They are not so good at hitting heavily armoured infantry with their missles however.
Skaven gutter runners total war.
Most suspicious deaths and acts of espionage in skaven society are blamed on the nefarious clan eshin.
Their attacks are quick and effective frustrating.
Ato has come out and said this explicitly gutter runners do well against cav by design because they are deliberately made to be the skaven answer to cavalry.
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Warhammer ii skaven guide.
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Gutter runners have undergone training in the mysterious fighting style developed in the far east.
19 skaven slingers and 18 gutter runners 1 eshin sorcerer 1 gray seer and snitch.
Because of their ability to bend and contort their pliable bodies with a speed and dexterity unachievable by man gutter runners have no need for encumbering armour they simply dodge the blows and missile of their foes.
Gutter runners are elite skirmishers and scouts second only to the death runners and eshin assassins in the art of stealth and speed.
Warhammer ii skaven guide.
Because of their ability to bend and contort their pliable bodies with a speed and dexterity unachievable by man gutter runners have no need for encumbering armour they simply dodge the blows and missile of their foes.
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Warhammer ii lightly armoured and nimble beyond the ken of most clan eshin s death squads move fast and kill quickly.
The skaven sometimes known as the ratmen the ratkin or the children of the horned rat are a malevolent and diabolical race of large humanoid rat creatures that inhabits a massive inter continental underground empire known in their tongue simply as the under empire where at the very heart of skavendom lies the horrific city of skavenblight the species capital city and the probable.
You win when they run out of ammo and the remaining skaven kill everything.
Gutter runners have undergone training in the mysterious fighting style developed in the far east.
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People assume automatically that any unit with a ranged attack must be vulnerable to cheap light cav and that simply isn t true in warhammer 2.