Civs 5th Ed Trip Down Nostalgia Lane

After being gifted some 5th ed saurus and skinks i found the army book for a couple of quid online and ordered it for my collection. I have a few 5th ed army books picked up through the years at bring and buys/ bootsales and love the fluff and just flicking through the pictures in them.

I got to the back of the book and noticed that they had a suggested starter army. Going back to the other books i own i saw they also had suggested starter armies, an idea was forming. I started out with High Elves so looked at their starter army and i had all the figures (not painted but i own them so that counts right?). Then i looked at the bretonnian one again i had all the figures, and again not painted but this could be the excuse i was waiting for! Then i looked at the Lizardmen and after a few choice ebay purchases i pulled together the starter army with one or two replacements.

I was never a fan of the old Slann model on palaquinn so opted for the newer version to head up my force. I have also decided to adjust my saurus warriors a bit and am in the process of giving them all new weapons from the latest ‘Seraphon’ (or whatever) models. Theyre also getting the newer shield designs as i think they just look way better than the tiny shields back in the day. Fortunately i managed to snag an ebay lot which gave me plenty of bitz to use on these.

So my goal for 2020 is to pull together and paint the starter armies for 5th ed Warhammer currently for High Elves, Lizardmen and Bretonnians, i may even be able to squeek in a wood elves force if the ebay/FB gods are kind.

First up, Lizardmen!