2000pt Skaven Army

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**Nightblade**

Skaven Army (2000pts.)

The Doombringers

Clan: Clan Estil [/i]

Core

The Horde:[/b]

30 Clanrats (full command)

w/ spears and Warpfire Thrower - 280pts.

-Clawleader: Sceek

30 Clanrats (full command)

w/ spears and Warpfire Thrower - 280pts.

-Clawleader: Blythe

[/b]

The Veterans:[/b]

20 Stormvermin (full command)

w/ shields, Ratling Gun, and War Banner - 290pts.

-Fangleader: Shurek

Special

The Phantoms:[/b]

10 Gutter Runners (one Black Skaven)

w/ poisoned HW’s and poisoned throwing stars - 192pts.

-Blacken Skaven: Knetto

The Reapers:[/b]

10 Warplock Jezzails - 200pts.

The Infested:[/b]

19 Plague Monks (full command)

w/ additional HW’s and Umbranner - 212pts.

-Deacon: Skric

The Crushers:[/b]

3 Rat Ogre Packs - 150pts.

Rare

The Heartstopper: [/b]

1 Warp-Lightning Cannon - 100pts.

Characters

Vecter: [/b]

Plague Priest w/ additional HW, Sword of Battle, and Sword of Might - 119pts.

Sletto:[/b]

Assassin w/ smoke bombs and Blade of Black Fury - 175pts.

Total: 1998pts.

Will it work? Advice? Ideas? Love to hear em'

**Nightblade**

Please help me out on making this army more formidable with any thoughts or advice that you might have. Thank you!

**Scipio**

How to make this army more effective? Skaven are easy to make effective and there is plenty of lists on this site to point you in the right direction.

For starter ditch the warpfire throwers...they have a tendency of hurting you more then your enemy. Ratling Guns will actually do more damage to your enemy.

If you really want to be effective I have two words for you "Warp Lightning".

**Nightblade**

Cool I think I'll ditch the warpire throwers and get another ratling gun and a warplightning cannon to keep the shooting power going. Thanks!

**ether dude**

Ditch the stormvermin and plaguemonks for another unit of clanrats and 3 units of slaves (25+). Also, drop your rediculously over-priced unit of gutter runners and the rat ogres in favor of 3 units of giant rat packs. For heroes, ditch what you've got, get a warlord and a chieftain battle standard (with the war banner or something similar) and get 2 warlock engineers. If you want to be magic heavy (very popular) get a grey seer and 3 engineers. Only do that if you don't want your friends to speak to you again. Split your jezzails into 2 units of 5-as is they're sitting ducks.
That's a pretty classic skaven horde/shooty build. I'd be tempted to just get a massive amount of rats on the table and crush the opposition with weight of numbers. Either way, it might be nice to get a couple of small night runner/gutterrunner units to have about to eal with warmachines (although, you've got so many men it doesn't really matter).
cheers

**Nightblade**

I think I'm going to go with the idea of dropping the Stormvermin and adding more Clanrats with 3 Ratling Guns, 10 Jezzails, and 2 Warplightning Cannons I'm sure to do some shooting damage. Up close I'll now have 3 Clanrat units 30 strong and 1 unit of Slaves. I'm dropping the gutter runners, the stormvermin, and the plague monks along with my heros to take another unit of Rat Ogres and bulk both up to 4 strong. Finally I'm going magic heavy with 1 Grey Seer and 3 Engineers. I'll probably do like ether dude said and split my unit of Jezzails into 2 units of 5. The Doombringers are coming, beware!!!