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I have not had the opportunity to play many games as of yet, what are people's opinion on death guard?

From everything I have seen, they are pretty lackluster at the moment because they have hardly any options. It's basically the old Typhus "Walking Dead" list with Poxwalker spam. Hopefully that will change when they get the rest of their releases.

Death Guard can field three plasma guns in a five-man squad. Very killy.

They desperately need their codex to come out. They need Motarium with some really kick ass rules (I am looking at you, Gulliman). They also need more stuff. The existing chaos index removed so many unit choices from them, and the only thing they got was bloat drones, pox walkers and DR (which is just 5+ FNP).

Lord of contagion was just an inferior Typhus. And the other hero additions are basically just modifications of existing hero types like sorceror. So, far. Death guard have a lot riding on their new codex. Right now, the restrictions far outweigh the benefits of going pure death guard.

With the improvement to Possessed and possibly also Disgustingly resilient on Helbrutes, Spawn and Possessed I think we'll be able to pack a punch in CC soon, when the Codex drops.

Right now though we'll have to rely on Bloat drone, Typhus, Helbrute and Forgeworld to do the killing, while Poxwalkers are nice for screening.
However, we have the widest range of psychic powers right now (CSM, Daemons, DG), which are all pretty good. At the same time, those mostly help when combined with units from CSM/Daemons.
PMs sadly are rather overcosted I think, their blight launchers are okay.

Wait for the codex.

Anybody heard rumors as to when the DG codex will drop?

End of august I am thinking

Rumors are pointing to late August/early September. But we aren't quite sure. Figure if CSM/GK go on pre-order Saturday the 5th, they will be available the 12th, so death guard pre-order should be the 19th with release the 26th? Nobody knows for certain, though, except for GW of course.