Saurus Warriors! I know the Temple Guard are better in every way (and the Starchamber Guards even more) but thanks to their availability, the common Saurus carries half the campaign. They're strong and tough, and best of all don't run from anything. They're cool to look at and fun to watch fight. I usually prefer ranged units and cavalry, but I keep coming back to Lizardmen for those brutal frontline clashes.
23:21 Blessed Saurus Warriors are criminally undermentioned when people talk about lizardmen. They're easily better than Temple Guard with pretty much the same armour-piercing damage but they do far more regular damage on top of that. They've also got decent melee-attack (which lizardmen generally suck at) which makes them outright better killers too. Most importantly of all, Perfect Vigour means they never get tired no matter what you put them through. Run them up hills or up ladders during sieges and they'll be just as fresh as when they started the battle. This gives them a massive utilitarian advantage over most infantry and it also makes them the perfect holding unit. Put a healer Slann or a couple of revivification crystals behind them in a regular battle and all that health and their never getting tired means they'll hold the line against enemy infantry forever. If you've already specced your Lord into "Proud Warrior" then do NOT waste points in "Sacred Guardian" as well. Rather, pray to RNGesus you get a quest for these guys because they will do everything lizardman infantry was meant to do but better. Like all lizardmen infantry, they're slow, they won't outright win battles for you in the late game, they're quite delicate against cav and monster charges and will need a modicum of support against the most elite armoured+armour-piercing infantry units out there. They will, however, effectively hold down the enemy army for as long as it takes your dinosaurs to win the battle - and they will take names while doing so. I've used them all the way until the end of the campaign and the most epic battle I had was when just 5 units of these guys held down 3 armies worth of Chaos infantry while the dinosaurs went to work charging about and orbital lasers and Kroak helped reduce enemy numbers. By the end of the battle, the Blessed Saurus Warriors racked up more kills than anyone else besides my Lord and heroes. And best of all they were still "fresh" by the end of it - ready to methodically wear down and slay the next army like the unfeeling reptilian bio-robots they were meant to be. Truly special.
Interesting I love the saurus warriors with shields and it ts sad to replace them with temple guard. Maybe you have a point. In the multiplayer campaigne which i play right now i will take 4 blessed saurus warriors with shields togehter with templeguard (regular and RuR) lets see which performs better. Thanks for the tipp.
This sounds like what Lizardmen should use for seige armies. I usually put my armies in one of three categories: Regular, Reinforcing (cav, air and other fast stuff only) and Seige (at least 8 wall infantry) Lizardmen can also use solar cannon bastiladons to blow out a wall and just rush in their dinosaurs, though.
really big fan of how you go through them in unlock order. I wasnt even thinking about it but when you said "something better.. that ill get to later" i realized you were doing it for my benefit and decided to watch the rest of it after I'm later in the game. You're very considerate
Rampage is not about leadership, it is actually HP. Primal insticts goes off at 20% and tje unit starts to rampage, if hp is healed above 20% it will stop, and if it drop below it again the stst buffs come in, but not rampage. Normal rampage goes off at 75%, 50%, and 25% and lasts 40 sec. Healing above these thesholds does not cancel it, but it won't go off again for that threshold. If a dino hits another before the 40 sec. the new timer starts anyway and the old is abandonded.
@@fernyrespi8109 What can you tell me about Dread Saurians? Are they worth buying and maintaining? I couldn't find any guide talking about them since they'Re more recent.
Honestly, i have been looking for videos like these. Ones that are detailed and zoom in on units to show their appearance. Also your tactics and advise seem to be on point. I haven’t tried them as I don’t own the game but my favourite videos are the roster videos and the lords. Please please do Bretonnia after.
Those bomber terradons can NOT be underrated. They are massively clutch in turning the tides of so many battles. I had a Life magic Slann defending a key city back home while Kroq-Gar and my other 2 armies were out ripping into some Tomb Kings. And it was in that moment that Malekith, Morathi AND Malus all rolled up at the same time to go after this city. Nearly 2500 Dark Elves, including arguably their three scariest Lords. I had around 1400 Lizardmen in my combined defense army. My Slann constantly casted healing magic, my priest spammed the ability to speed up magic regen, my Temple Guards held the walls and fought like demons against the ladders and siege towers, my skinks barraged from range, my Kroxigor and Stegadons held the gates and my Cold Ones rode down anything that started breaking through, but I truly, TRULY thought the battle was lost and all three armies were going to decimate my fledgling empire. But those damned fireleech bolas. Hovering behind the walls, launching them into the enemy masses and just *decimating* their health bars... For nearly half the battle, I had used them to try to harass the enemies in sort of bombing runs, just to thin their ranks slightly, but hovering in place and just lobbing tons of explosives into enemy clusters as they exited the siege towers? I watched those health bars plummet with each barrage. It was a DAMNED close battle still because Tz'arkan is absolutely brutal and my army was shredded to ribbons by the end, but by battles end less than 200 Dark Elves survived. After 5 more successfully held off sieges from various combinations of Dark Elf generals, I add the title 'The Immovable' to that Slann's name. Katte'bak earned that shit. Ain't nobody taking a city from Katte'bak.
The last Total War game I played was Rome 2. I have to say, the unit diversity in this game is probably the single coolest thing Ive ever witnessed. Im busy download this at the moment and im throthing watching this!!!
I do feel you have some tightening up of your gameplay to do, your target acquisition could use a little work namely artillery disruption. Its okay if you think you can just tank the hits but overall its an improvement to make that helps a lot (especially in MP.) As for campaign I think you can work on making your armies cheaper but more effective overall to help people who arent economically the best or tend to lose provinces. For example if you take feral cold ones and stick them as an escort to horned ones, carnosaurs or any dino they're extremely effective because they get to flank will actually do a ton of damage when attacking in the back with their charge bonus, which will quickly terror-route the enemy and they can chase the unit off. For their price its an option that cant really be beat. This prevents a higher tier unit from using up their vigor and losing more models later, and the better unit can immediately turn and fight something else while the feral cold ones run mop-up duty the rest of the match. Terradon riders can be used identically- although the fireleech bolas are indeed better campaign units. Same thing with the various skink skirmishers- they can toss in damage to demoralize enemies that are getting crushed by your temple guard or dinosaurs and then run them off since they outspeed just about all other infantry. Taking ranged fire does a lot to drop morale. Or specifically chameleon skinks. Yes they dont hit as hard as the other massive missile units but they are exceptionally good at ambushing archers, also being able to precision target poison debuffs(Which do last long enough to keep two units poisoned by alternating targets with their very fast reload) is a great thing. Its pretty funny watching Chosen struggle against Ssaurus warriors because they just arent hitting for much damage and keep getting shot in the back. In all examples there is a case to be made for going cheaper actually being more effective- Yes you can upgrade to better units but mixing in ones in their specific niche that arent at the top end of the tech tree is an under-emphasized skill I think you could bring people up to speed on. I'm not trying to be too critical because of how good I think your content is overall, just some tips to help make it consistently better.
The animations of lizards making special attacks with front-flips/reversal jumps made me mesmerised. Alas I'm too concentrated on commands during battles, being new player and all, and usually don't have the time to properly enjoy the show the game engine provides
I use a skink unit to support my melee brawl, as the poison helps my saurus and temple guard be even more dominant in the scrum, and can make the difference if I have saurus against something more dangerous.
The Ancient Stegadon is made to go into melee. Other than the regular version it's missiles keep firing while in full melee, acting as a damage multiplier. The Dreadsaurian has the same missile mechanic. Someone should get fired for that mistake!1
You forgot to mention the in my opinion extremely important note about the Ancient Stegadon which is that unlike the other missile dinos, it continues firing it's main ranged weapon in melee as well, in addition to its melee attacks and javelin throwers, it's honestly quite disgusting.
the lizardmen are my favorite faction which used to be the greenskins but after seeing what amounted to be basically "fantasy dinosaur war machines" i opted for them as my number one favorite other than the greenskins which are my second followed by the skaven and the beastmen. the temple guard are my favorite infantry and the dread saurians are my favorite monsters. a contingent of temple guard are good body guards for a slann mage priest.
lizardmen might not have a lot of range options but they have possible one of the best easilly top 5 ranged units cameleon skinks are godlike if you know how to micro them. also never replace regular stegadons with anchients stegadons have insane range and you can litterally steam roll campains with a full stak of 19 and a life slan they are godly beasts
Great video as always! Just wanted to point out @4:20 that Saurus warriors with shields simply increases their cost and melee defense other than providing a shield. Doesn't "cost" minor stat differences. You may not have meant it, but it sounded like you inferred a minor stat penalty. Shields are always better in every way, even stat wise :)
Fun composition: 10 monsters (including lord) and 10 fire leech bolas. 0 Freindly fire (with massive damage and 200+kills a round) And a visceral blender of monsters on the ground
19 and a saurus oldblood lord on number 20 combine it with all the buffy magic you can shake a stick at and it sounds devestating. stil love the salamanders are terror weapons
the way i use cameleon skinks or skin skrimishers and to some extent the skin cohort with javleins are more as a suport unit. basicly waiting till the lines have clashed before i move around the flanks and apply some poison to the enamies, having one or two skin skrimishers (or if you have the money cameleon skinks) in you´re army even late game can acctually be really good, obviously you could just use terradon riders for this though... regardless yes the lizards do struggle when it comes to their ranged options
Here I was looking for info on how to start playing Warhammer II and I find someone wearing the same Hawaiian shirt I do, the exact same way I do. Life's strange.
As a skaven player who doesn’t have the greatest counters to Lizboys… I hate them. Their rampant is pretty much unbreakable with a stat buff, their skirmishers are hard even for mine to chase down, their monsterous hunt down my skirmishers, their predatory instincts renders my eshin units unable to take advantage of their stealth and their armor and charge against my low morale makes my army break before the battle starts. I pretty much have to build custom anti liz armies just for fighting them and still be at a disadvantage. The only saving grace can be laying ambushes, but their astrology stance counters that too. And then on top of everything, their chameleon stalkers will solo my entire army of rattling guns when I just want to meme. I hate them so much.
Ah Skink cohort and temple guards with a dread saurian and in terms of range infantry, the lizardman doesn't have any, yes you can say there are the javalins but they are just cohorts given throwing spears and almost non existant so you can make do with skink skirmishers but they won't be your range infantry, they will just harass fleeing enemies or going the enemy army into an attack
I have never in my life heard of such a broken mechanic; hear me out. Teradon riders + stegadon + mazdamundi + scar vetern Stegadon shoots down towers from safe zone while riders and lords hide. Towers gone, Scar vetern runs back an forth draining archer ammo while Mazdamundi heals him. Archers out of ammo, teradon riders start bombing the shit out of everything and enemy surrenders without any need to climb walls or break gates.
Why all your army comp are thid micro nightmares wasting slots in to many types of units. Here is an actual good late-game Lizardmen army: Slann Mage Priest (Life) + Saurus Scar-Veteran (with Carnosaurus) + Skink Chief (with Estegadon) + Skink Priest (Heavens with Estegadon) and the rest Estegadons (the ones with the balists on their backs), any army who aproach you will get decimated and if they get in melee they'll face a bunch of angry dinos and heroes while loosing 0 health thanks to the Slann allowing you to take fight after fight, more even if you got lighting strike trait. Pd: Toss as many Blessed Estagonds you can in the main army
I enjoy the things you say about each unit, but with throwing this many different units in your army you can't give all of them the lord buffs and have a good lord. More so, your battles seem quite close in "even battles", and the ai is trying it's best not to give even battles because it knows it can't command as good. Also, skaven is one of the better enemies you can encounter as lizardmen (since the rats struggle against monsters), yet it took you to long to take out the warplightning cannons. Those things are really dangerous against those single entity monsters.
I have played 4 campaigns, all defeats, all on easy... idk but the skaven just destroy me in like one turn. I cant even get to "mid-game" I guess. Turn 50 in completely destroyed. I make alliances, I make money, but my army never is strong enough. Mainly army cant even defeat the weakest factions garrison. This game gets me so frustrated, and these guides are like, "this is warhammer 2, you win by beating the campaign, good luck."
What does your army normally consist of? If you want we could start a co-op campaign and i could help you play through? The lizardmen aren't my favourite race, but i have beaten a campaign with them on legendary/very hard, so i know most of the tips/tricks. Early game, the skinks with javelins are a solid unit to spam. Saurus warriors are solid as well, the basic skink cohort is basically useless though, always better to go javelins. Kroxigors are an excellent damage dealer, just keep them as a second line so they don't get targeted by ranged on the approach, then send them in when your front line is engaged. The lizardmen cavalry are absolutely awful compared to most races, this is partly because of the rampage mechanic, and their relatively slow speed for cav, I wouldn't recommend recruiting any. The cameleon skinks are actually a pretty good unit, due to their missile resist and poison skirmish attacks, but you need to pay attention to them to use them effectively. Basic terradons are trash, but the terradons with fireleech bolas are extremely useful. Their monsters are all extremely good, generally go for stegadon over bastiladon. The basic stegadon (not the feral one) is one of the best units in the game. Has extremely long ranged attack and excellent in melee too. If you wanted to, you could have an army of just these with a life mage and it'd beat almost anything. Speaking of magic, a mage is worth taking in almost every race and lizardmen are no exception. Recruiting a skink priest of heavens can do insane damage. The most consistent spell in that lore is chain lightning so get that as fast as you can. Earlier on wind blast can be very useful as well. Just wait until the front line of your units are engaged then find a nice blob of enemies and cast it on that. Just be careful of chain lightning because it can hurt your units too and it's movements are random. However, it is worth using. In terms of campaign, skaven are very good at ambushing exposed armies. So almost never used forced march into enemy territory. If you're having trouble with a particular army, you can set up an ambush of your own. Just make sure you're not too close to anything when setting it up, either an enemy hero/settlement or army can spot ambushes if they're too close. A good way to bait enemy armies into the ambush is to recruit a new lord nearby with no units. Move him within striking range of that enemy army, and put him in forced march. This is to act as bait. Then move your actual army next to him in ambush stance. The enemy will see the exposed lord in forced march and can't resist killing him, but when they try, your ambush springs. Let me know if there's anything in particular you want to know.
@@ColonelDamneders Sorry I upset you, it wasn't meant to be hurtful. If that's how you want to say it then that's how you say it, you do you! Keep making cool videos, it's clear you put alot of effort into them and I've enjoyed the ones I've seen so far.
@@ColonelDamneders really didnt want want to start an argument but that comment bothers me way too much Yes its made up but there is still a correct way to pronounce words It would be fine if you said that YOU were gonna keep pronouncing it melee But dont go and encourage others to intentionally mispronounce words and make communication harder
Chill out dude. People pronounce words differently based on where they’re from. As long as you understand what I meant then surely that’s all that matters. I’m not trying to start any arguments
What's your favourite Lizardmen unit?
Quick question why do the fling units have 280 speed that's easily double the normal speed
Elijah Cross oh that’s probably sebidees realistic flight lol. I forgot that effects stats
Saurus Warriors! I know the Temple Guard are better in every way (and the Starchamber Guards even more) but thanks to their availability, the common Saurus carries half the campaign. They're strong and tough, and best of all don't run from anything. They're cool to look at and fun to watch fight. I usually prefer ranged units and cavalry, but I keep coming back to Lizardmen for those brutal frontline clashes.
Mine is a stegadon
Dread saurian
Do I need to say more?
Just leaving some timestamps for the unit roster.
2:10 Skink Cohort
2:38 Skink Cohort (Javelins)
2:59 Red Crested Skinks
3:53 Saurus Warriors
4:23 Saurus Warriors (Shields)
4:50 Saurus Spears
5:33 Temple Guards
6:37 Skink Skirmishers
7:30 Chameleon Skinks
8:15 Feral Cold Ones
8:48 Cold One Riders
9:33 Cold One Spear-Riders
9:54 Salamander Hunting Pack
10:56 Horned Ones
11:43 Ripperdactyl Riders
12:46 Feral Bastiladon
13:48 Bastiladon (Revivification Crystal)
13:57 Bastiladon (Ark of Sotek)
14:21 Kroxigors
15:07 Feral Stegadon
15:47 Feral Carnosaur
16:39 Terradon Riders
17:13 Terradon Riders (Fireleech Bolas)
17:34 Ancient Salamander
18:24 Bastiladon (Solar Engine)
19:18 Stegadon
20:19 Ancient Stegadon
20:59 Ancient Stegadon (Engine of the Gods)
Regiments of Renown
21:58 Cohort of Sotek (Red Crested Skinks)
22:09 Legion of Chaqua (Saurus Spears)
22:17 Star Chamber Guardians (Temple Guards)
22:28 The Umbral Tide (Salamander Hunting Pack)
22:37 Pok-Hopak Cohort (Cold One Spear-Riders)
22:46 Pahaux Sentinels (Terradon Riders)
22:55 Colossadon Hunters (Ripperdactyl Riders)
23:05 The Thunderous Ones (Ancient Stegadon)
Blessed Spawnings
23:25 Blessed Saurus Warriors (Shields)
23:34 Blessed Saurus Spears (Shields)
23:42 Blessed Temple Guards
23:48 Blessed Skink Skirmishers
23:57 Blessed Chameleon Skinks
24:06 Blessed Cold One Spear-Riders
24:15 Blessed Horned Ones
24:22 Blessed Terradon Riders (Fireleech Bolas)
24:29 Blessed Kroxigors
24:37 Blessed Carnosaur
24:45 Blessed Stegadon
24:52 Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine)
Holy crap it's a chicken!
23:21 Blessed Saurus Warriors are criminally undermentioned when people talk about lizardmen. They're easily better than Temple Guard with pretty much the same armour-piercing damage but they do far more regular damage on top of that. They've also got decent melee-attack (which lizardmen generally suck at) which makes them outright better killers too. Most importantly of all, Perfect Vigour means they never get tired no matter what you put them through. Run them up hills or up ladders during sieges and they'll be just as fresh as when they started the battle. This gives them a massive utilitarian advantage over most infantry and it also makes them the perfect holding unit. Put a healer Slann or a couple of revivification crystals behind them in a regular battle and all that health and their never getting tired means they'll hold the line against enemy infantry forever. If you've already specced your Lord into "Proud Warrior" then do NOT waste points in "Sacred Guardian" as well. Rather, pray to RNGesus you get a quest for these guys because they will do everything lizardman infantry was meant to do but better.
Like all lizardmen infantry, they're slow, they won't outright win battles for you in the late game, they're quite delicate against cav and monster charges and will need a modicum of support against the most elite armoured+armour-piercing infantry units out there. They will, however, effectively hold down the enemy army for as long as it takes your dinosaurs to win the battle - and they will take names while doing so. I've used them all the way until the end of the campaign and the most epic battle I had was when just 5 units of these guys held down 3 armies worth of Chaos infantry while the dinosaurs went to work charging about and orbital lasers and Kroak helped reduce enemy numbers. By the end of the battle, the Blessed Saurus Warriors racked up more kills than anyone else besides my Lord and heroes. And best of all they were still "fresh" by the end of it - ready to methodically wear down and slay the next army like the unfeeling reptilian bio-robots they were meant to be. Truly special.
I've never noticed this, that's incredible!
Interesting I love the saurus warriors with shields and it ts sad to replace them with temple guard. Maybe you have a point. In the multiplayer campaigne which i play right now i will take 4 blessed saurus warriors with shields togehter with templeguard (regular and RuR) lets see which performs better. Thanks for the tipp.
This sounds like what Lizardmen should use for seige armies.
I usually put my armies in one of three categories: Regular, Reinforcing (cav, air and other fast stuff only) and Seige (at least 8 wall infantry)
Lizardmen can also use solar cannon bastiladons to blow out a wall and just rush in their dinosaurs, though.
I love how The ancient salamanders are basically the Lizardmen version of Napalm.
Commiting warcrimes is great
@@missblob8908 So liberating
@@missblob8908 It's not a war crime if you're on the good side! ;)
Salamanders? Napalm? Hmmm, vulkan would like to submit a cease and desist order against these lizards
@@missblob8908 I don't think the concept of warcrimes exists in warhammer world, just like war crimes didn't exist in ancient times and medieval times
really big fan of how you go through them in unlock order. I wasnt even thinking about it but when you said "something better.. that ill get to later" i realized you were doing it for my benefit and decided to watch the rest of it after I'm later in the game. You're very considerate
play nakai.
get blessed stegadons.
wih perfect vigor.
draw out the match ,get enemies exhausted.
laugh in perfect dino vigor.
Perfect vigor is the most retarded and unfair bullshit especially for a monster... And I love every minute of it
Play nakai. Blessed kroxigor doomstack with the RoR version too. Max Itzl for best dinosaur bois
Play Nakai
Stalk Ulthwan until someone messes up and draws the Sword of Khaine
Turn gatorman into the blender of worlds
Rampage is not about leadership, it is actually HP. Primal insticts goes off at 20% and tje unit starts to rampage, if hp is healed above 20% it will stop, and if it drop below it again the stst buffs come in, but not rampage. Normal rampage goes off at 75%, 50%, and 25% and lasts 40 sec. Healing above these thesholds does not cancel it, but it won't go off again for that threshold. If a dino hits another before the 40 sec. the new timer starts anyway and the old is abandonded.
Slightly poor timing on the video since lizardmen are getting a lot of new units in 5 days which will make this video outdated in less than a week :(
+Emoge believe me I’m aware. I seem to summon updates
eh, honestly it did not add much.
@@trazyntheinfinite9895 dread saurian,Nakai, andGor-rok?
@@fernyrespi8109 What can you tell me about Dread Saurians? Are they worth buying and maintaining? I couldn't find any guide talking about them since they'Re more recent.
@@MOUKIAZOUIZ they are essentially Godzilla, tanky and deal a lot of damage
Honestly, i have been looking for videos like these. Ones that are detailed and zoom in on units to show their appearance. Also your tactics and advise seem to be on point. I haven’t tried them as I don’t own the game but my favourite videos are the roster videos and the lords. Please please do Bretonnia after.
+JustJack if you’ve entered the giveaway then you never know. It’s all down to the almighty poll but it does look good for brettonia
Those bomber terradons can NOT be underrated. They are massively clutch in turning the tides of so many battles.
I had a Life magic Slann defending a key city back home while Kroq-Gar and my other 2 armies were out ripping into some Tomb Kings.
And it was in that moment that Malekith, Morathi AND Malus all rolled up at the same time to go after this city.
Nearly 2500 Dark Elves, including arguably their three scariest Lords. I had around 1400 Lizardmen in my combined defense army.
My Slann constantly casted healing magic, my priest spammed the ability to speed up magic regen, my Temple Guards held the walls and fought like demons against the ladders and siege towers, my skinks barraged from range, my Kroxigor and Stegadons held the gates and my Cold Ones rode down anything that started breaking through, but I truly, TRULY thought the battle was lost and all three armies were going to decimate my fledgling empire.
But those damned fireleech bolas.
Hovering behind the walls, launching them into the enemy masses and just *decimating* their health bars...
For nearly half the battle, I had used them to try to harass the enemies in sort of bombing runs, just to thin their ranks slightly, but hovering in place and just lobbing tons of explosives into enemy clusters as they exited the siege towers? I watched those health bars plummet with each barrage.
It was a DAMNED close battle still because Tz'arkan is absolutely brutal and my army was shredded to ribbons by the end, but by battles end less than 200 Dark Elves survived.
After 5 more successfully held off sieges from various combinations of Dark Elf generals, I add the title 'The Immovable' to that Slann's name.
Katte'bak earned that shit. Ain't nobody taking a city from Katte'bak.
That was fking awesome
The last Total War game I played was Rome 2. I have to say, the unit diversity in this game is probably the single coolest thing Ive ever witnessed. Im busy download this at the moment and im throthing watching this!!!
Awesome video! Thank you so much for taking the time to make it. Really helped me out in my first Lizardman campaign.
would be really nice to see the unit compositions as pictures for early, mid and late game.
I'm a long time player but im subbing just to help your metrics because I want you to keep turning out this quality of content. Great work.
I do feel you have some tightening up of your gameplay to do, your target acquisition could use a little work namely artillery disruption. Its okay if you think you can just tank the hits but overall its an improvement to make that helps a lot (especially in MP.)
As for campaign I think you can work on making your armies cheaper but more effective overall to help people who arent economically the best or tend to lose provinces. For example if you take feral cold ones and stick them as an escort to horned ones, carnosaurs or any dino they're extremely effective because they get to flank will actually do a ton of damage when attacking in the back with their charge bonus, which will quickly terror-route the enemy and they can chase the unit off. For their price its an option that cant really be beat. This prevents a higher tier unit from using up their vigor and losing more models later, and the better unit can immediately turn and fight something else while the feral cold ones run mop-up duty the rest of the match. Terradon riders can be used identically- although the fireleech bolas are indeed better campaign units.
Same thing with the various skink skirmishers- they can toss in damage to demoralize enemies that are getting crushed by your temple guard or dinosaurs and then run them off since they outspeed just about all other infantry. Taking ranged fire does a lot to drop morale.
Or specifically chameleon skinks. Yes they dont hit as hard as the other massive missile units but they are exceptionally good at ambushing archers, also being able to precision target poison debuffs(Which do last long enough to keep two units poisoned by alternating targets with their very fast reload) is a great thing. Its pretty funny watching Chosen struggle against Ssaurus warriors because they just arent hitting for much damage and keep getting shot in the back.
In all examples there is a case to be made for going cheaper actually being more effective- Yes you can upgrade to better units but mixing in ones in their specific niche that arent at the top end of the tech tree is an under-emphasized skill I think you could bring people up to speed on.
I'm not trying to be too critical because of how good I think your content is overall, just some tips to help make it consistently better.
Boy I've won some pretty close fights with the odds stacked against me thanks to these guys!
You deserve more subscribers, really good quality videos
This is the video i needed to finally get a grip of this game. Thanks for this Colonel! Keep shining
THANK YOU for illustrating the blessed spawning differences - it's such a hassle to figure out the differences and value
Glad you appreciate cos it was such a hassle to figure them out haha!
The animations of lizards making special attacks with front-flips/reversal jumps made me mesmerised. Alas I'm too concentrated on commands during battles, being new player and all, and usually don't have the time to properly enjoy the show the game engine provides
2:30 WAIT WAIT WAIT can we talk about the THIGH on that SKINK. BRUUUUH
16:12 damn that was badass
I need to zoom in more when I play. So many of the dino animations are badass or adorable.
I use a skink unit to support my melee brawl, as the poison helps my saurus and temple guard be even more dominant in the scrum, and can make the difference if I have saurus against something more dangerous.
Poison is my favourite effect tbh
@@ColonelDamneders same. It's just so good in melee. I wish the lizardmen had a poison saurus/temple guard ROR, heh.
The Ancient Stegadon is made to go into melee. Other than the regular version it's missiles keep firing while in full melee, acting as a damage multiplier. The Dreadsaurian has the same missile mechanic. Someone should get fired for that mistake!1
Combinations? Formations? I just slap a bunch of t rexes in my army and still somehow win.
You forgot to mention the in my opinion extremely important note about the Ancient Stegadon which is that unlike the other missile dinos, it continues firing it's main ranged weapon in melee as well, in addition to its melee attacks and javelin throwers, it's honestly quite disgusting.
You're getting a like just because your concerns email is just so perfect.
Just sent 19 Feral Carnosaurs into a custom battle, auto-generated Beastmen army. I didn't win :(
the lizardmen are my favorite faction which used to be the greenskins but after seeing what amounted to be basically "fantasy dinosaur war machines" i opted for them as my number one favorite other than the greenskins which are my second followed by the skaven and the beastmen. the temple guard are my favorite infantry and the dread saurians are my favorite monsters. a contingent of temple guard are good body guards for a slann mage priest.
24:26 what swift Terradon Riders!
I was trying to learn with elves and it was fun but I played these bois and got some feral dinosaurs... time to learn these weird lizards.
Nice guide! Can U take a look on dark elves strategy + rooster ?
+Tomasz Matuszewski its all down to the poll my dude but I’ll get to them eventually
1 Slann of life+19 stegadons. Game over
lizardmen might not have a lot of range options but they have possible one of the best easilly top 5 ranged units cameleon skinks are godlike if you know how to micro them. also never replace regular stegadons with anchients stegadons have insane range and you can litterally steam roll campains with a full stak of 19 and a life slan they are godly beasts
Nice video
+Phat Su glad you enjoyed!
Great video as always! Just wanted to point out @4:20 that Saurus warriors with shields simply increases their cost and melee defense other than providing a shield. Doesn't "cost" minor stat differences. You may not have meant it, but it sounded like you inferred a minor stat penalty. Shields are always better in every way, even stat wise :)
Fun composition:
10 monsters (including lord) and 10 fire leech bolas.
0 Freindly fire (with massive damage and 200+kills a round)
And a visceral blender of monsters on the ground
Was wondering why the textures seemed such high quality. Ah, 1440p, a fellow connoisseur. Thank you for putting the extra effort in.
Fun thing at 16:13. Abomination gets its world turned upside down
Any chance to get an updated roster including Dread Saurians/Sacred Kroxigors..etc?
Once I've finisihed the guides I will come back and update the out of date ones
Guess I should stop spamming skinks at turn 120 huh lol thanks for the video. Hard for me to put all the units into context as a first time player
19 and a saurus oldblood lord on number 20 combine it with all the buffy magic you can shake a stick at and it sounds devestating. stil love the salamanders are terror weapons
the way i use cameleon skinks or skin skrimishers and to some extent the skin cohort with javleins are more as a suport unit. basicly waiting till the lines have clashed before i move around the flanks and apply some poison to the enamies, having one or two skin skrimishers (or if you have the money cameleon skinks) in you´re army even late game can acctually be really good, obviously you could just use terradon riders for this though... regardless yes the lizards do struggle when it comes to their ranged options
Here I was looking for info on how to start playing Warhammer II and I find someone wearing the same Hawaiian shirt I do, the exact same way I do. Life's strange.
Were dread saurians not out when this was made?
Dropped literally as it was coming out lol
Skaven have an unbreakable unit? Just feels wrong to me.
council guard so that makes sense
I was excited for a jokey video but this appears too be a serious guide :(
Hard to cram in jokes among all the info lol
As a skaven player who doesn’t have the greatest counters to Lizboys… I hate them. Their rampant is pretty much unbreakable with a stat buff, their skirmishers are hard even for mine to chase down, their monsterous hunt down my skirmishers, their predatory instincts renders my eshin units unable to take advantage of their stealth and their armor and charge against my low morale makes my army break before the battle starts. I pretty much have to build custom anti liz armies just for fighting them and still be at a disadvantage. The only saving grace can be laying ambushes, but their astrology stance counters that too. And then on top of everything, their chameleon stalkers will solo my entire army of rattling guns when I just want to meme. I hate them so much.
thanks for the tooltip dude. struggling a little bit in the campaign right now.keep up the good work :)
great content great elaboration
25:10 this is for myself so I can remember where in the video he showed da good army
Ah Skink cohort and temple guards with a dread saurian and in terms of range infantry, the lizardman doesn't have any, yes you can say there are the javalins but they are just cohorts given throwing spears and almost non existant so you can make do with skink skirmishers but they won't be your range infantry, they will just harass fleeing enemies or going the enemy army into an attack
I'm the 10,800 subscriber. Your lizard guide was the s***
What are regiments of the unknown? How do they differ?
Do you play tabletop WH? If so what is YOUR ARMY? My main is dark elves
Carnosaur tactics;
It’s literally a fucking T-Rex, point him at what you want to have die and it WILL
Can you update your guide?
Brodie. I love your shirt, where'd you get it?? Also, love your guides man.
I have no idea tbh. think it was a gift but probs primark lol
1: it's very good that you put the prices of each one just tell the price of each it in all the videos
2 :put subtitles to make it easier❤
I'm playing the vortex version and I'm wondering why I can't recruit any salamanders? Is it a ME only unit or do I have to download a dlc?
late response but theyre apart of the prophet and the warlock dlc
Should have waited for the new DLC.
+voiceofreason467 boi believe me I was literally done with the lizardmen series of guides when they announced the dlc. Feelsbad
Connection actually works, unlike World of Warcraft Classic.
What music is at 1:00 I cant seem to find it
Arent Feral Cold Ones bugged atm? They dont get cavalry bonuses from the lord's red tree despite being listed as cold one cavalry
Does anyone else think the Bastiladon kinda looks like a giant armoured reptile puppy?
Hey, you can't use the L-word! With a hard "z" too, my God!
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Well...this guide quality could be SAGA official :) well done thx
I have never in my life heard of such a broken mechanic; hear me out.
Teradon riders + stegadon + mazdamundi + scar vetern
Stegadon shoots down towers from safe zone while riders and lords hide. Towers gone, Scar vetern runs back an forth draining archer ammo while Mazdamundi heals him. Archers out of ammo, teradon riders start bombing the shit out of everything and enemy surrenders without any need to climb walls or break gates.
good, just add in some offensive magic like lore of heavens with a chain lightning or something like that.
Stegadons everything
Stegadon spam or bust
YES
The first 2 minutes just melted my brain. Guess I chose the wrong game :[
HAH! Like you need a guide for them, those 10000 dlcs hook them up good
*cries in Thanquol*
"If you dont know what primal instincts means idk what to tell you"
You.. you could tell us what it means?
Why all your army comp are thid micro nightmares wasting slots in to many types of units. Here is an actual good late-game Lizardmen army: Slann Mage Priest (Life) + Saurus Scar-Veteran (with Carnosaurus) + Skink Chief (with Estegadon) + Skink Priest (Heavens with Estegadon) and the rest Estegadons (the ones with the balists on their backs), any army who aproach you will get decimated and if they get in melee they'll face a bunch of angry dinos and heroes while loosing 0 health thanks to the Slann allowing you to take fight after fight, more even if you got lighting strike trait.
Pd: Toss as many Blessed Estagonds you can in the main army
Because I like the variety and micro, all carnosaurs/stegadons gets boring pretty quick for me =/
@@brewerthecrook3989 Fair enough
Zandalari 4ever
How to play the Lizardmen:
*DON'T*
*BURN THEIR JUNGLES TO CINDER*
6:33 really? You think this is the best unit in the game of its kind for its price.
Hello, in my game i don't see the engine of the gods to buy.
Do you have the correct DLC?
@@ColonelDamneders i don't know, what is the dlc i should have?
The prophet and the warlock I think
@@ColonelDamnedersno, i don't have this dlc.
Awesome, you actually speak slower and i can understand you !
was that a multiplayer battle at the end?it seems like alot of friendly fire since that weak skaven army barely got any kills
Just a custom battle vs AI
I love that email address
Hooleeefuk thess blessed cold one riders have 60 attack at 0 Chevrons and no upgrades.
Thats a lot. A fokin lot.
Are skaven better than lizard man because I think 100% the lizard men are better
Not much of a tactic.. just right click everything into the front of the enemy...
I enjoy the things you say about each unit, but with throwing this many different units in your army you can't give all of them the lord buffs and have a good lord.
More so, your battles seem quite close in "even battles", and the ai is trying it's best not to give even battles because it knows it can't command as good.
Also, skaven is one of the better enemies you can encounter as lizardmen (since the rats struggle against monsters), yet it took you to long to take out the warplightning cannons. Those things are really dangerous against those single entity monsters.
Email him at YOU ARE A TWAT
Thought clarification was in order. I'm rolling.
I have played 4 campaigns, all defeats, all on easy... idk but the skaven just destroy me in like one turn. I cant even get to "mid-game" I guess. Turn 50 in completely destroyed. I make alliances, I make money, but my army never is strong enough. Mainly army cant even defeat the weakest factions garrison. This game gets me so frustrated, and these guides are like, "this is warhammer 2, you win by beating the campaign, good luck."
What does your army normally consist of? If you want we could start a co-op campaign and i could help you play through? The lizardmen aren't my favourite race, but i have beaten a campaign with them on legendary/very hard, so i know most of the tips/tricks. Early game, the skinks with javelins are a solid unit to spam. Saurus warriors are solid as well, the basic skink cohort is basically useless though, always better to go javelins. Kroxigors are an excellent damage dealer, just keep them as a second line so they don't get targeted by ranged on the approach, then send them in when your front line is engaged. The lizardmen cavalry are absolutely awful compared to most races, this is partly because of the rampage mechanic, and their relatively slow speed for cav, I wouldn't recommend recruiting any. The cameleon skinks are actually a pretty good unit, due to their missile resist and poison skirmish attacks, but you need to pay attention to them to use them effectively. Basic terradons are trash, but the terradons with fireleech bolas are extremely useful.
Their monsters are all extremely good, generally go for stegadon over bastiladon. The basic stegadon (not the feral one) is one of the best units in the game. Has extremely long ranged attack and excellent in melee too. If you wanted to, you could have an army of just these with a life mage and it'd beat almost anything. Speaking of magic, a mage is worth taking in almost every race and lizardmen are no exception. Recruiting a skink priest of heavens can do insane damage. The most consistent spell in that lore is chain lightning so get that as fast as you can. Earlier on wind blast can be very useful as well. Just wait until the front line of your units are engaged then find a nice blob of enemies and cast it on that. Just be careful of chain lightning because it can hurt your units too and it's movements are random. However, it is worth using.
In terms of campaign, skaven are very good at ambushing exposed armies. So almost never used forced march into enemy territory. If you're having trouble with a particular army, you can set up an ambush of your own. Just make sure you're not too close to anything when setting it up, either an enemy hero/settlement or army can spot ambushes if they're too close. A good way to bait enemy armies into the ambush is to recruit a new lord nearby with no units. Move him within striking range of that enemy army, and put him in forced march. This is to act as bait. Then move your actual army next to him in ambush stance. The enemy will see the exposed lord in forced march and can't resist killing him, but when they try, your ambush springs. Let me know if there's anything in particular you want to know.
lil soda boi plays warhammer?
Wait a minute what about the saurians???
Check the date. It was made before the content released lol
@@ColonelDamneders T^Y
Christ laddie! If you're gonna use the word melee a million times at least learn how to pronounce it! Nice video, very thorough!
People do actually tend to pronounce things differently based on where they're from laddie
@@ColonelDamneders I really thought you were british, my apologies. As I said in my earlier comment, nice video!
@@happysalmon6719 I am British but it's just how I say the word. If you can understand what I'm saying then that's what really matters
@@ColonelDamneders Sorry I upset you, it wasn't meant to be hurtful. If that's how you want to say it then that's how you say it, you do you! Keep making cool videos, it's clear you put alot of effort into them and I've enjoyed the ones I've seen so far.
А по русски
Melee is pronounced maylay
I’m from north England so I pronounce things good
@@ColonelDamneders was that a joke or were you serious
Its hard to tell
All words are made up. People say them how they want dude
@@ColonelDamneders really didnt want want to start an argument but that comment bothers me way too much
Yes its made up but there is still a correct way to pronounce words
It would be fine if you said that YOU were gonna keep pronouncing it melee
But dont go and encourage others to intentionally mispronounce words and make communication harder
Chill out dude. People pronounce words differently based on where they’re from. As long as you understand what I meant then surely that’s all that matters. I’m not trying to start any arguments
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+Micasa hey I’ll take it
Don’t knock the dollar store boy
+Jackson S $1! Now that’s a great price!