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The current win percentage for the faction is around 44-45%, making the army semi-competitive, but not reliably so. Skaven as a whole have had a wide variety of competitive builds since their first and only battletome released in early 2019. As an army they’ve had very little in the way of support from supplements released on their behalf, and they only partially play with other chaos books, and when they do, it is usually only in very specific circumstances. The majority of their “updates” have solely been points adjustments up/down in General’s Handbooks, with the one exception being the FAQ/Errata adjusting the range for one of their endless spells, and how many Stormfiends can be taken per unit. In the period between the 2018 winter FAQ and 2019 GHB, Skaven had 12 podium showings at events, with 3 of those being first place finishes. Those lists would range from Quad-Verminlord builds with a ton of endless spells (taking anywhere from 4 to 6 different endless spells) to combined arms with Stormfiends + skryre support heroes with bells and clanrats. During this time they were sitting comfortably with a win-rate of around 58%. Two General’s Handbooks later, Skaven have been hit with points adjustments, Warplighting Vortex saw its range cut in half (though understandably so), Endless Spells now limited to a maximum of 3 per army, and new armies have been added to the game that are able to bypass their power plays. And so these days Skaven are sitting at around a 44% win-rate. Strengths Contents: 1 x Plague Priest Plague Furnace (Hero) / Grey Seer on Screaming Bell (Hero), 1 x Plagueclaw / Warp Lightning Cannon (Artillery), and 20 x Plague Monks (Battleline in a pure Pestilens army) You get to set up three Gnawholes. Gnawholes are pretty big and have pretty tight deployment restrictions: more than 3” from objectives and terrain features, more than 18” from another Gnawhole and wholly within 8” of a board edge (given the size of Gnawholes, this basically means touching a board edge). Screech also has a command ability targeting any Skaven unit that hands out +1 to hit and wound which is as you might imagine, very good. It is combat phase only, so can’t be used to replace more-more-more warp power for your Skryre units.

There’s a case to be made for a unit of 3 of these as a troubleshooter in an army going in another direction for pure damage, and in that case the warpfire thrower probably wins out over the windlauncher, but this is unusual. Clans Pestilens Plague Monks Contents: 1 Great Bray-Shaman (Hero), 10 x Ungors (Battleline) / Ungor Raiders, 10 x Bestigors (Battleline with Bray-Shaman or Beastlord General) and 1 x Cygor (Behemoth) / Ghorgon (Behemoth) Contents: 1 Warden King (Hero), 1 Cogsmith (Hero), 10 x Ironbreakers (Batteline) and 1 x Gyrobomber

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They’re OK, but get overlooked by the sheer weight of the Skaven catalogue (and those awful minis don’t help either). You’re getting half as many per unit as Clanrats but for 10 points less. They’re a bit faster, a bit squishier and might do a smattering of mortal wounds. Really you’re taking these for two reasons: you’re pure Eshin and need something to hide a Deathmaster in, or you’re specifically buying their pre-game move. Pre-game moves are absolutely fantastic, but this is a 2d6” move so far less reliable than other armies can achieve out of the same mechanic. Gutter Runners The Gnawshard– One of the bearer’s melee weapons gains this ability: if the weapon wounds a model that is not killed then at the end of each battle round that model suffers a mortal wound. Not going to get much mileage out of this unless you’re able to hit combat turn 2 or sooner. C They also have a bodyguard rule, so you can transfer wounds allocated to Skaven heroes within 3” to the Stormvermin instead on a 4+, or 2+ if they’re Verminus. Now, Skaven do have a few ways to gain access to bodyguards so how important this is will depend on what you’re wanting to bodyguard and why, you’re still paying for that offensive profile so they’re quite expensive in this role. That being said, if you want to walk a Verminlord Warbringer up the board then these will bodyguard it exceptionally well and be one of the units the Warbringer wants around itself anyway. Skaven in Warhammer Age of Sigmar, like many other Games Workshop armies, play in a way that reinforces their fiction, with many aspects that define their particular role on the battlefield. The first of these is that, as a Skaven army, you’ll want a lot of bodies to throw at the enemy. Skaven are most often seen as a ‘horde’ army; compared to many other factions, you’ll be able to cover the board with bodies for comparatively few points.

We start the selection of hidden weapons teams with the awkward melee one. All of the weapons teams bar the grinder can deploy inside a unit of Clanrats or Stormvermin (you write down which in secret at deployment). You can put one weapons team in for every 10 models in the unit and if the unit dies with the weapons team in there then the weapons team dies too. Each weapons team has a different timing for when it can pop out.Contents: 1 Mighty Lord of Khorne (Hero), 1 Bloodsecrator (Hero), 1 Bloodstoker (Hero), 1 Khorgorath, 5 x Blood Warriors (Battleline) and 10 x Bloodreavers (Battleline)

Master of Rot and Ruin – A nice and simple +1 to chanting rolls. This directly competes with the High Priest generic command trait, and which you choose will depend on the specifics of the rest of your list. If you’re looking to trigger great plagues then the +1 is slightly better at that than the reroll with no other effects in play. If you have another source of +1 then the reroll becomes slightly better. Work out your total number of +1s and then bust open a dice probability calculator. The furnace suffers from a similar mobility problem to the bell, which is that it cannot move at all unless it starts the move within 6” of 10 Skaven models. This means it needs to be babysat, and you can find yourself in situations where it becomes immobile because its escort has been killed or just charged off to fight something and the furnace fails its own charge.The most expensive (by a whisker) Verminlord and probably the one you’ll see most often. The Deceiver has a very welcome rend -3 on its melee weapon and a d6 shot Doomstar missile weapon that can do mortal wounds on 6s to hit. The Deceiver is your alpha-strike Verminlord of choice and has three abilities geared around making that happen. Remember, these are what the entire Verminus allegiance ability is built around, so hopefully they’re good. Powerful heroes – Skaven have a number of behemoth heroes that are powerful and competitively priced. Going full herohammer with Thanquol and Verminlords is a legitimate build. Now that GW has finally switched over from the Start Collecting boxes to the Vanguard box sets for Age of Sigmar, we know the pricing, value, and what to expect in future offerings. Contents: 1 Endrinmaster (Hero), 5 x Grundstok Thunderers (Battleline in Barak-Nar), 3 x Skywardens/Endrinriggers(Battleline if Endrinmaster in Dirigible Suit is general) and a Grundstok Grundhauler (Battleline in Barak-Urbaz)

Paul: The Verminlord Warpseer has long been a mainstay of skaven lists. With all the new uses for command points, The Great Manipulators ability really shines, giving you more command points to use across your entire army. Skaven are structured a little differently to the other AoS3 books released so far, the tome eschews traditional subfactions and instead gives you access to all the rules of all the Great Clans simultaneously. Every warscroll in the book is keyworded to one of the clans, so the extra battle traits for the Great Clans are gated behind having keyworded models of some type. Each of these battle traits also offers extra bonuses for having more heroes of the appropriate type.Finally the Deceiver’s warscroll spell is a turbocharged version of skitterleap from the main lore. With a CV6 (and 18” range if you wanted to use it on something else) and the same target requirements as regular skitterleap, this version instead lets you set up more than 6” from any enemy models, making those teleport charges far more likely to connect with your target. Deathmaster In truth unless you have one of these two specific plans in mind for them, this is probably one to leave on the shelf. Clans Moulder Giant Rats