SKAVEN ARMY GUIDE! - Total War: Warhammer 2 

The skaven can also really easily overrun my gpu and give me really bad fps

"Skavenslave Slingers, you're probably better off giving a rat a sling in real life" oh my god :'D

Here's my skaven build: *RRRRRRATTLING GUN*

There's something weirdly endearing about the skaven. I always feel like they're the happiest to have won when a battle is over.

Today we'll be looking at the Dark Elves Army Guide! Darkshards with Shields. Thanks for watching this guide!

19 black dragons and 1 skavenslaves for that sneaky hammer & anvil technique

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More guides for the other factions, please. You are the primary source of this type of information in all of youtube!

15:55 The flying skaven in the top right. His name was Rattus Maximus. He grew up in the warrens of Skavenblight. As a young rat he had a dream. A dream that one day, he would become an (under)world famous singer. The other rats mocked him and beat him up but he never gave up his dream. Rattus Maximus went to war with the skaven many times, and always survived because he knew he couldn't die before his dream was fulfilled. He would find secluded caverns, and sing. The echoes amplifying his scrawny voice. In his mind, he was above all else, an artist. One day however, he was forced to go on another campaign under the threath of torture. This is the fight you are seeing here. Scroll up and hit unpause for a brief moment. Just like that... he is gone. I think this is the philosophical sub-text GW is trying to show us with the Skaven. We are all Rattus Maximus, trying to chase our dreams. To make them reality. To amount to something in life. Instead - we are wasting it writing and reading youtube comments. Don't be like Rattus Maximus. He will never sing his song, and if we keep procrastinating - neither will we.

"Hell pit abomination" very fitting name to be honest

A pleasure to listen to the explanations from start to finish, written and paced beautifully just like a script. Succinct, precise, logical, the video was spot on. Not just this one, but the whole faction army guide series. Well done sir.

These guides are incredible dude so much effort in them and very professionally made!

I'm a pretty average player. But I tend to use Skaven Arty, plague claws with warp cannons that are guard by Storm Vermin. Then a massive wall of clanrats and slaves to keep the enemy at bay. I then use slingers for a bit of ranged and some doomwheels to chew up anything that get's too close. It usually leads to massive casualties on both sides, but what's a Skaven victory if it's not pyrrhic?

"They have a ranged unit for every situation". True statement, and thats BEFORE Rattling guns, Jezzails and Mortars XD

i just started playing totalwar w2 and i love your guides, good work man PS its awesome to see how you developed over time, i pretty much watched all your guides the last few days and its cool to see the improvments in editing and general guide-depth.

Hi Zerk great army guide! Your guide does stand out because it provides sample build which include pro build which is an eye-opener for me. Keep up the good work :)

I feel like the Skaven tactic of the weak protecting the strong is super appropriate for the lore

Great quality guide Zerk. I always appreciate the clear abundance of effort you direct towards these videos, and by extension your effort towards providing quality resources for a better gaming experience for the community. Big respect to Ninjahund as well for giving a care, unlike the other "too cool" people. I'll probably offer a build when High Elves are next, as I'm a roleplay geek who is biased towards High Elves and mostly enjoys sticking with them. See you in the futcha!

Zerk you're the best, I thought I was sick of total war warhammer 2, but it turns out i just haven't branched out enough and experienced playing other factions. Your guides help me a lot to understand the intricacies of the game, and help me wrap my head around changing up my play style. Thanks!

Thanks for all the videos, I'm new in the game-franchise and this kind of videos are helping me a lot :)

Death Runners are fast, and just got a charge bonus in Kharibdys update. Throw a speed, frenzy, or strider banner on them with vanguard deployment, goodbye artillery and missiles, with high chase kills.

Fantastic guide brother thanks for your guides good sir. Before watching your guides i never started a new campaign and thanks to your guidelines i did pretty well in game and enjoyed the power of knowledge :) Keep up the good work my friend!

Great stuff! Your videos are great for learning the ropes of this game. Looking forward to your guides of the other factions.

Zerkovich-thing makes new video. Much needed to-to fuel clan mors for-for conquest of beard-things *gross snort* must expand. Must devour southlands yes-yes. TO VICTORY MY STORMVERMIN!

Your guides are the best. Great examples and explanations. Can't wait for the Lizardmen!

my favorite skaven-rp tactic is to park skaven slaves in front of the front lines with warpfire throwers behind them. All they do is hold the enemy in position as the warpfire throwers absolutely massacre anything that approaches the line.

Holy shit, that swarm at the beginning lol

Really enjoy your guides. They make me a better player. Thank you! -new sub

I just got myself the TWW2 (my first TW game) and I can say that this video help a lot with my Skaven campaign.

YO MAN, GLAD UR BACK, IVE BEEN ADDICTED TO UR VIDS FOR LAST TWO WEEKS, LITERALLY WATCHED ALMOST ALL OF UR SHIT, IM GLAD THIS IS STILL ALIVE, I WAS ABOUT TO GET DESPERATE CUZ LACK OF FRESH MEAT HERE. Ok lad, see ya in the futcha, the soon one I hope. Btw pardon my portuguese.

watched this guide as im getting into skaven, yes very late to the party but still enjoying it a lot, very very good informative guide dude helpped a lot thanks for all the info! ill check your out vids out and give you a sub and a like ! thanks keep up the great work.

This is the best Skaven run down I have seen yet. Bravo, I definitely subbed. I used to play the tabletop game as a kid many, many years ago and I was a Skaven player. I still have my horde. The fact that I can play Skaven in a video game to this level of detail and using basically the same tactics as the table top game in high definition gameplay almost brings tears to my eyes sometimes. Thank you so much for clearing up a lot of my questions. I just did a quite "learning" campaign and got pretty far. I'm going to start again with everything I've learned from my game-play and this video :)

Loving your guides series. Nice rundown of the units and overall themes with some solid strategies to back them up.

This is really well done and you've earned a sub

I always use 2 of each artillery, they rock.Always get like 200+ kills per arty!Then one rat ogre and one doomwheel for anvil, a lot of clanrats some with spears and havent really decided with which lord to stick.I also like the elite ranged infantry.I bring some if I can.

they got the skaven look absolutely perfect. great vid as always

Skaven: sent a rat to space. Can't fly.

For my Skaven vortex campaign, I had balanced build consisting of a front line of Stormvermin, with bombadier support and 3 artillery with a Doomwheel. That Doomwheel is just so much fun to flank with. Stormvermin held the lines while I just ran the Doomwheel back and forth and toward any enemy archers that got in my way.

In campaign it made a big difference depending on the factions I'd be fighting, but usually a few Stormvermin (shields or halberds depending on how many archers they have) to hold the line long enough to get melted by purple globadiers and a mounted priest. 2 or 3 warpfire cannons to take out monsters and mounted lords quickly, one or two catapults to harass backline units, a doomwheel or two for quickly taking out archers then rear charging the front line, extra halberds if I think they are going to field a lot of cavalry. Early game was mostly fielding tons of clan rats with all the bonuses and surrounding everything

This channel is awesome! Great work :D

Skavenslave Slingers are awesome for having the enemy army run around in circles just in range of your artillery, and with their backs to your actually good missile infantry. Really loving the Skaven campaign so far, their mechanics are so satisfying.

Nice Video as usual! Easy to follow guides and spot on commentary! Keep up the great content! For builds: I like to leave out the artillery and go for a more mobile Build. Skrolk can be a real pain in mp with his 2 summon abilities and the massive aoe. Back him up with an assassin(or 2 if you expect alot of Monsters. 2 assassins will take out any dino if managed well) My front line is normaly clanrats or clanrat spears, or plague monks on the side some flanking skavenslave spears and gutter runners with poison. Esential are also the 2 doomwheels and one or two death runners wich make short work of any armoured units... Thats basically it:) ps: the only time I skill different is against the damn Lizzards. Then stormvermin with halberds and hellpits will replace the doomwheels and nightrunners. Still finetuning... Warhammer 2 is the best total war has been in MP since medieval! I am loving the fast paced, build based battles!!

Finally! Can't wait for the High Elves Guide! Your vids are amazing, keep up the good work!

wohoo! finally! love these videos, they help me a lot, keep up the great work!

Like the new army guide keep up the good work

i always watch your videos for relaxing ,i like your voice and the way that you show de units

thank you for your efforts, great guide, cheers

hey zerk been doing a few builds in campaign with lord skrolk but since i started with vampire counts i was working the same way but with skaven but watching this video again you woke me up and myself aswell when i tried going high quality vs dwarfs and lost many stormvermin thanks to not having skaven slaves to sacrifice seems like skaven to me are the most versatile race in total war warhammer because they can do ANY army type comp but you stressed something important: they are a horde faction (not simply a rush faction) so they must attack and kill fast and the horde formation was unknown to me

Very in-depth guide, thank you

i've been using more artillery focused builds in the campaign but was interested in figuring out a way to effectively field some slaves in additional armies to keep cost down and here I have it. I will probably keep a few pieces of artillery instead of rat ogres to soften up incoming targets and maybe poison wind glob's for anti large. thanks for the guide very informative.

My personal build (before the DLC that made Skaven super good) is like yours but Warpfire throwers on the rear with a hell pit abomination instead of poison wind globodiers

Just discovered your youtube channel ! amazing dude keep up the good work :)

My favorite faction to play with. I just love destroying the whole warhammer world with Ikit Claw. Cant wait to play as Throth

I'm new to the total warhammer world and love your videos, great stuff I'm learning a lot.

Your tactic with storm vermin is pretty logical i think low stats units also can be used for flank to support rat ogres

A good way to fight with the skaven is good melee units in one force. Get some Skrimishing units to spilt the army up, then attack with your main army. then eliminate their other force which followed the Skrimers.

Thank you as always Zerkovich! Your guides are the only reason I can play this ridiculous game.

Now Skaven have good AP range units & Doom Flayers.

A little tactic that I love utilizing now that Eshin is more formally in the game, is to have the line of expendables in the front with the rat ogres and plaguebearers do much as you've pointed out. the only trick is my flanks will have deathrunners and/or triads. Great for the stealth flank. Gutterrunners (poison) also are great for this or chasing off cav or skirmishers. If not just hitting the enemy's front line from the back with bits of poison if possible to bring. Mind you this is usually against the AI; but it works well in campaign. Especially against Wood Elves. Instead of bombardiers, I'll bring mortars.

Should def to an update to this since so much has been added

I like fielding 3 or 4 artillery units and surrounding them with slave spears, some missile support, and a couple of stormvirmin halberds, this tactic can be used for most factions of course but the whole number advantage with skaven takes it to a new level.

i like a few clanrats w/ shields with a couple spears on ends. use menace from below to tie down enemy and destroying them with plagueclaw catapult before front lines crash

Finally someone competent doing these for the new game.

I like a similar build to Ninjahund, but with globadiers/warpfire in the center, without anything in front. I put them in 2 close columns with something to disrupt an engage between, in the sense of left flank, 2xglobe/fire, 2 or 3x slave or stormvermin, 2xglobe, right flank. I also like 1 or 2 plagueclaws in the back to keep routed units going or soften up infantry. This build can mean you will use your spawned units more defensively for the ranged units. Only campaign tested though.

Zerkovich you're a legend, thanks very much for this video!

Ah, the good ol’ days before Clan Skryre. The skaven sure have come a long way.

I'm currently playing Skaven and this is after trying out the elves. But I've started to bring like 4 catapults units into the fight because they wreck any archer units on the field. I also use these to target any group on the field that isn't engaging in any combat. For siege play I use them to just bombard enemies on the walls. So then I can just focus on powerful melee unit rosters and ignore all of the meat shields because honestly the meat shields die really quickly. For example those skaverns you can call out from underground. If they fought anything stronger than first normal melee unit they would be dead so quickly and run away that it wasn't worth the effort. So I just sent them after the enemies artillery. My main infantry force is Storm vermin, they are tough buggers and can fight all other normal melee units without much of a problem. Also love my 3 Warpfire throwers because when they do get in good shots at some army they rip them apart. So if you have the money to buy stronger melee units you really should do it. The meat shields will be entirely useless when the enemy have some stronger units in their army.

I usually never build skavenslaves, but i do mass use clanrats with shields, 2 rat ogres and artillery. Then use the ninja's to pick upp the rest. Its been working for me lately in multiplayer battles.

I like a long line of clan rats with globadiers behind them to kill the front line and some warp lightning cannons to target any scary looking units before they get close

Playing the High Elves campaign and the Skaven by far give the most trouble

loe the guide would love to see an updated one as there has been 3 dlc for sakven now

great video as always ! :D

In the campaign I throw infantry on the front line with a few behind to cover the front line when the infantry eventually retreat, rinse and repeat Vermintide for the archers Plagueclaw catapults to wipe out the front line

There seems to be a problem citizen. This guide, and these "skaven" you speak of don't exist

What about an artillery based build, bring 4 units of various artillery depending on what you will be facing, then bring 2 units of globadiers, again depending on what you might be facing, a unit of warpfire throwers, 1 or 2 doomwheels and a ton of slaves/clanrats.. basically, find a good elevated position and position artillery begin raining warpstone death on the enemy, use slaves/clanrats to stop/slow down enemy advance, then use the globadiers and warpfire throwers to mop up whatever is left.. the doomwheels are for additional protection as well as out flank flankers

death runner build (have a large force of cheap skaven to distract the enemy in the front while elite death runner goon squad with assassins sneak around and take out the enemy lord) artillery-based build (plague claws for infantry and warp lightning for anti large supported by lots of skaven slaves/cheap units to protect the artillery) would-be cav build (lots gutter runners to kite with rat ogre front line and some doom wheels for extra fun)

Can't wait for Dark Elves!

They really are hard to play as. Especially if you play them as your first faction

Heres my build: 1 skaven warlord 19 units of skavenslaves I wonder why i never win anything?

Yay!! Been waiting. :)

"YOu are propably better of giving a sling to a rat in real life" might be one of the best descriptions of slinger slaves I ever heard xD

Scurry Away! is such an awesome and amazing mechanic

Thanks for your army guides :) keep it :)

and the last army comp i thought about would be good vs rush armies: use a strong stormvermin/monk frontline use a hellpit to tank any flanks and have an assassin team for example gutter runners would lure a part of the enemy army to a location where death runners would be waiting with gutter runner slings and a few slaves to block charges and when they were done they could envellop the rest of the enemy cuz i noticed it can work when i fight with a garrison i usually build the frontline and wait use slaves to tire the enemy down before meeting the main line and at the same time gutter runners lure 2-4 enemy units away from the main army and kite them with shurikens either delaying them long enough for the rest to die and then finishing them off or kiting them long enough that when they run out of ammo they win the melee cuz the enemy is exausted from running after them

You forgot that the plague furnace the mount for the plague priest has the same effect as the motis engine with sucks life out!!! and that is awesome!!!

I've been a Skaven fan since Shadow of the Horned Rat, and now in TWWH2, my Skaven build focuses as much as possible around artillery. Plagueclaw Catapults are armor-piercing and anti-infantry, and their projectiles are massive; two of them will tear apart the enemy's high-value units, rip up archers, and otherwise create a wild and merry havoc. This tactic is situational; a bargain-basement cavalry unit can pin or destroy any artillery without a problem and I wouldn't dare bring two catapults against other Skaven, but if I'm reasonably sure that they'll be able to use half their ammunition, or if I'm fighting someone very tanky and armored like Dwarves or Chaos, I definitely want to bring the 'pults.

Great content mate keep it coming.

so i've been doing it like VC so here goesmy low-mid tier army that i use for every race is as such: 4 clan rats 2 spears for frontline but after rewatching your guides i started doing 4 CR 2 plague monks and spears have a few reserves (no flank) and skaven slaves as the first wave usually 2 and 2 skaven slave spears to bog up the enemy while i use 2 plague claws and 2 warplightning cannons to rek them before they get to me and use skaven slaves to delay the enemy advance to the max along with the clanrat race summon before using my main line to attack because with that reasoning the enemy army will be tired to fight the main line and since skaven get tired fast they will have the damage to kill the enemy because they are fresh and i would flank if the opportunity showed itself

and the high quality defensive dwarf formation can be made with skaven vs tomb kings since their infantry is weaker so the range would focus enemy constructs while the frontline of stormvermin held things together and doomwheels made short work of their range

Haha the sad face when you missed the spell!

Liked and subscribed. Keep up the good work!

its not muliplayer tested, but i use skaven tactics. send in a bunch of slaves to tire them out and take the brunt of everything, then send in clanrats to try and finish the job, and then stormvermin to pick clean whats left. if possible i try and have artillery and other ranged units support the front. i also try and balance out between sword and spear units in case i need the anti large

I like using a front line of slaves, second line of stormvermin w/halberd, third line with plague catapult and some poison globes, 4th line with clanrat spears. however the 2 key units are the lord(either caster w/the dreaded thirteenth spell, and a plague priest on his mount. General idea is to send forth the plague priest and attack as much infantry as possible, preferably high tier. then cast the 13th spell on your priest to kill as much of the enemy inf as possible. shouldnt be too difficult to clean up the rest.

Rush forward with all my infantry, swords out front with spears held back to deal with flanks and large, buying time for my artillery to deal suitable damage. Also lord snipe with queek headtaker.

Hope you are going to make more Guides :) great work with all the videos.

16:07 Don't know why i find the wheel funny

“You think you can kill-slay my clanrats, man-thing?! Well, two-two can play this game!”

and then my plans for the future were to specialize the armies depending on enemy race: lizardmen they got great holding infantry with scary dinos that simply buldoze through frontlines so what do i do? go full ranged army like you referred death globadiers poison globadiers and warpfire throwers with many summons to delay the enemy while the clanrats hold so the rest can kill the enemy dinos and if i get flanked i'd have a hellpit abomination with spears to block them and doomwheels to kill enemy range

also adding the builds at the end is real nice

My Ideal campiegn build is 3 separate armies. First army is: - Lord Skrolk - 1 warlock engineer - 2 warp lightning cannons - 2 plague claw catapaults - 1 doomwheel - 2 poison wind globe globadiers - 1 death globe globadier - 2 warp fire throwers - 3 hellpit abominations - 3 storm vermin (sword and shields) - 2 clanrats (spear and shields)