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Three tough Warlords in one unit
Topic Started: 13th December 2010 - 09:20 PM (325 Views)
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I was thinking... take a big unit of slaves, 5 wide, and put 2 Warlords on War Litters and one Warlord on foot at the front. Give each Warlord very good armour and ward, something like:

Warlord A - (on war litter) - 2+ save, 4+ ward

Warlord B (on war litter) - 3+ save, 4+ ward

Warlord C (on foot) - 2+ rerollable save

Altogether this unit would come in at around 600 points. The enemy can't attack the slaves, and even the most elite troops will struggle to put more than a wound or two on the Warlords, who themselves dish out a total of 20 S4 attacks. Enemy lose combat horrendously, and will never have more ranks than the slaves.

Obviously a massive point sink any half decent enemy would know to steer well clear of such a unit, but I wondered if anyone had actually tried anything like this?
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I think the hard part would be getting 3 warlords to actually get along with each other in the same unit. Frankly, given Skaven back story, I am very grateful we don't have some kind of back-stabbing animosity rule!

Anyway, there's no rule against it, but I think the rest of your army would be left weakened by putting so much into one unit.
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Cool idea! I don't think I'll be trying it anytime soon though. Massive pointsink that's simply begging to be decimated by missile fire.

@Bobtailmaneater: Here's hoping for something like that in our 8th ed army book! (Whenever that might be.)

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Dec 13 2010, 04:44 PM
@Bobtailmaneater: Here's hoping for something like that in our 8th ed army book! (Whenever that might be.)

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Shhhhh! I hope not!

But don't hold your breath. Dwarves, TK, Lizards would all have to go first (they need it most, after O&G, IMO) and in all likelihood our book will come out 6 months before 9th edition...

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All very true. I do wish they'd bring back in 'Life is Cheap' for everyone though. The main thing that drove me to start Skaven was a Battle Report in White Dwarf way back in 2005 or something. The Grey Seer and the Warlord in it were at each others throats the whole time it was hilarious! (Doubly so because it was only one guy controlling the army!) Brilliant watching the Ratling Gun fire into the Stormvermin with the Warlord on the off-chance it might hit some Halberdiers. There was also a brilliant short story/fluff thing at the end with the Fellblade and a Warpstone Amulet.

I love Skaven!
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