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Toowoomba, Australia

My turn 4:
Kroxies charge skinks who flee but are caught.
I maneuver my saurus to prevent flank charges.
Skinks with blowpipes move towards stegadon.
Skinks with javs approach terradons.


Magic:
Creeping death into the reduced unit of saurus.
Fireball into the terradons

Shooting:
Sallies blow the rest of the saurus unit away.
Stegadon takes another 2 wounds from blowpipes.
Terradons hammered by javs- 1 wound left and don't panic.

Combat:
My saurus scar vet does 1 wound on the SMP (now on 2).
His scar vet does wounds to my kroxies and I can't get back through his armour.

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Alex turn 4:
His terradons at the top of the table (the empth 40mm bases) charge my blowpipe skinks who flee.
The large saurus unit finally swings around to hit my saurus scar vet.
The stegadon turns.
The sallies rally



Magic:
Pit of shades- irrisistable force on 5 dice on my SMP, I put out my hand to congratulate him on victory, Alex says to roll the dice for I test, and I roll 1. Much screaming and jumping ensues.

Shooting:
His skinks do a wound or 2 on my kroxies.

Combat:
He challenges with his SMP?!?, I accept, and he kills me with the SMP. :(
His saurus scar vet on cold one smashes my kroxies who hold.






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My turn 5:
I charge the flank of his saurus with my saurus- he flees, I redirect into SMP, who also flees. I fail to catch either and so will not be charged by the kroxies in the flank next turn.
My skinks with blowpipes didn't rally and flee towards Alex's table edge.
My kroxigor turn to face the stegadon charge...


Magic:
Conflag of doom on SMP: 6 hits, 3 wounds, 1 ward save, dead.
Creeping death and fireball on kroxigor- couple wounds

Shooting:
The skinks in bottom left corner kill the terradon.
The sallies knock another 3 wounds off kroxigor. Now down to 2 models (one with 1 wound)

Combat:
IIRC he manages to kill off my kroxigor here.


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Toowoomba, Australia

Alex turn 5:

Charge with stegadon on my kroxigor
Charge with jav skinks on my blowpipe skinks (run down)
His kroxigor charge my saurus.
His saurus fail to rally.
Spins his saurus scar vet on spot.
Sallies move for more targets.



Magic:
None

Shooting:
Sallies kill off my sallies excepting a couple of handlers- who IIRC flee.

Combat:
His kroxigor bounce off my saurus- I pursue, catch them and end up right behind his fleeing saurus unit.
Stegadon also bounces, doing 1 wound IIRC. I hit with 5 of 6 attacks on the stegadon... dead stegadon. The skink unit generated by the dead steggie (the crew) flee and I pursue, catching them.

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My turn 6:

My saurus charge Alex's saurus who auto flee off the table.
I maneuver units to capure table quadrants.
My skink pries leaps in front of the saurus scar vet to protect the SMP from a last turn charge.


He will be remembered...


Magic:
Fluffed it from memory.

Shooting, none.

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Toowoomba, Australia

Alex turn 6:
Charge of Saurus scar vet on skink priest.
Sallies move towards my SMP.

Magic:
None

Shooting:
Sallies fail to wound my SMP

Combat: My skink priest it turned to paste.


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End game:

Points:
Me: 1945
Alex: 1359

586 point win to me. (15-5 tournament points)

So I finally get a win over Alex.
I finally get to play lizzies with lizzies.


Lessons learnt:
I'm getting better with bait and flee but my stegadon was too close to his stegadon.
If a SMP is running by himself always support him (alex's SMP was never going to die in 1 combat phase, but almost did in 4)

At the tourney ended up with 8th overall and player's choice for best army appearance. Yet another great BIG tourney and am really enjoying the lizardmen.

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awesome bat rep gonads ^_^. I really enjoyed reading it all through as you posted.

Really gives me a sense of just how much more tactics are important in the game than 40k. You really can do a lot of cool things while playing. It's not all stand and shoot till things are dead like this other game I've been playing all this time....

someday in the future i'll have to dump some cold hard cash into this one.

-Aaron
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Albany, NY

Combat:
He challenges with his SMP?!?, I accept, and he kills me with the SMP. :(

One badass frog

Great batrep Gonads, love the pics. And actually, Bobo probably writes my favorite batreps over on TWF so great to see you both go up against each other. You may both be tied for my favorite lizard armies out there

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In an earlier game my SMP beat a daemon prince over 4 round of combat, primarily because I got Dazzling brightness off on him twice (WS 1 for next combat round) and a pha's illumination in the last round doing 2 wounds. Then he auto popped on break test.

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Gonads I'm doing a Lizardmen > Ork army for 40k, and was thinking of doing a green or blue base with white scales.

I did green with red scales for my regular Lizzies and blue/white weapons, so I'd like to do something new.

Any thoughts?

   
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If I was using lizardmen for ork models I'd go with green to tie it more in with the ork theme.

Can't wait to see how you you will do it as I can't even imagine how the hell you will pull it off...

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.................................... Searching for Iscandar

As soon as my job and/or my wife (you pick, like a choose your own adventure novel!) isn't beating me down I'll get back to work on it.

   
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Toowoomba, Australia

An update.

Its been over a month since my last update.

I got a heap of painting done before the May day long weekend where I played at a 3000pt tourney and pulled off best army.

So in the ensuing posts over the next few days I'll be posting up the units I did now that work has settled somewhat and I have more time to post:


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First off the Saurus scar vet on cold one.

Scar Vet
Scaly skin (free)
Lt armour
Aura quetzl
Aura itzl
Cold one
Enchanted shield
Biting blade.

150 points.
4 attacks at st 5 and -3 armour save
1 attack at st 4
Most importantly and armour save of -1 base- so even hit by st 7 he gets a 3+ save.

To the pics:
The model is draped in heaps of rat skins- which will make trying to do several cold one riding heroes a challenge (I'm looking to do 4 for my next 2250 army variant)

Now for the giant pics to show off the brush strokes:





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Damn I'll have to fix the green feather on his weapon... the red has run down into it. :(

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Chameleon skinks:

i was really stuck with these guys and not really happy with how they turned out.

Problems:
They are chameleon skinks and need to blend into their surroundings (bases) so they will not be the same scheme as the rest of the army.

They have poisonous frogs/snakes strapped all over them.

I need to remember they are on the table so have to be able to spot them.

Which led to the painting of the poisonous animals fluro colours and making their chameleon effect a moot point.

Others seem to like them though:





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I like the way that you did the skinks, but if you are still not happy, you could make the individual skinks a different colour, but where they are touching the ground have them morph into the grey colour. I have seen this done on a Tyranid Lictor, and it looked great.

Otherwise, darkening the skins of the frogs could work in a simpler way.

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I think they look great. They look like statues or something. Im a fair painter but those are awesome.

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I was originally going to have them painted up so any gold/ wood or animals they were touching they would be leeching a small amount of colour. Tried it on a test model and it took forever and the need to get them ready for a tourney took over.

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More good stuff from you Gonads

Cold one vet is cool, though the fact that the rider and mount have the same skin (and then all those scales, particularly the model's left side) sort of blends the two of them together a bit much. Maybe that was the point?

The camo skinks are also nice, but I had never realized that those were frogs strapped to them. What an odd look, though I suppose appropriate.

- Salvage

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North Carolina

Boss_Salvage wrote:Cold one vet is cool, though the fact that the rider and mount have the same skin (and then all those scales, particularly the model's left side) sort of blends the two of them together a bit much. Maybe that was the point?


I have to second this one. I really think they blend together far too much right now. Makes it hard follow the details. Individually they're great, but together it's hard to separate.

I think the skinks could use a wash of dark color to give them the feel of the base color, but still making them their own entity. But that comes down to artistic license really ^_-. All of those poisonous frogs are sort of an odd detail...I don't know much about lizardmen though...I take the skinks have a poisonous blowdart attack?

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