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| Harvest | 26th December 2010 - 06:42 PM Post #1 |
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Clanrat
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This is my first go at a skaven army. I am probably gonna go for a horde "theme" (Lot's of infantry, and not so much of anything else) So here's the list. Any advice/input are welcome, since, as i said, this is my first go at Skaven. Lords & Heroes: Grey Seer Quirk Skalm 270 Chieftan BSB BSB, Warpstone Armour 100 Core: 30 Clanrats FC, Shields, Ratling Gun 190 30 Clanrats FC, Shields, Warpfire Thrower 205 30 Clanrats FC, Shields, Spears, 150 31 Stormvermin FC, Ratling Gun, Grand Banner Of Clan Superiority 327 Special: 30 Plague Monks FC 235 4 Rat Ogres w/ 1 Master Moulder & 1 Packmaster Things Catcher 221 Rare: 2 Doomwheels 150 pts 1998 pts total |
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| PezCat | 26th December 2010 - 07:20 PM Post #2 |
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Irrepressible Anklebiter
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One big thing I noticed was a lack of slaves... is this by design? If nothing else you might want a block or two to put between your Doomwheels and the rest of your army, since Doomwheels have this tendency to blow things up that belong to you before they get to the enemy. Also, keep in mind our infantry, on its own, is some of the weakest out there. You'll want flanks and toys to do a lot of your work in a fight, because even a 30-strong block of stormvermin is gonna keel over against the stronger melee armies, and you don't have much in the way of defense from shooty ones. |
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8th Ed: 2-0-0 Last Game: 1500, Vampire Counts, Win - Tabled on Turn 5 Self-Detonations This Game: Warp Lightning Cannon (Turn 1), Ratling Gun (Turn 2), Vampire via miscast (Turn 4), Warlock Engineer via miscast (Turn 4), Poisoned Wind Mortar (Turn 4). Note: Vampire's Miscast took 4 zombies, 1 skeleton, and 3 skavenslaves with him. Doomwheel did not die, but did wound itself on Turn 4. | |
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| Javster | 26th December 2010 - 07:38 PM Post #3 |
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Clanrat
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okay, here goes. 1) Ratling guns aren't very good. They might seem nice at first glance, with alle the shots fired, but few of them ever wound. Use WFT or PWMs instead. The WFT require some careful planning to use properly, but are utterly devestating. 2) Add slaves! They are probably the best unit we have access to for the price. You could remove 30 clanrats in exchange for more than 60 slaves, since you'd be fielding them naked and they cant have weapon teams. 3) A plague furnace in those monks would do plenty of good. A little weak against shooting, but the priest would also ensure that you would have a better chance of getting the plague spells you want. 4) Storm banner! It's needed. Exchange grand banner of clan superiority for it. 5) there is better defense for your bsb out there. Since none of your other characters are using it, I suggest a 4+ ward save. 6) Gutter runners are worth their weight in gold when facing warmachines. 2x5 of them will ensure that at least one of them gets into the thick of it. 7) Maybe up your rogres to 6 strong? It might cause them to attract more missile fire, but your army is sorely lacking a hammer. That's about it. Take my advice if you wish, but in the end, play what you think is fun! Infantry heavy armies look especially good on the tabletop if you ask me, so I like your approach to it. |
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| Harvest | 26th December 2010 - 08:34 PM Post #4 |
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Clanrat
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I see the point about slaves there. Might exchange a unit of Clanrats for two units of slaves instead Maybe exchange the weapon teams for WFT and PWM. And perhaps find some points for two more Ratogres somewhere xDWill update the list once i've looked into these points, and keep you updated |
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| Atropos | 26th December 2010 - 09:13 PM Post #5 |
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Slaves are the heart of my army. Try them, and they'll probably become the heart of yours too. I personally field 3 blocks of 50 Slaves with musician. The numer of them depends on your personal taste. Have fun! |
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| Malkrit | 27th December 2010 - 09:39 AM Post #6 |
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I want to add my experience in here: My (playing) army currently exists of: 2x 50 Slaves 30 clan rats 30 Clan rats poinsoned wind mortar Doomwheel Engineer with doomrocket Naket Seer.. Well, This should be a relative soft lift, not too soft though.. But my opponents always lose to me (even when I play wood elves, which I do longer then skaven) and now, when I play Skaven they instantly cry: CHEEESE!! You only win because of CHEESE!! So added spears to the slaves, to make them a little bit softer. Stronger against Swordmasters though, Killed 4 in one combat round with Slaves! They broke the slaves (general was killed) which caused another 4 casualties, they failed their panic check, ran away from the exploded rats and could only rally on snake eyes, which they never did! side note: I don't understand their reasoning, as they are crushed harder when I play wood elves :lol: But that's mostly blamed to my 3 almost 4 years experience with them. Which is IMO not much, but reasonably enough to develop yourself as a good general. |
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| Harvest | 29th December 2010 - 02:13 PM Post #7 |
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Clanrat
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Allrighty. The revised army looks like this: Lords & Heroes: Warlord Farkn: Great Weapon, Warpstone Armour, Foul Pendant, Skalm 171 Chieftan Squeelk BSB BSB, Talisman Of Preservation 115 Core: 2x30 Slaves 120 pts 30 Clanrats FC, Shields, Warpfire Thrower 205 30 Clanrats FC, Shields, Spears, 150 33 Stormvermin FC, Ratling Gun, Storm Banner, Shields 394 Special 30 Plague Monks FC 235 6 Rat Ogres w/ 1 Master Moulder & 2 Packmasters Things Catcher 309 2 Doomwheels 300 1999 pts total As you can see, I swapped out the seer for a warlord, since he makes more sense in an infantry based army. Swapped out 30 clanrats for 60 slaves (2x30) to act as shields against my Doomwheels shooting. Also added Storm Banner, and 2 more ratogres and another Packmaster. Enjoy
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| Javster | 29th December 2010 - 09:54 PM Post #8 |
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Clanrat
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Good that you upped the rogres, will provide a solid hammer (assuming they get into combat. Use terrain to screen the buggers, storm banner will help greatly as well) two more pieces of advice! 1) A full command group is just not necessary, since skaven champions are useless except for preventing your heroes from getting challenged. You have 36 points spent in champions alone, that's almost another 20 slaves! Only other reason for the champions would be if you are suspecting that they will bring a bunch of heroes, then use them to challenge and prevent too many casualties, OR to confuse your enemy as to where you will put your characters. 2) magic defense! I know you saved some points by removing the seer, but there are far too many spells out there that will decimate our precious (well, more like, expendable) rats. I suggest swapping out the ratling gun (and champions!) for at LEAST a lvl 1 warlock engineer with a scroll. good job otherwise. In the end though, build a list you like and have fun! That's what this game is about.
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| Harvest | 2nd January 2011 - 01:48 PM Post #9 |
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Clanrat
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Well, the lackof magic is actually a tad on purpose, since i wanted this to be an infantry army. I don't play to win, I play to have fun ^^ That being said, I might add an engineer, since they are relatively cheap, compared to the heroes of other races. |
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| Harvest | 11th January 2011 - 09:35 AM Post #10 |
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Clanrat
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Right! I finally had time to go an revise the armylist. It has now (hopefully) been tweaked to Skaven perfection! Lords & Heroes: Warlord Farkn: Great Weapon, Warpstone Armour, Foul Pendant, Skalm 171 Chieftan Squeelk BSB BSB, Talisman Of Preservation 115 Warlock Engineer Tweek Lvl 2 Wizard, 1 Dispel Scroll 125 Core: 2x30 Slaves 120 pts 30 Clanrats Musician, Standard Bearer, Shields, Warpfire Thrower 193 30 Clanrats Musician, Standard Bearer, Shields, Spears, 142 33 Stormvermin Musician, Standard Bearer, Storm Banner, 298 Special 30 Plague Monks Musician, Standard Bearer 225 6 Rat Ogres w/ 1 Master Moulder & 2 Packmasters Things Catcher 309 2 Doomwheels 300 2000 pts total No. Of Models: 197 |
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| Chitterfitz | 13th January 2011 - 03:49 AM Post #11 |
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Warlord
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I'de get rid of the great weapon, yeah its high Str., but you are giving up your very good Int. Its one of the best in the game, my own personal taste thats all, Im looking at trying sword of strike just so i hit on two's cause my warlord can't roll for poop. |
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| Harvest | 13th January 2011 - 11:10 AM Post #12 |
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Clanrat
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Well I must admit that I am a fan og Great Weapons (Probably from playing Dwarves for the past 10 years), so i am gonna try it out, and see how it works. If it does not work, I'll find an alternative (Perhaps two hand weapons) |
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| chiaroscuros | 13th January 2011 - 02:27 PM Post #13 |
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Warlord
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Couple thoughts. I would... boost your slaves up to at least 40 models each and add a musician and a naked warlock keep your clanrats at 30 models each but lose the champions If you are just learning skaven, PWMs are extremely flexible to use. And taking two gives you redundancy (which is always good). Once you are more confident, you might try two WFT's Our Cannons are the best guns in the game. Take at least one but two are better (redundancy). Take the Plague Banner if you are taking Plague Monks. It lets them take out almost any single unit if you haven't already taken massive casualties. Give some serious thought the the Plague Furnace. It will take firepower off the unit and really boosts the Plague Monks. Doomwheels are great at taking out individual heroes, warmachines and monsters. The HPA is great at all that AND it can take on blocks of troops too. With 500 points to play with in the rare section, I would either take two cannons and a HPA OR take a cannon, HPA and doomwheel. Lastly, a Grey Seer can single handedly win you games. And can block most of your opponents magic. If you are trying to get the 13th spell off, put him in a huge block of slaves and give him a power scroll. Otherwise give him a dispell scroll. Okay, working backwards, pointwise... 500ish points of troops, 415 to 470 points of rares, 275ish for the Grey Seer, 255 for the Monks, 100 for the BSB = 1545 points Against competitive lists, I think you HAVE to have all of these elements. So you have 450 points to play with. That gives you room for two or three of the following... rat ogres warlord more troops plague furnace storm banner If you want to boost your assaults, I would add the furnace, storm banner and either the rat ogres or warlord. If you want to go shooty you could add two clanrat units to get two more PWMs/WFTs. |
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| Harvest | 18th January 2011 - 10:51 AM Post #14 |
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Clanrat
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I see your points, but what I really wanted from my (first) skaven army was a massive infantry army, and not so much of the huge warmachines, HPA's etc etc. So i am probably gonna stick with this list for the first few games, and then start tweaking, and tweaking... And of course tweaking
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| chiaroscuros | 18th January 2011 - 08:56 PM Post #15 |
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Warlord
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Ironically, you can have easily have a massive 200+ model infantry army with all those warmachines... but I think what you are saying is that you want an assault based army not a shooty army. This will be tough. We don't have very good durable assault units - HPA and monks with furnace n plague banner are our two best ones and you don't want to take either. You could try a block of 40 stormvermin with full command, Queek and a warlock with skavenbrew. But it will cost you 745 points. For 609 points, you can get 40 plague monks with musician and plague banner with plague priest and plague furnace (although you really only need 35 monks). For 302 points you can get a Warlord w/ tail weapon, rat hound, warlitter, poison attacks (10 attacks by himself) in a unit of 56 slaves with spears, musician and champion (horde formation with 6 ranks) with another 29 attacks. And for 235 points, you can have a HPA. Just some food for thought... |
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Maybe exchange the weapon teams for WFT and PWM. And perhaps find some points for two more Ratogres somewhere xD

