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Topic Started: 8th March 2012 - 07:48 PM (157 Views)
GreenGrin


Brand new to Warhammer and looking for some advice with my army list.

Heroes

Chief - halberd 47
BSB - shield 72
Engineer - Lvl 1 55
Engineer - Doom Rocket, warp pistol 53
227

Core

40x Slaves - Musician 82
30x Clan rats - Spear, Shields F/C 160
30x Clan rats - Shields F/C 145
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5|1 Giant rats | Packmaster 23
433

Special

5x Gutter runners - slings, poison attacks 90

Rare

Hell pit - Spikes 250

1000


Just realised I can only have a max of 3 heroes, so which should I drop and where should the points go? All help will be greatly appreciated :rogre2:
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Looks like you're having the same confusion I did with my first list.
The hero/lord number thingumy is gone with 8th. Your looking at the percentages now. Max 25% heroes, max 25% lords.

I like it overall, not keen on the naked chief, I cant see him achieving very much but you have to make some sacrifices to fit a HPA in 1000pts I guess.
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GreenGrin
8th March 2012 - 07:48 PM
Brand new to Warhammer and looking for some advice with my army list.

Heroes

Chief - halberd 47
BSB - shield 72
Engineer - Lvl 1 55
Engineer - Doom Rocket, warp pistol 53

Just realised I can only have a max of 3 heroes, so which should I drop and where should the points go? All help will be greatly appreciated :rogre2:
Ignore that.

You probably want to read through the FAQ Skaven FAQ - PDF version - Updated 11/15/11

Basically you get up to 25% of list total for Heroes, for Lords and for Rares (for this list that's 250) THat's each, so you could have 75% here. BUUUUT....
You need a minimum of 25% Core.
You can have up to 50% Special.
Finally, you're limited to no more than 3 of each type of special, and 2 of each Type of Rare. That means you can take 2 DoomWheels and an Abomination (if you have the points) but not 3 Doomwheels.

All that said: Fairly solid list.

Only change you might make, and this only because you didn't realize you could:
* Drop the Chief, Move the DoomRocket to your caster and drop the other Warlock, loose the spears and both Champions (total rebate: 101, If I counted right)
* Buy a Warlord, with some points left for basic Gear.
Rageaholic
8th March 2012 - 08:36 PM
I like it overall, not keen on the naked chief, I cant see him achieving very much but you have to make some sacrifices to fit a HPA in 1000pts I guess.
Abom, Grey Seer, and Plague Furnace are all possible at 1000 (individually at least) but there are MAJOR sacrifices most of the time. (Furnace is the Worst) That said, there's something to be said for having any one of those three powerhouses in a game where most players are running mainly core level units. I actually enjoy the Grey Seer build, dropping level 4 spells when most guys have a level 1 dispell is great. I'm also slightly alergic to Random, and the Abomb is definately that.


As for what the Naked Chieftain does: He's Ld 6, which is better than the Clanrats 5 or the slaves 2, and if you can keep everyone within 12" of the unit with the General and the Banner it gives rerollable LD 9 checks to everyone. Swapping out for a Warlord improves that to Rerollable 10 (99.4% success rate) while they've got at least 3 Ranks!


@GreenGrin: Do post battle reports when you try this out. I look forward to seeing how you do.
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GreenGrin


Thank you both for pointing out the 25% rules. I did read it in the rulebook but disregarded it when I saw the army book. So thanks for pointing me back in the right direction.

I'll definitely consider dropping a few things to get the warlord better equipped.

Cheers again :rogre: :rogre2:
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GreenGrin
8th March 2012 - 11:36 PM
Thank you both for pointing out the 25% rules. I did read it in the rulebook but disregarded it when I saw the army book. So thanks for pointing me back in the right direction.

I'll definitely consider dropping a few things to get the warlord better equipped.

Cheers again :rogre: :rogre2:
It's the exception that prove the rule as it were. The Army book is always correct over the BRB (core), except on that one page, where BRB 150-155 is ALWAYS right.

Don't feel bad though, I was 5 or 6 builds in, and 2 GAMES in, before I realized that Magical Items are unique, and I cannot take 3 Warlocks each with Warlock Optics and Warpstone Armor.
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