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Hello fellow Dakka Users. I'm new to the site and to Wargaming in General. and is my first time posting. I have an ork army and just started a CSM Army i picked up a Chaos Lord and the Battleforce and Decided i wanted to make a Nurgle Based army.
I noticed the BF Came with Khorne Berserkers and thought to myself they aren't very nurgley. I was thinking of Changing their Profile to fit a Nurgle theme and was Wondering if you guys could help with ideas.
(this is more for playing with friends and such and so they don't think its OP)
Basically what i figured would just make them plague marines but keep the WS5 and they'd all have CCW.
Dont know if this has been done before or mentioned, Just looking for ideas and mabye a cool Name for them i.e. (Nurgle Infectors)
Thanks for reading my post and Happy gaming

Cheers.

Do you mean make a new unit, or keep em as beserkers gameplay wise and paint them green?

Umm itd be a new unit because i want the WS5 to make them semi useful but have them t 5 and make them have FNP instead of an extra attack and furious charge... just cuse i like the model of the Beserkers but i want to keep them Nurgle and im not very creative in the conversion side of things.
Basically have them Plague marines with Close Combat Weapons and WS5.

Guitarquero wrote:Umm itd be a new unit because i want the WS5 to make them semi useful but have them t 5 and make them have FNP instead of an extra attack and furious charge... just cuse i like the model of the Beserkers but i want to keep them Nurgle and im not very creative in the conversion side of things.

Well in that case you are in the wrong section. This is meant to be in Proposed Rules.

With custom units, you have to remember that you'll need your opponents consist in order to field them.

And nurgle...with furious charge? Seriously? That does not compute at all. Nurgle isn't furious.
WS5 is fine I guess...I don't see any problem with that.

To keep things fair, you should use thems as regular Chaos Marines with CCW and the mark of Nurgle.
Those older models are easy to remove the Khorne icons from. I would trim the bunny ears off the helmets and swap others.

Berserkers who got the flu and called Nurgle to let them know they wanted back to work. I love it!

DeffDred wrote:To keep things fair, you should use thems as regular Chaos Marines with CCW and the mark of Nurgle.
Those older models are easy to remove the Khorne icons from. I would trim the bunny ears off the helmets and swap others.

He wants more than that I think

He wants Khornate Plague Marines, with WS5 T5 FNP and Furious Charge.

I understood that much. I just wouldn't agree to something like that. They're KHORNE beserkers afterall.
If it's just your friend who you'll be playin, I guess you could do whatever you wanted.

Who would want to play with Khorne Plague Berzerker Marines seriously I have seen 8 Khorne Berzerkers wipe deck with Terminators on the charge. I've seen Plague Marines weather bolter, flamer, and plasma gun fire from 3 tactical squads and still live.


You will probably not find a opponent who would want to play with that unless they like losing.

I think he's actually wanting to swap out the Khorne based stuff for nurgle based stuff. So dropping furious charge and the extra attack for FNP and T5.
What about keeping the stats the same (so Berzerkers) but just change how they look? that way you don't need any opponants permission.
Or you could just ask your opponant if he doesn't mind if you swap out the Plague marines weapon for a pistol and chainsword. Don't know Chaos marines well though, so these could be extremely stupid/bad ideas.

You can just run green painted berserkers with your nurgle army, the two gods get along nicely.

Thanks for the Ideas and Help, Muchly Appreciated. I'll Keep them In mind while Making my Army Probably will Just keep them Regular Khorne so i dont have to fumble with the rules but i might try them with a friend and see how poorly or great they do haha.

What I would do is kind of merge the plague marine profile with the berzerkers. Keep WS5, give them toughness 5, but drop the extra attack from the mark of khorne (theyre not khorne anymore afterall!)

I would also get rid of furious charge probably, but give them feel no pain. Not sure how to price it.

Or you could keep them normal, just paint them nurgley!

Obviously he wants something simpler so I think just green zerkers will work (Khorne and Nurgle seem to be alright with eachother) however I think there might be promise in a nurgle CC unit, such as a unit designed as a tarpit with poisoned attacks or something, just food for thought.

Yeah, this is definitely in the 'proposed rule' subsection =P

As a chaos player, the idea of having WS5, T5, assault marines with FNP and I5 and S5 on the charge would be fine, if each marine cost 45 pts/per and were limited to one squad per army. Thematically, it just doesn't make sense to combine those attributes and attribute them to nurgle.

Better, perhaps, is to field them with Fabius Bile. Make them enhanced marines with the statline above, with a rule that states something like:

"In order to conduct this experiment, the player controlling Fabuis Bile must have at least two squads of Chaos Space Marines in his roster. At the beginning of the game, you may choose to roll 2d6 to attempt to convert ONE squad of Chaos Space Marines to Enhanced Marines. If you roll Snake Eyes or Boxcars, Fabius' experiments were wildly successful: they gain WS5, T5, FNP, and Furious Charge for the remainder of the game. The player must destroy another squad of Chaos Space Marines.

If the player does not roll boxcars or snake eyes, roll for the enhanced warrior table as usual."

So there's a gamble involved. You can potentially field your super marines, and if so, you take the points/troops loss by discarding some 5-odd CSM.

Otherwise, it's just too OP. PM and Zerkers individually are specialized troops (zerkers moreso--PM are a little more all purpose), but to combine the two is just a slowed force multiplier.

I was thinking them more just Meat shields, Like to lock units in combat, the WS5 with toughness 5 they ll have to roll fairly high to even wound plus 3 + sv and then FNP they'd basically just soak up wounds which was my thought but then i could just take Plague Marines with CCW... I understand WS5 t 5 a 2 and furious charge would be completely OP. Also Thats a cool Idea with Fabius.

Also sorry for posting in Wrong section first time posting.

I would recommend that you take away feel no pain and furious charge, but keep toughness 5 and WS 5, basically as if the fury of Khorne was gone, but they do not receive Nurgle's full benefit.

Paint them a pale colour and then add streams of blood or some other liquid coming out of the helmet/armour joints. When someone asks what's up say they are infected with a mutated form of rabies or some other rage inducing virus.

That's what I did at any rate.

The downside of this is that Plague Marines still have I3. So even if they are WS5 they will still not striek 1st in CC.

As stated above. if you want a CC unit i would convert the Berekers (maybe cut off the bunny ears and put a horn on their forehead instead ot amke them stand out)and play them with the normal 'zerker rules. Just write your own fluff for them, call them whatever you want!

Names for a Nurgle CC unit?

Pestilence Squad
Nurgle Infectors
Infestation Marines
Corruptors

If you do feel the need for a custom unit maybe Get the 'zerkers and remove Furious Charge in favour of poison weapons that wound on a 3+ or 4+