Skaven Army

[admiralackbar]

Hey guys I am wondering what you think of this skaven list I have written up. I went with a model heavy army but still with some punch.

30 Clanrats-225
FC
Shields
Warpfire Thrower

30 Clanrats-210
FC
Shields
Ratling Gun

30 Clanrats-155
FC
Shields

Giant Rats-115
25GR
5PM

Giant Rats-115
25GR
5PM

4 Rat Swarms-100

20 Skavenslaves-42
musician

20 Skavenslaves-42
musician

24 Plague Monks-193
Fc

Rat Ogres-128
3RO
1PM

7 Poisoned Wind Globadiers-70

6 Plague Censer Bearers-96

Doomwheel-150

Plague Claw Catapult-100

Grey Seer-270
Foul Pendant

Chieftain-100
Enchanted Shield
Warlock Augmented Weapon

Plague Priest-139
Flail
Warp Scroll

I like the layout of this army, lots of guys, and it has some toys. I am considering changing the Grey Seer to a Warlord with fell blade or some other combaty layout and changing the chieftain to a warlock engineer with a dispel scroll. That way I would have a fighty character for my ranks, but im not sure. Is the warlord worth the investment over a Greyseer considering my magic would become more defensive? Anyway I would appreciate it to let me know what you guys think.
Best
Ulyses

[chumbalaya]

That's a lot of bodies, but to what end?

As far as offense goes, you have 7 PD, 1 bound, not much in the way of shooting (little bit of this, little bit of that), and not much punch in HtH beyond the Priest and Monks.

If you want to do a horde, I'd highly recommend a Bell or Furnace. Having an Unbreakable anvil is extremely useful for protecting your general and BSB and holding the line.

You have numbers, but you need something more. You need to force your enemy to close. Shooting and magic are here for you. Skaven can do both exceedingly well, pick one and focus it.

Weapon Teams, in particular Poisoned Wind Mortars, give you reach and can do lots of damage, while Jezzails help bring down heavily armored targets. PWG are perfect to protect your Bell/Furnace unit by just tossing directly into combat.

If you go magic, Grey Seers and Engineers are nasty.

To go with the anvil, numbers, and shooting/magic, you'll need to break your opponent. You can either beat them head on (lolwut) or flank 'em. GRats, Night Runners, MSU Stormvermin and Clanrats are all good flankers (the latter especially so with Tretch). PCBs, Doom Flayers, Doomwheels, A-Bombs, and the like are capable of doing tons of damage, flank or no flank.

And since everything in the Skaven book is so blissfully cheap and expendable, look into bringing redundancy. 1 WFT is prone to misfiring, if you have 2 more backing it up it won't be a problem. Build in redundancies to mitigate the inherent fragility and unreliability of Skaven tech, and you won't get totally screwed by 1 bad roll.