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For local tournament, unknown meta, as I just recently moved. Wondering what you think about lists that do one thing pretty well, and how to improve it.

I have three characters summoning and healing more nurglings, and if they decide to not summon, they give substantial buffs moving along with the nurglings.

Battalion Detachment 1499/1500pts
HQ :
Great Unclean One - Doomsday bell, plague flail, Fleshy Abundance, Virulent Blessings
Poxbringer - Virulent Blessings
Sloppity Bilepiper - Entropic Knell artifact

Troops
9x Nurglings
9x Nurglings
9x Nurglings

Fast Attack:
6x Plague drones - Demonic Icon, Instrument of chaos
(this unit is either a distraction or a objective grabber, depending on what the opponent decides)

Heavy support
Spined Chaos Beast - MoNurgle
Spined Chaos Beast - MoNurgle

You have to pay the points to summon units in matched play so summoning is essentially useless now. You may as well start with the units on the board. You will also struggle to hurt anything but chaff with this list. Nurglings are for distraction/objective holding and tagging big units so they can't fire on their turn. I wouldn't play nurgle without a unit of 30 plaguebearers. They're super reslliant and with the doomsday bell, feculant gnarlemores and a banner are super hard to remove for such a small points outlay. Also you'll need to try and protect your plaguedrones and GUO with some form of chaff.
I would say that you probably need more anti armour too, as there's a lot of people using lords of war out there that would make life hard for this list. You could consider a daemon prince or two and drop the GUO or the plaugue drones.

oh wow... I've been out for a bit. Didn't realize they ruined summoning.

summoning is like that since the codex was relesed, strange you made a list with demons and didn't read that

Strictly speaking, I made the list with Battlescribe app, and it didnt go into detail on that. I have the core rulebook and that's all for now. I expected changes, but that is really a hell of a nerf.

if you dont know the demon codex rules would be pretty difficult make a list