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Plague priest. woth it?
Topic Started: 3rd October 2005 - 02:18 PM (1,041 Views)
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well for a start u have a general that if put in his own unit of monks aint going nowhere! second hes hard as nails so long as he gets the right equipmebnt (x hand weap and 4+ ward) thirdly its cooler and the lord skrolk model rocks!
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xukumaya
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I run a roaming priest with the cencer. I don't have a single other Pestillence model in my army.

This little rat is actually wonderfull. On his own, he can break an increadilby lot of units. Supportive charges, knight hunting, skirmisher killing, warmachine hunting, mage hunting... He can do it all.

Worth it? Yes it is.
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I have one, I usually give him a cencer and stick him with the cencer bearers.
although everyone seems to think thats a bad idea, I might move him to the monks...

on topic for a moment, yes it is worth it to have a plauge priest
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I think the Plauge Priest in the Censor Bearers can actualy be quite strong, but it depends on what the situation on the battle field is. For example, against beasts of chaos, you know he is about to ambush you... great time for that mad-rat to be in a unit where he will be able to charge 360 in a cloud of steaming death. I had a uniit of 5 with this guy wipe out virtualy an entire ambush. (ruined one herd, on charge, plowed into 2nd herd with pursuit, only a few warhounds left after that.) Another thing that helps to make this fesable is that unlike most skirmishers, the censor bearers will not panic and send your character running off of the table because some broken unit fled by or whatever.

I wouldn't say it's a good idea to leave him in there all the time, but, don't forget its an option to move him there when the time is right. In my experience most enemies overlook the posibility of characters switching units. I have had units of slaves crush units of knights because when the plauge priest switched to them after the knights spent 3 turns lining up some obvious flank charge. Sure he will choke all your non-plauge monk skaven to death, but who cares. In this case The Censor killed 2 knights and 5 slaves... and... well that sounded pretty damn good to me.

Don't forget that your enemy does NOT get points for any skaven that die to the gas in melee. If someone claims that they do, point out that a true rules lawyer looking at the exact wording of the rules would conclude that the plauge priest actualy should get a point of CR for every friendly he kills. You get a point of CR for wounds caused, I dont think they bothered to put a disclaimer in there that it dosen't count for wounds caused in melee to your own unit, hehe. (But, obviously this isn't as intended and it should not be played as such. :P)

So, in summary... yeah, Plauge Priests kick ass.
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5 pcbs and a plague priest all censer weilding is a good 14 s6 attacks
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IF you get a unit of plague monks, a plague priest, 5 PCBs, and youm kae sure 1 rats holding a magical banner... your pretty much set :D

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Id definately say yes! I think the plague priest allows you to give a unit an extra bit of punch in combat!

In my last game, my pague monks charged a unit of three kroxigor. They cut them all down and overran into the flank of another unit! My plague priest cut down one of the kroxigor on his own and if he hadn't I wouldnt have got the overrun!

Frenzy is a double edged sword. Its very hindering against a clever general, but agianst armies that cause fear, such as ogre kingdoms, or undead armies its extremely useful.
I love watching psychotic diseased rats, ripping through units of skellies! :)
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and the ability to use plague censor is worth it to
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farsight
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thats correct but isnt he 144pts :blink: ? which is enough to cover the cost of the knights themself ^_^ , still they are nails.

out of curiosity if i was to take a plague priest in a unit then would it be best to give him a censer or a flail (or another hand weapon) plus he will be in the corner of the unit, just wondering how to arm mine is all?

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Lucious the Grey Seer
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What would you rather have a plauge priest with liber bubonicus or a chieftain with maybe one magic weapon? Now you can see why it is worth it.
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Dec 3 2005, 08:27 PM
What would you rather have a plauge priest with liber bubonicus or a chieftain with maybe one magic weapon? Now you can see why it is worth it.

i never said he wasnt worth it i was just commenting how a costly character would be able to kill a unt anyway ^_^ thats why they cost soo much

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Dec 4 2005, 03:27 AM
What would you rather have a plauge priest with liber bubonicus or a chieftain with maybe one magic weapon? Now you can see why it is worth it.

Considering the awfully horrible experience with the Liber Bubonicus, I'd say the chieftain... Nah, the plague priest is born for combat and as such, you really should arm him with equipment aimed at combat alone. The Liber Bubonicus is nice, though there are many item-combinations that are WAY better.

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farsight
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Nov 4 2005, 08:08 AM
Id definately say yes! I think the plague priest allows you to give a unit an extra bit of punch in combat!

In my last game, my pague monks charged a unit of three kroxigor. They cut them all down and overran into the flank of another unit! My plague priest cut down one of the kroxigor on his own and if he hadn't I wouldnt have got the overrun!

Frenzy is a double edged sword. Its very hindering against a clever general, but agianst armies that cause fear, such as ogre kingdoms, or undead armies its extremely useful.
I love watching psychotic diseased rats, ripping through units of skellies! :)

the only problem they're would be how could he win the combats against skellies, i admit it is cool when they tear through units but a unit of 20 skellies with full command, or 16 with FC will already have 5 to combat resolution before the end , while the PP can do 7 wouds max, still it kinda rocks though.

so a PP would be better with a flail if he's in a unit of plague preists while on his own or with PCB's he should have a plague censer, got it now ^_^

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Griteeq Thundertail
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Plague priests are fantastic combat boosters alright. Does everybody use the Lord Skrolk model for their priest? I've been thinking about using the plague lord released with Lustria...
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Dec 7 2005, 10:02 AM
Plague priests are fantastic combat boosters alright. Does everybody use the Lord Skrolk model for their priest? I've been thinking about using the plague lord released with Lustria...

do you mean for the Plague Priest or the festering chanter as i will be using the new lustria model for my Plague Priest, then possibly the new chieftain model which has a halberd as he looks a little like a mage. the other chanter is a conversion ^_^ cant wait to finish him

never really used the skrolk model as never really wanted a PP, until this new bubonic court army

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