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I do not play chaos but was planning on putting together some plague zombies to go with the FW nurgle sorcerer I am painting. So I thought I would take a look at the chaos codex to see what a small army might look like in the future. I was really surprised that the only way you can take zombies is if you field Typhus. Has it always been that way in previous codex's? I only ask because from a fluff perspective it doesn't make sense since zombies are seen in nurgle related scenes in the literature without Typhus present. I know you can't account for every situation within the rules of a game but it seems like it limits the nurgle player and how much you can use the models?

If you want to use Forge World, the new chaos book has zombies in it. They have to be part of a renegades and heretics list, but they are basically traitor guard.

Plus they are cheaper and better.

How so? I would proxy them as cultists when not running Typhus. But yes, unfortunately Typhus is currently the only one who can unlock Plague Zombies

Well They Are only three points a model with a 4+ feel no pain. Everything else about them is worse, but they are better at theithrole as a tarpit and objective holder.

As above. worse weapon skill (like all the list, start at WS/BS2!) but thats not what you really buy them for anyway. You do have to take an arch-demagogue with the right upgrades to unlock them though, from my skim read sunday (before heading out to italy again, le sigh...no pretty books to read )

 welshhoppo wrote:
If you want to use Forge World, the new chaos book has zombies in it. They have to be part of a renegades and heretics list, but they are basically traitor guard.

Plus they are cheaper and better.

Cool is that imperial armour 13? Can you take chaos space marines in the list? Any other limitations?


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 jreilly89 wrote:
How so? I would proxy them as cultists when not running Typhus. But yes, unfortunately Typhus is currently the only one who can unlock Plague Zombies

That's a good point if your not wed to the stat line or abilities you could just proxy them

If you want the equivalent of zombies(without fnp...but they can shoot) then look at the hellbrute data slate.
For the hell cult you get 1 hell brute andn2 squads of cultist. They have fearless and give the hellbrute a 3+ look out sir. He dies and they get zealot. This is the best cheaper way to get fearless cultists.

Palmer - there are numerous limitations in that llist, however as per normal 40k you can just have a CAD of Chaos marines if you want them. If not then certain HQ choices, with certain upgrades, let you take CHaos Marines - from memory.

Thanks folks it sounds like there are a number of options in addition to Typhus that would allow me to unleash some zombie models . For me it's more of an excuse to pursue a painting project than creating a competitive list and I would like at some point to paint up the FW Typhon model. But for some reason I never really liked using HQ characters in game I prefer generic HQ so it's nice to have options. I think it's because I like small scale narratives where Typhus generally isn't there ha ha.....