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I saw a tournament list online (http://www.torrentoffire.com/3163/weekend-in-review-big-trouble-in-little-nottingham) that went 3-0 recently that fielded

Fateweaver
Epidemius
Herald of Nurgle, Exalted Reward, Exalted Locus
Herald of Nurgle, Exalted Reward, ML 1
2 x 10 Horrors of Tzeentch
1 x 10 Plaguebearers of Nurgle
9 Plague Drones, Champion w/ Greater Reward, Icon, Plague Banner
3 Soulgrinders, Mark of Nurgle, Phlegm
Epid, Drones, Herald o N Which are all traditionally noncompetitive daemons units. Does anyone know the strategy behind the heralds? Are plague drones competitive now because of all the nids running about?

Yea. Drones were not competitive. People were using them in tournament lists because circus, dogs n heralds, screamers are really the only lists that I see people running at GT with daemons.

Plague drones dont hit that hard and lack AP piercing attacks. They also move slower than the screamer star because they have SnP (I think so at least cant remember). They have psn attacks and potential for instadeath which seems dandy vs vids. Plague drones were always just too expensive for their damage output and dont have FnP or t6 or anything that makes them extremely tough

Using grimoire also makes shrouded a waste.There has to be something we're missing here.

Also why take epidimius instead a GUO? Maybe that information was entered incorrectly..I can see the herald being with plaguebearers but would epidimius be just running around by himself?

Yea the heralds dont have anything to allow them to move with the plagues. Still not understanding how epid is useful/much faster than GUO.

Why would you grimorie drones with so easily would be getting a 3+ anyway?

Why is there an extra nurgle herald ( 3 in total) and only 2 nurgle units. Neither of the heralds have anything that allows them to keep pace and travel with the drones. So that means one is just running around?