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Hey guys I have a couple of questions about Death Guard one which is just a general one and the other is post heresy
1) Did Death Guard prefere Mechanised Warfare or on foot warfare
2) When the Death Guard broke up did they split into other warbands than just those who are loyal to mortarian and those who joined Typhus?

1)foot slogging was what they specialized in not mechanized.
2) pretty much split into Motarion and Typhus, over time was when the war ands stuff came along, I believe.

willhman wrote:
1)foot slogging was what they specialized in not mechanized.
2) pretty much split into Motarion and Typhus, over time was when the war ands stuff came along, I believe.

Im glad they prefere foot slogging war fare I love playing on foot armies lol and damn I was gonna do a death guard warband led by my own death guard lord :(

It is still possible to use your own death guard warband with your own lord. It is just not stated by Gw that they exist. Hence, you have made your own warband and you got your own, unique background for your army!

 thenoobbomb wrote:
It is still possible to use your own death guard warband with your own lord. It is just not stated by Gw that they exist. Hence, you have made your own warband and you got your own, unique background for your army!

That is a good point I may have them not working for either Mortarion or Typhus as they see Mortarian as a douche and they just dont like Typhus at all

That is entirely possible. If a Legion split up in 2 big warbands, that doesn't mean there aren't several, smaller, warbands out there.

Hmmmm now to decide on a paint scheme for them and my Lords name lol :@) then after wards its time to decide the list haha

Did the mortarion/typhus warbands leave on bad terms? I thought they were on relatively good terms, certainly not the same as Magnus/ahriman schism.

You could have them as affiliated with neither, just returning to Mortarions Daemon world from time to time to pay 'respect' to the primarch and resupply.

Mortarion specialized in attrition warfare and so he preferred large infantry squads equipped and trained for a wide variety of tactical situations. The bulk of the Death Guard consisted of Tactical squads and Terminators (they had more Terminators than any other lagion by far and were involved in its development), but bikers and assault squads existed in very limited numbers.
This piece of fluff has been misconstrued to mean that Astartes of the Death Guard are prolific walkers and turn down free rides in vehicles out of principle. This is wrong and kind of insane. The Death Guard have a full motor pool available and they use it. Transports just aren't that useful in trench warfare or city fights, which is what the Death Guard usually engage in. Mechanized infantry is still infantry and perfectly valid in a Death Guard fluff list.

The Death Guard legion is largely intact, minus a few renegades that followed Typhus. There are still lots of DG warbands lead by captains of the DG legion with their own seperate names and colors spread around the galaxy, but they all are still loyal to Mortarion and follow his command.

1.) Death Guard use a mix of both mechanized and infantry-style warfare. Their speciality is slow, stubborn advances and chemical/biological warfare.

2.) The Death Guard is officially still an organized legion, but de facto it broke apart long ago when Mortarion began to show more interest in the Warp/Great Game as opposed to the Long War against the Imperium. Typhus leads the largest warband of Death Guard (probably by far), but there are many different warbands and splinter cells each under various Chaos Lords/Champions. These myriad groups will unite should Mortarion return from the Warp or the confines of the Plague Planet and spure them so.

Really in terms of CSM Legions, there tends to be 3 classes with regards to organization:
1.) Still largely intact/organized/led by a central leadership and a cohesive fighting force. The Black Legion and Word Bearers are examples of this, and it's no wonder they're probably the two single most powerful CSM forces in M41. The Red Corsairs have since become nearly the size of a pre-heresy Legion (6th Ed Rulebook, page 176) and have a centralized leader as well so fall into this category.

2.) Fragmented Legions that nonetheless have a loose formal commander (such as a Daemon Primarch). They are broken into individual warbands/cells each with their own similar agenda, but will gather together if spurred to by their overall lord. The Iron Warriors and Death Guard are examples of this. The Alpha Legion is probably in this category as well, but as always with them it's hard to tell exactly what their deal is.

3.) Completely shattered and devoid of any centralized leadership or cohesion. The World Eaters, Emperor's Children, and Night Lords fit this category. They're all more or less individual warbands each with their own agenda which operate completely independent (and sometimes in conflict) of one another. The Thousand Sons probably fit this category the closest as well, while Magnus is still around he's more or less secluded himself from his Legion and the individual Sorcerers powerful enough to retain their bodies after the rubric of Ahriman have gone on to lead their own warbands for their own ends.

Just a little off topic - pre-heresy/heresy death guard was IMHO one of the coolest legion ever...
Everything minimalistic,high endurnace and rock hard formations...no dumb superpowers...
I really feel sorry how they have become what they are today....