| Fighty Plague Priest in 8'th | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: 11th September 2011 - 11:01 AM (755 Views) | |
| Krede | 11th September 2011 - 11:01 AM Post #1 |
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Cheers all you dirty rats out there!. I've had a couple of 1500pt games in with my skaven by now, and have so far run a Grey seer as my caster. However, it seems to me that this ties up a unit of 35 or so of clanrats in in order to have a safe place to keep him, as well as well as occupying my general choice. We have plans of limiting casters to level 2 or 3 for 1500 pt games, so I have begun considering the Priest as a fighty caster that will let me use the "bunker" unit more offensively. Can the little critter be kitted out to actually hold his own in a fight? and how would you go about it? |
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| dutchwarlord | 11th September 2011 - 11:21 AM Post #2 |
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Plague Cencer Bearer
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He can be a good fighter, if you give him a tail weapon and an extra hw, he has 6 attacks. Than you still have points left for a ward save or such. You could also go for the opal amy and a magic weapon. But he is not as good as a chaos lord or such... |
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| blader4411 | 11th September 2011 - 11:27 AM Post #3 |
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The New Lunar Republic!
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I normally just give him a Flail, those 4 S6 attacks make him enough to deal with units. We can't make him good enough to fight a kitted out character, since the best he can have is a 4+ Ward Save. -Blader |
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| Rusty Tincanne | 13th September 2011 - 06:35 PM Post #4 |
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...you can still call me Rusty Tincanne if you want, though.
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As has been pointed out, A priest (or any skaven character for that matter) is not going to stand toe-to-claw with another hero and come out on top. A priest can do some serious damage though. If you really want to focus on fighting, the fencer's blades (from the BRB) is quite nice. Add a tail weapon if you can (don't have the books handy for points, etc). You can run this guy behind the enemy and (facing away from the oppponents to avoind a frenzied charge) cast a nice amount of non line-of-sight spells, such as Wither. If you want to have him in a unit for leadership, I would follow Blader's suggestion. That flail can really crush skulls in that first round of combat. |
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| Flem | 14th September 2011 - 02:55 PM Post #5 |
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A blood curling cough a day, keeps the assassins away
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The plague priest can really pack some punch because of his frenzy and the mundane weapons at his disposal. Also there are those items out there that even add a little extra, potion of strenght or that potion that grants devestating charge(one extra attack). Even better is the fact that every one of the plague spells can be cast in combat , so he does support even further then his standard attacks. Most of the time i give mine a flail and the +1 attack when charging potion, those 5 strenght 6 attacks the first turn of combat really do the trick! But remember (as Nurglitch so kindly pointed out), Skaven charachters are fragile against most other charachters out there so avoid them, despite packing a good punch the plague priest isn't that protected when taking hits. Flem, |
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| Rusty Tincanne | 15th September 2011 - 02:00 AM Post #6 |
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...you can still call me Rusty Tincanne if you want, though.
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But it does save time in combat when you don't need to roll for any armour saves! "Yes, I'll kindly take those wounds, thank you."
Edited by Rusty Tincanne, 15th September 2011 - 02:00 AM.
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| mrtn | 17th September 2011 - 11:30 PM Post #7 |
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Swashbuckler
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If you run the priest with monks I prefer a flail or a censer over extra attacks, you have loads of low-strength attacks from the monks, better to augment that with a few high-strength attacks from the priest than just extra attacks. The Scrying Stone is a cheap way to protect a priest, a 3+ ward for the first wound is good, and if you get the stupidity chances are that you are in combat anyway and won't suffer from it.
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| Solegga | 23rd September 2011 - 05:52 PM Post #8 |
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Warlord
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I've never given my Plague Priest any items! Guess I'm too sure of myself when the PFurnace comes crushing down on them, magic-whipping them all the way before that happens. Chaos Warriors and Daemons have proven to be a problem sometimes, dwarfs are definitely a problem with their Grudge-throwers just standing there and aiming at big Targets (Bell, Furnace, HPA). I don't usually bring the HPA so they are left with 2 precise (and precious) targets...I prefer many weak attacks over few powerfull ones. Just the look on the opponents' face when you start taking all the dice in your hand and they are still not enough... ... all the money in the world!
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Guess I'm too sure of myself when the PFurnace comes crushing down on them, magic-whipping them all the way before that happens. Chaos Warriors and Daemons have proven to be a problem sometimes, dwarfs are definitely a problem with their Grudge-throwers just standing there and aiming at big Targets (Bell, Furnace, HPA). I don't usually bring the HPA so they are left with 2 precise (and precious) targets...
... all the money in the world!