Lizardmen vs Greg’s Empire – 10/01/2020Straight off I’m going to apologise for the mostly unpainted state of my army. Greg and I had decided to both field armies that we were potentially taking to this year’s Riotville event in March (though a bigger pointed version, as that event is capped at 1800). As such both armies are a work in progress (mine more so than his).
With neither of us having used the armies before, we were new to their rules and so there were definitely mistakes made (at least by me – a case in point is when I created the army list in Battle Chronicler, to create the maps, I realised afterwards that I called the Ripperdactyls, Razordons – Doh!). We both very much considering this as a learning game and this write up has a very large amount of poetic licence, especially towards the latter turns when a lack of photos memory and the time lapsed before writing it up, made these turns very hazy!
ListsEmpireGrandmaster (General) – Shield, Runefang, Other Tricksters shard – 259pts
Battle Wizard (lvl 4 - death) – Dispel scroll, Talisman of Preservation – 270pts
Captain (BSB) – Full plate, enchanted shield, sword of might – 116pts
Master Engineer – 65pts
Warrior priest – HA, shield, Helm of the Skaven slayer, Biting blade, barded horse – 110pts
Warrior priest – HA, shield, dragonhelm, shrieking balde – 89pts
Halberdiers (44) – FC – with detachment of archers (10) – 364pts
Inner Circle Knights (9) – FC – Banner of Swiftness – 270pts
Demigryph knights (4) – Lances, musican – 242pts
Greatswords (25) – FC, banner of discipline – 320pts
Outriders (7) – 157pts
Great Cannon – 120pts
Hellblaster Volley gun – 120pts
Total – 2502pts
LizardmenOldblood (General) – GW, Lt armour, Dragonhelm, Talisman of Preservation, Carnosaur with Loping stride and Bloodroar – 470pts
Scar-Vet (BSB) – GW, armour of Destiny, shield, Carnosaur with Loping stride and Bloodroar – 423pts
Tetto’eko – 185pts
Skink Priest (level 1 – Beasts) – Dispel Scroll – 90pts
Saurus Warriors (30) – FC – spears – 360pts
Skink Skirmishers (10) – javelin and shields – 70pts
Skink Skirmishers (10) – javelin and shields – 70pts
Skink Skirmishers (10) – javelin and shields – 70pts
Skink Skirmishers (10) – javelin and shields – 70pts
Bastiladon – Solar Engine – 150pts
Ripperdactyl (3) – 120pts
Ripperdactyl (3) – 120pts
Ancient Stegadon – Engine of the Gods, Sharpened Horns
Total – 2498ptsWe'd been talking lists on the forum so had an idea of what each of us were bringing.
The thoughts on my list were to bring a monster mash, something I want to do at Riotville (if I indeed take Lizards). This will mean that for the second year on the trot, I'm probably bringing a less optimised list (anytime you exclude a Slann from a list you could say that!).
ScenarioTo keep things simple, we played battleline.
SpellsTetto (Loremaster of Heavens) – so everything in the deck!
Skink (Beasts) – Wyssans Wildform
Empire Level 4 (Death) – Purple Sun, Soulblight, Fate of Bjuna and possibly Spirit leech
TerrainBecause I knew I'd be running a bit late, Greg set up the table and went for a wooded table.