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Rodientia Ex Machina (40k Skaven R&H Army)


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I just completed my massive Skaven Renegade & Heretic army in time for the Astronomicon tourny in Toronto this weekend! 

I've been wanting to make this army since imperial armour 13 dropped with the R&H army list, and I knew Skaven were going to be my go to because I think they're such a great and characterful range of models (also I already have a guard army, and I didn't want to repeat myself!). With the way the R&H (and the Vraks horde list in particular) can respawn, this is truly the epitome of an endless ravening horde of evil minions (backed up by some colossus stompy robots)! 

I started collecting parts for assembly about a year ago, grabbing bits off ebay. The Skaven Clanrats were perfect to buy in bulk, coming in around only .50cents per model, but then I also needed to stock up on Dark Eldar arms for pistols and melee weapons. The DE arms are a perfect fit and aesthetic, but I had to do a -lot- of shaving off clanrat left arms (shield arms) to add pistol/weapon combos to the majority of the infantry.

Painting the chaff was geared purely for production line efficiency. They're 3 point models, so they only need to look good 'en masse. Primed brown, basecolour grey/red/metal, a quick dip in Army Painter Strong Tone, sprayed with  Dullcoat, pick out eyes/teeth/rivets and base with copious amounts of blood. The majority of the 100 or so infantry models were painted in about a month, on and off.

 

The army consists of 6x 15 man infantry squads (that respawn on a 2+), 3 Helbrutes, 3 Soul Grinders (see my P&M Blog thread!), 3 Rapiers, and assorted support/command infantry.

http://mcgibs.com/wp-content/gallery/miniatures/chaos-ratswarm01.jpg

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The Vermin Lord, who's difficult to photograph because of his hunchy pose.

http://mcgibs.com/wp-content/gallery/miniatures/chaos-ratswarm-lord.jpg

 

Some officers and banner/sigil bearers to keep the scum in line. The Stormvermin kit is great, and helps to bring the horde up to a more human sized height.

http://mcgibs.com/wp-content/gallery/miniatures/chaos-ratswarm-officers.jpg

 

A few flamer carriers (each squad has 2). The flamers are cut down Kroot Rifles, Cadian flamer packs, and some wire for the hose.

http://mcgibs.com/wp-content/gallery/miniatures/chaos-ratswarm-flamers.jpg

 

Lascannon Disciple team. They come with the Lord, but they snipe things pretty well.

http://mcgibs.com/wp-content/gallery/miniatures/chaos-ratswarm-lasteam.jpg

 

Laser Destroyer Rapier Battery cobbled together from some Manic Forgefather tracks and a bunch of random bits. I know they're supposed to have quad lascannons, but I could'nt figure out a way to make that look good. So they just have magic dragon heads that gives them extra powa'.

http://mcgibs.com/wp-content/gallery/miniatures/chaos-ratswarm-rapiers.jpg

 

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Well done McGibs! Really like this idea and the conversions you brought out of this! I'v always wondered what Skaven would look like in 40K LOL tongue.png.

Would love to see a close up/pictures of the mech on the right; looks like a Defiler to Spider(?) conversion with a much of skulls or eggs on its back!?
(EDIT: Clicked your Sig and saw more LOL )

Good luck with the Tourny in TO! Make the Blood God Proud! thumbsup.gif

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Excellent horde army. It really does bring to mind a tide of vermin/blood when you see them all arranged like that. 

What do you consider the ground to be asked of, may I ask? Aesthetically it's very interesting but is it a planet made of blood or something? 

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Thanks for the replies guys, and thanks to @atia for the blog feature here: https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/1930
 

 

What do you consider the ground to be asked of, may I ask? Aesthetically it's very interesting but is it a planet made of blood or something?
More a warp rift or anomaly type deal. When my Khorne armies show up, the ground starts seeping blood and skulls as Khorne's realm pushes into reality.
 
Had an awesome weekend at the Astro tournament in Toronto with my rat men hordes. All games were bloody meatgrinders as appropriate. I was afraid that I'd have game time problems moving so many models (and the fact that they come back after they die), but it was never really an issue. Colour coding the squads was invaluable. 
I was having some conversations with about how cultist/GEQ horde armies feel really fun to play because they have the exact opposite psychological effect of super elite armies/units. With a fancypants unit, whenever it fails to perform or dies, you feel really disappointed a bummed out. But when a useless cultist stabs just a regular space marine in the eye, it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Highlight underdog kills include:
-3 squads swarming and slowly eroding two Dreadknights over the course of 4 turns. I hate Dreadknights and watching them get papercut to death was very gratifying.
-Putting the last wound on a swooping Devourer Flyrant with a laspistol.
-In the same game, the last model of a squad killed a charging Tervigon on overwatch, with a laspistol.
-Losing 10+ models in the ensuing fireball anytime I killed a vehicle with meltabombs. In one game, I lost more models to vehicle explosions than enemy shooting.
 
http://mcgibs.com/wp-content/gallery/junk/astro2017-gameplay01.jpg
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More shots of the soulgrinders and helbrutes can be seen on my gallery here: http://mcgibs.com/miniatures/
But here's a few for the lazy.
http://mcgibs.com/wp-content/gallery/miniatures/chaos-dread01.jpg
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http://mcgibs.com/wp-content/gallery/miniatures/chaos-soulgrinder01.jpg
http://mcgibs.com/wp-content/gallery/miniatures/chaos_soulgrinderstalker01.jpg
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