Gian Rats Army

[admiralackbar]

Hey guys! I have been playing around with the new Skaven book and I came up with this army:
Giant Rats-115 (*4)
25gr
5pm

Giant Rats-155
25gr
5pm
1mm
electro-whip

Giant Rats-215
25gr
5pm
Skweel Gnawtooth

30 Clanrats-155 (*3)
spears
fc

Rat Ogres-201 (*2)
4ro
2pm
1mm

Giant Rats-23 (*2)
5gr
1pm

Rat Swarms-150
6rs

Chieftain-147
Bsb
Sacred Standard of the horned rat
shield
rat hound bodyguard

Warlord-210
Enchanted shield
Dwarf bane
portents of verminous doom
Rat Ogre Bonebreaker

Basically I plan to use the Giant rat units as flankers and overwhelm the enemy. The Clanrats are supposed to be an anvil unit against the enemy and the rat ogres are used as linebreakers. What do you guys think of this Giant Rat heavy army?

[skyth]

Giant rats are great as re-directors/nuicances (Same as Dogs in a WoC army).

One issue with the army posted is (From what I can tell) you have absolutely no magic defence. That would be a serious issue.

[admiralackbar]

the lack of magic is a choice I am looking for with this list. I am not sure about adding magic to the list. I don't think a grey seer may not add much to the list. I guess i'm looking more for a "suicide" type list. It may be that I could use a scroll caddy with the warlock engineer and trade that out from a unit of giant rats, but i'm just not sure about taking a scroll caddy. Is that caddy really gonna make a difference considering the amount of units I have? But yes the lack of magic defense is a small bit discouraging. What is the general consensus about large units of Giant rats? Lots of attacks if the packmasters are counted. Do you think that an army such as that can be reliable. I know that they are good redirectors and I did take two units of "rat darts" but I was wondering if large units can take advantage of their movement to flank and still have lots of attacks to create a dependable unit.

[chumbalaya]

Death Frenzy and Bless with Filth make Giant Rats that much better, a Grey Seer or even Thanquol would be extremely useful here. With Tokens he can pretty much run the magic phase all by his lonesome.

GRats are cheap and speedy blocks, but you'll need something to hurt heavier targets. Doomwheels, A-Bombs, Jezzails, weapon teams, PWGs, and the like would be most useful.