Entire Armies of Chameleon Skinks Any Good?

[yuzhonglu]

Yes?

[Toby Larone]

Their is no lord for the LM that can shoot or bring much support except maybe mazdamundi with a net.

Another problem for it is the lack of range, armour piercing and staying power. If the enemy can survive getting shot at by the skinks he can very well beat you in meele.

[yuzhonglu]

Ok then. Entire armies of Stegadons in the early game.

[Toby Larone]

Originally posted by yuzhonglu:

Ok then. Entire armies of Stegadons in the early game.

Only way to do it

[AVGAMER]

What is the deal with spam tactics on this fourm. Why would you want such limited boring armies

[yuzhonglu]

Because it's the most efficient and on very hard, you need efficiency.

You don't need to waste a lot of money on buildings. Just get one recruiting type building and go all in.

[AVGAMER]

Are you joking, Of my 1600+ hrs on vh I've never felt the need to spam anything, well balanced armies all the way. I don't see the point of a wargame where you you just spam somthing to derp out the auto resolve. Also if thats the way you play I'm not surprised you feel the need make 2-3 threads a day complaining about your latest faction becuse your making no effort to learn how to play.

[Toby Larone]

Originally posted by AVGAMER:

What is the deal with spam tactics on this fourm. Why would you want such limited boring armies

No idea, not like LM have many options to begin with.
With other faction you can at least take diffrent line infantry and use a variety of support.

Also my second quote was more sarcasm then anything else.

[Gentlest Giant]

Seeing that Skaven can run -very- well with armies of only night runners or gutter runners, I see no reason chameleon skinks would not be similar. Their stats are close enough to one another. You also get hero skink for single target dps.

[vicsrealms]

Nah, can't seem them working...

[Sir uP]

Spamming is variety. If all your armies are balanced it gets boring. Playing one type of unit is sometimes more challenging and always unique.

Like your all skink chameleon army will still have a hard time vs like dwarfs or chaos or elves. But dominates against beastmen skaven undead orc other lizardmen. Even if spamming a unit I like a bit of variety. So like id suggest adding a long ranged stegadon artillary with a unit of spears to bait the AI to you and give you some versatility for dealing with fast large armoured units.

[Teffy]

OP the type of multiplayer player who brings all arty as dwarves, or all archers as HE. lellelelee

[Chillum]

Originally posted by AVGAMER:

What is the deal with spam tactics on this fourm. Why would you want such limited boring armies

Its mostly just this guy. He finds some cheese and feels the need to shout it across the forums.

"Black arks op" "Army full of black dragons op" "Blessed dread too hard" etc.

[yuzhonglu]

When there's so many "cheese" options, what's the point of doing something non-cheese? Besides, when you're spamming just one-two unit type, you only need 1-2 of that building, which means you get 3-4 extra army units, which means faster conquests for more snowballs.

Army variety comes LATER. Early on, just get one-two type of unit and take over as many provinces as you can. If you're sitting on your ass building a 'balanced army comp', I could already have 2 extra provinces because I spammed a good unit and rushed my opponents down.

[Kaaz]

Pfft. Optimal

[Lancaster]

Well he's not wrong, but he's not right. I personally rush a power unit in the tier 3 bracket and that usually puts my "balanced" army over the edge. Usually it's an artillery piece and grab 3-4 of them. That might be considered spam.

But yeah I can see an all chameleon skink army working, but also fall apart because it doesnt have the killing power for some factions or the melee prowess for the factions that can catch them, or the ranged dueling power for other shooting factions.