WoC Or Lizardmen?

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**GoDz BuZzSaW**

I'm thinking of starting my first fantasy army and I would like to do either Lizardmen Or WoC, I've made several lists for both but don't know what to choose, I want my army to be entertaining but also reliable, any ideas on who I should pick?

**HoverBoy**

Lizardmens are cooler IMO, having dinosaurs and all that.
As for reliable both armies fit the bill, both have strong magic and great core warriors WoC feature some nasty elite units while lizards have some snazzy monsters, they only differ in power when it comes to the shooting phase WoC have only one real shooting unit (Helcannon) while lizardmen are ripe with medium-short ranged shooting that is also poisoned to boot.

**Da Boss**

Yeah, the only real difference is the lack of shooting for WoC. Lizards get shooting and skirmishers.

That said, I'd advise you to pick the army whoose models you like the best and go with that.

**Jackster**

I had to make the same decision and chose Lizards since WoC is bit too one dimentional for my taste.
Plus the Skinks are just so cute!

**Warboss Imbad Ironskull**

Lizardmen, we have Salamanders

plus the fluff for Lizardmen is cooler. It's weird, my choice when I started was Lizardmen or Dwarfs so I don't fit into the Lizardmen vs WoC clan lol

**Vaktathi**

Personally I like both armies, Lizardmen would probably be my 2nd favorite army, but I just love the visual of the big intimidating armored dudes and scary as hell characters of the Warriors of Chaos.

**GoDz BuZzSaW**

I've Gone Lizzies

**HoverBoy**

Welcome to the side of ultimate order.
This world will be brought in compliance with the Old ones plan weither it likes to or not.

**GoDz BuZzSaW**

I went to my local GW today and bought some Saurus Warriors and the army book, what next?

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HoverBoy wrote:Welcome to the side of ultimate order.
This world will be brought in compliance with the Old ones plan weither it likes to or not.

lol.

**GoDz KI11JOY x**

You didnt buy them.....

**GoDz BuZzSaW**

GoDz KI11JOY x wrote:You didnt buy them.....

Well, You Got Me The Saurus

**Hargus56**

Salamanders and Chameleons are good units to get. Convert them to save some money. Skinks with a skink priest are nice too have if you want magic pre 1500 pts until you can get a geared Slann.

**Eyclonus**

Skink Skirmishers are almost a must, blowpipes are stupidly useful.

I'd recommend buying a Slann when you hit 1,500+pts , but you don't have to go uber-magic if you don't want to. That said, Slann are pretty much able to bypass most of the problems in the magic system.

Lizardmen also have the Engine of the Gods, which got capped in some Oz tournaments at 1 for every whole 2,000 points in the list. Fortunately the % rules seem to balance out the abuse on them.

As for Characters, I like Kroak if you tag-team with another Slann, especially with is Laser eyes, Kroq-Gar is nice and meaty but its possible to build a slightly better version cheaper with Old Bloods, but without Hand Of Gods, which I think is not a one use only.

The Hero characters are somewhat nice, I personally like Chakkax for being the DUEL MASTER! I've had him smash Mannfred and 'caster vampires loads of times, and he's good for blocking assassinations on the Slann if you face that a bit, the downside is he costs 333 points. TikTaq'To is also nice, but costs a lot.

**HoverBoy**

No offwnce Eyclonus but, can i have some of the stuff which made you see LM specials as worth the boatloads of points they cost?

**Eyclonus**

Personal experience, but mostly in odd situations, and mostly with the previous ruleset. I used to play lots of fun matches, but I don't take them as the primary Lords and Heroes in the army, just adding them for fun.

Except for Chakax, that guy is a bastard against Vampires.

**TheMuffinMan98**

If you have the money, I say do both. IMO, they're both really cool armies and their both worth checking out. Then again, that's just my opinion.

I like what HoverBoy said because dinosaurs make everything better!