Stay on your toes – the engineers of the Clans Skryre are burrowing their way through the space between realms to deliver this weekend’s explosive pre-order payload of Battletome: Skaven. It’s their greatest triumph yet!
In fact, nearly every battle fought by the skaven is in service to one duplicitous ploy or another – and the schemes of the Great Horned Rat are the most overwrought ruses of all. Clawlords who can fulfil their master’s circuitous demands are greatly rewarded… especially in Path to Glory campaigns.
Each time you set up your multitudinous hordes of vile ratmen on the battlefield, you can pick one of the Master Plans of the Great Horned Rat. These diabolical goals each advance the ambitions of the Under-Father in different ways… somehow. Definitely. Would he lie to you?
If you can complete your chosen master plan, the most magnificent of vermin-gods will take a break from his paranoid plotting to send you tides of new recruits – allowing you to skip injury and casualty rolls. All the better for overwhelming your foes with Strength In Numbers!
There’s a master plan suited to each of the six Great Clans, so you’ll have an option regardless of which of your many treacherous generals have seized control this week. Those who enjoy wielding the mystical might of the MASTERCLAN, for example, can pick Onslaught of Ruin – which requires your Grey Seers successfully cast at least 13 spells. Unlucky for some…
Your new veteran abilities will be invaluable in carrying out such convoluted conspiracies. These aren’t limited to any specific Great Clan, but they each have their favourites. Upgrade a unit of monstrous Stormfiends with unstable Skryre Prototypes, and they’ll be able to boost the accuracy of a shooting unit within 13" – including themselves.
Or maybe you’d rather raid the lethal armouries of your new Deathmasters, and arm a squad of Stormvermin with weeping blades coated in Eshin Poisons? This vile venom gives your unit’s melee weapons a nasty boost to Rend and Damage on each wound roll of 6.
The Great Horned Rat has plenty more up his verminous sleeves for his followers – unique quests, narrative battleplans, bespoke territories for your growing Under-Empire, and even heroic upgrades. You’ll be flooding the Mortal Realms with squabbling hordes in no time.
Battletome: Skaven is scurrying into pre-order on Saturday alongside the new Vanguard: Skaven box, so you’ll soon be able to start enacting your twisted plans on the battlefield. And you’ll need every ounce of that cunning as we enter the cramped tunnels of Gallet in the new General’s Handbook…
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