Can somebody explain "red crested skinks" to me?

[Kavasi]

so we get a new T2 skink infantry option that is somehow weaker than nearly every other factions T1 units...

I feel so far theyre a bigger dissapointment than white lions of chrace who look cool only to make you want to cry when their paper weapons and armor hit the frontlines...

[Kayeka]

They're pretty fast, quite cheap, come in large numbers, and have armour-piercing attacks. Surely you can find some use for that?

[jords321]

Originally posted by Kayeka:

They're pretty fast, quite cheap, come in large numbers, and have armour-piercing attacks. Surely you can find some use for that?

And have poison, definitely have a use

[Kavasi]

well atleast for the lord who starts with them theyre 125+ a turn but they have pitifully low melee defence which is my problem, and even if they were meant to be glass cannon slayers their melee attack isnt even respectable.

[Yoinkyz]

Originally posted by Soleless Shoemaker:

well atleast for the lord who starts with them theyre 125+ a turn but they have pitifully low melee defence which is my problem, and even if they were meant to be glass cannon slayers their melee attack isnt even respectable.

ya low tier units have little yous in single-player they are great in multy

[Wyvern]

Originally posted by BROTATO:

Originally posted by Soleless Shoemaker:

well atleast for the lord who starts with them theyre 125+ a turn but they have pitifully low melee defence which is my problem, and even if they were meant to be glass cannon slayers their melee attack isnt even respectable.

ya low tier units have little yous in single-player they are great in multy

Basically this, low tier units generally suck in SP, but are often great in multi, RCS are largely like that except for tehenauin. That said, they have massive mobility, poison, ok WS(most of it is AP after all) and their MA is 34 with frenzy active. The unit is really not bad.

[Zav]

Originally posted by Soleless Shoemaker:

so we get a new T2 skink infantry option that is somehow weaker than nearly every other factions T1 units...

I feel so far theyre a bigger dissapointment than white lions of chrace who look cool only to make you want to cry when their paper weapons and armor hit the frontlines...

They absolutley monster pretty much any Skaven infantry. Had a red crested squad rout Stormvermin in about 10 seconds, then proceed to get 450 kills beating up on anything it came across

Right now they feel like extremely powerful early game troops

Drop a Rite of Sotek and fill the Skink lord red tree and they are just facerolling at the moment

[Kinja]

No idea how they perform in multiplayer and i don't really care since i don't play it. In singleplayer they're pretty awesome so far in Tehenhauin's campaign. Rushed to max out his skink bonus skill
and i'm keeping the +10 armor rite up at all time and they more or less mow through skaven infantry. The only thing to watch out for is ranged units because they get slaughtered by anything other than skaven slaves. Gonna go mess with the dark elves soon and i'll see how they handle those.