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I'm hoping the screaming bell allows me to deploy on a larger front but then my grey seer on it may get singled out by cannon shots or similar. One time somebody threw out a lucky bolt thrower shot and killed him with one shot instantly. It was totally stupid.

I would maybe take rat ogres esp. with skweel but they're expensive and they're frenzied with not the best leadership. Even if you block the unit from making a charge the rank bonus on rat ogres is usually pretty terrible meaning their leadership isn't the best even with a general and BSB. They're not bad but they can be kited a bit like other frenzied units with average leadership. This is why I may need the plague furnace and abomination for higher strength attacks. I don't think I'd take plague censers without other plague monks nearby. Chances are the furnace won't matter much unless they're in combat with cavalry and even then I don't expect 10 or so plague censers to live for very long. I might be able to take them on a flank if I had slaves or rat swarms. That said both would be a shield till I decide to break them off and use them to block an enemy unit. My problem is that considering the movement phase I'd have to declare charges before moving my rat swarms or slaves out of the way. Also though I'm sure the plague censers could lay the beat down on some enemies they have no ranks so without a rank-and-file unit they're just going to have to deal with steadfast and everything even if I somehow magically get to flank an enemy. I figure rat swarms would be really nice to screen for plague censers since censers couldn't charge and they are immune to psychology with frenzy anyway. Somebody may shoot out the censers if I use rat swarms to shield them though however slaves would probably break if people shot at them enough and slaves would be much harder to maneuver.

I figure if I run rat swarms in 2-3 and I put them on the right front and left front of my plague censers or gutter runners blocking one censer bearer each then I could prevent myself from charging or enemies and manage to have fairly small rat swarm units giving me more for what I need. Alternatively I could use the rat swarms to block big units and allow my plague censers to smash smaller or weaker units on the flank with the censers while they're forced to just sit and watch and fight rat swarms.

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