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This is a list I used to run, before AoS ruined everything.
Thank you to Boss Salvage for rivission.



Grey Seer - talisman of preservation, dispel scroll = 310
Warlord - armor of destiny, ironcurse icon, halberd = 148
Chieftain - BSB, shield = 72

30 Stormvermin - full command = 235
30 Slaves - musician = 62
30 Slaves - musician = 62
5 Giant Rats - 1 packmaster = 23

4 Rat Ogres - 1 packmaster = 168
5 Gutter Runners - poison, slings = 90

Doomwheel = 150
WLC = 90
WLC = 90
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1500


Now, I sometimes run 3 Warlocks with this list, don't remember the exact points cost, but here's how they are kitted out:

Warlock #1: Warplightning Condensor, Warpfire Musket. This guy is for awesome green lighting bolts.

Warlock #2: Brass Sphere. I stick this with the Gutter Runners for added lols.

Warlock #3:Warplightning Condensor, DOOM ROCKET. Wheeee.

These are mostly for fun, they don't always do very well.




So now, after about a year of no WHFB I was thinking of getting a game in with a friend. He will be playing Dwarves, and most likely will be using big blocks of Slayers and Thunderers, with a few Miners and Irondrakes mixed in. He will probably have a Dragonslayer or two and as always will be using Ungrim Ironfist as his general. As for artillery, he will most likely be bringing a cannon and maybe an organ gun, with a Runesmith to make them better. He also has a Gyrobomber that may or may not appear.


My tactic will be the same a always: stick the Warlord, Grey Seer and BSB in the Stormvermin unit, try to tarp it with the slaves and blast him to death with the cannons and Warlocks. I will use the Gutter Runners for warmachine hunting.



Any tips on how I could make this list better? Please post your suggestions.


Ember

I forgot to mention I have about 70 clan rats and 40 plague monks lying around. Srry

Your first list is similar to the list I usually face, although he brings it up to 2.4k with weapons teams, a A-Bomb and a Bell. It works really well, I can't touch him with my Wood Elves and my Orcs only win if I get a good magic phase off on pivotal turns.

I'd suggest dropping the Warlord, he is expensive and not particularly killy. Your Seer makes a better general by virtue of being so crappy in combat you won't even think about using him there.

I'd probably suggest dropping the Gutter runners, they are crazy expensive. Use the points of the Gutter runners and Warlord to upgrade to Clan rats and get a Weapon team or two. Or a DOOOM rocket Warlock. You win a shooting war against Dwarves if your dice don't absolutely hate you, but you'll have a hard time winning in CC.

I don't have my army book on me so I'll just give you some general tips from my experience (I have a big skaven army ~7000points)

Not sure what your goal points wise is? The list you gave is 1500 but title says 1700 so my tips will be for 1500-2000 point list.

Now the one thing is I have never played against a dwarf army (nobody plays them in my area which is kind of surprising)

Anyways for a your lord/hero choices I usually go with a warlord, heavy armour, halberd, talisman of preservation on a war litter..this is a good choice because he is fairly strong for his points and the warlitter gives him +4 attacks basically.
Grey seer at 1500 points is too expensive for me but the 13th might devestate his dwarf units.
Engineer with doomrocket is always good tho!

I'd probably stay away from stormvermin if you are going against dwarves. You won't be able to stand toe to toe with them. 2 blocks of 40+ slaves and then a block of clanrats at the back with your heroes in it would be best.

I would bump the unit of gutter runners up to 7 and maybe add another unit of 7 as well...they will be useful in getting rid of the dwarf artillery.
Drop the rat ogres though, they are bad bad bad. I would much rather see those points go into a unit of plague monks like 40 of them...additional hand weapons + frenzy and horde formation they will pour out attacks (also usually give the unit the extra attack banner or some banner I forget now). Also if you have never used a plague priest in a plague furnace in a unit of 40 monks you are missing out on one of skaven best units...fragile against artillery but once in combat it DESTROYS everything.

2 warp lightning cannons and a doomwheels are good choices for taking out the enemy artillery which will probably be your biggest threat. A Hellpit would be good but it will probably get sniped out pretty quickly, the regen is nice though it's hard to kill sometimes!

For some strange reason my opponent thinks Rogers are the greatest unit in the game, and wastes time trying to kill them.


The reason I said 1700 is that is the points I am aiming for. If anyone would suggest a list, I would be glad to try it out.

I also noticed that my Grey Seer has a dispel scroll. Ignore that please.