The Saurian is Literally Naval Combat 

Look at that distinguished gentlemen, yes he is very distinguished

Yeah but he doesn't take it off in the presence of a lady saurian.

@@ev6558 maybe that's why they labelled him feral.

@@ev6558 That's cos there are no Lady Saurians. They just rawdog- er, rawdino it.

Gentleman with anger issues

That some bold words for someone in spectral artillery range.

Luthor always knew the true value of Lizard Trinkets

Vangheist was weak! Witness TRUE broadside!

@@autorefresher1 Came here to say this

Sid Meier’s Pirates! type beat

i think its meant to fight and support in the frontlines, that way it can attack from all angles while eating some fuckers at the same time xD

@@Kamina117 I find its best used pretty much as a centrepiece thrown into the mosh pit just cranking up damage value while you micromanage everything around it- namely cav and skirmishers. It's really only threatened by missiles in the backlines which a few cheap chameleons, cold ones, and terradons can handle

I love the dread saurian in campaign I swing it waayy wide and try to walk it through the entire enemy line lol

@@cjs4363 and eat all projectiles enemy fires at them. Carnosaurs are much better

@@Gibsoncheg Nope, there won't be any projectiles if all enemy ranged units are engaged in mle with 19 DZ.

@@leathermage yet still they are way to clumsy compare to same tiers carnosaurs or stegadons

@@Gibsoncheg I’ve tried both before. 19 Dread Saurians are way stronger than 19 Stegodon but they’re not cost effective. The price increase isn’t worth power increase.

Landship vs. Necrofex, the true naval experience, intended by CA.

Try Battlefleet Gothic Armada. It's really good. And it's naval. Well, kinda ;)

You forgot to add..but it still is one of the most non-cost efficient units, with biggest possible surface to attack it dies to everything and has shitty animations on top of that. This unit is beyond doubt only unit in Lizardmen rooster I never get. Ever. In my campaign too!

You won’t have 10k+ hp left after running out of ammo...

It will die before you will have a chance to waste half of its' ammo. Saurians are expensive and look impressive but are useless. They are that one big scary tank that looks impressive on parades, but gets stuck in the first mud puddle on the battlefield.

Naval combats in warhammer is a completely different game. It's called "Dreadfleet", in this tabletop game there are unique factions and characters, different rules, and even new lore. Add all of it in TW:W will be pain. (I want it too, but that will probably never happen. So, enjoy Battlefleet Gothic Armada I guess.)

Man-o-war is a thing

They worth more. But they also cost way more than 2 spawn. 4 spawn would still win. Probably.

@@user-ti4di1uh2d Maybe in Land Battle. in Dom it’s 2 Spawn every time

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Saurians only lets gooo xD Maybe a necrofex or two but yeah

Yes!! Give Brets their cannons!! Because when at sea, chivalry is dead apparently...

It'd be cool, sure, but like small settlement battles, the forums would be awash with whiny posts crying about too many naval battles.

@@eust117 Its probably fired by peasants, ammunition is probably also peasants, so that makes it ok in Bretonnian knightly eyes.

@@belisarian6429 ok now that peasant-launching culverin is now can(n)on (huehue) in my mind, love this comment!

CA have always said that we will not get navel combat for warhammer. Your best bet is we maybe get space combat when they do 40K if they dont reintroduce naval combat in a historical title.

Imagine 2-6 ballistas mounted on them with 2-4 blowpipes. The true dreadnought experience.

Just needs a bit of cavalry/air support or some chameleon stalkers to shred archers before you charge him in. Treat him as your win-con rather than a one-dino army

@@kvltofsobek90 I use them two ways. I hold them back. And then either have them go for leader units, or once the battle is in full swing I’ll have them go for where I need support. And the second way is a living battering ram.

@@corybrown2197 epik strats. Seriously its as easy as keeping it in the back until the other guys guns and bows are being chewed on by cold ones or fliers. From there you let it duel whatever threatens your front line the most, while the skink machine gunners shoot the enemy front line that will be on either side. I love this thing, probably less useful in MP due to cost but its the centrepiece of campaign

depends. If your attack animations are bad, it could take you well over ten minutes.

Pretty sure the saurian itself has around 800 damage, so probably better to throw them onto a LL and laugh

@@kanedakrsa They die in like first 30 seconds of engagement. They are too big while having too little armor to compensate ands bad combat animations to boot.

This basically encapsulates CA's approach to Total Warhammer. Just look at the Skaven. In lore, endless hordes of mostly worthless skavenslaves supplemented by the occasional weapons team and powerful stormvermin. In game, stormvermin are laughed at even by infantry a tier lower, and skavenslaves are mostly just filler until you can make your army as close to a a spec ops team as possible, not even bothering to bring melee because with a few plague priests you can just summon a front line that will last long enough for your army of ratling guns or jezzails to shred literally anything, with maybe a bit of artillery thrown in for good measure. Or look at the greenskins. In lore, goblins are more or less just filler to serve as a buffer for the more powerful and robust orcs, while in game, goblins are EXTREMELY efficient at doing the work of skavenslaves better than skavenslaves do. And of course, if you're playing Grom, the goblin army is essentially as powerful as an orc army, but with 30% of the upkeep. Meanwhile, Black Orcs are a massive gold investment that yields an incredibly slow and impractical melee unit with no shield whose melee prowess is mostly meaningless because they'll be whittled down before they get to engage in combat, rendering them possibly the third worst unit on the greenskin roster, next to big'uns and giants. Point being, it's relatively rare for a total warhammer faction to mechanically operate 'on theme'.

@@GhostedJackal tl;dr. Also skaven are over represented in the source material too. End of days was basically the skaven just doing all the work

@@kanedakrsa If you aren't willing to take the 45 seconds to read what I wrote, or at least the 5 seconds to see my point summarized at the end, there's not really much of a conversation to be had. Have a good day, then.

They do have submarines.

"So it would seem..."

Stegadon spam. One Life Slann, nineteen Stegadon. Place ten on seperate sides, and blast into flanks of enemy units for max damage

Ramming is always dangerous proposition, it leaves you vulnerable to boarding actions, and you risk opening yourself up to a ramming action in return.

Wrong kind of green thinking. These are the lizardpeople, not the funguspeople.

Saurian killing anything stronger than skavenslaves can be considered an anomaly.

It's certainly the SIZE of a boat...