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Skaven rumours
Topic Started: Dec 10 2008, 12:02 AM (700 Views)
S'tan
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Funny, I find the beasts pretty fine the way they are. We do have a ''house rule'' that they for 5 wide and with it, Khorne BoC were the winners in our international tournament held a few months back.

I'd say the most sucky are Tomb Kings and Ogre Kingdoms. :P


Ogres have nice magic and that nasty item (must make LD test or die outright) that somehow always manages to kill my vamp lord.


Aaaaanywho, to get back on topic, skaven are funny. And if GW makes them totally shooting heavy again, I'm gonna laugh. As march endless ammounts of zombies and terror causers in their ranks. :P
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Overmind
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Tomb Kings I find can take down VC and sometimes even DoC......

Certainly not weak.
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Kiwichris
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Yeah I'll say, Tomb Kings are still a very capable army. I think Skaven are bad because of:

- Low leadership
- Crap magic
- Unreliable War Machines
- Cheap, but not cheap enough
- And generally bad in comat

And yes as a Beast player I am fully aware of how bad Beasts are but it's only because they are not able to be used with HOC anymore which they are designed to do. It is not because their book is crap it's because only 1/3 of it is left!
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Overmind
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Skaven?

For heavens sake those ratmen are nasty as hell......
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djshamrock71
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- Low leadership
- Crap magic
- Unreliable War Machines
- Cheap, but not cheap enough
- And generally bad in comat



I'v played Skaven for 16+years and find your opinions kinda odd to say the least.There LD is on par with empire for ranked units and you can deal with the low LD as long as your deployment is good.

There war Machines are just as unreliable as every other armies warmachines

The army is insanely cheap for what you can buy.I don't think theres anything over priced in the army at all(maybe warp fire throwers)

As for being bad in combat,rats can hold there own against most other core,but because stuff is so cheap you can always set up flanks for attacks with other units.Skaven always win because of superior numbers.They have a vast pile of support units that can tip a combat in there favor.

While skaven magic isn't the cream of the crop it is by no means crap.

Skaven at tournaments in the UK are still clocking up good scores and the same can be said for Aussie/NZ.Still a highly competitive army as it stands now.
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Godless-Mimicry
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Same here in Ireland. I know I have trouble with them in the past a few times, though I have also got numerous massacres on them too.
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Overmind
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So we're agreed then?
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So we're agreed then?


Yes ....yes we are :ph43r:
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