at least a block of 30 skinks to have their bonus. And after it's depend of what you have in term of units.
4 small units of skinks and warriors are rather inefficient. Knights probably can only be ok in their specific battalion, with one of the units being 10 models, and a scar veteran on carino or cold one. Moreover, 1/3 of your points is spent on the dead frog and this can be very risky considering the lack of bulk in the rest of your army.
The idea of running a batallion is to max it's potential so with a Shadowstrike 2 units of skinks and rippers. You only have 3 rippers so max the skinks, proxy Kroak as a Slann, use the Slann and Eotg to summon for 2 turns and bam sheer amount of models will run riot against any army. All your skinks are in your Shadowstrike Allegiance: Seraphon Mortal Realm: Ghur Leaders Slann Starmaster (260) - General - Trait: Great Rememberer - Artefact: Gryph-feather Charm Skink Starpriest (80) - Artefact: Incandescent Rectrices Engine of the Gods (220) Battleline 40 x Skinks (240) - Boltspitters & Star Bucklers 40 x Skinks (240) - Boltspitters & Star Bucklers Units 3 x Ripperdactyl Riders (140) 1 x Razordons (40) Battalions Shadowstrike Starhost (180) Endless Spells Balewind Vortex (40) Chronomantic Cogs (60) Total: 1500 / 1500 Extra Command Points: 1 Allies: 0 / 200 Wounds: 113
Ty for feedback. Unfortunately I can’t do that build that @Crowsfoot posted. I don’t have near enough models. I recently bought 3 rippers so I wanted to see if I could use them for shadowstrike. Ty for all the help.
@Crowsfoot i have a start collecting box (oldblood on carno),28 skinks, Kroak, stegadon, EotG, starpriest (or Starseer), 3 rippers (could probably use them as terradons as well).
Allegiance: Seraphon Leaders Lord Kroak (450) - General Saurus Scar-Veteran on Cold One (100) Engine of the Gods (220) Skink Starpriest (80) Battleline 20 x Skinks (120) - Boltspitters & Star Bucklers 5 x Saurus Knights (90) - Lances Units 3 x Ripperdactyl Riders (140) Behemoths Stegadon (220) Endless Spells Balewind Vortex (40) Total: 1460 / 1500 Extra Command Points: 0 Allies: 0 / 200 Wounds: 80
That a really cool build but I don’t have scar vet on cold one lol. Also I mostly play 1k point games so I have enough guys to summon. I use this build below and it worked well.
I would just use the Rippers for Summoning until you either get some more Skinks or another set or Rippers.