Tactica Index Even with Age of Sigmar upon us, many of our forumites still play 8th edition, so we are keeping the Index going to meet people's Oldhammer needs. While traffic in the 8th edition forums are going down, I will still add new Tactica links here as necessary. For Age of Sigmar Tacticas, please view the Seraphon Tactica Index. The games are different enough that the idea of making even one article an edition spanning Tactica is impractically. Reverse Tacticas are threads written on other army forums about how to defeat Lizardmen. 8th Edition handbooks are similar in that they show what competitive all-comers lists of a non-Lizardmen is likely to take. I welcome feedback via the replies or PMs and will try to incorporate your feedback into the thread. If my response is slow due to me having a life outside this forum, or you disagree with something I've done, you request changes through another mod (though they tend to defer to me for Tactica issues so that’s guaranteed to work). MVP Threads are threads that are so awesome that I think everyone on the forum should take a look at them at least once. Speaking as a moderator. There is no such thing as forbidden thread necromancy if the original post is still relevant. All threads linked here are considered still relevant. Old Threads are archived in the Tactica graveyard. Broad Topics The Basics General Overview of the new LM book Non-LM specific Overview of Warhammer Fantasy in general 8th Edition LM Handbook Dice Probabilities for charges, casting, and Cold Blooded Ld Tests With Amusing Illustrations! MVP Thread List Building Broad Types of LM Armies Lore Based Army Build Suggestions Guidelines for dual Slann Armies Guidelines for LM in Storm of Magic games Army Building for Warhammer Siege Guidelines and Pointers Lizardmen 101 Terrain Placement and Use Deployment Tactica Maximizing Use out of Bound Spells MVP Thread Mitigating Damage from Cannons Unit Champions, when to to take them Dealing with Our Weaknesses in Small Points Games (somewhat dated but still valid) Guidelines for Fielding Grand Armies Magic Phase Defense Guidelines End Times Using the Lore of Undeath Discussion of the new 50% limit on Heroes and Lords Guidelines for Optimizing End Times Magic Undead Legions Review (Carpe Noctem) Unit Tacticas Slann Jack of All Trades Slann High Magic Slann, the basics High Magic Slann 2.0 Fire Slann Beasts Slann Metal Slann Light Slann Life Slann (slightly dated but still good) Heavens Slann Shadow Slann Death Slann Common Slann Builds Book of Ashur Slann Oldblood and Scar Veterans Cowboy Builds with Statistics MVP Thread Advanced Carnosaur Tactica MVP Thread Flying Carpet Oldbloods Skink Chiefs Overview of Different Roles Skink BSB Discussion Unorthodox Lists built around several Chiefs Skink Priests General Skink Priest Overview Overview of Special Characters Lord Kroak Tactica Gor-Rok Discussion Thread Saurus Warriors Broad Saurus Warrior Tactica Options for Builds and Uses Pros and Cons of Hordes Skink Skirmishers Skink Fundamentals MVP Thread Alternative Skirmisher Builds and Deployments Javelins Versus Blowpipes Skink Cohorts Broad Overview Different Cohort Builds and their Uses Advanced Cohort Strategy Discussion Jungle Swarms Informal Discussion on Swarms Temple Guard Solo Slann Versus Temple Guard Bunker (dated before the new book but the essence of this has not changed) Temple Guard without Slann Builds for Slann Bunkers Minimizing Miscast Damage to Temple Guard Kroxigor Comprehensive Kroxigor Tactica Chameleon Skinks Comprehensive Chameleon Tactica Terradons Tips for Effective Terradon Use (link is old but the essence of flyer disruption did not change with the new book) Javelins vs. Fireleech Bolas Ripperdactyls Basic Ripperdactyl Use Advanced Ripper Discussion Saurus Cold One Cavalry Comprehensive Cold One Tactica (the essentials are still good, but there are a lot of minor things now wrong due to the new army book) Informal Cold One Bus Tactica Bastiladons Broad Overview of Using Solardons Tips for using the Ark of Sotek Effectively (with amusing illustrations) Stegadons and Ancient Stegadons Comprehensive Stegadon Tactica Salamanders Comprehensive Salamander Tactica Razordons Informal Analysis of Razordons Many Uses Troglodons What Troglodons Can and Can’t Do Strategies for Synergizing Armies around using Troglodons Army Tacticas Beastmen Basic Overview of BM vs. LM Informal Mini-Handbook Brettonians Brettonian Tactica "Reverse” Brettonian Tactica Dark Elves Broad Overview of LM vs. Dark Elves Dealing with Multiple Dark Pegasi Riders "Reverse" Tactica, focused on LM Skirmisher Lists Informal “Reverse” Tactica with no specific focus Daemons of Chaos Comprehensive Overview of LM vs. DoC Dwarves Comprehensive Overview of LM vs. Dwarves 8th Edition Dwarf Handbook Empire Comprehensive Overview of LM vs. Empire “Reverse” Empire Tactica (Definitely not written by anyone traitorous) Tips for countering the Steam Tank 8th Edition Empire Handbook High Elves Comprehensive Overview of LM vs. HE 8th Edition High Elf Handbook Ogre Kingdoms General Anti-Ogre Tips Ogre 8th Edition Informal Ogre Handbook Orcs and Goblins Comprehensive Overview of LM vs. O&G Dealing with Fanatics Skaven General Anti-Skaven Tips Informal "Reverse" Tactica for New Book Comprehensive Reverse Tactica (slightly dated but mostly good) Tomb Kings Current TK Tactica Vampire Counts Comprehensive Overview of LM versus VC “Reverse” VC Tactica (Also not written by anyone traitorous) 8th Edition Vampire Counts Handbook Warriors of Chaos Comprehensive Overview of LM versus WoC 8th Edition Warriors of Chaos Handbook Wood Elves Wood Elf Tactica Chaos Dwarfs Comprehensive Overview of LM versus CD Semi-Informal Chaos Dwarf Handbook Lizardmen vs. Lizardmen Comprehensive Overview of LM versus LM matchups Magic Items BRB Magic Weapons BRB Magic Armors BRB Magic Talismans BRB Enchanted Items BRB Arcane Items BRB Magic Standards Army Book Magic Items Miscellaneous Things You Might Want Links for Glossary of Common Terms and Abbreviations Lustriapedia (fluff equivalent of Tactica Index) Index of Other Army Forums Get yourself a customized Avatar! MVP Thread Zip File of the Old 8th edition FAQs Age of Sigmar Tactica Index
The Tactica Graveyard The Tactica Graveyard Outdated due to new LM 8th ed book (or some other new book) General Anti-Brettonian Tips General Anti-Tomb Kings Tips Stegadon Tactica Broad Kroxigor Tactica (written before the new book) Discussion on Using Large Kroxigor Blocks Differing Opinions on Worthwhileness of Champions "Reverse" Ogre Tactica Comprehensive WE Overview and General Tips Comprehensive Overview of LM vs. Dwarves “Reverse" O&G Tactica (light) Hammer and Anvil for Lizardmen Worthwhileness of Champions Using Redirectors Broad Types of Lizardmen Armies Old Army Book Magic Items Double Slann Lore Masters Cowboy Scar Veteran Builds Old Blood Builds Scar Veteran BSBs Spears vs. Handweapons in the old book Using the old EOTG Skink Priest in the old Book Javelins vs. Shields old book Swarms back in the old days when they were nigh worthless Skroxigor in the old book Skink Chief Builds Skink Armies Working around ETC with the old book Old Discipline Guide old SC overview Fighting Skaven with the Old Book Razordons back when they were worthless Lizardmen 101, old book BRB Magic Banners when we had greater magic banner access Skink Chief Uses Old Book Older Salamander Tactica Anti-Beastmen Tips Old Beastmen “Reverse” Tactica Old High Elf “Reverse” Tactica General Tips versus VC Wood Elf Tips Old Dwarf Tactica Old Ogre Tactica Anti-Tomb King Tips for the old book Old Fire Slann Old Heavens Slann Outdated for other reasons Building ETC Lists with LM (ETC 8th is no more) Carnosaur Basics Defending yourself versus Enemy Magic Phases Informal Discussion on Optimizing End Times Magic 7th Ed Tactica Index General Lore Selection 7th edition Empire book with the 8th edition rules Informal Discussion on Lore of Death 7th edition WoC book with 8th edition rules 7th edition Demons of Chaos book with 8th edition rules Formal Tactica for the 7th edition High Elf book with 8th Edition Rules
Re: 8th Edition Tactica Index, New Link January 18, 2013 The reverse Tacticas are fantastic! Thanks for doing the research on those.
Re: 8th Edition Tactica Index, New Link January 18, 2013 No problem, it wasn't exactly strenuous. I looked for the forums that had their own Tactica Indexes then checked for Lizardmen. Tomb Kings and Wood Elves have one for Lizardmen the sixth edition book that I chose not to include. If anyone knows of any other Reverse Tacticas in less obvious places, let me know.
Re: 8th Edition Tactica Index, Newest Links September 23rd 2 What would people say if some random loose teddy bear started reading through all of these posts and tried making a thread dedicated to gathering what is mostly discussions in the posts tactica's links into fullyfledged tactica's with unit abilities usages and the likes? I know we allready have one from n810 but it's fairly simplified compared to what i've seen on the empire's forum, and on ogres forum, i don't know if i just missed it, but i can't find one as detailed. I reckoned i'd be able to read through all the discussions we have and end up with a finished result that gathers all of the information in one post without having to read through extra information. I won't start doing this without some sort of incitement since i'm lazy as fuck, but i might be able to do a subject a day and then have it done in a month's time or so?. Also on that note, someone to look it through and correct grammar / weird descriptions might be good since i'm afraid i'm not "da uber2" at english
Re: 8th Edition Tactica Index, Newest Links September 23rd 2 Woah you have been buisy Scalenex, there are a ton more link in here since last I looked.
Re: 8th Edition Tactica Index, Newest Links September 23rd 2 I had a look through the empire one you suggested and it is done really well. It is succinct but gives some clear options. I would also like to see some tactica around general builds eg. skink clouds, how to use the hammer and anvil (I did read a thread on that but it's clearly from 2012), and so on. Just general themes for common army types like monster mash, skink clouds, TG and Suarus blocks, how to use magic in the particular army type, that sort of thing. It doesnt have to be specific, just more like: "When you are running TG/Saurus block army you probably want to include skink skirmishers and terradons/rippers to cover flanks. You don't want to be too aggressive unless you are fighting a shooty army, to give you time to switch from high magic to the buffs you need. You want to use your skinks to funnel other troops to where you want them. The best way to deal with heavily armoured troops with this type of army is...[magic, razor standard, etc.]. The best way to deal with MSU with this type of army is... [poison it to death, be aggressive and don't let them get the charges they want, etc.]" and so on. I realise there could be infinite combinations but a general overview would be helpful as we all try the new toys and find things that work/don't work. I had a game tonight where I learned that vanguarding TG doesn't work because they are much more squishy than when we had loremaster life in the previous edition. I realise it's a lot of work but just putting a suggestion forth.
Re: 8th Edition Tactica Index, Newest Link October 6th 2013 Excellent overview! I don't know if anyone like to write a jungleswarm tactica, but maybe a suggestion for this is a army with 1 or 2 bastiladons and about 4-6 units of 2 jungle swarms! With two bastiladons you can generate lots of jungleswarm bases! Only point is you have to take a risk to take the combination and it will cost between 580 and 720 points! But you will generate about 3-6 bases a turn when you have everything well placed! So you might have after one turn instead of 6 units of 2, 6 units of 3! so 210 extra points!
Re: 8th Edition Tactica Index, Newest Link October 9th 2013 Boo! I wanted to be the 20000th view of the tactica index. Instead I was 19981, 19982, 19990, and 20006. I knew I should have just sat there and cheated. Well done Scalenex, I think it's a great index. Just ignore what all those other people say. SoB
Re: 8th Edition Tactica Index, Newest Link January 1st 2015 Happy New Years! I've been a moderator almost a year now and this thread has been running much longer than that. Let's kick off 2015 with some good Tacticas. I like to write Tacticas, but there are a few holes in the Tactica Index that I am not qualified to write. If I rarely play with X, I can't really write about it. I have some requests for the community at large. I would like someone to consider revising our Cold One Tactica, you could probably keep most of it via quotes, but a lot has changed. No more magic banners, cheaper unit champions, optional spears, predatory fighter, and different all around meta. I would like someone to write a current ETC list building Tactica. I would like someone to consider writing Tacticas for special characters other than Kroak and now Gor-rok which we have. If anyone uses the Ark of Sotek regularly, we could use a Tactica for that. If a full Tactica is not practical, at least write a paragraph or two, so I can quote your words in the main Bastiladon thread. I would like to someone to write a LM versus Beastmen Tactica. Our Brettonian, Ogre, Tomb King and Skaven Tacticas are a bit outdated and incomplete, new ones would be nice. The small points game Tactica hasn't been updated in a long time. We could use a new one. If anyone on L-O routinely plays grand armies, a large points guidelines Tactica would also be welcome. I would like someone to write a LM versus Wood Elves Tactica. I would like someone to try writing Tacticas for fighting the new End Times combined lists. Going unit by unit is probably impractical but guidelines for broad strategies is certainly worthwhile. Any unorthodox builds or combos that worked for you, or even almost worked for you. I would like it if people helped us finish up the Lizardmen 8th Ed Handbook. It's been nearly done for a long time. Feel free to reply to any Tactica, even if it's old if you have some new insight (or spot what you view is an error) in one of the older Tacticas. Finally, if anyone runs across a good reverse Tactica or Handbook (especially End Times armies) on another army forum, let me know.
Re: 8th Edition Tactica Index, Newest Link January 1st 2015 Dear Scalanex After reading almost all entries in your tactica i am impressed, and i hope to contribute myself to the thread. I am a TK LM player, so i will post an improved TK tactica in a few days. Would love some input from you guys, because even though i have been playing for 6 years, i have zero tactica writing experience. Cheers
Re: 8th Edition Tactica Index, Newest Link January 1st 2015 Thanks for volunteering. This might help a little bit. There is no wrong way to do a Tactica but I use this template for my army Tacticas. You can copy and paste it into a word processing program and it will have all the font tags you need (If you just bold or italicize something in Word it won't transfer over without the [tags]). For Part One you just write in the units. You can write blocks of texts about army wide stuff wherever feels right. Part Two: Lizardmen Versus _________ Core Units Saurus Warriors: Skink Cohorts: Skink Skirmishers: Jungle Swarms: Special Units Chameleon Skinks: Terradons: Temple Guard: Stegadons: Cold One Cavalry: . Kroxigors: Rare Units Salamanders: Ancient Stegadons: Razordons: Rare Units Scar Veterans and Oldbloods: Skink Chiefs: Skink Priest: Slann: Lore of High Magic: WD Slann: Lore of Light: Lore of Shadows: Lore of Metal: Lore of Life: Lore of Fire: Lore of Death: Lore of Heavens: Lore of Beasts: Special Characters: Broad Strategy?
I didn't check every link individually because I do not have OCD, but I believe all the links here transferred okay after the forum upgrade, let me know by a reply or PM if that is not the case. EDIT: I also put in purple headings for the Index and all the pieces that I wrote. I used to use yellow headings but they don't show up well on the new light background. I figured purple showed up well on both the new and old forum servers. If there is substantial demand I can change the color again if purple doth offend the eyes,