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A list I am considering for an upcoming tournament. General thinking is Prince’s and Drones move up. PBC side by side moving up with FBS and LoC between. Poxwalkers just sit on objectives and die. Knight shoots and moves up.


++ Battalion Detachment +5CP (Chaos - Death Guard)


+ HQ

Daemon Prince of Nurgle: Malefic talon, Wings

Lord of Contagion: Manreaper

+ Troops

12x Poxwalker

12x Poxwalker

11x Poxwalker

+ Elites

Foul Blightspawn

+ Heavy Support

Plagueburst Crawler: 2x Plaguespitter, Heavy slugger

Plagueburst Crawler: 2x Plaguespitter, Heavy slugger


++ Outrider Detachment

+ HQ

Daemon Prince of Nurgle: Daemonic axe, Wings

+ Fast Attack

Foetid Bloat-drone: 2x Plaguespitters, Plague probe

Foetid Bloat-drone: 2x Plaguespitters, Plague probe

Foetid Bloat-drone: 2x Plaguespitters, Plague probe


++ Super Heavy Auxiliaries

+ Lord of War

Renegade Knight: Heavy stubber, Twin Icarus Autocannon
. Avenger gatling cannon and heavy flamer
. Avenger gatling cannon and heavy flamer

++ Total: [112 PL, 1998pts, 9CP]

This is ok but could be better. What is the LOC actually going to do here? He’s too slow to keep pace, especially with halfing his advance. If you drop him for a Plaguecaster you double your psychic output, and can still take AC on him.

I worry that those PBC’s are gonna be tagged and/or locked. For what you are trying to achieve with them you may be better with a squad of Blight Haulers. An excellent unit to ram in your opponent’s face, to take a battering whilst the rest of the force advances. Be careful not to over commit one or both of your princes. I find that I get diminishing returns from more than one, and of late been taking them without wings to stop tempting me from chucking them in. Having them arrive in your opponent’s lines T2/3 when stuff has been softened up makes them harder to deal with

I originally had the plague caster in. But thought that I might try the LoC. My thinking is, he is a bit slow, but might provide a counter charge unit if someone decided to take on the crawlers. They’d have to eat that overwatch, and know that he’d be coming right in to charge the next turn. The other option I considered is keeping him in deep strike, drop him where ever he might cause the most problems. As a single model the would be pretty easy to place I think.

I’m hesitant to go with three haulers. They are tough, I’m just not sure if they are tough enough. I have the models, and I do love the look of them and all the cool little abilities they have, but they have never done much work in putting out damage.

Regarding the prince’s. I find it’s interesting that your of the opinion that one is enough. I’ve been finding that I’ve wished I had a second tagging along. What’s behind your thinking on that?