Use of Skaven Slaves?

[Sinkowski]

Any find a use for slave units? The only ones I found useful are the slingers as the other ones die and route too fast.

[Vain]

They are good at taking damage on the charge leaving your regular troops undamaged from archer and etc.

[RecalledDread]

I use them to put the ladders on the walls in Sieges for the following units (assuming I don't have towers).

Or to use up ammunition for enemy archers.

[Grigsey]

Originally posted by GeneralChaos:

Any find a use for slave units? The only ones I found useful are the slingers as the other ones die and route too fast.

Get 2 armies, in one, you put all the expensive troops. in the other, any combo of slave units.
Slave army engages first (good time to use the poison buffing spell). The good army flanks, envelopes, actually kills stuff.

Essentially, they are a very very cheap distraction force that it doesn't matter if they all die, because you can replace them very quickly and cheaply and have virtually no upkeep cost.

[FrontlinerDelta]

Let them die horribly and replace them with global recruitment if you are still in enemy territory. Still only 1 turn and still super cheap.

Clanrats with experience and research actually can be valuable to a certain extent, so if you want truly "go die to these archers so my good ones don't", skavenslaves are where it's at. I find them particularly useful later on when the supply lines debuff is up to like +50% upkeep, even clanrats start to cost a fair bit but skavenslaves stay nice and low with 20 upkeep.

[Lichlord9333]

Also routing slaves won't harm the morale of regular troops so feel free to mass spam them to soak damage and tire the enemy down while shooting artillery at it from distance.

[ihKu47]

I've only played on Normal thus far, but with Queek even the slaves seem to become rather useful - especially considering their super low price. I haven't had one slave unit die off in battle yet, they stick it to the enemy for long and some of the units even score 50 kills in a battle (some get none, so there's that).

But yeah, use them as others suggested, it's what they're good for.

[John Helldiver]

The Skaven tactic i use, won every battle with it so far. Use your slaves as meatshields. Swarm an enemy and let your Warp cannons do the damage.

[Daergar]

Fodder until you can field better armies.

Ridiculously cheap to run a lord with 19 slaves as backup in a siege or whatever, just swarm them in to soak missile damage and wear the enemy down, then roll in with your real stack that was hiding in the woods.

[LuNi]

Artillery or Tower fodder at it's finest.

[Private Pyle]

I feel bad for them because they have scars on their back from being whipped.

[Daergar]

Originally posted by Ratt (Road to 1.5k):

I feel bad for them because they have scars on their back from being whipped.

Then I suggest you do not find out how skaven females are treated. ;)

[Heru Ra Ha]

Dont they literally have the advice "meatshield"?

[The Mighty Mulletman]

I love my Skaven slaves. I use them as reccomended, expendable meat shields. Often I'd send the slaves in first with the clan rats well behind waiting for them to route. Once the slaves start wavering and breaking I send the clan rats in to kill off the now exhausted enemies. If any of the routing slaves return they either hit the enemy flank or wait for the clan rats to tire then switch places with them. I like to run stacks of half good units, half slaves for this very reason. Much easier to replace slaves than to replace any decent unit.

[Happy]

Originally posted by GeneralChaos:

Any find a use for slave units? The only ones I found useful are the slingers as the other ones die and route too fast.

I personally find them very good for their nutritional value & dietary requirements for all of my Lizardmen armies after I chose to eat them after a hard fought battle, helps with replenishment.

[ArchAnge1LT]

Eh only early on. After you have ok economy, i replace them with clan rats. I guess theya re ok as a cheap stack to garrison if you want to hold some position.

I later replace them with clan rats everywhere to absorb charges, etc.