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I need help with a 1000 and 1500 point CSM army dedicated to Nurgle and all his fluff. I know you go with Plague Marines and such. I was wondering what types of elites, heavy support and HQ. Is Typhus worth his points? What other HQ's are good to use? (Next project after my Blood Angels are done )

If you want to keep to the fluff, make only 7 man units. 7 is Nurgle's sacred number. Death Guard neither use bikes or Raptors and besides Terminators, I wouldn't use any other infantry unit besides Plague Marines. CSM with a mark just aren't as much fun as the real deal

You could probably get away with Obliterator squads as well, since they seem to serve all four Gods impartially. Plus I do believe at one point in the fluff they were actually created via a virus, although whether that's accurate at all now...

Other than that vehicles converted to look more organic and infested with nastyness and, possibly, Havoks if you wanted them I think you're pretty much done there.

"...and besides terminators?" What does that mean? I'm guessing Rhinos for the Plague marines and many postules and such. Would Dreads also be included or does the Death Guard not use them?

Dreads are fine from a fluff perspective.

What I meant was, that with the current CSM Codex, you have Cult units with a bunch of special rules and CSM unit with one slight change. With the current rules I wouldn't use Havocs or Chosen just because I think it's weird that they don't have the same rules altough they're supposed to be from the same Legion.

Alright so 7 man squads, Plague Marines, Dreadnoughts, Terminators. What might I use for an Hq, just a regular commander with some Nurgle upgrades or Typhus? What types of vehicles? Are CSM still allowed to use any demons in their army, or is that only for Chaos Daemons now?

For 1000, this is a good start:
HQ
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mark of Nurgle, Nurgles rot

Troops
7 Plague Marines, Champion w/pf, 2 X melta, rhino w/ combi melta
7 Plague Marines, Champion w/pf, 2 X plasma, rhino

Heavy Support
2 X Obliterator
2 X Obliterator

For 1500, this is a good list to build from:
HQ
Daemon Prince, Wings, Mark of Nurgle, Nurgles rot

Troops
7 Plague Marines, Champion w/pf, 2 X melta, rhino
7 Plague Marines, Champion w/pf, 2 X melta, rhino
7 Plague Marines, Champion w/pf, 2 X plasma, rhino
7 Plague Marines, Champion w/pw, 2 X plasma, rhino

Heavy Support
2 X Obliterator
2 X Obliterator

Typhus is worth taking.

Units of 7 PMs with 2x assault weapons are very good, and you'll want them to be mounted in rhinos when possible.

I'd also run units of IoN Terminators in Land Raiders (a unit of 4 to accompany Typhus, and then put the in a Land Raider, seems solid).

For HQs you have your choice on all 3 as long as its nurgle marked. The Nurgle Daemon Prince with wings and Warptime is a rather scary character to deal with since its T6 with a 12" move and Warptime allows it to reroll everything.

s1gns wrote:Alright so 7 man squads, Plague Marines, Dreadnoughts, Terminators. What might I use for an Hq, just a regular commander with some Nurgle upgrades or Typhus? What types of vehicles? Are CSM still allowed to use any demons in their army, or is that only for Chaos Daemons now?

- I have no expereince with Typhus

- From a pure fluff perspective, Death Guard actually weren't that big on vehicles. In the last Codex, every unit you bought a Rhino for after the 2nd one counted as Fast Attack.

- Yes and No. CSM can use "Demons", but the rules are completly bland and boring. If you want to field Nurgle Demons, then do so in Apoc games where you can use more then one army.

Is Typhus really worth taking? I've heard stories of him not performing all too well and hes rather costly. I really want to get some terminators in the mix too.

I know that Fluff wise bikes are a no-no. But in game plauge marine bikes are kick ass. If you are going to include termies, use a lord for a HQ if no termies use DP
Typhus is a fickle mistress. He will play games that you will want to chuck your model at the wall, and games that it will feel like he won you the game. I personally perfer a chaos termy lord w/ deamon weapon and mark of nurgle

PLague Bringers are godlike. there IS a one in six chance you'll punch yourself in the head, otherwist he can just annhialate Carnifexes, Greater daemons and other notoriously hard to kill things. Typhus can be good, but I don't use him