So I'm heading to the BattleCry wargaming tournament in Auckland in Feb and have registered to enter the 2000pt fantasy tournament. Now this tournament has the following rules for entries.

No special characters, allies, storm of chaos.

Chaos Dwarfs, DoW are fine.

Core must be at least 700 points.

No lord choices, no double rares.

Maximum of 100 points to spend on magic items and anything similar (marks, abilities, powers, demonic gifts etc). Does include magic level upgrades from L1 to L2, doesn’t include BSB upgrade.

Basically it's a tourny based around units with some support from heroes. Now while part of me wants to the enter in the lizardmen the skaven haven't been in a proper tournament before so decided to let them have some fun though going feel weird not having a grey seer with the dreaded thirteenth hanging around.

So first off model count which with the rules I have the following at my disposal.

1 Chieftain
3 Warlocks
1 Plague Priest
100 Clan Rats
40 Stormvermin
20 Plague Monks
20 Night/Gutter Runners
3 Doom Flayers
2 Ratling Guns
1 Warp Fire Thrower
1 Poison Wind Mortar
1 Warp Lightning Cannon
8 Rat Ogres with 4 pack Masters
1 Hell Pit Abom

So with that I have come up with the following as version 1 of the list.

Chieftain
Chieftain, 99 pts (Hand Weapon; Halberd; Shield, BSB)
1 Storm Banner

Plague Priest
1 Plague Priest, 139 pts (Level 2 Upgrade; Hand Weapon; Flail)

Clanrats
30 Clanrats, 213 pts (Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Spear; Light Armour; Shield)
1 Doom-Flayer Weapon Team

Clanrats
30 Clanrats, 213 pts (Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Spear; Light Armour; Shield)
1 Doom-Flayer Weapon Team

Clanrats
30 Clanrats, 213 pts (Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Spear; Light Armour; Shield)
1 Doom-Flayer Weapon Team

Stormvermin
29 ~ 310 pts (Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Halberd; Heavy Armour)
1 Fangleader
1 Banner of Eternal Flame
1 Warpfire Thrower Weapon Team

Hell Pit Abomination
1 Hell Pit Abomination, 250 pts (Warpstone Spikes)

Warp-Lightning Cannon
1 Warp-Lightning Cannon, 90 pts
1 Engineer & Crew

Gutter Runners
10 Gutter Runners, 170 pts (Hand Weapon; Extra Hand Weapon; Throwing Star; Poisoned Attacks)

Rat Ogres
6 Rat Ogres, 272 pts
4 Packmaster

Total Roster Cost: 1999

So reasons for things.

Well the chieftain is there for the BSB and I just know I'm going to end up fighting one entry which will have a lot of ranged weapons and this is to stop them granted it affects my cannon and warp fire thrower but I think I can survive without them for a turn.

Plague Priest is my general and is my wizard. Not expecting to many wizards at this tourny so being a level 2 is all he really needs and the flail lets him deal some decent damage in CC.

The clan rats and basic block 6x5 that go where needed with the doom flayers helping them out in CC when they eventually get there.

The stormvermin are the main power block of my force also being 6x5 but have the priest and chieftain with them as well. Warp Fire thrower won't stay with them but will instead rain flaming death on units hopefully.

Gutter Runners sneak up behind the enemy and deal with artillery and ranged units.

Rat Ogres are one of my main oomph units and while the fear of them losing their pack masters is there I'm hopeful the storm banner will help stop missile fire from doing to much and the Hell Pit gets targetted instead.

The cannon grants me some long range fire power to help out a bit.

The Hell Pit is another oomph unit and while I tend have good luck with them I usually use them in twos so this guy has become more a of a scare tactic to try and get the others to focus on it.

So that's version one and comments and suggestions are welcome as this is going to be a different enviroment for me compared to the friendly club tournies.