Skaven clanrats are your early game "backbone" units. Slaves are expendables. You throw them in as roadblocks and disruption. If they die, then they die (which is very much in the flavor of skaven lore). Dwellers from below are great for disruption. You summon them on top of key units (heavy hitters, long range units such as enemy jezzails, ballistas, etc) to kill/slow them down, meanwhile focuses your firepower on their other units who now are marching forward without support. Things like WarpLightning (Engineers ability... which is your Skaven Spell Caster), your bombs/guns/rockets are all your hammers (clanrats/slaves are your anvil...though clanrats more than slaves). It's perfectly fine to blow your own guys up. It's what skaven excel out. Everyone loses, just the enemy loses more than the Skaven. :D
@malthusoth Thank you! Okay, so running two armies, one full of expendable units and the other with the power, would be a thing, it sounds like. Thanks for insight and taking the time to let me know!
@toofelhoont2866 you can do that. I mainly ran one army early, and used a lot of "Below" units. I also don't sit for 2+ turns to recruit. Move, recruit, end turn. That might be a reason some armies feel slow is due to wanting a full stack immediately early game before you advance. Meanwhile, the enemy is advancing and taking settlements, and increasing research faster. Also, for all armies, make use of your march stances (ambush, etc) so that you can heal, recruit, ambush, etc on the main map as you need it. Again though, I'm not the best at the game. Definitely look for more knowledgeable players for better insight.
@@malthusoth I appreciate your tips! Definitely feel like I take too much time to build that full army, that's something I have been working on in other Total Novice videos.
Ah Ikit. Probably my favourite lord of my favourite faction in terms of themeing. I do think it is a little unfortunate how incredibly strong Ikit is compared to the other Skaven lords because in my opinion the Skaven, especially the non DLC lords could use a bit of love. But because Ikit exists the overall opinion is that the Skaven are fine. Also Ikit might be very powerful but his first few turns can definitely be very tricky to players unfamiliar with the game. Unless one of multiple cheese tactics gets used but I am not a fan of that
Yeah, I feel like my biggest mistake was turn one and not trying to go for that northern city (Maglisone, or something like that) and instead, I took the southern freebie. Felt like that decision allowed the Vampire Coast to setup shop next door.
This faction definitely challenged me a bit in upping my game and tactics.
Skaven clanrats are your early game "backbone" units. Slaves are expendables. You throw them in as roadblocks and disruption. If they die, then they die (which is very much in the flavor of skaven lore). Dwellers from below are great for disruption. You summon them on top of key units (heavy hitters, long range units such as enemy jezzails, ballistas, etc) to kill/slow them down, meanwhile focuses your firepower on their other units who now are marching forward without support. Things like WarpLightning (Engineers ability... which is your Skaven Spell Caster), your bombs/guns/rockets are all your hammers (clanrats/slaves are your anvil...though clanrats more than slaves). It's perfectly fine to blow your own guys up. It's what skaven excel out. Everyone loses, just the enemy loses more than the Skaven. :D
@malthusoth Thank you! Okay, so running two armies, one full of expendable units and the other with the power, would be a thing, it sounds like. Thanks for insight and taking the time to let me know!
@toofelhoont2866 you can do that. I mainly ran one army early, and used a lot of "Below" units. I also don't sit for 2+ turns to recruit. Move, recruit, end turn. That might be a reason some armies feel slow is due to wanting a full stack immediately early game before you advance. Meanwhile, the enemy is advancing and taking settlements, and increasing research faster.
Also, for all armies, make use of your march stances (ambush, etc) so that you can heal, recruit, ambush, etc on the main map as you need it.
Again though, I'm not the best at the game. Definitely look for more knowledgeable players for better insight.
@@malthusoth I appreciate your tips! Definitely feel like I take too much time to build that full army, that's something I have been working on in other Total Novice videos.
Ah Ikit. Probably my favourite lord of my favourite faction in terms of themeing. I do think it is a little unfortunate how incredibly strong Ikit is compared to the other Skaven lords because in my opinion the Skaven, especially the non DLC lords could use a bit of love. But because Ikit exists the overall opinion is that the Skaven are fine. Also Ikit might be very powerful but his first few turns can definitely be very tricky to players unfamiliar with the game. Unless one of multiple cheese tactics gets used but I am not a fan of that
Yeah, I feel like my biggest mistake was turn one and not trying to go for that northern city (Maglisone, or something like that) and instead, I took the southern freebie. Felt like that decision allowed the Vampire Coast to setup shop next door.
doom rocket lol
@ryanadams1334 It was actually amazing lol I wished I would have held on for that last battle, bit seeing it was soooo cool!