Warpath of the Raffspawning - Battle Reports

SCGT 2013 - Part 1: The List

Well, to get the ball rolling I thought obviously have to start somewhere. The recent, world famous, South Coast Grand Tournament took place last week and it seems as sensible a place to kick off as any.

I will cover it in several parts - the list I took (and why), review of games, thoughts on the event overall and thoughts on the list & the meta.

As ever Dan, Wayne and Russ have compiled a thorough comp pack for the event, which traditionally is then used by several events over the course of the year – being tweaked as time passes. This year was a big change up to their traditional packs, and caused an awful lot of head scratching, cursing and general all-round despair – strangely though, I got no sympathy for the harshness of the lizardmen comp… almost like lizards have a reputation or something….

The comp pack for this year was:

SCGT 2013 Comp Pack

Major problems with this for the lizard lists I wanted to run – seems I hopped onto this scaly bandwagon a year too late! The primary issues were the (pool) cost of multiple Slann, and the heavy-handed restrictions on the amount of mobile/cheap chaff units I was allowed to fit in.

The not-remotely secret (think half the lizardmen armies had him!) answer to the pool choice issues was Tetto’eko instead of a Slann and an Old Blood instead of a second Scar Vet.

General strategy – avoid and kill. With the release of WoC (which were going to be everywhere) there was going to be a surge in armies that want to engage – the only “real” combat units of the lizards – Skrox – need Light magic to function, and even then not sure how good they are vs WoC anyway. I was set on Death, so that was never an option. Banehead + Death is fantastic, and the Purple Sun FAQ blocking movement makes it a fantastic spell. Flee, flee, magic and shoot was the order of the day….

Not sure why people don’t like facing lizards….

Lord - Slann Mage Priest (275) Death
Battle Standard (25) Bane Head (15) Dispel Scroll (25) Focused  Rumination (0) Soul of Stone (50)
Total - 390
Lord - Saurus Oldblood (145)
Cold One (30) Charmed Shield (5) Dawnstone (25) Warrior Bane (5)
Total - 210
Hero - Tetto'eko (255)
Total - 255
Hero - Saurus Scar Veteran (85)
Cold One (20) Light Armour (5) Great Weapon (6) Amulet of Itzle (30) Dragonhelm (10) Venom of the Firefly Frog (10)
Total - 166
Core - 10 x Skink Skirmishers (70)
Total - 70
Core - 10 x Skink Skirmishers (70)
Total - 70
Core - 10 x Skink Skirmishers (70)
Total - 70
Core - 20 x Skink Cohort (100)
Champion (8) Musician (6)
Total - 114
Core - 20 x Skink Cohort (100)
Champion (8) Musician (6)
Total - 114
Core - 20 x Skink Cohort (100)
Champion (8) Musician (6)
Total - 114
Core - 23 x Saurus Warriors (253)
Champion (12) Musician (6)
Total - 271
Special - 3 x Terradons (90)
Total - 90
Special - 10 x Chameleon Skinks (120)
Total - 120
Special - 10 x Chameleon Skinks (120)
Total - 120
Rare - 1 x Salamander (75)
Total - 75
Rare - 1 x Salamander (75)
Total - 75
Rare - 1 x Razordon (75)
Total - 75

Total Lord - 600
Total Heroes - 421
Total Core - 823
Total Special - 330
Total Rare - 225
Pool Choices - 12/12*
Army Total - 2399

*(Slann, Mounted Scar Vet, Focused Rumination, Lore of Death, Skink Skirmishers x 3, Chameleons x 2, Terradons, Salamander x 2)