| Creating a Swarm of an army.; I'm looking for help. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: 18th December 2007 - 10:56 AM (288 Views) | |
| Pagz | 18th December 2007 - 10:56 AM Post #1 |
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I'm a 40k player wanting to start collecting warhammer, and I've chosen skaven as the army I want to collect. Playing 40k and having knowledge of the rules of warhammer, I now want to create a skaven army with as many models in it as I possibly can, mainly because I think it'd be awesome. I'm aiming for a 2000 point army, with a self-inflicted rule that I'll have the maximum amount of slaves as I possibly can . I'm aiming for this army to be pretty much a swarm of rats on the table, just an overwhelming number of them, even if they are really weak models. However, only playing very small games of warhammer, I'm not very learned in the arts of warhammer army building, as I have very limited knowledge when it comes to other army's and play styles. So I've come here to ask for the knowledge of other skaven players to help me create an army list so I can swarm the world with rats (and possibly win a game or two)! Now, only as a barebone skeleton of an army, I've thought of this list (its very thrown together, all points are estimated, and keep in mind that I'll eventually be buying two of the skaven box sets here so I can try and keep the price down ):Lords Warlord: 130pts Core 4 Clanrat squads with musician and standard bearer(20 models each) and 2 rattling guns: 660pts 4 Clanrat slave squads(20 models each): 160pts 2 Giant rat packs: 60pts 2 Nightrunners with additional hand weapons (10 models each): 140pts 2 Rat swarms (2 models each): 170pts Special 2 Plaguemonk squads with musician and standard bearer (20 models each): 320pts 4 rat ogre packs: 200pts Rare 1 Warpcannon: 100pts Estimated point value: 1950pts So... yea. Help will be greatly appreciated. Help me create an army list, modify the one I wrote above, I'm looking for an army with as many models as I can while maintaining functionality. Hopefully my swarming army will work! The things I am worried about at this point in time are the opponents magic (since I realy have no way of stopping them) and my lack of fire support, do I have enough? Thank you all in advance! |
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| Zavratatar | 18th December 2007 - 11:22 AM Post #2 |
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I think Xh!n had a similar idea, not sure how that is coming along. He intended to field something along these lines: 9 * 25 Clanrats with banner and musician 9 * 20 Slaves This is 1620 pts, Adding a Warlord, an Engineer with 2 scrolls and a BSB with the storm banner will make it a nice round 2000. ![]() And around 410 models. I think you're going to need more than two boxes, regardless. My 1500 list uses more than two boxes already... -.- |
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| Pagz | 18th December 2007 - 12:40 PM Post #3 |
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Oh, I'm sorry, I meant that I'll be getting 2 of that particular box set, which is why there are rat ogres and such, of course overall I'll need more then 2 boxes :P. |
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| Everything Is Expendable | 18th December 2007 - 03:00 PM Post #4 |
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When you think of Horde Skaven in 2000 points, it's nice to think of the models in terms of that famous movie about the Spartans: 300. |
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| Zavratatar | 18th December 2007 - 03:05 PM Post #5 |
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Yeah, two battallionboxes is what i've used up so far, and i'm barely breaking 1500. I am, however, converting my Rat Ogres to jezzails. (More on that in another thread, another day.) |
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| Pagz | 19th December 2007 - 10:52 AM Post #6 |
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Thats... thats pretty hardcore. Does anyone think that that army list would be awesome? Would it win by pure numbers and some devious tactics? It looks pretty insane, so insane that it just might work! |
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| Zavratatar | 19th December 2007 - 11:34 AM Post #7 |
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Well, image in playing High Elves... They have 50 models, he has 400.. He can probably bait every single unit on the table with a slave block, flank it with two clanrat blocks and still have slaves to spare to lead the cavallry in circles all day long. A dragon, however, would do an awful lot of rear-charging against this list, there is nothing keeping it from flying around like it wants and panicking two LD5 slave units per turn with terror. Like any extreme list, this one would do extremely well against some and extremely bad against others. An empire gunline-player would just pack up and go home...
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| Blood Vixen | 20th December 2007 - 01:31 PM Post #8 |
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All hail the Age of Skaven
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Skaven army tactics quote 5: Throw enough crap at something and some of it will stick says it all
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| Shhhh I'm not here | |
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