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Made in gb
Been Around the Block




Hey , I'm trying to come up with a 1250 point nurgle daemon list for an upcoming local tourney and was thinking of taking lots of plague drones .
How viable do you guys think lots of plague drones could be in a small point army?
Thanks
   
Made in au
Dakka Veteran




Easily viable IMO.

Run a squad of 9, you can easily buff them to 4++ with Strategem when needed, add in virullient blessing, miasma of pestelence, a few supporting characters (such as DP, Spoilpox), the tree and you can wreak havoc.

The drones throw out so many attacks that they don't care about armour saves. With buffed to wounds and rerolls they are quite capable of taking down vehicles too.

The rest of your army should focus on capturing objectives. For this I would recommend Nurglings and Plague Bearers as points allow. (Don't bother taking anything less than units of 25 for the Plague Bearers as their utility is in their innate -1 to hit when they are at 20+ models)
   
Made in ca
Regular Dakkanaut




I generally use mine to accompany my daemon prince and to tie up shooty units in melee, but I think they would be viable on their own. A Scrivener seems essential to using them offensively; since the FAQ added the PLAGUEBEARER keyword to the drones, scriveners add +1 to all their attack rolls, including ranged ones.
   
 
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