[2000] - Death Guard - First casual list idea

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**Wayniac**

Now that I have my codex, I can think of some lists. I play casually but also don't want to always lose.

I was thinking something like this:

Spoiler:

The idea is the Biologus goes with the CC squad. The Lord of Contagion and the Deathshroud teleport in. Now I've been told elsewhere I need a "screen" but I really don't want to go the typical (and IMHO highly boring) Poxwalker spam since I actually like the Plague Marines themselves. I'm not sold on the Plague Surgeon and am thinking of dropping him, since his aura is only 3" so very little. I'd really like to keep the Plagueburst Crawlers especially. The Blight-Haulers seem really good since I don't have much in the way of anti-tank.

Any thoughts or suggestions that keep my overall idea of actually using Plague Marines?

**123ply**

Just questions about the units. Don't know about DG so I can't help unfortunatley.

Is the plague spurt gauntlet pistol or assault?
And, what's the benefit of taking a second plague knife? An extra attack?

Only thing I can suggest is taking Typhus instead of the Lord of Contagion unless you have a warlord trait in mind. In the index typhus is cheaper (prob not in the codex) but he offers more psychic powers and S7 will help you out a little bit more when dealing with most vehicles (since medium armour is T7) and the destroyer hive looks good when targeting squishy hordes of infantry, as your deathshroud and plague marines look like they're more equipped for smaller, tougher units.

Sorry I can't be of much help though.

**Tiberius501**

123ply wrote:
Just questions about the units. Don't know about DG so I can't help unfortunatley.

Is the plague spurt gauntlet pistol or assault?
And, what's the benefit of taking a second plague knife? An extra attack?

Only thing I can suggest is taking Typhus instead of the Lord of Contagion unless you have a warlord trait in mind. In the index typhus is cheaper (prob not in the codex) but he offers more psychic powers and S7 will help you out a little bit more when dealing with most vehicles (since medium armour is T7) and the destroyer hive looks good when targeting squishy hordes of infantry, as your deathshroud and plague marines look like they're more equipped for smaller, tougher units.

Sorry I can't be of much help though.

The Plague spurt gauntlets are pistol d6 so not too shabby.
And yeah the second Plague knife grants an extra attack.

**ScottishMowgli**

If you give the plague surgeon the relic Fugaris' Helm it will boost his aura by 3".

**Zananda**

Drop the deathshroud , they are trash on their own ... they will never reach combat and have 0 reach .
5 Blightlords however have 18" doubletap range 1 reaper autocannon for 240 pts same resilience and cannot be ignored.
Also Typhus for xtra 25 pts is a steal instead of lord of contagion psychic power , 1 more wound and destroyer hive.
so find 50 pts somewhere