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Where did the Giant rats go
Topic Started: 2nd April 2008 - 07:11 AM (453 Views)
Squeek Squeek the battlehungry
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So I've wanted to run a giant rat heavy list for awhile now, but it seems impossible to buildup a decent amount of the buggers. They come with the rat ogres but im not spending 40$ just to get 6 giant rats. Anyone have ideas/know where to get ahold of many little rats????
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There's tiny ones on the clanrat sprues aswell. I counted enough to make one unit of 24 in one batallionbox. :) (that's oncluding the ones on the rat ogre sprue)
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Ebay?
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Warlord Linnal
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Actually you can get a good amount of rats from the Plague Monks sprue. I made a full three pack unit from the battalion. You might be able to deal with some Skaven players for the rats on said sprue.
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If you want a lot-a lot then your best bet would be sourcing down a bunch of the old blister packs, they should still be a somewhat of an easy find given that they only 'recently' went out of print.
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If your not concerned about tournament play could source other suppliers e.g.
Black tree design do a pack £4-49/5 but they have a sale at present so only £2.74 although these don't look brilliant in photo.
www.secondcity.org.uk/page28.htm has a [ack pf 8 for £3.25+0.80p&p which can't be bad and photo OK?
I also need 60 giant rats for my 1K of clan Maulder so will be in much the same position in 8 months time so I will buy a pack of each and give a better critique when they arrive.
Still ebay is probably the best source looking for NIB blisters of packmaster & packs.
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kurlan
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I use 2 units of 4 packs in my army..and i just use the ones that come with the plague monk and clanrat sprues...plenty and they look nice and are simple ot paint. I really reccommend them
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Blood Vixen
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Another option would be to try for the old fantasy swarm boxes they have 12 giant rats for £5 average. oldish models though
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Niz'tizi'ihack
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I noticed in this thread the rats are back up online... or at least some of them are.
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scrivener
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As an offside remark, I notice that the US GW site has no mention of giantrats in the core unit section, but lists the giantrats with the ratogres in special (the downside of having a core unit and a special unit in the same box), while the UK site still has the metal blisters listed in their miniature gallery.
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As I pointed out in the link Nit'z posted, the US site looks to be in quite a bit of disarray. They have the CR's as a lord choice, and two special characters in the specials slot. Hope they sort that out soon!
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