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So I am currently creating a 1500 list point to play with friend and few people at my local hobby shop. I feeled like I would play pox walker and bloat-drones, but I still need some c&c since it will be my first real army.
I know I will definitly be against some Eldar, orcs and Imperial guard. I feel like I need something to bring down tanks in this list


Total points : 1498 1549

Batallion detachment

HQ
-Typhus (175pts)
-Necrosius (120 pts)

Troops
-10x poxwalker (60pts)
-14x poxwalker (84pts)
-14x poxwalker (84pts)
-10x cultist, flammer (49pts)
-10x cultist stubber (44pts)
-5x plague marine, bolter (95pts)

Elite
-Noxious Blightbringer (70 pts)
-Tallyman (67pts)
-Foul Blightspawn (77pts)

Outrider detachment

Hq
-DP, wings, claws (180pts)

Fast attack
-Floatid bloat-drone, plague spitter x2 (131 pts) 158
-Floatid bloat-drone, plague spitter x2 (131 pts) 158
-Floatid bloat-drone, plague spitter x2 (131 pts) 158

I know maybe its a WYSI thing for your list, but I never liked spending Points for weapon upgrades on min sized Cultist units. Save the Pts and try to give a Special weapon to the Plague Marines instead.

To get the most out of the poxwalker blob, I suggest running one max-sized blob, screened by cultists. This play is quite CP hungry, but put cloud of flies on the poxwalker blob so your opponent is forced to target other things - namely the screening cultists. Now, slap The Dead Walk Again on the poxwalkers so that all those dead cultists rise up as plague zombies.
Slowly advance this shambling horde up the board, buffed by all your characters, until it's big enough and close enough to tarpit your opponent's entire army (or large parts of it - varies on deployment). Don't forget to cast Putrescent Vitality on your zombies to make them S and T 5 (with Typhus buffing). They're also really slow so the blight bringer will help immensely.

Looking at your list, maybe what you've got planned is to rush them with your drones and the DP, so they'll ignore the poxwalkers - that might work, with the plague marines camping in the back to hold down objectives.

The bloat drone with 2 plague spitters is 158 pts.

Nightlord1987 wrote:I know maybe its a WYSI thing for your list, but I never liked spending Points for weapon upgrades on min sized Cultist units. Save the Pts and try to give a Special weapon to the Plague Marines instead.

That's a good idea, the flammer and stubber won't really do much in the end !

Drakeslayer wrote:To get the most out of the poxwalker blob, I suggest running one max-sized blob, screened by cultists.

Like 1 or 2 big squad instead of medium squad?

p5freak wrote:The bloat drone with 2 plague spitters is 158 pts.

You are correct! I changed it!

Here is the new prototype of army list, in both I tried to get at least one big group of 20 poxwalker


First one I removed the blightbringer since the bload-drone costed more, I kept the stubber since there was only 4 pts left.


The second one I tried changing 1 bloat-drone for a plagueburst crawler for more heavy support. I also removed to PM squad to keep the blightbringer and buff up those Poxwalker squad.