WHFB : Army Lists

[W.E.G]

so if all goes to plan i may be changing my army for nats from beastmen to Skaven (depending how fast i think i can get em all painted.

my skaven list at the moment looks like this:

Warlord - bone breaker, wizarding hat
Warlord - bone breaker, talisman of preservation, enchanted shield
sword of anti-heroes, the other trickersters shard
plague priest - lv2, flail, foul pendant, plague furnace
warlock engineer - lv1, Dispel Scroll
warlock engineer - Lv1, Condensor, Doomrocket
Cheiften - BsB, Dragonhelm, Sheild, Add hand wep

4x20 clanrats - f.cmd, shields, Plague wind mortor

39 plague monks - F.cmd, Plague banner

2 x plagueclaw catapults

doomwheel

2496 total

not overly magical with 2 lv 2's and 2 lv1's. but theres alot more models in the list than im use too and its not over powered which will be a change since last 2 yrs iv played daemons.

so any thoughts (other than drop the rat ogres and wizarding hat as i really like the models n thts why there in there and the hats there for random fun)

fair amount of shooting all with no armour save but mostly wounding on 5 n 6's.

thoughts?

[Ben]

Not sure about the clanrat blocks, maybe drop one or two of them for some slave hordes?

[W.E.G]

i do like the idea of bigger blocks but also thinking transportation (and cost) lol will prob use the spear rats i get as slaves since i dont use em as clanrats will only have 60+ so maybe just 1 massive horde unit lol 158pts i think with muscian and champ, maybe pay the extra 30pts for shields,

curse u ben now i want a big block of slaves

ps. got the 4 blocks to maximize mortar opertunities love havin 4 move n fire wepons that wound on 5+ with no armour save

[W.E.G]

hey guys just curious which set up do you think is better on a skaven warlord

Warlord 1
War-litter
Shield
Warpstone Armour
Dawnstone
Ogre Blade
Potion of Foolhardiness

or

Warlord 2
War-litter
talisman of preservation
enchanted shield
sword of anti-heroes
the other trickersters shard

[Ben]

I think I'm preferring warlord 2, the shard is very powerful and this warlord seems remarkably tough to de-throne with his 2+ armour save. Personally, I'd consider taking the weeping blade over the sword of anti-heroes for its use in chopping down rank and file models thanks to AP, as well as being especially useful against war machines and ogre-likes with the d3 multiwound. But that's just a personal choice, of course.

[Craig]

Since we are discussing ill put mine up.

Slann
extra power die
loremaster
cupped hands of the old ones
BSB

Skink Chief
addtional hand wpn
War spear
stegadon

Scar-Vet
Great Weapon
Armour of fortune
Venom of the firefly

20 x saurus, full command

20x saurus, full command

10x skink skrimshers
10x skink skrimishers

25 temple guard
lichborne pennant

Stegadon

2x salamader hunting pack
2 x salamander hunting pack


I know i dont have a dispel scroll, but the cupped hands of the old ones is too much to resist, ive proven the skink cheif works now with the 2d6+1 impact hits, his 3 str 6 attacks, stegdons 4 str 5 attacks, 4 skink str 3 attacks, and a d6 thunder stomp.

Also dont have anything against warmachines, as terradons are 30pts a pop and really fragile. Any changes or suggestions?

[Paul]

lose the slann, Skink Chief, Scar-Vet and Stegadons and replace it with six skink priests

[W.E.G]

altho you have the 2 stegs i still felt more threaten by the the 2 slanns from the list you tried against me. plus i really liked the whole life and death thing.

im assumin scarvet in the temple guard the 6x5 with slann could be a pain to try and budge lol

tis a nice list even seems kinda balanced :-)

ignore paul he's just cranky he has to buy a new orc n goblin book n lots of new models lol