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(This is in a medieval fantasy setting)
Let me describe the creatures for you.
There are a warm-blooded species of semi-humanoid dragon-like creatures. They have the traditional draconic features, save for a lack of wings, but a humanoid build that is slightly hunched forward, akin to a Warhammer Fantasy Saurus, though bulkier around the waist/legs. They can run on all fours if needed and have snake-like necks; proportionally their necks would be about twice as long as a human's of comparable size, and heavily muscled.
-There's significant dimorphism among the species, with sizes and builds ranging from small (roughly the size of a large dog) dragon-like beings to very tall and large (horse/bear-sized) dragon-like creatures. Females tend to be larger than males. They have comparable muscle mass and strength/speed to creatures of that size, i.e. a dragon-like who is the size of a bear can probably hit as hard as a bear.
-Their scales make them moderately resistant to cutting an tearing with claws, teeth, and piercing weapons like spears and arrows, but they are only slightly effective against metallic bladed weapons and aren't very effective against blunt weapons.
They exist in a world with several other fantasy races. Elves, dwarves, humans, giants, orc-like creatures, and at least one species of pure, destructive evilness (think Dawkspawn from Dragon Age or Skaven from Warhammer Fantasy). Wars and diplomacy with all of the above (save the latter, of course, that's just pure warfare) has happened throughout their history.
1Weapon choice is highly dependent upon context. What makes a good side arm will make a poor weapon for fighting in a large unit. Do your lizards wear armor, or commonly use shields? How do they conduct warfare? How readily available is high quality steel? – sphennings – 2017-10-10T15:52:07.687
2This is much too broad. As sphennings points out: this is entirely contextual. Exchange "lizard" and "dragon" for "human" and "humanoid" and try to answer it and you see it is impossible to answer, because humans have used all kinds of weapons you can imagine throughout history. – MichaelK – 2017-10-10T15:58:48.740
Its not to broad, if anything its more self answering. My only major criticism is that the magic aspect is unnecessary. Because once you throw magic into the equation without rules the answers are infinite. – anon – 2017-10-10T16:15:57.280
1Are these creatures alone in your world (in which case any weapons they carry are for use against others of their own kind) or are they one of many sentient species (in which case their weapons may be tailored to the weaknesses of those other species). As the likely best armored of combatants, it might be wise for them to carry weapons which can only hurt their enemies. That way, if they loose a sword to a faster opponent, that opponent can't use the sword against its former wielder. – Henry Taylor – 2017-10-10T16:16:52.987
They exist in a world with several other fantasy races. Elves, dwarves, humans, giants, orc-like creatures, and at least one species of pure, destructive evilness (think Dawkspawn from Dragon Age or Skaven from Warhammer Fantasy). Wars and diplomacy with all of the above (save the latter, of course, that's just pure warfare) has happened throughout their history. – SuperYoshikong – 2017-10-10T16:37:19.510
1There is a simple answer. Lizardmen will have more or less the same sort of weapons used by the mammalmen. Look at what weapons are used by "Elves, dwarves, humans, giants, orc-like creatures" and you can safely assume the lizardmen will use them too. – a4android – 2017-10-11T02:54:29.043