Brendan's First Army Update of Skaven

First up, I’m very excited to be part of the Old World Army Challenge.  I will admit that I was spying on everyone last year as I had two friends, James and Brennan, participating in the fun.  I also became very jealous as I watched their undead army and Slaan develop over the first half of the year.  So needless to say, I was hooked.  I wanted in.

Picking Skaven was easy for me as they were my first love in Warhammer.  Something about their character really appealed to me.  The huddled masses, the backstabbing internal politics, the cowardly leadership of the bunch was just too good.  Besides, they saved the world be killing Nagash, so they are certainly heroes in my mind.

I started collecting Skaven when I was 12 years old and eventually sold them off to fund and try out different armies.  Years later I collected them a second time and then true to form sold them off to fund a different army.  Now, I’m much older and just looking at the great 

models from my childhood hit me right in the feels. So I thought I would try to theme a 1000 point army. I would go with Clan Moulder, and take a bunch of rat creatures.


My current idea is the following:

Skaven Warlord (90)

Warplock Master (190)

Since it is clan Moulder, I figured Throt the Unclean would be a fitting warlord, while Ikit Claw was one of my favorite looking mages from years past. He will just serve as my Warplock Master

4 pack masters and 24 giant rats (100)

Clan rats should be the backbone of any army, but I felt that giant rats would be more fitting as a troop choice. I may finagle the points and try and pick up another unit of giant rats as they are super cheap, but look pretty good for my theme.

3 pack masters and 6 rat ogres (288)


I've always loved rat ogres and when I played as a kid could never afford a big unit of them. So why not now?!

20 clan rats with hand weapon and shields (180)

I have a mix of old and new here. I'm trying hard to find ten more metal Skaven at a reasonable price to replace the plastic ones. So they will be painted later in the competition to bide me some time.

1 warpfire thrower team (70)

We know where the real strength of any Skaven army lies...

1 rat swarm (50)

I would love two units of rat swarms as they add more character to clan Moulder, but they get more expensive in points if I don't have enough clanrats. So one unit will have to do.

1018 points. 

Looking forward to getting started!