Skaven character ideas.

[flamingkillamajig]

So an idea for a skaven i just thought up when talking to emptyhat is that some skaven with whips punishing a slave should have BDSM leather with leather straps and chains on the slave.

Yeah....

This idea came up when i joked with him that i know it sounded odd but i really wanted to paint the leather straps on my skaven warlord.

[Long John Silver]

Well that sounds really ratty and kinky. I demand to see pictures of soft rat porn but if you go over the limits of taste, then I'm afraid Empty might have to send in the gimp.

[flamingkillamajig]

Taken from my previous posts on dakka dakka.


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Ratting Hood (basically robin hood) who steals from the rich and gives to himself. His lands were stolen from him so he is trying his best to steal them back may be a good back story. He also promises freedom to skavenslaves though it's actually a lie.

I'm not entirely sure on the profile of this guy so i figure BS 5 as he'll be an excellent marksman probably with a deadly bow with warpstone arrows (come on skaven put warpstone in everything ). He probably has the ability to raid and stay hidden. Also in a challenge i'd say he has the ability to steal an opponent's own gear (weapons, armor, etc.) and use it on themselves possibly. He may be a good assassin. Maybe he can outflank with a unit of his special men (rat-men?) and lots of slaves. Gotta wonder if i'll do his crew of little jon and maid marrian. I think skaven maid marrian would be a brood horror that he rides into battle. Of course maybe a skaven in drag would be hilarious too.

Rink, villain of time (link, hero of time) who is basically a swordsman.

He sounds normal at first but considering the 3 parts of the triforce he has the triforce of cowardice ;P possibly. This would allow him to break from duels and attack said character in a challenge without getting hurt back (maybe falls to the back rank after making a very cowardly backstab and then running away with his tail between his legs and a trail of urine along the way). I might also work this in a different way and make him courageous for a skaven with an inspiring presence. Maybe give him leadership 8 (a lot for a skaven ;P) and allow him to give it to his unit. I'm wondering what i should give to 'Rink' in the way of magic weapons if any. The 'master sword' should probably have an appropriate name too for a skaven though i'm not sure what i'd name it right now ("the rat-ster sword"). Maybe give him a rat beast named rat-pona or something which he can shoot off of and then run circles around the enemy with.

I figure if i do either of these two models i'll use the clanrat/slave models (the ones with a hood) and modify them and paint them green or similar. Possibly make a little feather hat for ratting hood . If i do ganon i think it'd be in the form of a beastmen doom-bull.

Other than all this i was also making a clanrat not long ago and while snapping in an arm for one of them (it was part of an 'island of blood' set) the bottom popped out of the base and the front of the model went up a bit. I then immediately thought of a skaven on a surf board or a skateboard and it brought a smile to my face.

Possibly i could also do steampunk skaven or some similar thing with them. Clan skryre is already fairly steampunk though.

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So what do you guys think of these ideas so far? I'm not sure on how i'd do these two characters but i'm just throwing ideas out there. I don't want them to be too powerful so WS 5 or 6 tops would probably be likely (they are basically either chieftains or special character chieftains and should have a stat-line similar to such). I'm thinking of this more as a fun characterful group of heroes or one hero. I think naming everything with 'rat' in it is a bit lacking in the creative department for me but i can't think of what they'd name a character while still maintaining the right feel for a skaven. Sadly for some reason skaven lack bows. The have slings (which might work if i use 'young rink' and his slingshot) or ratting hood's 'merry men' but some bows would be needed for some like ratting hood.

Ok so opinions, ideas, criticism (long as it's constructive)?


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Today i thought of an interesting conversion for skaven. That of course being an assassin throwing a throwing star into another character's eye. This is sort of a reference to south park with kenny throwing a throwing star into butters' eye. Perhaps i should throw something on the model that'd reference it better. I'm thinking of having an assassin with throwing stars face a warriors of chaos model and having the throwing star sticking out of the warrior of chaos's eye slit would work well. I suppose the warrior of chaos would be professor chaos or whatever he was called. He has to have the helmet and the cape though.

Also i always wanted to cut the flame off the warpfire thrower and put it in such a way around poisoned wind globadiers or the warpfire thrower backpack that it looks like a jetpack with flames shooting out of it. I figure the whole skaven with jetpacks idea needs to be tried. I've keep mentioning it but either me or somebody else needs to do it.

I also was thinking of a skaven that plays a song to lure humans out of a town (backwards from the story about the dude that gets the rats out of town) and making them his slaves in the under-empire . I also have skaven link with the triforce of cowardice facing ganon (a doombull). Finally i've got one for a skaven version of robin hood with his own band of merry rats (converted gutter runners or night runners i figure with possibly some huntsmen bitz) leading skaven-slaves to freedom or so he says (even though it's a lie).

So anybody else wanna do these models or offer up some advice on doing them or possibly add their own skaven model conversion ideas?


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So what do you think?

[Long John Silver]

Skaven don't have the right build to use bows; unlike beastmen ungors (who have very wide shoulders and broad chests).
That said Skaven do have mutants, so maybe Ratling Hood is a bit of a mutie...

What you describe at the end, with an assassin throwing a dart into a chaos warriors eye, is more of a diorama than a gaming model piece.
I know sometimes in 40k you get crazy people who insist on putting a dead Imperial marine under each and every Kabalite warrior, but in fantasy with the regiments needing to be packed in close together, this doesn't work out so well.

Sometimes you see dioramas where the models are detachable, so I think that is what you should go with. Take inspiration from all the 'Duel' category of Golden Daemon entries and just go nuts.