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Saurus can either be summoned or fielded from the beginning to protect wizards in a Starborne army, or be the core of a Coalesced one thanks to their improved defence and bite rolls that contributes to the splash mortal wounds game the Seraphon play.

Contents: 1 Master of Possession (HQ), 10 Chaos Space Marines (Troops), 2 Greater Possessed (Elites), 1 Venomcrawler (Heavy Support), 2 Obliterators (Heavy Support) Instead, they are so imbued with energies from Azyr that they may appear as magical entities. Those with strong links with the Realm of Heavens, still living in the space vessels are called Starborne.

A Bastiladon has a chance to do mortal wounds based on the number of models of the target unit. You can reliably do D6 mortal wounds to a unit with 7 or more models but doesn’t work against heroes or single units. Independently from which faction you choose, Saurus would want to get into melee early on and keep the enemies away from the objectives, Skinks instead would harass your enemy retrieving all objectives not covered by your opponent and screening the important parts of your army.

With the third edition battletome came also a range refresh that introduced new warscrolls, replaced some older sculpts but also permanently retired others: Seraphon have a great range of cavalry, from the heavy Aggradon to the lighter Raptadon to conclude with the flying Terradon and Ripperdactyl. Of all of those, at the moment the Raptadon Chargers are probably the most efficient, but they are Skinks so they need to synergise with Skink heroes. The box comes with 8 models however the unit size is multiples of 5. They are battleline in a Seraphon army. For inspiration, I turned to the Warhammer 40,000 Necrons range. The aesthetics of these two ranges are remarkably similar, so they’re perfect for converting. From there, I worked out how to make all kinds of mechanised walkers and constructs to represent different units in the Seraphon army. The Seraphon currently are in an odd spot: being one of the first armies to receive a battletome, they have really outdated rules subject to change.Their battle traits are much simpler: add 1 to the bite roll of Saurus and Kroxigor and reduce by 1 (to a minimum of 1) the damage taken by Saurus, Kroxigor or Monsters. Spatial Translocation: teleport another friendly unit within 12″ anywhere more than 9″ from enemies. If you use the sprues to build a Troglodon, you will have leftover bits with which to create a Saurus Hero on foot. I found this handy guide which explains how to create a Saurus Hero on Foot. With the amazing power of magnets, this Saurus Hero can represent either a Saurus Oldblood or Saurus Sunblood.

The Craftworlds box is extremely weird. It’s an incredible saving over buying the kits individually – if you want any two of them, you might as well buy this instead and get the others essentially free – but as a place to do what it says on the tin and start collecting Craftworld Eldar it’s woeful, since there’s no actual Troops in here. There’s only two elves, even, and one of them is piloting a War Walker. Still, most of the units are at least passable to good, and it’s quite a hefty chunk of points, too. For 5 points you can resurrect D3 models to any unit with a wound characteristic of 1 or 2 and wholly within 12″ of a cosmic node. While Start Collectings might not always have the exact units everyone wants, they at least provide a cheaper way of getting into the game. Plus, they allow players to expand their army in almost any direction they really want to.The main trait of Starborne rotates around the cosmic nodes: friendly Starborne wizards, Astrolith Bearers and Realmshaper Engines. At the start of your hero phase, you receive a cosmic point for each wizard or Astrolith Bearer on the battlefield. In addition you receive 1 cosmic point for each time a friendly Starborne wizard successfully casts an unbound spell, unbinds a spell, or dispels an endless spell. Swap this with three non-Command Saurus Warriors when you want to run two 10-model units of Saurus Warriors. Seraphon magic caste is dominated by the Slann. At the top, there must surely be Lord Kroak. His soul is so strong to still linger around the mummy of his body whose departure predates the Mortal Realms. In game this is represented by an almost immortal model that can mathematically be killed only after doing 17 wounds in the same phase (at the end of each phase sum the wounds allocated to the roll of 3D6, if you don’t make at least 20, all wounds are healed). Dracothion’s Tail, the most zealous and better prepared to enact the Great Plan. You can set up a unit in reserve for each one deployed and summon it at the end of your movement. At the top of the Seraphon society there are the Slann, bloated toad-like creatures gifted with incredible magic powers. The most revered of them is actually being dead long before the end of the world and the creation of the Mortal Realms: Lord Kroak. His spirit is so powerful that is still lingering around his mummified body and is able to communicate telepathically and send showers of meteors against his opponents.

Add to this that you will have spare models forcing you to buy more boxes just to complete the units and you’ll have reduced the efficiency of one single box. Basically, most aspects of the army are now perfectly playable in both friendly and more competitive games. The gameplay varies from charging head down with your strongest units, to shoot from afar with your powerful spellcaster and shooting units. The army is highly competitive with a strong magic phase and many ways to spread mortal wounds to your opponent.Coincidentally, you can field a Firelance Starhost with just the models you assembled from the Saurus Knights. With the bits provided, for each 4 Saurus Knights you assemble, one model may be assembled as an Alpha Knight, one model may be assembled to carry a Stardrake Icon, and one model may be assembled to carry Wardrums. If the minimum size of a unit of Saurus Knights was 4 models, you could build two 4-model units, each with full command, from a single Start Collecting: Seraphon box. You are not forced to assemble any Saurus Knight as an Alpha Knight, Stardrake Icon-bearer, or Wardrummer. I enjoy taking a concept and dialling it up to 11, smashing together as many different kits as it takes to fulfil my vision. My armies may not be to everyone’s tastes, but I sure do love making them. Every Seraphon sub-specie is particularly versed in specific jobs. The Skinks are nimble creatures adept in more intellectual jobs like priests, scholars, etc. However, if required they are great warriors experts in skirmish tactics.