8th Ed. Second 2400pt army - Trying to be competitive MarkII

Thank you. It is a nice list, i see a lot of similarities between his and my list. Pity i do not own Terradons otherwise i would try it out

 

So inspired by Jeff Kent's Adepticon list, i took what i have already learnt and applied the concept of the all in skink cloud and came up with this

P.S this does mean i have just ordered 9 Terradons


Characters: 914 Points

LORD - Slann Mage Priest:
Battle standard bearer, Standard of Discipline
Channeling Staff,
The Harmonic convergence, The becalming cogitation, Reservoir of Eldritch Energy,
Lore of Death

HERO - Tetto'eko:

HERO - Scar Veteran:
Great Weapon, Cold One, Light Armour, Dragonhelm, Dawnstone

HERO - Scar Veteran:
Great Weapon, Cold One, Armour of fortune, The other's tricksters shard

Core: 600 Points

CORE - 10 Skink Skirmishers:
Javelin and Shield
CORE - 10 Skink Skirmishers:
Javelin and Shield
CORE - 10 Skink Skirmishers:
Javelin and Shield
CORE - 10 Skink Skirmishers:
Javelin and Shield

CORE - 14 Skink Cohort:
Musician, Standard bearer

CORE - 14 Skink Cohort:
Musician, Standard bearer

CORE - 10 Skink Cohort:
Musician, Standard bearer

CORE - 10 Skink Cohort:
Musician, Standard bearer

Special: 477 Points

SPECIAL - 6 Chameleon Skinks:
SPECIAL - 6 Chameleon Skinks:

SPECIAL - 3 Terradons:
Fireleech Bolas
SPECIAL - 3 Terradons:
Fireleech Bolas

SPECIAL - 3 Terradons:

Rare: 408 Points

RARE - 3 Salamanders:
+1 Handlers
RARE - 2 Salamanders:
+1 Handlers

There we have it, my list updated for the better i think. Tell me what you think?

I also now promise no more double posts.....its just crying for attention

 

THATS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

be warned, this list is quite difficult to play right and can be very frustrating for your opponents, if they are of a certain mindset...

 

I am curious how you play this list, never tried it because I don't see the right tactics in this list! You might can post a battlereport after playing this list? Share your thoughts and tips with us!

 

Well i am just about to go on holiday for 4 weeks so i will try when i get back. I played a game yesterday vs Dark elves with a win. I am going to drop 1 salamander with naked skink chiefs which again i will explain the reasons why in depth later

 

You refuse to enter combat with anyone except hunting warmachines with the Terradons and holding up threats with eh Scar Vets. From there you shoot and magic the opponent to death. The key really is in the lore of magic dilemna that death and Tettoeko throws up.

If you try to castle up, the cloud can manuever how it pleases and shoot you from safety while you catch early game comets from tetto and late game purple suns from the Slann.

If you rush it with a 3 block warhammer army then your weak points will get charged by scar vets and your blocks will get redirected, shot, purple sunned.

You correctly point out that the list has no means of breaking steadfast, but with death magic and iceshard blizzard you don't need it, the death snipes kill generals/bsbs leaving the blocks on their base leadership which then gets hit by doom and darkness and iceshard blizzard for -3/-4 leadership. This means they start running away from panic tests.

You are correct in that while the army excels at W/L/D it can still struggle in a 20-0 system, but that will really depend on how much it breaks the meta. At Adepticon where it was a meta breaking army I would've received ~80 points from my 5 games. That said the army is now pretty outdated in the European and NZ Scene due to the rising popularity of elves. Dark Elves and Wood Elves will table this army all day and all night at a competitive level. That said a saurus based army will do even worse. I am keen to try out the Polish ETC flying circus list in the future though, but for now I've moved onto Dark Elves and haven't played lizards since Adepticon.

Cheers. Jeff

 

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

 

You don't know how strong the Dark Side is!

Seriously, I get to do all of the movement control antics that the skink cloud offers and have 4 amazing flying characters on top who can take the fight to the enemy on a scale cowboys can only dream of. I absolutely love it.

That said I will be trying to get the lizard flying circus working locally in 2015.