However knowing this is an option your opponent will likely just choose to attack and kill the Hero before it gets the chance to run away. This is something that can be very helpful if you have multiple heroes in combat or if your opponent needs to attack elsewhere first during their turn. Along the same idea of the bravery of the rat men, if your Hero does get into combat and doesn’t want to be there then it can just leave instead. If you do so, that Hero has to make a normal move and it has to retreat.
In the combat phase, when you pick a friendly Skaventide Hero to fight with, you can say it is going to scurry away instead of making a pile-in move and then attacking. To represent this, the Look Out, Sir! rule applies to both melee weapons as well as ranged weapons, making your non-Monster characters much harder to hit as long as there are nearby rats to shove in the way. They do not believe that a leader’s place is in the front, leading their forces to war, but instead they cower behind their kin and push them into harm’s way instead. The Look Out, Sir! rule applies to an attack made with a melee weapon as well as an attack made with a missile weapon if the target of the attack is a Skaventide Hero that is not a Monster. The current win percentage for the faction is around 44-45%, making the army semi-competitive, but not reliably so.Ĭredit: Robert “TheChirurgeon” Jones Allegiance Abilities Teachings of the Horned Rat Lead from the Back Skaven are not the bravest warriors in the Mortal Realms and you will not forget that when you’re playing them. Poor Saves. Turns out that “filthy rags” do not in fact make good armor.Cheap, board-filling units. Few armies in Age of Sigmar can put more models on the board than Skaven.Powerful ranged attacks. Stormfiends may not be what they used to, but they’re still pretty nasty.Even if they aren’t all worth playing, you’ve got a large variety of units to choose from. And so these days Skaven are sitting at around a 44% win-rate. 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. During this time they were sitting comfortably with a win-rate of around 58%. 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. 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. 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. Skaven as a whole have had a wide variety of competitive builds since their first and only battletome released in early 2019. Pestilens – Echoes of the Great Plagues.