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Made in us
Mindless Spore Mine





Hi Dakkadakka peoples,

I'm looking at starting a AoS army and am trying to decide between Lizards or Rats. Can anyone tell me about the play style for them?

Are skaven still the hilarious just as likely to kill yourself as the enemy army? Are the lizards still all around good?

Thanks!
   
Made in us
Sinewy Scourge




Boulder, Colorado

Skaven can be played in a lot of different ways, currently the most 'competitive skaven builds' are focussed on buffing a huge unit of stormvermin and throwing them across the board with Sayl (a chaos character from forgeworld that lets a unit move silly quick), and playing an army using clan skrye models and deep-striking a lot of stormfiends, and doing a lot of mortal wounds.

However, in casual play (the best way to play Sigmar IMO) they can be played with lots of different models, and its very easy to make a themed list around one of the different clans, and still have it be good. A very fun and goofy army to play, and one of my favorites.

Seraphon are very durable from what I've heard, with lots of ignore rend, and re-rollable saves. Also a really cool mechanic about the locations of the stars on the table. Also a fun army.

Seraphon need way less models, which is a huge plus I think, but skaven are definitely a more fun army to play against, mainly because any durable army is usually a lot less fun for your opponent.

   
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Dakka Veteran






As in the old world only one clan was needed to defeat the lizards, the council of thirteen does not even consider them as an opposition,more something of a nuisance...

Skaven is cool if you like to get in to sneaky character and love blitzkrieg tactics. You might kill a few of your own units, and I had some serious laughs seeing my doomwheel being crashed into my own lines by my opponent. (Still, in competitive play the fun models with self destructive rules usually aren't the nr 1 choices)
   
Made in us
Repentia Mistress






Why not both?

They are my favorite armies by far. They hate each other, and playstyle wise, are opposites. However, you can roll both armies for fairly cheap, and both are super fun to paint/model up.


Skaven = Win or die, hilariously. As much of a chance to nuke yourself as your opponent. I've had flamers blow up in my face, sending little rats screaming in all directions (on fire). It's so good... psychotic little donkey-caves.

Lizardmen = Dinosaurs riding Dinosaurs...with LAZORZ!! It doesn't get much more awesome than that, until you realize they'll smash your skull with a club and then bite your damn head off. So good.




 
   
 
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