3D6" From Rage Quit - 2014 Edition

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You can always use your Seer as your General though, no need for the 90 point tax. And I wouldn't worry about the 13th anyway, not when you're Skitterleaping your Fellblade-Warlord and various Engineers everywhere. :)

(not that this is necessarily advice for actually winning... I'm probably not the man for that kind of advice!)

[Pip]

Warlord's got higher Ld than the Seer, so he'll automatically be general if you don't take 2 - same reason you can't put an Oldblood on general duty in an army that has a Slann. Not to mention that the cheapo Warlord is easy to hide at the back of a unit, whereas the Seer is liable to be a prime target for the enemy and blow himself to smithereens at the first opportunity.

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You're forgetting 'because Skaven' - Seers are the same Ld as a General.

I mean, fair enough with the risk of blowing yourself up but I'd probably rather take 90 more points of something else though - there should be enough target saturation with WLCs, Abombs and Doomwheels (plus a few other toys) to keep the guy hidden for most of the game.

[Pip]

Oh really? I thought Seers were Ld6. Probably remembering that from the last book. Fair enough - 90pts is certainly useful to have spare.

[TkaiC]

I've not had much luck with globadiers, the short range has meant I struggle to get more than 1 round of shooting off with them (my poor manouvering being the main problem) and with BS3 they just don't rack up the wounds.  For the price of 4 globadiers I get a Warlock Engineer with a one shot template template version of the same weapon that I can Skitterleap into the right place.

The plan for the second Warlord is to keep the leadership bubble alive once Mr Seer has merrily thrown himself down a hole/been sniped early doors, once the LD7's gone all those checks get a lot harder! 90pts saved would be good

The reason I'm thinking of running minimal slaves is
(a) Clan rats can have banners
(b) Weapon teams = fun (although very expensive for what they usually do...die pointlessly)


Rares are where Skaven are made of win and points wise I can have a lot of cool stuff -  Abom, 2 Cannons and a Doomwheel looks...horrid.

Back of a fag packet 1 Warlord list:

[spoiler]Seer (Scroll & 4+ Ward)
Warlord (Fellblade)

3x Warlock Engineer (1 Rocket, 1 Globe, 1 Ruby Ring)
1x Warlock Engineer (lvl 1, Condenser)
BSB (Obsidian Trinket)

3x 20 Clan Rats, Full Command, Shields (1x Ratling Gun, 1x Warpthrower, 1x Mortar)
2x 30 Slaves

2x 5 Jezzails
3x 5 Gutter Runners (Slings, Poison)

Abom
2x Cannon
Doomwheel

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It's a simple castle list, the Gutter Runners are either scouting chaff or ambushing war machine hunters depending on opponents.  A Skitterleap each turn to get Captain Failblade or one of the 2 suicide warlocks into place whilst the flanks are guarded by the two random movement dudes.  I'll give it a run out but I think the Seer as General may be a bad thing...

[TkaiC]

Right, this post will be edited with some painted models this evening, but first, some learning points from my game against Mike's Empire yesterday.

1) I forgot that I actually have 4 Warlock Engineers in my list and so played without the one with the Condenser (extra Channel on a 5+) which would've helped. A lot.

2) I forgot Skaven Slaves don't run, they explode and prevent over-run.  This would've helped.  A lot.

3) Fellblade vs Demigryphs = dead Demis. 

4) Fellblade vs Warlord holding the Fellblade = kills himself with literally the last roll of the game.  Classic.

5) I'm really rusty on WFB.  This is worrying with 5 weeks til a probably very competitive tournament and only a week til list submission!

EDIT - Here's are some painted models as promised:

Skaven aren't known for their accuracy, but 2 units of 5 Jezzails seem to be pretty effective at pinging wounds off heavily armoured targets:





I just need to find another 7 at a non-ridiculous price in the next couple of weeks... 

And, in the oh so likely event they fail, more barrels = more fun:

[Angelus Mortifer]

Got to love some classic Skaven. If I had more time I would so start a Skaven army again. Very cool matey.

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Remember though that exploding Slaves don't prevent overrunning any more - that was in that weird, wonderful phase where GW went a bit mad with some of the rules in a FAQ - I believe that things are back to normal now (same with Unstable units).

[Pip]

I just need to find another 7 at a non-ridiculous price in the next couple of weeks...

Think I've got either 5 or 6 painted Jezzails on a shelf at home - would be happy to lend them to you for the tourney.

Glad to hear the Fellblade had a fun time - always used to think it was massive overkill, but in the current meta it seems like a hilarious antidote to all the monstrous cav spam. Bonus points if you can get it into a gutstar!

[roland murat]

Taking down a CoK bus (with all the characters) would also be highly amusing