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What would you pick Magic or Hand to Hand
Magic and Spells 4 (13.8%)
Hand to Hand Combat Skills 6 (20.7%)
More Magic but Less Combat Skills 10 (34.5%)
More Combat Skills Less magic 9 (31%)
Total Votes: 29
What do you think is most important Magic or Hand; or have both but more of one
Topic Started: 24th July 2004 - 02:35 AM (504 Views)
Warlord Skavek
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Is Having full magic or full hand to hand better or is it best to have both but more of one skill

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...you're definetely an odd one....
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Warlord Squeek
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Hand to hand there is skaven honor there . :ph43r:
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phordicus
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there is no "better"; it's a matter of style and what army you face.
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Rattsu
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Hand to hand...

If nothing else because nothing beats that feeling of watching your opponents flee before the might of your rats.

Such a nice warm glowy feeling...
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The_Red_Bandit
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as given off by your magical prowess?


well i could go either or, generally not both.

The idea of crushing your enemy with sheer magical might is nifty.

However, the idea of having(you almost have to order to win) to use tactics to take down a giant unit of knights in CC is equally nifty.


i like seeing a plan work, so im going with CC on this one.
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Warlord Vermindeath
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I feel it depends on the army your facing, but I always have a core of 100 Clanrats, of late in a format of 60/40 Warriors to Slaves.

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Snorkel
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I strongly rely on magic as in a 2000pts army I include a Grey Seer and 3 Walocks.
Nevertheless Ialso include the large number of 200 Clanrats\Slaves to
take out anything that is left of my opponent from my magic and four weapon teams ^Warpfire^
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Warlord Skavek
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I use More Magic but I have skilled fighters in my army as well
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flitskoekie
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Jul 26 2004, 01:16 PM
I strongly rely on magic as in a 2000pts army I include a Grey Seer and 3 Walocks.
Nevertheless Ialso include the large number of 200 Clanrats\Slaves to
take out anything that is left of my opponent from my magic and four weapon teams ^Warpfire^

i smell some cheese here...

Skaven is an army that can easily be powerplayed with...

i think its no fun in playing a total magic army and then the rest of the army just waits and cleans up the rest..

i agree in seeing a plan work is much more enjoyable as when you do that it is more tactics then dice...
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typo
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Even though skaven HtoH is not all that special, the magic phase is too unreliable to be dependant on it.
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Nilax
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Typical 2000pt non-pestilens army for me has 1 warlord and 3 engineers.

I've found that this gives me an extremely destructive magic phase whilst also giving me one rock-solid combat unit to lead the charge against the smoldering defense line.

I'm also a big fan of using warpscrolls in armies like this. By the time the engineers are done casting if no bad miscasts have been suffered the opponent is usually out of dispel...then I unleash a warpscroll or two and decimate a lightly armored unit.
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vasquisk
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Shooting. Shooting is more important. :P
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Thrask Vilepaw
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well said although i do like to have magic to support i believe that hth and shooting are most important.
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Warlord Vermindeath
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Personally, I think it depends sumwhat on the army your enemy is using.
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Grey Seer Velqueet
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I would say more hand to hand supported by magic. I rely on magic to take out tough units that would be difficult to fight at full strength and then count on the sheer numbers of clanrats, plague monks, stormvermin and slaves to take out the rest.
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