Red Crested Skinks
Melee infantry· Great Axe Infantry· Tier 2· 120 models at Ultra size
Comes with The Prophet & The Warlock(Warhammer II)
Duel it in the combat calculator →vs Chaos Warriors, the unit the rankings measure against; pick any other there.
Red Crested Skinks are Lizardmen melee infantry: 8,040 HP across 120 models, armour 30, melee attack 26, melee defence 20, weapon strength 27. It costs 525 in the campaign and in multiplayer. They come with The Prophet & The Warlock. Unit key wh2_dlc12_lzd_inf_skink_red_crested_0. Patch 9.0.4, from the game's data tables.
Health
67 per model
8,040
Armour
30
Leadership
62
Speed
46
Melee attack
26
Melee defence
20
Weapon strength
6 base + 21 armour-piercing
27
Charge bonus
25
Attributes
- Hide (forest)
This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
- Immune to Contact Effects
Entities with this attribute ignore the effects of enemy contact effects such as Poison
- Skink
A unit with the Skink Attribute will gain the following bonuses if a unit with the Kroxigor Attribute is nearby: Causes Fear
Abilities
- Primal InstinctsAugment · +15% Charge Bonus, +5 Melee Attack…passivePrimal InstinctsAugment+15% Charge Bonus+5 Melee Attack+5% Physical ResistancePassiveWhen under pressure, the primal instincts of these natural predators take over, improving their potential in combat.
- Spawn-KinAugmentpassiveSpawn-KinAugmentPassiveSkinks tend to swarm around Kroxigor, encouraged by their awesome power. Kroxigor are likewise attracted to masses of Skinks, whose energetic movement and high-pitched sounds fuel their own battle-rage.
- FrenzyAugment · +10% Charge Bonus, +10 Melee Attack…passiveFrenzyAugment+10% Charge Bonus+10 Melee Attack+10% Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage+10% Base Weapon DamagePassiveSome warriors care not for their own personal safety, and so work themselves into a whirlwind of destruction and mindless violence!
Counters
Good against
- Heavily armoured units — 21 of 27 weapon strength armour-piercinge.g. Steam Tank, Rotting Leviathan, Rogue Idol · Lizardmen: Blessed Bastiladon (Solar Engine), Blessed Sacred Kroxigor
Vulnerable to
- Bonus vs infantry — infantry-sizede.g. Doom-Flayers, War Mammoth, Feral Mammoth · Lizardmen: Blessed Salamander Hunting Pack, Blessed Terradon Riders
- Missile fire — armour 30, no shielde.g. Ratling Guns, Stormfiends (Ratling Cannons), Stormfiends (Warpfire Projectors) · Lizardmen: Chameleon Stalkers, Blessed Chameleon Stalkers
- Heavy large units — infantry-sized, mass 80e.g. Dread Maw, Thunderbarge, Steam Tank · Lizardmen: Dread Saurian, Feral Dread Saurian
Computed from base unit-card values (no skills, items or abilities), one rule per line; examples are units with the most of that trait. How counters are worked out · Try it in the combat calculator
Gold for gold
Beats, at a similar price: Grail Reliquae (78.15× faster), Warp-Grinders (4.69× faster), Flagellants (1.21× faster)
Loses to, at a similar price: Marauders (3.28× slower), Swordsmen (3.18× slower), Hobgoblin Cutthroats (2.99× slower)
Equal gold, every model fighting at its weapon's attack interval, combat calculator formulas; no charge, mass, splash, leadership or abilities. “Similar price”: within 30% of its 525 multiplayer gold. Lizardmen units ranked.
Match-ups people search for: Red Crested Skinks vs Chameleon Stalkers
Who can field it
- Lizardmen · Hexoatl
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Where these numbers come from
Read from the game's database tables for patch 9.0.4 (main_units, land_units, battle_entities, melee_weapons, projectiles…) as published in the WH3-Dump export (commit 099796e8). Formulas that turn table values into card values are checked against known units before they are shown — how we verify.