Choosing an army....what is Lizardmen playstyle like?

stirling,

Lizardmen are an excellent choice, here is why:

• Painting: You can really paint them in any colors and they will still fit the WFB background and theme, as well as looking cool and believable. You can even use real examples from the Animal Kingdom to design a color scheme, such as exotic-colored frogs, real lizards, or dinosaurs, etc.

• Models and units. Like Orcs & Goblins, Lizardmen have a huge number of units available to them. This gives you plenty of options and many avenues to create particular themed armies (such as an all Skink army, or an army made of mostly large monsters, etc.).

• You can suit Lizards to really any form of play AND do well in battle! You can make a magic heavy army, a shooty army, a combat army, or any mix in between! They can be a powerful hit & run army, a powerful ambusher army, a deadly close combat army, etc.

• They have some of the best troops in the game. I believe in all of their incarnations from 4th edition to 8th edition, Saurus Warriors (their main core) are/were some of the best troops in the game. S4, T4, multiple Attacks, good armour, plus being cold-blooded (LD tests on 3D6, discounting the highest dice roll), which makes them difficult to break. They are over looked by many Lizard players, who often prefer Skinks for their hit & run tactics.

• They are pretty much the ultimate 'good guy' army.


Traditional tournament-style armies of Lizardmen usually were heavily Skink based with lots of poisonous shooting attacks, flyers, salamanders and powerful Slann magic. Though in 8th edition, since Skirmishers are not as powerful as they once were, players usually have one or two blocks of Saurus warriors/Temple guard. A large horde of Saurus Warriors are potent and scary.

I personally like using Skink and Kroxigor mixed units - basically a unit of ranked Skinks can include Kroxigors in their units. This is a single unit where you get the combined power of hard hitting monstrous infantry, plus lots of ranks from the diminutive Skinks, it's like getting your cake and eating it too!

Anyway, overall Lizards are a great army with lots of option in terms of both tactics and modeling/painting options.

Which are your favourite 'must have' lizardmen models stirling?

The ones which you would definately get if you started a lizardmen army.

Great breakdown by KevinC. I tend to lean towards bad guys but have a small lizardmen army due to my love of dinosaurs.

Regarding playstyle, even the choice of whether to fill your core with saurus or the faster skinks can make a big difference.

While lizardmen have extreme magic via slann my favourite lizardmen play style is in your face monster nom nom style!

I painted a Lizardmen army a few years back and I love playing it. The best thing about it is that it is so versatile. You'll be doing stuff in all phases of the game, and doing it well. If I play a lot with a more one-dimensional army like my Daemons or Ogres, I can get a bit bored with it. That never happens with Lizardmen (or Greenskins). So if I had just one army, I would want it to be a versatile one that could do anything.

Try to get hold of the Lizardmen armybook and read up on their background, too. You'll see how they fit into the grand scheme of things. They are the oldest race and the original enemy of chaos.

Cool guys, thank you for all the help. I really appreciate it

And their behavior is perplexing to the other races, as the Slann are trying to operate under the original plan of the Old Ones, which they themselves fully do not comprehend.

There was a cool story in one of the Lizard books where this envoy of High Elves came to visit a Slann Priest. When the Lizards escorted the Elves to their priest, the Slann only stated that they were not suppose to be there and the Lizardmen slaughtered all of the Elves.