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| icecoolio | 1st August 2010 - 06:32 AM Post #16 |
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I am a newbie for Skaven also! I will buy two set of the starter too, and I already have 2 battalion and other war machines & lord heros. I will like to have a unit of monks pushing Plague Furnace! this unit can be your die hard forward, last time I use Lizardmen to fight them, they are quiet tough to beat, but if you wish to use them, 20 monks are not really enough, and this is why I buy two battalion. Also I want to ask...... What's the different between slaves and clan rat in figures? becuz the body are just the same...... |
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| s'nkeep | 1st August 2010 - 12:29 PM Post #17 |
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Ajax = warpstone juice
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Well if your kit bashing save the ones with metal and use the leather/cloth ones for slaves as well as cut off spears to make club handweapons and avoid giving them any metal. And then most rats paint their slaves with a lighter fur tone. |
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| SkitterPaw | 1st August 2010 - 01:40 PM Post #18 |
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Yes do it. I want to know what a good 8th list looks like (IIRC you have had success, so i presumme your list doesn't fail). Also, icecoolio: basically, the only difference between slaves and Clanrats is the bodies without metal armour are slaves.... (or that's how i use it.) I find it hard to tell the difference betwee some of them though.... O_o |
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| icecoolio | 3rd August 2010 - 11:36 AM Post #19 |
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Thank you s'nkeep and SkitterPaw! I find out most of the skaven clan in battalion has metal armour..... Well, I will try to do something about this, thank you so much about the tips. Oh! And also are clan good at using spear or hand weapons? I just know that slave just keep it cheap. Thanks |
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| Noma | 6th August 2010 - 12:53 AM Post #20 |
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the problem with buying a battalion and saying i dont want ever third rat to look exactly the same, is that in the battalion, they kinda do already. the island of blood are set up in the same way as the rats in a battalion, just missing an arm. if youre looking to save money, you can buy 20 random skaven weapons on ebay for 1 dollar, then use those for the island of blood guys (that is of course, if theres no crazy arm variants in the starter set). also, im not 100% sure that the island of blood has the shields already equipped, but there isnt a whole ton you can really do with shield placement on clanrats without making it look odd even if they are. all in all, you are on the path to a great start no matter what you decide. really no wrong answers. the plague monks are a little low, but time and time again they always let me down. i dunno. they drop quickly with no little defense. the only thing that saves them is my opponent knowing that he can kill them quickly if he needs to, and focusing on something else and forgetting. so perhaps im just a little jaded at them right now. the worst part, of course, will be painting 200-300 models, when your friends paint 40. |
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| C57Black | 6th August 2010 - 04:25 AM Post #21 |
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I've seen the Isle of Blood figures up close, they do in fact all have the shields pre-molded on to their bodies and the only free piece is the arm with either a spear choice or hand weapon choice (so they do have hand weapons in the starter set). Frankly after looking at the Isle of Blood pieces I passed on trying to turn them into a slave unit, none of them have the cool chain pieces on them that the current clanrat boz carries, and they all have a certain similar look to one another in terms of pose that just doesn't fit with my idea of an unruly slave mob. |
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| skavenmatt | 6th August 2010 - 10:53 AM Post #22 |
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thats the same problem I had when I started my skaven army. I went all out balls to the wall, now I have 450 clanrats and 450 slaves to paint. The best piece of advice I can give is to get some cheap brown primer, 1 can did about 120 rats for me. I also find a small unit of gutter runner invaluable now, I used to be able to get away with not taking any, but war machines are so deadly on my big horde units I have to spring for at least one unit to take care of the crew. |
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