So, as 8th Edition looms up before me with, still, no sign of Dogs of War in sight, I'm thinking that the thousands of points of mercenaries in my closet are, at long last, going to be broken up.
It's not too bad. Most of the models convert over to the Empire easily - Pikemen become Spearmen, Heavy Cavalry becomes Knights, Crossbowmen become...well, Crossbowmen. As I recall, the Gryphon Legion's rules permit a unit to be fielded as a Rare choice in an Empire army, so the Kislevites go as well, and the Ironguts are dressed as wannabe-Greatswords anyway. No Empire army can ever have enough artillery, so they won't complain about adding three more guns and their crews. The Goblin wolf riders, formerly light cavalry, will be set aside (with Hobgobla Khan) for my planned Wolf Rider horde. Most of the gutter runners (formerly duelists) can transfer over to my wife's Skaven army without incident.
But there are just over a dozen rats armed with pistols, and for the life of me, I'm not quite sure what to do with them. They were Duelists, and quite useful ones, but as they need a new role now, and I don't see rats featuring in a Reikland army particularly well, but I'm not sure they fit into a Skaven army, either. Any brilliant thoughts or something I've missed? Any considerations on what fate these rats should find?
