New to AoS Skaven army- any advise

[Sunspear]

So I want to start playing and I need an idea of where to start. I have some of these models and a few are just what I think are cool. So if some of the choices look odd that’s why. 

Many advise would be helpful, not sure how the meta is going to be so I would like something that’s fun but won’t get wiped out turn one either.

Also all the characters are pretty bare, So any help there would be great.

warlord 

grey seer 

3x  40 clan rats, one with spears the other two with swords

warp lightening cannon

2 warp grinder teams 

40 storm vermin 

3 storm fiends 

2x giant rats 

 

 

 

[bushman101]

Looks like a good collection!

Here's the basis of a list I regularly run at 1000pts

Grey Seer

Warlord

3 units of ClanRats (40 each)

that's 800 pts

I generally fill the rest with support models (DoomWheel, Lightning Cannon, or Warpfire Throwers)

 

[TheMuphinMan]

Throw clanrats at your problems until they go away. Spears for blobs and swords for screens. If you don't want to be super competitive, just go rule of cool with 120+ clanrats supporting them and you should be fine. 

[Skreech Verminking]

Use your clanrats as a screen to protect your stormvermins and stomrfiends.

if you can keep a unit of 40Clanrats alive, great.

If not don’t worry it’s only worth 200 points, perfect to keep your stormfiends and vermin’s from dying.

The warpgrinder team is also rather good.

put your warplightning cannon with one of those guys in reserve, which give you the possibility to put the cannon anywhere in range of any hero’s, units etc. to snipe em turn one.

Or a 40rat unit of stormvermins into reserve.

great to keep em alive, and can give you the possibility to flank your enemy’s from behind.

 

 

Edited August 28, 2018 by Skreech Verminking

[Skreech Verminking]

3 hours ago, Sunspear said:

So I want to start playing and I need an idea of where to start. I have some of these models and a few are just what I think are cool. So if some of the choices look odd that’s why. 

Many advise would be helpful, not sure how the meta is going to be so I would like something that’s fun but won’t get wiped out turn one either.

Also all the characters are pretty bare, So any help there would be great.

warlord 

grey seer 

3x  40 clan rats, one with spears the other two with swords

warp lightening cannon

2 warp grinder teams 

40 storm vermin 

3 storm fiends 

2x giant rats 

 

 

 

You can build a decent 2000point list with, what you have right now on skaven models.

Oh by the way your hero’s are fine, both of them will have a purpose in your army.

The grey seer preventing your units from fleeing and the warlord to buff them up like crazy ?.

[Sunspear]

Thanks for all the advise! I will order a few more clan rats and a warp lighting cannon and go from there. 

Any ideas on what artifacts or spells I should work with?

[TheMuphinMan]

2 hours ago, Sunspear said:

Thanks for all the advise! I will order a few more clan rats and a warp lighting cannon and go from there. 

Any ideas on what artifacts or spells I should work with?

For the lightning cannon, you might want to get a start collecting pestlens. The claw can be build as the cannon and the furnace can be a screaming bell which lets you you the funaces plague priest on foot (no conversions required because they use the same kit). A lot of people convert the monks into eshin units I hear but plague monks are probably my favorite unit in AoS.

 

As for artefacts

Crown of conquest isnt bad because it lets you save command points instead of using inspiring presence/grey seer's command ability, moreso if you have a deathrunner for the second bubble from the doppleganger. Blade of judgement from Ulgu is crazy on a verminlord corruptor. Most likely you'll go crown and because we lack battalions  so we can't get a second artefact

Edited August 28, 2018 by TheMuphinMan

[Sunspear]

Thanks that helps