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I've been out of the loop for a bit but have been playing with my Death Guard army a bit more over the last couple of weeks. I prefer to use Plague Marines and was gifted another box of them. My question is, how do I arm them? More bolters? Split between HtH? All HtH?

What I've got:
4 champions - sword & pistol, power fist & plasma gun, knife & power fist, plasma pistol & power fist
3 launchers
1 melta
2 plasma guns
1 flammer
1 heavy flammer
2 flails
1 great cleaver
1 dual knives
1 mace and axe
8 bolters

Assuming you still have bits from the other boxes I'd personally try to make 2 more flail marines, another cleaver marine, maybe another launcher and the rest stays as regular bolter dudes. Depends on how you regularly use your PM though, I tried and failed to make shooty squads work so I no longer build new ones with weapons like Melta and Plasma. Flails and especially Cleavers however I lack in my collection because I try to equip all but the backline objective camping squads with one of each.
So if you like running them up in rhinos with a biologus you can skimp even on the launcher and bolters and try to make another 2 orso with double knives.

 Castozor wrote:
Assuming you still have bits from the other boxes I'd personally try to make 2 more flail marines, another cleaver marine, maybe another launcher and the rest stays as regular bolter dudes. Depends on how you regularly use your PM though, I tried and failed to make shooty squads work so I no longer build new ones with weapons like Melta and Plasma. Flails and especially Cleavers however I lack in my collection because I try to equip all but the backline objective camping squads with one of each.
So if you like running them up in rhinos with a biologus you can skimp even on the launcher and bolters and try to make another 2 orso with double knives.

Thanks! I've been thinking about it most of the day and think you're right. I think I'm going for 1 dual knives (my other dual knives is a knife and icon), 1 cleaver, 1 flail, 1 blight launcher, and 3 bolters. I've also heard that large masses of bolt guns are powerful for DG. I'm looking to getting back into gaming again - I've spent the last 7 years sick from Crohn's disease and am finally feeling like I can get back out and gaming. I feel like I'm more of a plague marine since I had most of my colon removed and my guts hang out of my abdomen (ileostomy). With any luck, I'll have them put back in place later this year or next and I'll have a semi-colon ;