Skweel Gnawtooth

If you include Skweel Gnawtooth in your army, you must also include a unit of Giant Rats that he must join. After deploying Skweel into his unit, roll a D6 and consult the Exceptional Pack Chart to determine the pack's special attributes. The effects are for the entire pack but do not affect Skweel, Packmasters or Master Moulders. Skweel will never leave his special pack and may never join another unit.

Units with this rule add what would be their Combat Resolution bonus from ranks to their LD value for any Psychology and Break tests. To calculate the LD of a unit with the Strength in Numbers rule, first determine the unit's LD as normal and then add the rank bonus of the unit to this value, up to a maximum LD of 10. 

Note that a Skaven General confers his basic LD and then units modify it with their own rank bonus. Any bonus from the ranks of the General's unit is not passed on to units within his Inspiring Presence range.

If for any reason a Skaven unit loses its rank bonus, it also loses its LD bonus. For instance, fleeing units do not have a rank bonus, so fleeing Skaven must use their basic LD.

A Mixed Unit most often consist of two different Troop Types, with one or more handlers that drive the rest of the unit forward. The handler(s) may be deployed in the rear rank of the unit. Mixed Units cannot be joined by characters, unless specified.

If a Mixed unit is required to take a characteristic test, this is done using the characteristics of the unit itself, not the handlers. The only exception is LD tests, which are taken using the unit’s highest LD value. When the models in a unit with Mixed Unit have different M allowances, the handlers M value is ignored, unless they are the only models remaining. Any rules that the unit might have do not apply to the Handlers unless specified – ignore the handlers completely in those cases.

As long as the unit (but not the handlers) have a unit strength of 5 or more, any missile hits are resolved against the unit itself. At less than unit strength 5, the controlling player decides who is hit, but must allocate one hit on each model before they can add a second hit on a model; they must allocate two hits on each model before they can allocate a third, and so on. Hits from templates are resolved against the handlers as normal. In close combat, the handlers can only be attacked by models who are in base contact with them.

If a Skaven player refuses a challenge, a Skaven character is placed in the back rank as normal and may not attack, but the unit may still use the model’s LD value or Hold Your Ground ability.

All models in the Skaven army have Swiftstride when fleeing.

Units belonging to each of the Greater Clans (Pestilens, Eshin, Moulder, Skryre) may only be joined by characters from the same Clan.