flamingkillamajig wrote:
I find some people mention clanrats are cheap and decent and that slaves are way good. However i tend to notice clanrats themselves leave me a bit wanting. I would like to use my clanrats as skaven-slaves and then get a bunch of stormvermin. I think as it is clanrats aren't really great in combat and are supposed to be horde-like and yet stormvermin seem better at fighting. However slaves are generally better at taking bullets and then being shot into. I just feel that i am finding myself more and more fed up with clanrats and their worse stats when stormvermin have much better for cost in points and options to the same weapons teams. Also in the way of numbers slaves tend to do it much better than clanrats which can take hits from the enemy, not panic other skaven units and then be shot into while in close combat. Also with decent strength attacks (like from most things that negate armor or bullets) slaves tend to take often as many bullets, spells and whatever as clanrats or at least at range. Slaves also seem to be better than clanrats point for point.

I suppose my point here is not that i want skavenslaves, clanrats or stormvermin so much as a stormvermin and slave army. I think anything clanrats can do is in theory done better when you use slaves and stormvermin together instead.