They are not so good at hitting heavily armoured infantry with their missles however.
Skaven gutter runners total war.
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.
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.
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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Gutter runners have undergone training in the mysterious fighting style developed in the far east.
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Most suspicious deaths and acts of espionage in skaven society are blamed on the nefarious clan eshin.
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19 skaven slingers and 18 gutter runners 1 eshin sorcerer 1 gray seer and snitch.
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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.
Gutter runners are elite skirmishers and scouts second only to the death runners and eshin assassins in the art of stealth and speed.
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.
Their attacks are quick and effective frustrating.
Warhammer ii skaven guide.
The gutter runners are mostly used to pick off more precious units since they can flank easily without being seen from afar.
Gutter runners is a skaven missile infantry unit in total war.
Warhammer ii lightly armoured and nimble beyond the ken of most clan eshin s death squads move fast and kill quickly.
You win when they run out of ammo and the remaining skaven kill everything.