Wow, an update.

It's been a long time since I've updated.  I'm hoping to get back in the swing of things.  I have a couple of battle reports to put up including a game of Lizardmen vs. Demons and a 2 vs. 2 game of Lizardmen and Empire vs. Skaven and Demons.  Those will hopefully happen some time in the near future.

I've also been looking through the Skaven and Beastmen books.  I don't have any Beastmen models but I'm considering turning them into a side project like my Skaven currently are.  Build them slowly over time because I feel like buying some models for them.  My first order of business for both is to create a list to build towards.

I think I want my first Skaven list to be a Pestilens themed list.  It might change when 8th edition comes out so I probably won't begin work on it until after I see how that affects things but the list is below.

Lord Skrolk

Level 2 Plague Priest on Furnace with Flail and Power Stone

Level 2 Plague Priest with Flail and Warp Scroll

Level 2 Plague Priest with Flail and Power Stone

20 Plague Monks with Musician, Standard Bearer, and Plague Banner
20 Plague Monks with Musician, Standard Bearer, and Storm Banner
30 Plague Monks with Musician, Standard Bearer, and Banner Of The Under-Empire

6 Plague Censer Bearers
6 Plague Censer Bearers

12 Giant Rats with 2 Packmasters
12 Giant Rats with 2 Packmasters

Plagueclaw Catapult
Plagueclaw Catapult

Total:  2248

This list is based around trying to make the Plagueclaw Catapults effective.  While negating armor saves is really good, the fact that they only deal Strength 2 hits is unfortunate.  To counter this I wanted to field a list cramming as much wither as I possibly can in.  Hence, the all caster characters.  Lord Skrolk gives me a way to field my plague monks as core allowing me to take more censer bearers.  The giant rats are in because they are extremely cheap and expendable while able to dish out a decent number of attacks on the charge.  The hope is that they will be able to do quite a bit of damage to lightly armored withered units for little to no cost.  The plague monks and plague censer bearers are there to finish the job.  The censer bearers providing me a good way to do some damage to heavily armored targets that I can't hit with the catapults.

I could probably make a list that works better for what I want using a grey seer and dropping all but one plague monk unit for a bunch of cheap throwaway units but I figured if I was going with the plagueclaw catapults then I might as well go all Pestilens.

Expect upcoming posts to cover the just mentioned Grey Seer version of this list, some thoughts on a Beastmen army, and the battle reports mentioned earlier.