Skaven best Frontline?

[ALWAYS BY MY SIDE]

I wanna try their weapon group, but enemy break my front line so quick that I don't have time for range unit to do dmg...what do people use as solid front line? how many?etc..

[yuzhonglu]

Plague priest with Clanrat summons.

And menace from belows.

That's the standard answer.

[Dregora]

More ranged and heroes/lords.

[Barser]

Yeah summons is the best. Other than that I usually just use clanrats and heroes. So like the others said.

[Threetails]

I like using Doom Flayers. More sturdy than infantry, almost equally good at holding the line, faster to intercept flanking troops, and easy to shoot around unlike infantry.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by ALWAYS BY MY SIDE:

I wanna try their weapon group, but enemy break my front line so quick that I don't have time for range unit to do dmg...what do people use as solid front line? how many?etc..

If you are doing clan Skyre and just want a easy way to test out weapon teams then i recommend just putting a bunch of engineer heroes at the front with your lord and spacing them to catch enemy units (put them some distance away from your weapon teams).

This approach also allows you to stack the damage bonus weapon teams can get from engineers (it quickly reaches rather insane values).

However it is (At least in my humble opinion) quite a cheesy tactic and it only works against AI since a player would just move past your heroes :D

[elkapp]

Honestly, i generally go with skavenslaves instead of clanrats (cost less and generally are not that worse at holding the line) at the beginning and switch them for more weapon teams and plague priests.
If you have the new DLC you could try to use packmasters. They come on a fast regenerating mount (also far far smaller than the plague furnace) and can spawn a total of 4 unit of dogs. I don't know if they are better, because you need to also consider the fact that plague priests have more summons and can all of them get arcane conduit to buff a lot you magic in battle.

That said, you can also go with other single entities units, like abominations, or doomwheels, or even the new brood horror or the muntant rat ogre. They should all be fine. One thing i suggest you not doing is using plague priests themselves (or even engineers) as a frontline (expecially on plague furnace) because they won't last long. I mean, they will still perform better than stormvermin, but you also risk killing them (which is a cancer expecially if you get good traits on them).

[LCDC]

i use
1 Grey Seer
4 Plague priest
2 warlock engineers
1 posionwind mortar
4 jezzails and 4 ratling guns
4 plague claws

[LCDC]

Originally posted by LCDC:

i use
1 Grey Seer
4 Plague priest
2 warlock engineers
1 posionwind mortar
4 jezzails and 4 ratling guns
4 plague claws

but I am thinking of trying out something new with packmasters

[Lain]

doomwheels, plague priests
can work with 2 priests but 3-4 is better
about 2-4 doomwheels, they require a bit of micro - if you just send them in and leave em they wont do well


earlier in the campaign, slavenslaves mostly

[Nhika]

1 hero with 19 skavenslaves followed by another "stack" of real units

[happyscrub]

slaves until you don't care about money

[Koveras]

My 'front line' is typically skavenslaves. They just obstruct and distract and for the weapons teams and monsters. Slaveslingers on the sides to assist and skitter away.