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I'm recently starting a Skaven army and its vanilla but Eshin-oriented and I was wondering what the general consenus is on Night Runners/Gutter Runners, what for the unit size, what weapons to give em, stuff like that.

I also was wondering what yall give your clanrats, i currently have two units, one with shields and combat weapon and one with shields and spears

thanks!

HW + Shield on everything. Those troops will win combat by not dying. They don't need token S3 attacks.

Night Runners can't be equipped with shields, and I do have the Clanrats with shields, but should i give the second unit of Clanrats spears or continue HW?

So i guess my main question now is Night Runners? Unit size? Additional hand weapon? throwing stars? slings? ive heard all of them and i dont really know what to go with

I think that Big Chris was referring to Clanrats being only armed with hand weapons & shields (cheaper & better save). But, for Night runners i usually run units of 10 with 2 hand weapons which works with some success, or rather as much as 10 Skaven can. For Gutter Runners I like to tool them up all the way poisoned hand weapons & stars. But, the general unwritten rule of Skaven is that they have the potential to win big with great success or loss big terribly. So, it's mainly a matter of how much of a risk are you willing to take by sinking points into skirmishers.

Poisoned Hand Weapons...i used them with only that (keeps them reasonably cheap) and can annoy the opponent.
I often use one tunneler team (just nice against artillery) and one ordinary gutter team. That way you can somewhat control the possibilities of tunnelers missfiring.

Greets
Schepp himself

In my army I invested in only one unit of 10 Gutter Runners with one being a black skaven, for upgrades I gave them poisoned HW's and poisoned Throwing Stars great for harassing small enemy units.