This must be some crazy shit, but I just involved in Skaven too!
My friend gave me a whole bunch of unassembled Skaven stuff and that's enough for me to really get started on the army. A few bucks here and there and I should have a huge army. That's pretty good considering I didn't spend anything on the Ogres. My only problem is.. I have limited amounts of experience with and against the rats. I've been developing a list lately and it looks something like this.
Keep in mind that I have rules!
- The first rule is that I wanna take Queek Headtaker because I like his fluff and his rules.
- I will not be using the Hell Pit Abomination. I hate the model, hate the rules and I don't want to hear people bitch.
- Out of all the clans, I think I like Clan Pestilens the most. Hence why I have some of the Poison Wind stuff.
2500
14 drops
LORDS:
Queek Headtaker = 215
Lv.4 Grey Seer (Scroll) = 265
Lore of Ruin
HEROES:
Chieftain (BSB, Shield) = 72
Warlock Engineer (Brass Orb) = 65
Warlock Engineer (Doomrocket) = 45
Lv.1 Warlock Engineer (Condenser) = 85
Lore of Ruin
CORE:
35x Super Stormvermin (FC, Razor Standard) = 455
35x Clanrats (FC) = 242.5
+Poison Wind Mortar
35x Clanrats (FC) = 242.5
+Poison Wind Mortar
40x Skavenslaves (Musician) = 82
40x Skavenslaves (Musician) = 82
6x Giant Rats (Handler) = 23
6x Giant Rats (Handler) = 23
6x Giant Rats (Handler) = 23
RARE:
Doomwheel = 150
Doomwheel = 150
Warp Lightning Cannon = 90
Warp Lightning Cannon = 90
Plagueclaw Catapult = 100
My biggest problem is that I don't know what's acceptable as core and what formation the units will be in. I know how to do elite and expensive armies, but an entire made of random fodder is new to me. I mean, look at how many models this is! It's insane..
The Super Stormvermin is upgraded with Queek's benefits. WS5, S5 with Halberds and Razor Standard is pretty insane for damage. Right now, I'm thinking about putting them in 7x5 formation. Does this work? Or should I spend the points to get a bigger unit in general and put them in Horde formation?
What about the rest of the core? Clanrats should be 5x7 deep and Skavenslaves is 5x8. How does that look? The Rat Darts are there for deployment reasons and the rare slot is filled with all kinds of crazy contraptions. Doomwheels do good amounts of damage once they start blasting into combat and I've seen Warp Lightning Cannons do crazy stuff. The Plagueclaw is there to drop Large Templates (great vs. Warriors of Chaos!) with no armor saves and the rest of stuff is pretty self-explanatory.
Thoughts? It looks pretty solid to me but I'd like to know your opinions.
PS - I must be crazy to take this army with so many projects already.. but the price was just too good to pass up on.
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I personally like the Horde formation, but I think it depends on the armies you're fighting as well.
I would recommend deploying your stormvermin in horde formation, so that 3 ranks can fight . I would also recommend putting your clanrats and skavenslae in horde so you get the maximum amount of attacks. I have seen hordes of stormvermin with queeks upgrades slay White lions and sword masters
-The clan rat unit don't really need to be that big if you're just taking them for the mortars (which are actually Skrye themed as are the globadiers)
-With the points you save with giving the doom rocket to the level one warlock and dropping the spare warlock then adding the points saved from the clan rat units being reduced by 15 models each you could field 40x Plauge monks + fc + plauge banner (295) for a really hard hitting pestilens unit.
-Also the rat darts are only 23 points if you have 5 rats and a packmaster not 6
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