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Hero:

Engineer - Warpmusket - 30
Engineer - Warpmusket - 30
Engineer - Warpmusket - 30
Engineer - Warpmusket - 30
Engineer - Warpmusket - 30
Engineer - Warpmusket - 30
Engineer - Warpmusket - 30
Engineer - Warpmusket - 30
Engineer - Warpmusket - 30
Engineer - Warpmusket - 30
Engineer - Warpmusket, warlock optics - 50
Engineer - Level 1 wizard, dispel scroll - 90
Engineer - Level 1 wizard, dispel scroll - 90
Engineer - Level 1 wizard, dispel scroll - 90

Core:

20 slaves - slings - 50
20 slaves - slings - 50
20 clanrats, spears - ratling gun - 145
20 clanrats, spears - ratling gun - 145
20 clanrats, spears - ratling gun - 145
20 clanrats, spears - poisoned wind mortar - 155

Special:

10 Zezzails - sharpshooter team - 210
10 Zezzails - sharpshooter team - 210
12 globadiers - bombardier, poisoned wind mortar - 190

Rare:

Doomwheel - 150
Doomwheel - 150
Warp lightning cannon - 90
Warp lightning cannon - 90
Plagueclaw catapault - 100




Anyway, as the title suggested, its skyre themed.
The warlocks are there simply because im yet to see anyone run soo many of them (possibly a reason for that) and they make great snipers.
All in all, i just wanted an army with good shooting and the ability to deal with heavily armoured units.
C&C wanted, and any way to add more fire power is much appreciated. (remove all the cheap locks and max out as many points as possible on 3 jezzail units?)
Also, i want the list to work to some degree, but more than that, i want an amusing army to play with.

looks interesting...

The main thing is you cant have multiple dispell scrolls.

This is my main problem, im new to WHFB.
Ive allways assumed that the 1 per army limit on items wasnt in use with the common magic items like the scrolls.
In which case, ill possibly drop 2 of them and add in another musket engineer and throw the other points elsewhere.

I'd cut the number of engineers in half, and add another unit... people might resent seeing that many cheap heroes!

RiTides - Stats wise though they are like clanrats with an extra wound.
They cant fight to save thier lives, and thier BS is the same as a clanrat (funny how the engineers have a lower BS than a chieften)

So all in all, they are hardly game breaking, i just think they would make a good screen against knight heavy armies (with backup from the jezzails of course)

You cant call it a skyre army without a brass orb or death globe!

OR A DOOMROCKET

HERESY!

Heh, i have taken those into account.
I do however remember seeing a failed brass orb against a steam tank lol.
With models that go wrong or have weird effects, im happy.
But paying a fair bit (nearly another engineer) for a weapon that wont work isnt my thing.

The whole catch is a close range template that will scatter, and with my luck, it wont end well.



With skaven ive been stuck between clans though.

Skyre - Love the randomness, they can shoot all day long and have magic, so wont get hammered too badly by elves / VC.

Eshin - Simply the only thing here stopping me is the not a leader rule and the fact snikch has been reduced to a hero, while the other old characters stay a lord.
He also got a nasty power cut, so no more S10 attacks -_-

Moors - Not sure how well this would work to be honest, but queek leading with 2 more warlords, as many chieftens as i could fit in a list, then just pack the rest of the list with stormvermin (queeks unit upgraded via his special rule)
The main problems here are lack of magic and no magic defence, no shooting and no real options with units (simply just characters and a single unit type)

The army list you've written is very "themed" as you said. To use it though, you'd need to be willing to take lots of your own models off each turn!

Isnt that the fun of skaven?

I dont play competative in WHFB since im just getting into it.
Ill play comp. 40k since i know the rules in a nutshell.

For now i just want to play about and have a laugh until i can get a good grasp on the rules.

That's a good attitude to take if you're just getting started.

IT seems fun! i had a similar eshin list planned! lol many assasins!

lord - I wish i could go with eshin.
Need a non assassin character to start with though.


Also, with assassins being pretty heavy on points it doesent help much since you could only take either: (2,000 point game)

4 assassins - 20 points left over.
snikch + 1 assassin - 10 points left over.

for your lord you could take queek, and model him as an assasin lol

I guess the theme would be fun, but probably going to be very hard to play. Skaven benefit most from the general's leadership plus their rank bonus, so at best your looking at LD 8 in the army. Your unit sizes are waaaaay too small - need 30 or more generally.

If you wanted to build it go ahead, but thats alot of money to spend on a list like that.

I'd really consider a Warlord with a Folding Fortress to put one of those Jezzail units into.

This is why i called it a fun list, rather than competative

If i wanted that, i would have a warlord for the LD boost, 40 clans per unit, 50+ slaves per unit, and i wouldnt take all those engineers (just a few LVL 2's)

However, i want the list for fun as i plan on building a few skaven armies (1 for each main clan) then adding them together for a large army. (in which case, i can pick and choose units when i need to then)

i really like this idea but dont want to totally steal it so ive come up with an idea similar----
the clan of the "fiery rat"
basicly pyromancer skaven!
model them all counjouring and shooting fore bals
and all forms of guns could be counjourd, the doom weel could be an abomination spinning chains around wreathed in flames...flame-chains (lol)
and all the engineers could look more sorcery...


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and by similar i mean similar unit types...