What are Blight drones?

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**lordrevege**

They look really cool. And i've seen a cople pictures of them on this site and on others.
As a Nurgle Chaos Player they rather interest me.

**Kanluwen**

Neither news nor rumors.

However, as an answer, they are a Daemon Engine of Nurgle for the upcoming Siege of Vraks Part 3 book.

**avantgarde**

They're flying suicide bombs. of Nurgle. or so I hear.

**Frazzled**

moving to discussions

**Beastmaster**

"They're flying suicide bombs. of Nurgle."

I believe this

**lordrevege**

Thanx. But does anybody know stats or anything about them?
special rules or anything like that?
Believe it or not i have had over 150 views on this particular tread and the best answer i've gotten is "suicide bombs"

**KommanderKurtikai**

what game are they from, i know its 40k but ive never seen them in any codexes or rules,

**Master Llyons**

they are from the Imperial Armor rules from Forge World don't know if the rules for these are out yet

**Crablezworth**

I don't believe they're suicide bombs, but when you kill them they explode and I believe scatter.

**Plasma 000**

blight drones are a forgeorld model that doesnt have rules yet.....

i have heard that they are the chaos attempt to coppy tau tech.

**Corpsesarefun**

They are giant nurgle heavy support helicopter prawn monsters.

**JD21290**

from what i can make of it:

they have some form of bile like weapon (possibly template?)
chances are they will function as a vehicle (with an AV) due to thier size and the way they function.
and as said, once killed they will possibly scatter and explode.

these are just guesses though from what i can see on the model

**Nofasse 'Eadhunta**

Nurgle Deffkoptas.

**Great Unclean One**

Werid slugs infected tau drones, not got any rules yet though, however they do look very cool!

**Corpsesarefun**

Great Unlclean One wrote:Werid slugs infected tau drones, not got any rules yet though, however they do look very cool!

Plasma 000 wrote:blight drones are a forgeorld model that doesnt have rules yet.....

i have heard that they are the chaos attempt to coppy tau tech.

Sorry i just need to get this off my chest,

BLIGHT DRONE HAVE NO RELATION TO TAU DRONES!

the only fething similarity is the word drone, blight drones are giant slug/prawns with guns and helicopter attachments and tau drones are little anti gravity robots.

**LordBoJangles**

They do have rules yes, do i know them no, but they are in the newest imp armor as stated above, i was talking to a fw guy at games day, and he said they were supposed to pack a punch alive and dead *wink wink*.

**person person**

Their skimmers, They explode when they die, they shoot, their Nurgle, thats all I know...

**lordrevege**

Thanx guys. you rock. all of you.

**Weakest**

corpsesarefun wrote:

Sorry i just need to get this off my chest,

BLIGHT DRONE HAVE NO RELATION TO TAU DRONES!

the only fething similarity is the word drone, blight drones are giant slug/prawns with guns and helicopter attachments and tau drones are little anti gravity robots.

I hear they are infected Tau drones. Or Chaos attempts at gun drones.

**Corpsesarefun**

Weakest wrote:
corpsesarefun wrote:

Sorry i just need to get this off my chest,

BLIGHT DRONE HAVE NO RELATION TO TAU DRONES!

the only fething similarity is the word drone, blight drones are giant slug/prawns with guns and helicopter attachments and tau drones are little anti gravity robots.

I hear they are infected Tau drones. Or Chaos attempts at gun drones.

they arnt! look at the fething model!

its clearly a large flying (via two helicopter type attachments) daemon with some guns, its closer to a gunship than a drone!

**H.B.M.C.**

I heard that Tau Drones were copied from Nurgle Drones, not the other way around.

**Goliath**

They have a phglem attack and a vomit attack, the two have different rules and are similar to frag/krak missile similarities and differences.

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

I heard they actually come to life when you play.

**chromedog**

They are in Siege of vraks 3 (Imperial Armour 7).

Go to the FW site and see the sample pages and contents of the book.

They haven't released "trial" rules for them (unlike the valdor tank, chaplain dread and reaver titan from pt6).

**Blackclaw**

Actually, just now, hopped on and in the last few hours, they announced it :
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/acatalog/QUATERMASTERS_STORE_IMPERIAL_ARMOUR_BOOKS_12.html

as well, taking directly from the info on the model:
A Daemon manifesting as a machine, these formidable daemon engines of the Plague God poison and corrupt the battlefield.

Pretty simplistic to me. It obviously has guns, and likely works like a jetbike, but probably has something special it can do towards the corruption of the earth it moves over or something (in rules rather than just wicked fluff)