AoS Saurus Warriors, to Spear or not to spear?

Kind of an off-topic comment, but it’s an interesting predicament we are now in.

Before, our battleline was an afterthought since spamming skinks was our jam. Now, we have more useful battleline, but significantly reduced (If not almost completely neutered) capacity to refill any losses. Our skinks and saurus generally need to last 5 turns, depending on the battle plan. I think this idea terrifies me on a deep, deep existential level.

 

We've gotten a pretty significant offensive buff. We now have means of killing units that we otherwise would have spent the entire game dodging.

If you can take out your opponents main hammers, then your odds of getting your objective holders to last longer increases.

 

Laughs in 3 dread saurians a skink starmaster and 20 skinks attempting to board wipe enemy every game

 

Somewhat related to the topic thread; with the MSU for Saurus being 10 and being allowed to take 1 drummer & 1 banner for every 5 models, would it be ok/adivsable to model 1 set of drummer&banner for every 10 saurus?

I have 40 saurus on my desk right now and am not sure if I should just model 1 set for each blob of 20 saurus, or go with 1 set for every 10, just in case. Also figure it'd be kinda beneficial as I wouldn't have to worry about losing my 1 banner/drummer in the whole set.

 

eh, well that's weird. Why the hell is it one in 5. Anyway yeah, bring 2 banners per 10, nothing stopping you and no real downside other than the lack of banners (or well, sticks, banners you have plenty) in the box I think.

edit: possibly wait with doing this though. Might get F.A.Q.-ed or otherwise changed back to one in 10. Would be a waste if you have to alter your models then

 

I think that might be a copy paste error. Knights and guards have unit size of 5 and share this ability so it might get erratad

 

Gotcha! I'll build 1 set/10 for now. I've got other stuff to build so I'll do that and wait for the two-week, post-release FAQ. Thx gang!