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I've just started WHFB, and I have the island of blood box and 40 extra clanrats, an extra warpfire thrower and wind mortar (which i traded the high elves for, bar the mage and gryphon (still trying to think of conversion oppurtunities for it) so i found this army on the GW website which i could do if i had a few extra stuff:
(if its green i already have it, so dont get rid of the model itsef. of course i could use the model with different upgrades or as summit else eg: clanrats = skaven slaves. whicheve one you think is best, i just really dont want to waste my money)


LORDS & HEROES

Skreet Verminkin
Warlord with heavy armour, halberd and Talisman of Protection.
108 points
Ratchitt
Level 2 Warlock Engineer with warplock pistol and Sword of Might.
128 points
Vitchkritt
Chieftain with great weapon and Rat Hound Bodyguard, carrying the battle standard.
79 Points

Netch Cravenblade
Assassin with two hand weapons and throwing stars.
120 points

CORE

vretch Toothsnapper's Vile-kin
20 Clanrats with shields and spears, musician, standard bearer and Clawleader with attached Poisoned Wind Mortar.
185 points

Skreem Warptaker's Shield-stabbers
20 Clanrats with shields and hand weapons, musician, standard bearer and Clawleader with attached Warpfire Thrower.
180 points

Meek Snidewhisker's Clan Brotherhood
40 Clanrats with shields and spears, musician, standard bearer and Clawleader with attached Ratling Gun.
275 points
Reeckel's Pack
6 Giant Rats with 2 Packmasters.
34 points

SPECIAL

Greel's Pets
2 Rat Ogres with Master Moulder wielding a Shock-prod.
138 points
Sturg and Murg
2 Rat Ogres with Packmaster.
88 points

The Pox-Ridden
20 Plague Monks with musician, standard bearer and Bringer-of-the-Word.
165 points

1500 POINTS

I'm a complete noob wen it comes to fantasy so please dont judge me if this is a bad army list. any changes would be wwelcome and i'd quite like to increase this to 2000 points and possibly include a HPA or summit similar. grey seers? i dont know whats good, so im gonna need some help. also, i would quite like an 800 pt army for school league. if anyone has any idea please post. thanks.

Combine the rat ogres into a single unit, upgrade one to a master bred rat. Swap shock prod for great weapon.

I like swords more than spears on my clan rats, but YMMV.
Drop most/all of the claw leaders, and swap out the sword of might for a doom rocket.
Get your BSB a ward save of some sort, and a shield.
Your general could use a little more protection too.
Assassins are fun, but not very good; gutter runners will do the same job for less points (hunt warmachines).

The Plague monks are a lot better when you have a furnace, which is what I would add to bring this list to 2,000 points.

-Matt

If you like the HPA fit one in at 1,500, 2 at 2,000 if you want. At 1,500 I would also try and add a Warp Lightning Cannon they are pretty effective.

cool, thanks 4 the info. what are waro lighting cannons used 4 btw?

ok, so ive been told that plague monks and plague furnaces are nice, so my 800 pt army is made up of 40 clanrats, with 2 plague mortars, 1 cheiftan as bsb and a plague priest as hq, with the rest made up of plague monks. anything else needed there? possibly a monster or summit? help would be great.
for the 2000 pt army:
same as b4, but with a plague furnace, all the suggested changes and possibly a few HPA's and more plague monks iff thats possible to fit in. if not, ill lose the rat ogres to do it.

They are nice but the problem is you are looking at 250pts for a non equipped level 1 Plague Priest, so you bump him to level 2 since a level 2 caster is pretty mandatory at 1,500 for the +2 to dispel, and you give him a ward save and you're looking at 300+pts, leaving 75pts for a BSB which will get you a pretty stripped down BSB with almost no magic defense items. I would not look into fitting one in until at least 2k.

As for the WLC, it's made for everything. Fires like a cannon except uses a small template at the end of the "bounce" that has a strength of whatever the artillery dice roll was for the "bounce" so it could be strength 2 or it could be strength 10. If someone has a hydra or another monster it's great, and if you fire it into an elite unit it will do some damage. And it's cheap 90pts, even if it misfires ohhh well.

EDIT. Also each unsaved wound becomes D6 wounds.