red crested skinks question

[Tulkus]

I am having trouble using these guys effectively against skaven. They are unable to go toe to toe with clanrats w/shields. I will say i haven't gotten to the skinks red traits and burned my little amount of sacrifices on the ROR skink but im getting trounced. Is there any tips you guys can give me to play them better. I love the change of area and the rituals but im sucking too bad to get the campaign going to those parts.

[Incubo]

Try to ensure you have a good variety of units in your army. Red crested skinks are good but in a 1v1 there stats are not high enough to deal with clanrats w/shields.

Make sure you have regular skinks for your front lines and try to have your red crested skinks hit the flanks or circle them around for a hammer and anvil (charging them from behind while they are engaged with your normal skinks). That is the best way to deal with blobs of rats specifically in the early game since saurus are not really an option.

Another option if you don't or can't flank (to much pressure coming) is to throw your normal skinks with red crested together on the front line. This lets the skinks absorb some or most of the damage while your red crested can dish out a lot of damage. Just gotta make sure to give them support.

Make sure to have some ranged thrown in the mix to soften them up on approach but you always have to be ready for skaven to throw rat spawns on top of your ranged units.

Overall though flanking is a big part of most battles and can be a huge difference in terms of how many units you lose or how many units they lose.

[Sn3z]

TBH they are not actually essential units to have atleast straight away and much like skulkers are a dead end. Skinks with shield and sword are perfectly fine and cheaper you can add a few red skinks later by swapping the shield and sword. Keep the Javelin/blowpipes skinks on the flanks. I see a few youtubers thinking they need to get these units ASAP and its pointless.