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Hey guys I am looking to get into fantasy and decided to go with a Skaven army. I'm really just looking for a solid 1500 point army. I have about 80 Clan rats give or take, some Giant Rat Ogres, A warp lightning cannon, and some gutter runners along with some HQs one of which being Grey Seer Thanquol and Bone Ripper. I also have the models from island of blood along with a bunch of the support gun teams. Rattling guns and a bunch of the Lobber guys. Never played fantasy before so im not exactly sure where to start. I don't want to waste money on models that ill never use considering i dump most of my cash into 40k. I do like the Bell/Furnace model as well as the doom wheel so I do want to field those if I could at this points level. Could anyone give me a general direction to start and then ill make a list? Thank you.

Well fantasy has a cap on the points you are allowed to take for things
25% Lords
25% Heroes
at least 25% in Core must be taken
50% Special
25% Rare

Because of this cap a couple things are out like Screaming Bells min 440pts
A plague furnace can be taken but it's a lot of points about 325 with a level 2 plague priest with some equipment, plague monks are what you want to push this thing and you will want 30-40+ as it will kill some models just pushing it. The good thing with this is I hear there are lots of giant rats on the plague monk sprues so put them on their own bases and you got giant rats. However I do not recommend this as they take up a Hero choice of which you have 375 pts to work with and you will need a BSB, you could downgrade to a standard level 1 priest though. I just don't recommend skipping on defensive equipment as he cannot refuse challenges.

Rare you also are in a bind but based on what you said a Doomwheel and 1-2 Warp Lightning Cannons are your best bet and they will pack a lot of damage

Thanquol is out too many points so use him as a Gray Seer and Bone Ripper maybe in with some rat ogres as the master bred, 3 total ogres is OK, 6 is better.

Gutter Runners are great units of 6 with slings and poison attacks are pretty much a necessity for taking out that early threat or war machines.

I would feel better if you had more rats, slaves are a must to tarpit units, but they are so cheap you need a lot maybe as much as 125-150 rats to pull off 2 good sized units, however clan rats can do it too and weapon teams are fun, they are all pretty good too can't recommend one over the other, I do like the warp fire against armies with low leadership as it will force a panic test if they lose just 1 wound. As for the rats check ebay, check the swap shop forums, I picked up 100 hand weapon/shield IoB rats for $60, I did get a great deal though.

A BSB is good for the rerolls, use the Chieften/Warlord for IoB as your BSB, equip him defensively he's too important too lose.

Warlocks are nice too, as a caster or just packing the brass orb or doom rocket as a suicide unit.