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This is the tourney list I plan on running once everything is all painted up. I want it to be competitive but I also want my opponent to feel like he's fighting Skaven so I want lots of toys, tricks and stuff that blows up. With that in mind, I welcome any comments and criticisms.

2500 Pts - Clan Shenanigans

Grey Seer on Bell goes in 35 clanrat unit, horde formation with bell - 10 wide, 5 deep.
Plague priest on Furnace goes in 30 plaguemonk unit, horde formation with furnace - 10 wide, 4 deep with stragglers.
Warlock Engineer caster goes in 20 clanrat unit.
Warlock Engineers with Doom Rocket, Brass Orb and Death Globe will go into 20 clanrat unit and be skitterleap'd out to cause trouble in the enemy's deployment zone.
1. Doom Rocket - Flank of enemy's deployment, shoot down the line.
2. Brass Orb - Steam tank or big block of elites.
3. Death Globe - Monster or big block of low Init models.

I plan to tie things up as long as possible with the slave units and angle the warpfire throwers in to template whatever they're fighting. Grey Seer will also scorch or 13th spell units that get tarpitted depending on circumstances.

=Lords=
Grey Seer (2#, 465 pts)
1 Grey Seer @ 465 pts (General; Hand Weapon; Screaming Bell)
1 Screaming Bell (Causes Fear; Large Target; Magic Resistance (2))
1 Dispel Scroll

=Heroes=
Plague Priest (2#, 319 pts)
1 Plague Priest @ 319 pts (Level 2 Upgrade; Hand Weapon; Flail; Frenzy)
1 Plague Furnace (Frenzy; Large Target; Magic Resistance (2))
1 Foul Pendant

Warlock Engineer (1#, 120 pts)
1 Warlock Engineer @ 120 pts (Level 2 Wizard; Hand Weapon)
1 Warp-Energy Condenser

Warlock Engineer (1#, 45 pts)
1 Warlock Engineer @ 45 pts (Hand Weapon)
1 Doomrocket

Warlock Engineer (1#, 40 pts)
1 Warlock Engineer @ 40 pts (Hand Weapon)
1 Death Globe

Warlock Engineer (1#, 65 pts)
1 Warlock Engineer @ 65 pts (Hand Weapon)
1 Brass Orb

=Core=
Clanrats (37#, 248 pts)
34 Clanrats @ 248 pts (Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield)
1 Clawleader (Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield)
2 Warpfire Thrower Weapon Team (Warpfire Thrower; Hand Weapon; Heavy Armour)

Clanrats (23#, 177 pts)
21 Clanrats @ 177 pts (Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield)
2 Warpfire Thrower Weapon Team (Warpfire Thrower; Hand Weapon; Heavy Armour)

Clanrat Slaves (25#, 69 pts)
24 Skavenslaves @ 69 pts (Musician Mus; Hand Weapon; Shield)
1 Pawleader (Hand Weapon; Shield)

Clanrat Slaves (25#, 69 pts)
24 Skavenslaves @ 69 pts (Musician Mus; Hand Weapon; Shield)
1 Pawleader (Hand Weapon; Shield)

Clanrat Slaves (25#, 69 pts)
24 Skavenslaves @ 69 pts (Musician Mus; Hand Weapon; Shield)
1 Pawleader (Hand Weapon; Shield)

=Special=
Plague Monks (30#, 235 pts)
29 Plague Monks @ 235 pts (Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Extra Hand Weapon; Extra Attack; Frenzy)
1 Bringer-of-the-Word (Hand Weapon; Extra Hand Weapon; Extra Attack; Frenzy)

Gutter Runners (5#, 90 pts)
5 Gutter Runners @ 90 pts (Hand Weapon; Extra Hand Weapon; Sling; Throwing Star; Poisoned Attacks; Scouts; Skirmishers)

=Rare=
Doomwheel (1#, 150 pts)
1 Doomwheel @ 150 pts (Causes Terror; Immune to Psychology; Large Target)
1 Crew (Warlock & Rats)

Hell Pit Abomination (1#, 250 pts)
1 Hell Pit Abomination @ 250 pts (Warpstone Spikes; Causes Terror; Large Target; Regenerate; Stubborn)

Warp-Lightning Cannon (1#, 90 pts)
1 Warp-Lightning Cannon @ 90 pts
1 Engineer & Crew

Why only one cannon those are really nice. Also what amkes you take the warpfire cannon over the ratlling gun? I want to understand your thoughts here. I liek the list to begin with it just feels a little small.

Timespiral wrote:Why only one cannon those are really nice. Also what amkes you take the warpfire cannon over the ratlling gun? I want to understand your thoughts here. I liek the list to begin with it just feels a little small.

Ratling is meh in most peoples experience. the fact that you have to roll to hit kinda sucks when most of the others pretty much inflict auto hits

Ratling gun gets on average 10-11 shots before misfire becomes almost inevitable. At bs 3, 5 will hit. 3-4 wound then saves.

Warpfire thrower misfires a straight 1/6 of the time, auto hits, no partials, wounds most r&f on a 2+, armor saves are at -2, unsaved wounds are flaming attacks and even 1 unsaved wound causes a panic test.

Understood as to why, my personal experience leads me to liking the ratling gun.

More power to you. I like the idea of the ratling gun and if I didn't have to roll to hit, I'd take them every time.

Made some slight changes to the list to get more toys in! =)

Have I mentioned I hate you and your rats? In that order. In all seriousness, though, I do like this list, but I'd probably put a second Cannon in it if I could. A second cannon will do more to the things you're dive-bombing your Warlocks into and you won't be relying on skitterleap.

That being said, a second cannon is far less fun than tossing Warlocks with toys around. No pistol on the seer?

Reliability? Redundancy? A grey seer craves not these things...

Hmmm, I did lose the pistol on the seer. K, will add that back. =)