8th Ed. points skink archers

[dutchie]

Hi everybody ,

My girlfriend playes lizardmen and has a lot of skink archers from previous editions.
She really wants to use them against my army and i'm fine with that.
We played them as 6 points (with jungle poison).

Now she want them to skirmish just like her skinks with blowpipes (or javs)

How many points should you guys make them to get a fair battle?

So : skinks skirmish , shortbows , jungle poisons along with the usual rules like cold blooded etc.

Love to hear what you guys think.

Greets Dutchie.

 

[HoverBoy]

8 or 9 points seems reasonable. You can also proxy them as blowpipe skinks. I still wish they hadn't removed bowskinks from the army tho.

 

[Cravenus]

skirmishers already have effective rules for making them armed with javs and shields for 7 pts.

the only thing you lose out on is the ability to add krox into the squad.

 

[dutchie]

I guess she likes the extra 6" of shooting.

They are cool looking models for their age though.
Indeed no krox but i'm sure my wood elves wouldn't mind that.

btw , do javelins also benefit from the jungle poison rule?

We will make them 8 points then , 1 more for the extra range they get compared to the javelins & shield upgrade.

Thank you guys for your answers so far.

 

[Arli]

Javelins are poisoned.

 

[HoverBoy]

Jungle posions benefit all non-magical weapons shooting attacks made by the unit.

 

[Cravenus]

oh skink archers, i totally missed that bit. my bad.

skinks treat all their ranged weps as poisoned, so i would assume they'd get it on arrows as well.

 

[dutchie]

haha that's ok Cravevus.

Next week we will play them as 8 point models.
It will be an all skirmish army with some saurus and temple guards in the back for the hard hitting.
I will face them with my beastmen first.
If the goats never reach her lines and panic of the table we will make them 9 points i guess

I will let you guys know how it went.

 

[BEEGfrog]

I would put them as the same points as blowpipes or even 1 point lower as the advantages of poison with the extra shots is generally more useful than the longer range of the shortbow.