{"id":455,"date":"2008-12-26T02:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2008-12-26T02:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T02:18:00","slug":"cant-stop-loving-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/cant-stop-loving-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Stop Loving You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh, I’m a filthy little backslider.<\/div>\n
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Isn’t that how it goes when thinking about an army?<\/div>\n
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So, I slipped away for a few hours today (yes, Christmas Day; no, I wasn’t missed, the kids were all playing with their new toys) and headed down to a vacant assembly room to mutter and putter. I made a Skaven Warp Lightning Cannon from scratch and it turned out so well that I think the rest is going to work out.<\/div>\n
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You see, my evil plan is to see if I can finagle this army mostly from bitz. An unholy combination of ork40k-tech and plastic plague monks. It’s going to be cheap to make and with a lot of conversions.<\/div>\n
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I already have the sixty “skavenslaves” painted up in the form of night goblins. I did those for D&D. I plan on adding a few taskmasters on the back for flair.<\/div>\n
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Here are other models to be converted: Jezzails, Ratling Guns, Warplock Engineers (actually made one of these satisfactorily). So, the only models to be bought are: Globadiers, and the Plague Monks (lots of them, about a hundred by my count).<\/div>\n
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Here’s the army list I’m thinking of. I am absolutely open to advice. Please tell me how this army could be more fun, variable, and interesting.<\/div>\n
1750 Pts – Skaven Roster – Skaven<\/p>\n

Warlock Engineer (1#, 85 Pts)
1 Warlock Engineer @ 85 Pts
Hand Weapon; Supercharged Warp-Power Accumulator; Upgraded Warp-Energy Condenser; Warp-Blades
1 2. Warp Lightning @ [0] Pts<\/p>\n

Warlock Engineer (1#, 85 Pts)
1 Warlock Engineer @ 85 Pts
Hand Weapon; Supercharged Warp-Power Accumulator; Upgraded Warp-Energy Condenser; Warp-Blades
1 2. Warp Lightning @ [0] Pts<\/p>\n

Chieftan (1#, 74 Pts)
1 Chieftain @ 74 Pts
General; Hand Weapon; Heavy Armour
1 Bands of Power @ [25] Pts<\/p>\n

Clanrats (30#, 230 Pts)
28 Clanrats @ 230 Pts
Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield
1 Clawleader @ [15] Pts
Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield
1 Ratling Gun Team @ [60] Pts
Ratling Gun; Skirmishers<\/p>\n

Clanrats (30#, 230 Pts)
28 Clanrats @ 230 Pts
Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield
1 Clawleader @ [15] Pts
Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield
1 Ratling Gun Team @ [60] Pts
Ratling Gun; Skirmishers<\/p>\n

Clanrats (30#, 230 Pts)
28 Clanrats @ 230 Pts
Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield
1 Clawleader @ [15] Pts
Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield
1 Ratling Gun Team @ [60] Pts
Ratling Gun; Skirmishers<\/p>\n

Poisoned Wind Globadiers (6#, 60 Pts)
6 Poisoned Wind Globadiers @ 60 Pts
Hand Weapon; Poisoned Wind Globes; Skirmishers<\/p>\n

Warplock Jezzails (6#, 120 Pts)
6 Warplock Jezzails @ 120 Pts
Hand Weapon; Jezzail; Skirmishers<\/p>\n

Warplock Jezzails (6#, 120 Pts)
6 Warplock Jezzails @ 120 Pts
Hand Weapon; Jezzail; Skirmishers<\/p>\n

Warplock Jezzails (6#, 120 Pts)
6 Warplock Jezzails @ 120 Pts
Hand Weapon; Jezzail; Skirmishers<\/p>\n

Warp-Lightning Cannon (1#, 100 Pts)
1 Warp-Lightning Cannon @ 100 Pts<\/p>\n

Giant Rat Pack (14#, 60 Pts)
12 Giant Rats @ 60 Pts
2 Packmaster @ [0] Pts
Hand Weapon; Whip; Light Armour<\/p>\n

Giant Rat Pack (14#, 60 Pts)
12 Giant Rats @ 60 Pts
2 Packmaster @ [0] Pts
Hand Weapon; Whip; Light Armour<\/p>\n

Night Runners (5#, 25 Pts)
5 Night Runners @ 25 Pts
Hand Weapon; Skirmishers<\/p>\n

Clanrat Slaves (20#, 40 Pts)
20 Clanrat Slaves @ 40 Pts
Hand Weapon<\/p>\n

Clanrat Slaves (20#, 40 Pts)
20 Clanrat Slaves @ 40 Pts
Hand Weapon<\/p>\n

Clanrat Slaves (20#, 40 Pts)
20 Clanrat Slaves @ 40 Pts
Hand Weapon<\/p>\n

Total Roster Cost: 1719<\/p>\n

Created with Army Builder
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Advice and input from Readers<\/span><\/div>\n
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Shawn – for your Skaven Army list:
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You might try nixing the Chieftain for a Warlord – twice the point cost – but think about your opponent’s face when they find out your slaves have leadership 10 – priceless. Also, the Chieftain isn’t likely to do much, even with the bands of power – you could put your Warlord in the back to help protect him or up front w\/ GW for some heavy hitting power – or add the Chieftain as a BSB for the extra re-roll on break tests – again keeping him in the rear rank.<\/p>\n

Also, 18 Jezzails are a lot – likely to get ate up by flyers and such, and with their BS, really only (very) useful for mounted stuff and monsters – consider taking only 12 – better yet, 8.<\/p>\n

For the Warlock Engineers – Storm Daemon and dispel scroll is a must – also consider the warpscroll – very useful. Remember a lot of Armies now have pretty good magic phases (Demons, VC, Lizardmen, High Elves, Dark Elves) – so, having the extra warp lightning spell can help (2-lvl 2 and 1-lvl 1).<\/p>\n

I’m a fan of Gutter Runners – particularly tunnelling teams – I know they’re expensive, and pretty random – but, I love seeing them come up in front of 2 or 3 warmachines on a hill, or in range of a lone wizard. Plus, they’re scouts.<\/p>\n

Oh, and musicians for Slaves – it only takes losing combat instead of drawing once to make a believer out of you.<\/p>\n

– Todd<\/em><\/div>\n

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