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Evenin'

Im new to dakka, and am keen to get some ideas for a Death Guard Nurgle army. Kinda want it to be compettative, though id see if i can get some ideas.

Go easy on the rookie eh?

Typhus
-225

4 termies,nurgle icon, 1 chain fist, 3 combi weapons, heavy flamer
-195

7 Plauge Marines, champ with Power fist, 2x plasma & rhino
-266

7 Plauge Marines, champ with Power fist, 2x plasma & rhino
-266

7 Plauge Marines, champ with Power fist, 2x plasma & rhino
-266

Land raider
-220

2 Obiterators
-150

2 Obiterators
-150

Appreciate any adivice/hints/help

Thats actaully a pretty good list.

Only thing I'd do to make it more competitive is put in a DP or 2 instead of typhus, LR, and termis. thats 600+ points on 3 things that can be easily killed by some armies. I'd much rather be spending 300 pts on 2 DPs, much more resilient, and depending on how you upgrade them they can also do much better in CC than typhus and the termis.

Other than that its pretty much an ideal chaos list.

While Typhus is fluffy, I have a hard time justifying the points for him. I agree with the previous response, and would add another troops choice as well. Any time I play Chaos over 1500 pts that fourth Troops choice just too useful. The termies, Typhus and LR come to 640. 2 DPs (Wins, MoN and WT) and another identical PM squad is 616. Give these guys meltas instead tho to hit up vehicles.

I'd drop Typhus and the Land Raider for a pair of Winged MoN Daemon Princes. They're a LOT better.

You would have a few points left over to beef up the Termie squad, or drop the squad all together and use the points for another PM Squad. I would run at least one PM squad with Melta, Melta, Combi-Melta, PF, Rhino, if not two.

Chaos can also add combi-Weapons to their Rhinos, which can be a cool way to squeeze in extra Melta shots or defensive flame template weapons.

I'd take a sorceror with termies instead of Dp's as they will die sooooo fast at this level...

I don't have a problem w/ my MoN Princes at 2000 points, so long as you take 2 of 'em and play smart with them. Single DPs drop like nothing, but a pair of them doesn't seem to be a problem at all for me. Whereas my opponent can mitigate the Sorcs pretty easily by wrecking the Rhino they ride in. Footslogging ones are that hard to deal with.

Deepstrike on turn 2/3... fun times with warptime... just keep them supported...

i don't like termies, and unless your going death guard you should as stated go two DP, wings and Mon

Nice list!

Thanks for all the advice dakka people! Only issue I have with the DP's is how big of a target they are. Every gun worth it's salt will be fired at them, and I don't like their odds.

Thought I'd make it fairly fluffy, and the reason I've got typhus and termies is that alot of other lists use DP's alot.

Ill make some changes when I get some time and see how they go. Cheers for all the advice, the DP's are tempting still.

G-Mao

Giddy Mao wrote:Thanks for all the advice dakka people! Only issue I have with the DP's is how big of a target they are. Every gun worth it's salt will be fired at them, and I don't like their odds.

I would say the same thing about taking a single Land Raider. In fact, you'll have the same problem only 10x as bad. Target saturation is important, and taking a pair of MoN Princes will do that. They won't be able to drop 'em both before you get in for some damage.

Typhus is fluffy, but nothing is more "Nurgleified" to me than those Nurgle Daemon Prince models, they're so awesome and so... Nurgley.

Plus, Typhus just dies to everything. T4 and no Eternal Warrior = dead to a single PF attack ...for 225 points. :(

Giddy Mao wrote:Thanks for all the advice dakka people! Only issue I have with the DP's is how big of a target they are. Every gun worth it's salt will be fired at them, and I don't like their odds.

Thought I'd make it fairly fluffy, and the reason I've got typhus and termies is that alot of other lists use DP's alot.

Ill make some changes when I get some time and see how they go. Cheers for all the advice, the DP's are tempting still.

G-Mao

Having 2 DPs will spread out the shoots between the 2 of them, and if your opponent feels so obligated to shoot your DPs than you have about 2 mostly free turns to run your rhinos up and shot some plasmas. Rather my opponent be shooting at a big scary 175 pts DP than my slightly less scary (for an uneducated opponent) 300+pt PM squad completely kitted out to kill just about anything.

Giddy Mao wrote:Thanks for all the advice dakka people! Only issue I have with the DP's is how big of a target they are. Every gun worth it's salt will be fired at them, and I don't like their odds.

G-Mao

that's not a good enough reason not to take them. put them behind rhinos or land raiders to fly them over later. use terrain. have faith in your high toughness. maybe one DP will get shot down, but not both. if a DP gets shot after two turns of advancing, that's 150 points spent protecting your 200~ some odd point PM units from fire so they can unload hot plasma or melta.

also, there's no guarantee that DP will die. and what can't kill a demon prince outright (krak, melta, las, ordnance, etc) can one-shot typhus, and there goes your 225 model to a 23 point longfang.

typhus is a great looking model, but he just doesn't deliver the bang for his buck.