Red Crested Skink Braves

Skinks are a smaller race of Lizardmen, lacking in stature and martial prowess compared to the Saurus or Kroxigors. Save for a rare Chief, the Skinks were relegated to skirmishers on the battlefield.

Yet the Chiefs are proof that some Skinks can attain a higher degree of combat experience and even expertise. The rise of the Prophet Tehenhauin awakened the Red Crested Skinks, more ferocious and wielding poison greatclubs. Long past the spawning pools, a select few Red Crested Skinks become battle hardened and disciplined warriors.

These become Red Crested Skink Braves.

Braves fall short of the expertise and rank of Skink Chief, but they are disciplined enough to form an elite Skink infantry regiment. No longer are the Saurus or the Kroxigors the mandatory frontline troops of the Lizardmen. For Tehenhauin!

My second unit mod for my learning purposes.

The Red Crested Skink Braves unit is an elite Skink infantry unit. They are a marriage of several unit concepts: The skirmishing ability of the Skink Cohort, the training and attributes of the Red Crested Skinks, and the elite stats that place them between Red Crested Skinks and Temple Guards.

Lacking in physicality compared to Saurus or Kroxigors, the Skink Braves are an agile anti-infantry unit. They carry several heavy poison-tipped javelins that deal great damage over short range. In melee, they use poisoned clubs and wooden shields. Their scales are hardened from many campaigns, and they have the best armor of all the Skink units.

The Skink Braves are deadly at flanking and harrying enemy infantry with their high speed and poison damage that slows the enemy down. Although they can hold their own in a defensive line, they do not deal any Anti-Large or Armor-Piercing damage, so it is not their specialty. Yet here too, the poison damage will slow the enemy onslaught.

I have added the unit stat card to the screenshots for your consideration. This is a turn 1, rank 0 unit with no upgrades. Red Crested Skink Braves enjoy all of the upgrades available to both Skinks and Red Crested Skinks. Tehenauin very much appreciates this mod. 🙂

I would like this mod to be balanced and fit in with vanilla gameplay, and tuned the unit stats accordingly.

Please leave comments or concerns if you have any with regards to balance, and I will consider them.

Please let me know in the comments if you notice any issues.

This is a simple unit mod, so it should have very high compatibility, unless I got extremely unlucky with an index…

Red Crested Skink Crossbows – a good pairing with these Braves!