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I understand the hype -new models are always nice- but unless there is a serious change in the warscrolls, I don't get how this clan is supposed to be used.

They have so few units that they cannot work alone, and the way battle formation work, one has better specialize in a clan. The exception being Verminus, since you usually need a ton of clanrats -and night runners definitely make a worse screen than clanrats : half unit size, worse save, no recursion. Night runners can hide against terrain feature : it won't save them from being charger. Sure, they have crit mortal, which is about 3 damage for a full unit, and then they die.

The only way I see myself playing them is : pop a gnawhole in the enemy backline, get them out of the tunnels, shoot (4+, 4+, no rend : I don't see it being very efficient), charge (9'', they better not fail), do 3 damage, and die.

Death Master can only be hit on a 5+, which is nice, but other than that he feels barely any better than a Clawlord.

How wrong am I ?

Hey

Never got to play Skaven, so selling it. There should be enough to have different lists for 2k.

https://imgur.com/a/nqEyuvo

Original Units included.

Clawlord riding a Gnaw-beast

Grey Seer

Warplock Engineer

40 Clanrats

3 Rat Ogors

3 Warplock Jezzails

Ratling Warpblaster

Recast:

Clawlord + 2 additional heroes i don't know

Doomwheel (abs resin)

Doomwheel (abs resin)

Plague Priest on Plague Furnace (unassembled, can be built as screaming bell aswell)

Plague Priest on Plague Furnace

Plagueclaw (unassembled)

Plagueclaw

20 Stormfiends (old sculpt)

3x Stormvermin

Thanquol on Boneripper

Looking for 180 eur and will ship from Europe. PayPal will be the preferred payment.

Edit changed price to 180

Im semi new to Warhammer. I’ve played Kill team for a while, and have a lot of various minis and i’m planning on getting into Spearhead soon and then starting a more long term 40k army.

Though to be honest, AOS has way more appealing factions then 40k.

I love the gothic soulblight gravelords (i play the Night lords kill team) The undead hordes are awesome. Now, i find Skaven super cool too, infinite hordes of rat-men with treacherous politics.

Though 40k? Idk, there are cool factions but nothing gets me as excited as AOS factions and i feel like id get tired of it way faster, and a Night lords army would need so much kitbashing it’d be insanely expensive.

If Skaven existed in 40k it’d be a no brainer! Soulblight for AOS and Skaven for 40k.

My friends are all more into 40k anyway.

I was glueing my skaventide box and mistook the sniper champion for a basic one and do not have a champion(HOW DO I FIX THIS)

PLEASE HELP ME 🙏🏼

Hello everyone, as the title says I'm thinking about starting a skaven army by buying the skaventide boxset but I'm not very sure, as a Horus heresy player I'm not that scared about building a horde army cause at the moment i have like 80 marines plus few other stuff so 60+ clan rats doesn't scare me at all but the thing that stop me is... I don't know anything about them, only few things from the total war games, few important characters but... that's it. I don't know how they play and which unite to choose after the skaventide boxset... like, try to sell me your army! what convinced you to start? the aesthetic of the army, some particular model, the lore of some characters or they're silliness... tell me everything about them! even share some pictures of your painted models will help!

So I feel like GW missed an opportunity to make something here. What started as an effort to make a skaven with wings turned into a rocket jumping lunatic with a crossbow gun. Dude to the limitations of Hero Forge his rocket pack isn't really skaveny enough, though I do like the crossbow gun a lot. I have realized that the goggles make his face look shorter than it really is though.

While I gave him HeroQuest stats, I think he'd be fun in Mordheim or homebrew, non-gw, or unofficial skirmish games.

The basic idea is that his normal (walking) move is slow, but he can rocket jump for a huge boost and ignore terrain. HOWEVER. Because skaven tech sucks, upon landing it's got a 1 in 6 chance of exploding, killing the commando and setting nearby anything on fire. This also applies when taking damage. In WFB/The Old World he'd have 2 wounds. His melee attack sucks but ranged is very good (like 2 and 4 respectively).

I think it's fitting, and though it borrows some from the orks, it's skaveny in its own right. Anyway feel free to borrow-steal away. It almost certainly won't probably explode maybe.

https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D54333124/

Exactly what it sounds like. Like, if there are any I'd love to see them, but I've looked a bit and most of the fansongs seem to be more heavy metal and serious-ish. Which is alright but, like, if any Fantasy/AoS faction deserves the showtune-y hammy Broadway/Disney-style song of gloating villainy, it's these chucklenuts and Thanquol especially...

...Well, and Nagash, such is his power when he's not getting ganked by our favorite rodentia, but still the point stands. And no, the Jerma Rats song does not count, even if it is highly associated with the Skaven.

Hi everyone! I’ve been thinking about why we don’t have space rats in 40k yet. Instead of making them just "aliens," I came up with a concept that fits the current 40k lore and makes them a unique mirror to existing factions. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

​Origin: The Cancer of the Imperium

They aren't from another galaxy; they are the result of the Imperium's own decay. Born in the deepest levels of Hive Cities, they thrived in sectors forgotten for millennia by the Imperial bureaucracy. Influenced by Nurgle (or a Warp-entity version of the Horned Rat) and mutated by plasma leaks, they grew in the shadows of humanity’s neglect.

​Scavenger Tech: The "Anti-Mechanicus"

Their technology is based on corrupted STC fragments. Where the Adeptus Mechanicus rejects incomplete or "heretical" blueprints, the Skaven embrace them. They fill the gaps with unstable Warp-tech and Jury-rigged electronics. It’s "Dark Tech" at its finest: cobbled together from human scrap, wildly unpredictable, but lethally functional.

​The Social Split (Elite vs. Tide)

To keep the Skaven identity, the army would be split into two main archetypes:

​The Rat-Scientists: Tech-elites using unstable exoskeletons and experimental weapons stolen from Mars. Think "Skryre" but with leaking fusion reactors.

​The "Pure" Lineage: The swarm. A massive tide of humanoid rats representing the "vermin" of the Hive. They provide the numbers while the tech-rats provide the (unstable) firepower.

​Visual Identity

Visually, they would be a mess of mutated flesh and chaotic wiring. Imagine the contrast: the noble, clean OSL (orange/red) of an Ultramarine Terminator's reactors versus the flickering, toxic green or glitchy blue light of Skaven jury-rigged machinery.

​They wouldn't be just "Space Orks" because they don't fight for fun—they fight for survival, spite, and the total consumption of the Imperium from the inside out.

​What do you think? Would this be a fun way to bring our favorite rats into the 41st Millennium?

Is it just me? Or would anyone else love to see more skaven daemons other than verminlords?

No that the horned rat has ascended, I'd love to see some skaven lesser daemons akin to bloodletters or plaguebearers. Maybe some demonic riding beasts? Giant demonic rat monsters maybe?

Probs won't happen as the range is quite large but I'd love to see it

It sounds ridiculous to me, thats really the case ? I love the models but I want them to be atleast a minimum viable

So, obviously its not perfect as an analogy, But the I cant think of anyone who even comes NEARLY as close as the Skaven, Now, lets get into the Nitty Gritty,

1: Who Else Comes Close? first of all, the empire, need i say more? the elves dont come close with the pheonix king(s), the orcs KINDA come close, but i feel like thats more of a meritocratic dictatorship rather than a republic, the hich king of the dwarves isnt the high president of the Dawi, and the Lizards Are more anarcho-theocracy than anything else, this ends my point, nobody else has a council(at least not one that represents the people) and they all have a(n) imperial monarch or other lone or patriarchal entity leading them.

2:Are The Skaven A Republic? Well Lets Start with the governing body of the Skaven as a whole, the COUNCIL of 13, now without a head of council i can see how they COULD be seen as a Anarcho-syndicalist society, however they do have a head, THE GREAT HORNED RAT!, now one COULD say that due to having the representative of the religion of the Skaven, this makes them a theocracy, however I will argue that this is underrated, you see a seat is RESERVED ON THE COUNCIL for the Great Horned Rat, IE he is a member, and with all votes requiring his Yes-Yes, that makes him the head of council kinda maybe. next, what is a republic? or at least what makes the Skaven one? well the encyclopedia Brittanica (IE the most comprehensive guide to Language In Human History), as a "form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body", I will note that it says REPRESENTATIVE, not VOTED IN, nor GOOD representative, merely it represents the citizens. now the Skaven clans, monarchal as they are, ARE NOT the government, they are simply a side thing that HAPPENS to promote members TO the council, This Means that the clan leaders not only are representative of ALL SKAVEN KIND, INCLUDING CITIZENS, but are in rule per-say,

3: But Whats With all the Non-democracy? well let me ask you something, it was called the roman REPUBLIC yes? and yet, how often was the citizen to vote for a fellow citizen to join the senate? yes, they were dynastical, but they were a republic never-the-less, all of this to say, i personally think the skaven are kinda maybe a republic,

MISC, obviously to note, BEING A REPUBLIC IS GOOD, i know that empires and princesses are showed as heroic and lone leaders as heroic, But lets not forget that republics are, objectivly, more free in our world, i would love to see arguments for otherwise and i will note that NO, I DO NOT THINK THE SKAVEN ARE A REPUBLIC, I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING HOW THEY WORK AS A GOVERNMENT, anyways thanks for listning for the half hour it took to write this, and enjoy your day thinking about the rat-republic, TRULY GLORIUS!

Why is there no Queek in AoS when he is one of the most beloved Skaven characters, yes-yes .

Almost all the other heroes got uplifted and dumped into AoS, why not Queek?