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4 minutes ago, Gwendar said:

Well, I'm just saying on paper it doesn't work out for me but I love Eshin and would like to run them more; played them a lot in 1st ed AoS. In practice I know it could be different which is why I'm curious at what your list looks like. I imagine it's a Deathmaster, Deceiver, 40-80 Night Runners and the rest Gutter Runners? Not a wide variance in Eshin so what you do see is generally samey.

Yeah it is, add in a warpseer or Thanquol and your there! It doesn’t look great on paper at all, I took it for purely fluff reasons but it works for me! Here’s some photos of the Ninja rats in action

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16 minutes ago, Gwendar said:

Interesting.. what does your local meta look like and what are you running for a list? It would work against some of the more casual players in my area but I haven't really felt like trying it since I've been practicing for Nashcon and Nova.




Speaking of; ran the 6 Fiends\40 Monks list again today against OBR and lost all priority rolls and got double turned going into 2. 40 Monks killed 13 Mortek with Death Frenzy pile in and explosions from dying but.. meh. They would still do well against other things that don't have 3+ RR's but I'm still not sold. 1 key reason being that it's another spell that really needs to go off and when it doesn't the damage goes down a lot. Having something like a Hell Pit that didn't require buffing and can act on it's own (like the Jezzails) I think could be a nice addition. I looked at replacing the Monks with 20 Gutter Runners but.. no contest really, as unfortunate as it is. Even the Fiends didn't do much; a unit of 10 Kavalos kept them tied up after them + 2 Crawlers melted the 40 Clanrats in 2 turns. Ah well.

Anyway, another game vs. Sylvaneth tomorrow and will probably run the same setup and give it 1 more chance. I'll have a full batrep for that one done.

My local meta is the UK scene, I play all over. I’ve beaten bonereapers, big waaagh, mawtribes, yet to play tzeentch, it works for me and I’m happy it does. If it doesn’t for you doesn’t matter 😉 it’s all for the horned rat. I’m also in positive wins every event so it’s not that bad but it depends on player skill I suppose, it’s not a point and click army.

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2 hours ago, Skreech Verminking said:

Who needs any of those when you’ve got 400clanrats😋🤪😜
 

edit: still that sounds amazing.

I would love to here your tales and stories of the infamous clans eshins victorious days!😁

Yes-yes we kill-slay in the year of the horned rat! We are the greater clan we saved the mortal realms from dead-god thing Nagash. Our operatives infiltrated his black pyramid and stopped him!

My personal highlights are my slinktalon deathmaster with sword of judgement, his fighting claws 7 attacks re-rolling hits ( not failed hits) have claimed many victims, 19 wounds to an exalted greater daemon of Khorne! Stonehorns, carnosaurs and many little characters have met their deaths to him.

And Cube of Mists is THE best item on a deathmaster. Just have a look at it. Saved me so many times from a charge.

400 Clanrats could be problematic, would you like a clawsworn eshin slinktalon haha!

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Just went 3/0 at a one dayer and won with my Eshin fellow rats, went 3/2 at heat 1 as the only rat player.

So far I’ve gone

3/0 twice

4/2 once

3/2 once

2/1 once

Its working for me!

Who needs monks and fiends when you have gutter runners 😉

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Warpseer - Master of Magic

Deciever

Deathmaster - Cube of Mists

Deathmaster - Sword of Judgement

40x Night runners

10x Nightrunners

2x 20 Gutter Runners

2x 5 Gutter Runnners

SlinkTalon

Warp Lightning Vortex

Geminids of Ul-Gysh

Works well 

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And so, I took my faithful ninja rats to the grand tournament grand final at Warhammer World and came 13th with game scores only (The Horned Rat approved of this position)16th overall with sports votes.

I went 4-2 and did all the hidden agendas. Happy with the Eshin. Don’t give in with the better clan yes-yes.

Highlight was doing 19 mortal wounds to an exalted greater demon with my fightingclaw sword of judgement wielding assassin. Here is the rat squaring up his victim.

 

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Sounds awesome! I just came 4th in a one dayer with pure eshin, I won 3 games out of three. I beat 2 Fyreslayer lists and a Nurgle list.

Eshin has legs it has to be sneaky, try out the cube of mists. It saved me so much. 

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How did it go?

Going to try this list soon, the more I play the more I think eshin need first turn!

warpseer with master of magic, suspicious stone

Deciever

Deathmaster with cube of mists

40x Night Runners

20x Night Runners

2x 20 Gutter Runners

2x 5 Gutter Runners

SlinkTalon

Warp-Lightning Vortex

Vermintide (Big Base to use with Vortex for blocking movement if the opponent gets double)

Chronomatic Cogs

Basic idea is to kill Characters as soon as possible with running and shooting, mitigate double turn with cube of mists and tagging with warpseer. Then hopefully survive enough to win!

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Thanquol is great 4xwarpfire projectors all the way. He is there for his reliable spell casting and his three free command abilites.

 

gutter runners are better than night runners but with slink talon I'm going first, use pre game move with night runners, then run them to opponents objectives, with cogs you could easily burn all their objectives turn 1 in better part of valour and in border war take their objective.

My gutter runners are blood bowl guys converted running through trees like naruto.

Betrayers crown does things to unita at beginning of combat phase and your assassin pops out then too so great counter unit anywhere you want!

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I played pure eshin at element games 1 dayer and went 2 and 1

Nothing better than Ninja Rats

I had this

Thanquol

Deciever with shadow magic trinket

Deathmaster with betrayers crown

40x Night runnners

10x Night Runners

2x 20 Gutter runners

slinktalon

warp-lightning vortex

cant remember list exactly but this was the core.

wish I had cogs and a warpseer was takeaway. Great fun. And very lethal first turn!

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Yes-yes, the master race did well! I came 6th here's my list

Thanquol - Warpgale

Bell - Plague and master of magic

Grey seer - Skitterleap

Deathmaster - Gnawbomb

Plague Furnace

3 x 20 clanrats

40x plague monks

20x Night runners

warplightning vortex

geminids

vermintide

palisade

quicksilver swords