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What do you like to do with slaves?
Keep powerful enemy units busy 3 (10.7%)
Blast the slaves! 1 (3.6%)
Fry the slaves! 1 (3.6%)
Depends on the situation 9 (32.1%)
Make my army look bigger... 5 (17.9%)
How can you be so cruel to slaves!?! Slaves are skaven to! *runs into cave sobbing* 5 (17.9%)
This poll is stupid. 4 (14.3%)
Total Votes: 28
Slaves- How do you abuse these unfortunate vermin?
Topic Started: 30th April 2008 - 08:17 PM (566 Views)
Warlord Ritchet
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The Psychotic Bouncing Rat
What do you like to do with these little buggers?
I personally say it depends, if I am facing an army thats too good to pierce with the ratling gun, with numerous elites (why does chaos come to mind...) I will use them as bait, where as I will use them to hold the target on a less armored foe such as wood elves.
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Chieftain Cazgar
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originally i took them cause i thought it was just plain cool to have another 20 bodies for 40pts, when a lot of armies get another 4 :P

nowadays i know all sortsa sneaky slave tactics, but the first reason i took them was just cause lotsa bodies is cool B)
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lashific the Dominator
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I equiped a unit of 20 slaves with slings in a 1500pt friendly match against O&G, just for the fun of it, and put them on one flank. the unit og bug un's and goblins opposite them spent most of the battle stationary to stay out of range of my slaves, which in the end contributed to me keeping both my origanal table quarters. I'll just glaze over the fact that fromtwo rounds of shooting over 40 shots total, i managed to only kill A GOBLIN. :lol:

back on topic, I think almost everyone will say depends on situation unless they have a specific army list for each of their opponents. Other then that i normally use them to angle up other units, but am yet to have much sucess as my slaves normally break if charged -_- .
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Blood Vixen
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How can you be so cruel to slaves!?! Slaves are skaven to! *runs into cave sobbing*

Sorry but this was made for me ^_^ Dont forget i run a "Slave rebellion" list
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Rubberchrist
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Shennanigans are out of the question!
My wonderful slaves are a feed trough upon which all manner of horrors gorge themselves...

Ranged weapons fire, magic, skirmishers, big blocks, little blocks, fanatics, AND snotling pump wagons.

They happily take every abuse I give them on the field of battle because it is so much better than what they get at home... muahaha!

Ultimately, I use them to waste my opponent's time. 40 points is WELL worth a turn of positioning.

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Lord Lughtigern
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The Mad Ratter.

Ritchet, you've been here long enough to know that you've left out an option on the poll, for shame!

Which option means "bait and redirect"? I'd go for that one if I knew which one it was!
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Underlord Burrows
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Warlord Ritchet
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Lord Lughtigern
May 1 2008, 07:38 AM
Ritchet, you've been here long enough to know that you've left out an option on the poll, for shame!

Which option means "bait and redirect"? I'd go for that one if I knew which one it was!

I thought the Pity for slaves option was good enough...
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Skaven Lord Vinshqueek
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Bunny ear says flop

*goes for the "This poll is stupid" option*... ^_^

In the end, I think a lot depends on the situation you find yourself in, as to what uses slaves have for you. I mean, I start off by using them as fodder by negating l.o.s. on my clanrats, while further down the line, when the clanrats are in combat, they usually work magic in the flanks, thus negating rank bonus for the enemy.

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==Me==
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Let's put it this way.

At the end of a game, if I have any slaves left (out of 80+ in 2k), I consider it a failure Dev
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eraser51
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well i love to blast them :)

although plague is also a great spell ^_^
always searching for Skaven :)

especially:

PWG
PCB
jezzails
classic models

so please pm or email if you got some you dont need anymore !
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kizzlesticks
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Apr 30 2008, 04:49 PM
How can you be so cruel to slaves!?! Slaves are skaven to! *runs into cave sobbing*

Sorry but this was made for me ^_^ Dont forget i run a "Slave rebellion" list

Have you written this list up somewhere? If so, could you point me in the right direction?
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Hymnofnot
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I'd say "depends on the situation"

Hold units at bay for flankers, or if they try to ignore the slaves...use them AS the flankers.


For some odd reason my slaves actually kill more models via combat than my clannies do.
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*Mutate* Ohh, by the way.. I use skinks as my slaves. ( my first few games while learning vs a LM skink master led me to it)
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After failing LD numerous times from CR,
He concedes the game at the end of turn 2.)
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Tysp
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You don't even want to know how many slaves I take per battle :P I find them as one of the most useful units in the Skaven army book.
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