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My gaming group are playing on Sunday @ Warhammer World, always good fun, but I have been struggling to get a good mix of Nurgle-fluff and friendly but competitive list with the new CSM Codex.

Here's what I am considering, as you will see there is a core theme of Typhus and a Dark Apostle in a LR (Typhus and the Dark Apostle are newly painted so I wanted to include them).

So the quest is; what will I accompany them with?

The rest of the list I am happy with, so your thoughts on a fitting and useful squad are appreciated...



List 1: Typhus is accompanied by the Dark Apostle & 6 Plague Marines in the Landraider


HQ
Typhus
Dark Apostle w/MoN

Troop
6 Plague Marines w/2x Melta Gun, Icon of Despair, Power Fist [Aspiring Champion]
7 Plague Marines w/2x Melta Gun, Icon of Despair, Power Fist [Aspiring Champion], VotLW, Rhino w/Dirge Caster
7 Plague Marines w/2x Melta Gun, Icon of Despair, Power Fist [Aspiring Champion], VotLW, Rhino w/Dirge Caster

Fast
Heldrake w/Baleflamer

Heavy
Landraider w/Dirge Caster, Dozer Blade



List 2: Typhus is accompanied by the Dark Apostle & 6 Possessed in the Landraider


HQ
Typhus
Dark Apostle w/MoN, Gift of Mutation

Elite
6 Possessed w/MoN, Icon of Despair

Troop
7 Plague Marines w/2x Melta Gun, Icon of Despair, Power Fist [Aspiring Champion], VotLW, Rhino w/Dirge Caster, Combi-Bolter
7 Plague Marines w/2x Melta Gun, Icon of Despair, Power Fist [Aspiring Champion], VotLW, Rhino w/Dirge Caster

Fast
Heldrake w/Baleflamer

Heavy
Landraider w/Dirge Caster, Dozer Blade





List 3: Typhus is accompanied by the Dark Apostle & 6 Chosen in the Landraider

HQ
Typhus
Dark Apostle w/MoN

Elite
6 Chosen w/2x Melta Gun, Icon of Despair, Power Sword, Power Fist [Aspiring Champion]

Troop
7 Plague Marines w/2x Melta Gun, Icon of Despair, Power Fist [Aspiring Champion], VotLW, Rhino w/Dirge Caster
7 Plague Marines w/2x Melta Gun, Icon of Despair, Power Fist [Aspiring Champion], VotLW, Rhino w/Dirge Caster

Fast
Heldrake w/Baleflamer

Heavy
Landraider w/Dirge Caster, Dozer Blade





List 4: Typhus is accompanied by the Dark Apostle & 4 Terminators in the Landraider

HQ
Typhus

Elite
4 Terminators w/4x Combi-Melta Guns, 3x Power Swords, Chain Fist [Aspiring Champion]

Troop
7 Plague Marines w/2x Melta Gun, Icon of Despair, Power Fist [Aspiring Champion], Combi-Bolter [Aspiring Champion], VotLW, Rhino w/Dirge Caster
7 Plague Marines w/2x Melta Gun, Icon of Despair, Power Fist [Aspiring Champion], VotLW, Rhino w/Dirge Caster

Fast
Heldrake w/Baleflamer

Heavy
Landraider w/Dirge Caster, Dozer Blade

Drop all power fists, VotLW, and Icon of Despair. Use those points to get plague zombies.

If you follow that, then drop land raider and apostle as well since plague zombies are fearless. Deep strike typhus with terminators as your hammer while your plague marines are the anvil.

If you want competitive then add more turkey, other wise bring in Mark of Nurgle Obliterators if you have spare points from dropping land raider.

Veteran is a waste of points, Icon of Despair is beyond bad for the points it costs, fear does next to nothing in 6th. you are runing to many melta guns, I personaly run 7 man plague squads with 2 plasma and a combi melta on the champ. Slow and purposeful allows the plagues to shoot the plasma and still assault the same turn. One last thing, why the dark apostle? Id drop him and take a nurgle sorc with sigil of corruption if i were you.

LR needs extra armor to insure it will back it there.

No power fists. Secondly you shouldn't go with possessed. If I were you I could take CSM with bolt pistol and chainsword to accompany your lord instead of possessed. They are too expensive and too squishy for the point value they have

Thanks for the feedback guys...

Quick question on Slow and Purposeful; I can't see anything that gives this to the Plague Marine squad.

Have I missed something or is the above comment incorrect?

Nb. I have checked the Mark of Nurgle, this doesnt give them the S&P rule and the Plague Marines don't have it in their Special Rules section

He may be thinking they are because most Demons of Nurgle are.

I think that if you take Typhus you should take some zombies, otherwise you need to just be taking a MoN Lord. You should always try to take advantage of benefits that an HQ provides.

Plague Champs need Power Axes. All the time.

Don't take chosen unless you take Abbaddon. If you're taking them for the specials, take Havocs.