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New to 30k and would love to get roughly 3k points worth of death guard

has to have mortarian and typhus because well.... death guard stuff! haha

other than that im open to suggestions for a 3k list, should be AT LEAST semi competitive tho

Well for starters some idea of the playstyle you're looking for would be helpful.

Sorry haha, I guess a death guard style list, so slow but heavy hitting both in melee and shooting. So perhaps a gun line mostly with a decent amount of infantry as thats fluffy and some company for mortarian and typhus in the form of death shroud terminators

Man, I never understand why people ask "what should I get?" For me, looking at all the options and thinking about how they can work together is the best part of starting a new army.

If I were you, I'd get Typhus and enough stuff to make a playable 1500pts list. That'll give you the core of your army, then you can start adding more exciting things to make it up to 3000.

a by-the-fluff DG list looks something like this: (before I begin, I'd like to point out the fact that 30k is, for the most part, non-competative. you should be building what you like the look and fluff of, not what you've heard is amazing

1) multiple 20-man tactical squads WITH apothecaries. The 'fluff accurate' DG tactical squad was 21 men, with the 21st man being an apothecary-sergeant. Additionally, Mortation was a firm believes in a well equiped and trained infantry, as such, taking extra CCWs on your tactical squads would be usefull (DG line infantry were actually trained to be tacticals, support, heavy support, recon, assault, etc.)
2) DG had the ability to field some of the largest number of cataphractii terminators
3) Mortarion liked dreadnoughts as they fit the "well equipped" infantry theme very well.
4) DG used assault marines and other fast vehicles, though they were not as common as in other legions. Same applies for most transport units.
5) MK III armor was very common as the extra armor in the front fit the DG fighting style well.
6) destroyer squads, phosphex medusas, and phosphex rapiers all fit DG well

with all this in mind, my 'generic chem' list looks something like this:

1 Praetor w/ 5-10 deathshroud terminators as a body guard
1 Siege breaker console
1 Primus medicae

2-3 20-man tactical squads
0-3 support/heavy support squads

any number of dreads (or contemptors. Don't rule off boxy dreads though, they DO have uses compared to contemptors)
3 apothecaries
a few quad rapiers w/ shatter + phosphex
destroyer squad w/ jump packs + ML

1-2 grave warden squads
1 Vindicator OR phosphex medusa


beyond this, it's ALL up to personal preference as 30k is NOT really a competitive rule-set and functions better when you play for fluff rather then cheese.

Thanks all for your help! You have given me exactly what I need to get started!