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Slaves or Clanrats?
Topic Started: 13th July 2010 - 08:45 PM (416 Views)
James100
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Chieftain
Slaves or Clanrats?
with the new expendable rules and steadfast which is better in a big horde:

Clanrats:
4 Ranks of attacks with spears
5+ armour save
Ability to take a weapon team
Ability to take a standard bearer
+1 Ws than slaves
+3 leadership (wont matter much if general or BSB is in range)

Slaves:
4 ranks of attacks
much much more for points wise
ability to shoot the enemy and not us
Explosive but not to much of a prob with steadfast and sin
2 slaves per 1 clanrat
putting a plain warlock could boost leadership to par with clannies

SO which is better?
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SkavenDan
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They both have there own role. I use the clanrats in units of 40 with standand and a weapons team.

Slaves 100 up front get in there.
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Rakashani
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Is a unit of 100 slaves really worth replacing 2 units of 15 Plague Monks though?

I ask because I am trying to figure out how to pad out my list to meet 3000 points under the new rules. Without playing them in 8th yet, it seems to me that slaves are going to get ground into mincemeat before they can really do anything interesting. They could take slings but only fire one per model on a S&S reaction (double-tap would require 7s to hit) and that would require them to deploy wide costing me attacks from Cornered Rats and potentially crowding my deployment area badly. To make things worse (I think), in the new world of faster movement and engagement, am I going to be able to get the slaves far enough forward that Cornered Rats is not going to be hitting me?

My concern is that Slaves won't live long enough to do anything particularly useful for me where I might rather spend those points on more solid units that are going to live to flank and actually do damage to my opponents. If I buy Clanrats I can get 1 Clannie for 2 Slaves (roughly) or 1 Plague Monk, Stormvermin or Night Runner for 3 Slaves.
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SkavenDan
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100 slaves spears musician and a warlock for the leadership boost. They are awesome. I have destroyed a hammerers unit a slayers unit a witch elf unit and a unit of 50 spearmen with them.

For there cost you can not complain. They don't win "the round of combat" I always lose more than I am winning but after about 4 rounds of combat one of those big elite units ends up dead.

Today I took 100 slaves vs 50 hammerers and in turn 2 they charged and fight raged on till the dwarfs turn 5. 8 Rounds of bloody combat it was awesome.
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