Tiberius501 wrote:Thanks for the insights. I think my friend is looking mostly at Pestilins because he also loves the new Nurgle stuff so he’ll probably ally them together
In that case just get 2-4 start collecting boxes and a verminlord. Use green stuff/bits to convert some plague priests out of the grey seers and censor bearers out of extra monks. Potentially make at least 1 screaming bell(very good unit) and you should have around 2500 points after 4 boxes. If you ever need more stuff just get another
sc and you'll be golden
Pestilens is basically a horde tar pit army that relies heavily on spells, buffs, debuff, and flat mortal wound auras to make the plague monks very resistant to morale as they bog down enemy armies (and die by the truckload) while the furnace, priests, and verminlord use their abilities to cripple any non Nurgle units regardless of who's side their on. monks can be given respectable attack buffs but they'll never match up to the best attack horde unit buffs like bloodreavers or witch elves. Of course that's where the debuff auras come in...
For mixing nurgle the plague claw catapult can be very good at starting epidemius' tally and nurgle healing spells can come in very handy as your furnaces and heros will be the main target for your opponent as without them the troops are, quite frankly, abysmal.