Hi all,
So I've managed to let these 'regular' posts on my Lizardmen lists slip somewhat. When I came back to write this I didn't expect to see that my last post was in September, nearly two months ago!
But then up until this weekend just past I hadn't had any further Lizardmen battles so I was still on the 11 battles mark. But that changed a few days ago as my Lord Kroak list was rolled up randomly and so I'm now on 12 battles with Lizardmen since June 2015 began and thus I re-visited this blog to provide another list review (or two). Kroak actually appears in two lists so I'm going to talk about them both in one go.
Lord Kroak, for all Lizardmen players, is as close to a God as any special character can be until we (if ever) get the chance to re-unite with the Old Ones themselves and I particularly am a big fan of his. Not to mention that I really like his rules and at 400 points I believe he is very effective for his price.
Due to Kroak's single spell ability in both of the lists where he is the main man (Slann?) I team him up with another special character Tetto-Eko. This little Skink is awesome and I can't speak highly enough about the rules he brings to the table. Having Loremaster for the Lore of Heavens makes up for Kroak's lack of spell options and in the Kroak (non-cavalry) list I also bring Skink Priest Eko-Eeko for an extra Iceshard Blizzard and Dispel Scroll as well.
As for other characters the Kroak with cavalry list is fairly easy to explain as it has the four Saurus Cold One riders that I mentioned in the previous post; Phrau'ka, Zotaxyl, Xantoc & Ku'zaa. Due to the obvious points issue that is building up, in the Kroak version of this cavalry list there's only a smaller unit of Cold One riders but it's enough of a delivery unit to unleash the Saurus characters on an enemy when the time is right. Skink Chief Krako also makes an appearance with the cavalry list but he just sits with a Skink Cohort unit in the hope of holding back any unwanted Predatory Fighter overruns.
The non-cavalry Kroak list has a couple of Saurus Scar-Veterans on foot instead of the Cold One contingent. Xeonidas and Xerxes (Spartan / Persian reference!?) join up with the big unit of Temple Guard protecting Kroak. Xeonidas takes the Skavenpelt banner to make that unit super aggressive with Frenzy although I tend to find that he is targeted and killed extremely quickly, taking the unit's Frenzy with him. Xerxes on the other hand just adds a Sword of Striking, Enchanted Shield and Magic Resistance (2) to the unit. Neither have a ward save which usually makes them the first to die but as the Temple Guard are unbreakable and -1 to hit thanks to Kroak the attacks they soak up before they go means it's even longer before the Temple Guard unit starts to deplete in numbers.
The actual lists themselves are fairly similar whether the Cavalry / on foot Saurus characters are there or not. While one list has the 7x Cold One Riders the other list gets an Ancient Stegadon with an Engine of the Gods. Other than that both have a big unit of Saurus Warriors, a tiny Skink Cohort with a Kroxigor that serves as Tetto-Eko's bunker, Skink Skirmishers, the obvious big unit of Temple Guard and a couple of Salamanders. Kroak's non-cavalry list also manages to sneak in two units of Chameleon Skinks as well.
And so all this rambling leads me to their battle records. Unfortunately I can't remember much about the battle that the Kroak & Cavalry list had against Lucky-Sixes' Vampire Counts but the list did emerge victorious in their only outing. Similarly, the Kroak without cavalry list came up against Lucky-Sixes' Warriors of Chaos who had Archaon leading them. I should mention that this was the standard Archaon, not the End Times version, (if there is one) and whilst I can't remember much of the details but Kroak's Temple Guard proved the decisive factor as Lizardmen emerged victorious there too.
The battle that I can remember best for Kroak, which I should remember because it only happened two days ago, was against Stat-Rat's cavalry-heavy Empire. In this, despite losing the Stegadon unsurprisingly to a couple of cannon shots in Empire turn 1 and then Tetto-Eko exploding the Skink Cohort unit and killing himself in my turn 1, they managed to ground out another victory. Stat-Rat's artillery suffered from a particularly bold unit of Skink Skirmishers that took out almost an entire back line of war machines in combat and with overruns! The Saurus Warriors saw off two units of Knights and a Captain on Pegasus while the various -1's to hit from Kroak's ability, the White Cloak of Ulric, Iceshard Blizzard and Curse of Anraheir left the Temple Guard vs. Stat-Rat's main Inner Circle Knight unit in an ultimate 'I kill one, you kill 1' affair that fortunately went the Lizards way in the final turn.
And so in 3 battles these two lists are at 100%. Lord Kroak is the Slann to lead all Slann... even if he is apparentely long dead!
Hope you enjoyed reading.
Hyper-G
