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I'm also still trying to find a good army list with epidemius. It just seems that none of the nurgle daemons benefit a lot from him. The biggest problem seems to be that most nurgle daemons are very slow, so it will take two or three turns before you start killing units to gain an advantage.
The plague drones are fast, but most of their damage is from their mounts, which don't benefit from the tally.
The bloat drone's are nice, but the +1 to the str of their shooting weapons isn't that much of a deal, remember, it's no longer the case that +1 str means you get +1 on the dice rolls. Same goes for the +1 toughness.
Nurgle princes seem nice, they're fast, have plenty of attacks with the talons (although the +1 doesn't do that much since it already has so many per model).
You might want to look into warp talons. They benefit alot from the tally once it goes up, although they appear to be pretty bad to start with and are a lot more glass cannon than nurgle daemons normally are. But a unit of 5, comming in at 140 points, can output 16 str 5(6 with herald) ap -3 attacks. A prince will have similar damage output against multiwound models though and is much more survivable.
You probably also want to keep some points available for summoning. This can help in defending epidemius when his bodyguard is killed. You can also use it to get (very slow) heralds of nurgle to where you need them.
He seems a worthwhile investment though at 100 points, even if only it forces your opponent to try to kill him. Not every list will have enough units
Nurgle just doesn't seem to have any good offensive and cheap units.
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