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Nurgle has stupid smiles. Theres other ways to represent Nurgle, but the smiles are a good one.

Not everything needs to appeal to everyone. Like Kharadron Overlords, some people hate them, others love them. This kind of polarizing design just wants to catch the people that loves them.

Davor wrote:
What is with GW and their stupid smiles? I hated a lot of Age of Sigmar pictures because of the beasts with stupid smiles, now they are coming to 40K minis now? Ack. Makes me not want to buy this mini now. :(

Nurgle is mostly a cheerful, industrious god - often his followers and Daemons are too!

Davor wrote:
What is with GW and their stupid smiles? I hated a lot of Age of Sigmar pictures because of the beasts with stupid smiles, now they are coming to 40K minis now? Ack. Makes me not want to buy this mini now. :(

You mean for the Nurgle stuff?

Nurgle stuff is joyous and loves to spread their plagues and contagions. Bad things happen to sad Nurgle stuff. Plague Drones, for example, are Beasts of Nurgle that are bitter because nobody wants to play with them.

There's another explanation as well in that some biological/chemical agents can cause your facial muscles to constrict and cause a 'smile' ala the Joker gas from Batman.

Davor wrote:
What is with GW and their stupid smiles? I hated a lot of Age of Sigmar pictures because of the beasts with stupid smiles, now they are coming to 40K minis now? Ack. Makes me not want to buy this mini now. :(

It's a breath of fresh air in all this grimdark stuff. Every minute, some race is about to we wiped out, or some chapter is about to die to their last man, or someone goes to speak to the emperor, or someone blows up Cadia. Then we have a nurgling going "I'm faaaabulous!". Love it!

"HELP, I DON'T LIKE DECADES OLD ESTABLISHED LORE!"

Actually if you go back far enough Nurgle wasn't actually all about joyous grinning gribblies...but it's obviously the route they've chosen to embrace wholeheartedly. The aesthetic itself completely stopped me dead in my tracks when I was about to construct a Deathguard army.

It's a conscious design decision - I think it's pants, but I voted with my dollars, so no big deal.

 Elbows wrote:
Actually if you go back far enough Nurgle wasn't actually all about joyous grinning gribblies...but it's obviously the route they've chosen to embrace wholeheartedly. The aesthetic itself completely stopped me dead in my tracks when I was about to construct a Deathguard army.

It's a conscious design decision - I think it's pants, but I voted with my dollars, so no big deal.

You'd have to go back to before RoC.

Nurgle has always been smiling.

Is that a plaguebearer or Beastman grinning in the front? Must've been before they decided Plaguebearers should be dour.

Think of it as the Joker's smile. Not a happy pony smile.

If you're a regular guardsman and you have this walking death pox on legs, covered in flies and stinking like a corpse, smiling, then that's pretty damn scary.

I like the face. That isn't the face some someone genuinely happy, that's the face of someone who doesn't know the difference between happiness and misery anymore.

Also the pustules on his cloak are awesome.

I always thought the Daemons were jovial, the Plague Marines themselves were bitter, miserable, and resentful of their newfound lot in life.

But I also don't mind the new look.

The Hauler is fantastic and I want three. Much better than I expected from the other pics in the teaser vids. It's his gribbly mouth.


The Termis are absolute pants, I like how all four share a marking/insignia, but the mass of tentacles, horns and badly done smoke isn't exciting me. I have enough termis as is, anyway.

I'll probably wind up with Felthius. The figures look good. I'm just a little disappointed that I have to convert up some basic guys to complete my Easy Build squad of Plague Marines. I was hoping that this set would provide the thred I nedded. Oh well.

As I understand it, when you decay your tendons or muscles dry out & therefore shrink. In the face this makes you 'smile' giving you a rictus grin. Maybe this is also where it comes from?

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:
Is that a plaguebearer or Beastman grinning in the front? Must've been before they decided Plaguebearers should be dour.

Neither. They're chaos renegades (or champions) either with the Face of Plaguebearer/Face of a GUO reward, or advanced cases of Nurgle's Rot.

 bubber wrote:
As I understand it, when you decay your tendons or muscles dry out & therefore shrink. In the face this makes you 'smile' giving you a rictus grin. Maybe this is also where it comes from?

I think we're overthinking it.

I like that his smile isn't accompanied by the usual malevolent expression we tend to see in smiling figures.

If he's of similar size I plan to run him with Typhus' rules because I like his model so much.

Should be a very simple headswap from the blight lord / deathshroud kit - at least that's what I'm planning on doing.

Can use him either as a Lord of Contagion (even Typhus!) or as a Deathshroud Champion - again, that's what I plan doing! he looks suitably awesome to be leading Mortarion's body guard.

It's great that a single box of blightlords and this EZ build box will give you 8 Blightlords
4 bubotic axes
2 heavy weapons - can set up a Reaper Autocannon and Plague spewer and change them out in between games no longer having to rely on magnets etc
1 Flail
remaining with swords.

Removing one of the heavy weapons gives a nice nurgly number of 7 - clearly a sign by Papa Nurgle

Im just gonna buy 2 sets of ezy and add 1 spare lord of contagion and have 3 lord of C/deathshroud and 4 termies and 2 heavy options(kitbashing 1 to a reaper!). I didnt buy any shroud or terms because my lists never used any.

This gives me a cheap option for both to try out.

Please keep in Mind that the Lord Bases should be bigger then the normal Blightlord Bases...i got two Lords of Contagion in the mail that i want to do Deathshroud with them but now that i own 3 Deathshroud i see that they are using the normal Terminator bases but the Lords and Typhus using a bigger One...

And in the Pics with the Easy to Build i only see one size of Bases...so do i need to change all my Lord Bases to a smaller One like in the new Kits ?

If it's not too much trouble, you should. Especially for melee units with low model count, base size makes a huge difference when trying to tie up multiple units.

There is no specific base for a unit in 40k GW's rule of thumb is 'Use the base the model was supplied with'. And that you can change the bases if you feel others would be a better, more fitting choice. The Lord of Contagion in DI comes on a 50mm base. DG Terminators (and the Blightspawn if I'm not mistaken) are on 40mm. I will put all my DG characters in Terminator amour on 50mm, and Deathshrouds and Blightlords on 40. 50mm for characters allows for more interesting base scenery. I will use 50mm for my old Typhus as well. But none of this is mandatory

Nice, the Lord has an easily convertible head. Totally gunna swap it out for a Deathshroud hooded helm.

Also, that fur cape looks awesome.

They are nice, I will definitely buy a box

That cape has no fur. They are worms.

I actually don't think I will want the Blightlords. Probably just pick up the character on his own. He is pretty sweet, though.

Definitely looking forward to all these new Deathguard models.

So, are there really no extra rules for lord Fethius? I assumed his 'enthusiasm' over his wiffleball full-o-slime meant he was some sort of special dude. Either way, he's great, but I wish he came with a 50mm base like the DI loC.

Does anyone know if they still update the digital codices when new stuff comes out? They used to, when you'd buy a digital codex, but not sure if that is still a thing. Would love to not have to worry about having to cross reference points between the codex and the new chapter approved book every time.

 skullking wrote:


So, are there really no extra rules for lord Fethius? I assumed his 'enthusiasm' over his wiffleball full-o-slime meant he was some sort of special dude. Either way, he's great, but I wish he came with a 50mm base like the DI loC.

I think is a copyright friendly way to introduce the model, like with the doc.
For the wiffleball, I think is in the Nurgle's Gift rule. He waves it, and people get Space Ebola in form of Mortal Wounds.

Yea, I was hoping we would get some rules for a 3 man unit of Blight Lords.... Doesent seem to be the case. Plague Brethren are a wierd option.... I should have taken them for my 500 pt tourny that required at least 1 troops choice.