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What wargear do you give your Termies? I was thinking IoN, Heavy Flamer or Reaper Auto Cannon depending on what I play vs, 4x Pairs of LC, one of which is a sgt.

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I think its becasue nurgle termis are quite expensive for not much improved survivabiltiy.

I'd suggest keeping it simple: heavy flamner (if termiciding) with 2 or 3 combi meltas (gotta love killing tanks) PF on the heavy flamer with that guy being the champion (need the extra attack) - take advantage of how cheap they are!

Marks - Khorne is good for +1 attack, although not fantastic. Slaanesh is greta to smack enemy ICs and troops before they hit you!

I hadn't thought of how expensive the icon was for what little it does. For some reason I thought "Nurgle terminators NEED IoN" which isn't true because I can obviously model them to look Nurglish. "Termiciding" I'm guessing is simply getting terminators close enough to wreck threats and they get shot up the next round. I plan on magnetizing the arms so I can have options. Thanks for the reply nosferatu

Termiciding seems to be the flavor of the month. Deep Strike in a unit of 3 termies with a simple goal of destroying a tank, then let them die. It almost always makes back it's points and allows you to keep those Heavy Support slots open.

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In response to the OP, keeping the Termies loaded out for one task will save you on points and refine what you use them for. It feels great to have 4 LC in a termie squad, but it really isn't nessesary. MoN costs a lot for what it does. With a 2+ save and extra +1 to T isn't really needed.

MoN is only costly if you take small squads. In large squads (say 10 guys) it is quite nice as only heavy weapons will really scare you, quantity of fire wounds drop a lot.

For the termiciding units, 2xmelta, 1xreaper, 1xchainfist is what I take. Sometimes an extra pfist to make them all different. In these units the icon is way to expensive to bother with (costs as much as a 4th guy).

I give my terminators power armor, and make them plague marines.

Chaos Terminators suck, aren't fearless, and can't have a big enough squad to really benefit from Icons. Really the only way to make use of them is min-sized with combi-melta or flamers and heavy flamers. Deep Strike in, roast something, profit!

If you want to take more than a min-sized unit and put them in a land raider, just take cult troops instead.

Sadly,cult terminators no longer really exist using the current codex,at least not as they once did,sure they have an icon MON but mehh.
Anyway,more to the OP's question,s1gns,since I'm assuming your attempting to construct a Death Guard army based on this and previous post all I can really say is,model your terminators in suitable nurgley fasion,go ahead and take MON,arm them with power fist(maybe a chainfist for one),combi wepons(melta),heavy flamer,deep strike and kill tanks (or the equivilent).
Oh,and pray that some time in the future GW releases a cult specific chaos codex/suplement.

Yeah, I plan on making a Nurgle Cult Army. I already have plans for Plague Marines, and I plan on using some terminators...possibly to termicide some things. I might give them 4 LC's and a HF in a Land Raider. I think that might work well vs some things. Termiciding seems more logical imo. FITZZ and other posters, I really appreciate your help.

I have a Terminator vanguard for my HQ at higher games, but I don't give them IoN. It really, really REALLY isn't worth 2 terminators. I'd almost be reluctant to take it for a 7-10 man squad (although, I'd really be more reluctant to take a squad that large in the first place). The only way to do Terminators justice is to take them in a Landraider at this point. I cry when I watch Termicide, because fluff wise you'd never EVER do that. Terminators are NOT suicide vets.

So, no, don't take Icon of Nurgle. Gear them for whatever job you want them taking and have them chase that down.