AoS: Welcome…to Jurassic Park – Thunder Lizard Review
The Coalesced are here and accompanying them are the mighty Seraphon of the Thunder Lizard. Here’s my thoughts on the Thunder Lizard battalion.
This weekend, Seraphon will go on preorder, and they’re bringing a ton of exciting subfactions with them. However, the two words on everyone’s reptilian tongues are Thunder Lizards, the all big monster Coalesced subfaction. Here’s my three favorite things about the subfaction based on what information we have so far.
They’re Tougher
When you select this subfaction, you get the Mighty Beasts of War ability, meaning all Thunder Lizards Monsters gain an extra 2 wounds. Considering that Seraphon Monsters are already exceedingly difficult to put down, this will make for some exceptionally long-lived lizards. Your heroes especially will thank you as they get to stick around longer to buff their allies and wreak bloody havoc on your enemies.
They Get Extra Shots
Bastiladons and Engine of the Gods Stegadons are plenty nasty on their own, the former packing either a stone statue full of venomous snakes or the wargaming version of what mean kids do to ants with magnifying glasses, and the latter giving you a wide range of scary abilities. However, the Thunder Lizards decided they weren’t QUITE scary enough, and so they added the Trove of Old One Technology command ability, used at the end of your shooting phase. This allows you to either fire your Bastiladon’s Solar Engine a second time, to double down on some sun-powered scorching, or spin the wheel of fate and activate your Engine of the Gods a second time. You can use this as many times as you have command points, but you can only use it on each monster once per turn.
The Obvious: A Whole Army of Giant Lizards!
If you love dinos and don’t feel like employing convoluted strategies, this is the subfaction for you, since it will make your Stegadons battleline. Having only 8 or so giant monsters stomping across the battlefield as your entire army may not win you games, or friends, but man is it going to be fun. And it’s just as likely your opponent will be as enthused as you to see the plot of Jurassic Park play out on the tabletop! Either way, it’s going to be an awesome army to put on the table, and you’re almost guaranteed the first turn.
Will you be building a Thunder Lizard army?
