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Okay, after a bit of searching, I've found nothing to answer my questions about the Lizardmen Salamanders. Granted, I find it hard to use the search engine here on DakkaDakk, but I might be dumb like that.

Anyway, how exactly are Salamanders and their Handlers deployed on the table? The Sals are 40mm, and the Skinks are 20mm.
Do they all form the front row? Do the Skinks rank up behind the Sals? Does the 40mm bases offset 20mm bases?

I'm really confused about the unit's placement on the battlefield as a whole.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

it is a skirmishing handled moster. So when not in combat, the skinks are in skirmish formation behind or around the salamander and do not block LoS for it.

In combat, the handlers rank up behind the salamander and thus cannot be directly attacked nor can they attack(iirc).

I was under the impresion that they set up just like a warmachine and crew. With the Salamander as the 'cannon' and the Skinks as the crew 'skirmishing' around it.

handled monsters like the hydra and salamanders are different as the monsters are the things fighting.

You should reread the monsters and handlers rule, the skinks do not really exist on the table, they are more like tokens, alot like warmachines.

Skirmish only matters when you take more than one salamander in the unit.

the skinks are purely decoration, and markers for the Salamander to eat

if the Salamander is killed the handlers disappear,

if the Handlers are all eaten the Salamander takes a monster reaction test and will act under those rules from that point on. it can still flame people.

Okay, thank you!
We knew that they didn't really 'do' anything, but we were not certain whether their presence on the table could block movement or whatever.

So you cannot draw line of sight to them, right? It needs to be to the Salamander?

mrborges wrote:We knew that they didn't really 'do' anything, but we were not certain whether their presence on the table could block movement or whatever.

Actually they "do" attacks in CC,and feed the sallie(s) occasionally, but as all battlefield tokens that aren't really there they don't block movement.