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So I'm wanting to start a Nurgle themed AoS army starting around 120ish wounds. I wanted things that could cause the most damage passively (Nurgle's Rot) and have the best survivability.

HEROES

Great Unclean One: Noxious Bile, Plague Flail, Massive Bilesword. 10w

Nurgle Chaos Lord: Plague-ridden Great Blade. 7w

MORTAL UNITS

Putrid Blightkings x2: 2 Blightkings, 1 Blightlord, 1 Icon Bearer, 1 Sonorous Tocsin, Blighted Weapons. 16w

DEMON UNITS

Plaguebearers of Nurgle x2: 17 Plaguebearers, 1 Plagueridden, 1 Icon Bearer, 1 Piper, Plagueswords. 20w

Plague Drones of Nurgle x2: 1 Plaguebringer, 1 Icon Bearer, 1 Bell Toller, Death's Heads, Plagueswords, Prehensile Proboscis, Venomous Sting. 15w


I'm planning on using this list to have the GUO and Nurgle Chaos Lord stick with a unit of Blightkings each, so they can all stack with the Nurgle's Rot and wound healing, while the Plaguebearers march in front and the Plague Drones flank.

I like this idea of mortal Nurgle followers commanding Nurgle Demons.

Why ~120 wounds? 100 is far more prevalent, with 80 and 75 also being runners up in the wounds-for-game-size deal.

To drop from 119 to 100 I'd likely drop a plaguebearer unit entirely and then add a 21st 'bearer to the remaining one. Because Nurgle!

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Why not? lol I view that as how some people play 1600 or 1750 or 2250 point games. Having less than 100 wounds is a pretty small army.

Well, I suppose you might want to have a plan for cutting your wounds total down if you're looking for general play. Clearly you can prearrange to play any size game with your friends - 119 exactly, 155, 62, and so on. Whatever casual-yet-comped play looks like for AOS, it seems to be orbiting around certain wounds sizes. (And if you're posting something that takes wounds into account, it certainly looks like you're playing casual-yet-comped AOS )

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Ok I gotcha. I'm just starting to get into AoS, but don't have a WoC army yet, just an old Lizardmen army that I want trade for some WoC at my FLGS, and I've only managed to get one game in with my Lizardmen.


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Ok, so here's another list I made that could work well. This one is 100 wounds.


HEROES

The Glottkin. 18w

Epidemius. 7w

MORTALS

Putrid Blightkings: 5 Blightkings, Blightlord, Icon Bearer, Sonorous Tocsin. 16w

DEMONS

Plaguebearers x2: 14 Plaguebearers, Plagueridden, Icon Bearer, Pipers. 14w

Plague Drones x2: 3 Plague Drones, Plaguebringer, Icon Bearer, Bell Tollers. 15w