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lately my friend and I have been playing a lot of fantasy warhammer and looking to play a nurgle warband next match, I was wondering what is best way to set up a nurgle daemon prince in terms of magic items and mutations

The netlist is this.

Daemon Prince, Chaos Armour, Wings, Level 4 Death, Daemon of Nurgle.

Sword of Striking, Charmed Shield, Dragonbane Gem

Scaled Skin, Chaos Familiar, Soul Feeder, Nurgles Rot.

5 Death Spells and the chance to regain wounds. Hitting most things on 2's and thunderstomping unbreakable goodness.

The core of the prince is the scaled skin, sword, gem, shield, armour and wings.

The rest are peripherals. To make him work, you don't really need the rot, soul feeder, familiar or magic.

I may be the only one, but I like the lore of nurgle.
Regaining wounds and gaining wounds and toughness makes him much harder to kill.

Besides, I get all the death I need in my scouting great bray shaman.

-Matt

 HawaiiMatt wrote:
I may be the only one, but I like the lore of nurgle.
Regaining wounds and gaining wounds and toughness makes him much harder to kill.

Besides, I get all the death I need in my scouting great bray shaman.

-Matt

I like lore of nurgle. I just think death is far, far better on a prince. If we were talking 30 regen plaguebearers, then nurgle is a godsend.

In the death/nurgle decision I think it depends what your playing against. Low toughness opponents deffo go nurgle. If you need to character snipe go death.

BAN wrote:
In the death/nurgle decision I think it depends what your playing against. Low toughness opponents deffo go nurgle. If you need to character snipe go death.

Death has bubble soul light, which is still probably one of the best spells in the game.

One of the best benefits of Nurgle is getting those sixes when you cast a spell and gaining +1T and +1W. Considering you have soulfeeder, by the end of the game you can be nearly invincible. One game, my DP was Rocking T8 and 7W.

 welshhoppo wrote:
One of the best benefits of Nurgle is getting those sixes when you cast a spell and gaining +1T and +1W. Considering you have soulfeeder, by the end of the game you can be nearly invincible. One game, my DP was Rocking T8 and 7W.

Once, my DP killed 2400(Well, 2600 once you factor in general and BSB) points in a turn. Do that with Lore of Nurgle.

Okay: I charge his unit, hex/augment into the combat, break the unit, it flees, panics more units, they break and flee, and panic the rest.
"This one time..." contests are pointless. Anything can happen in any game.

I like just taking a Nurgle DP with glittering scales.


Cheap, -2 to hit for tying up units, is still a baller. Only 270 points, can easily fit in another if I wished.

Warpsolution wrote:
Okay: I charge his unit, hex/augment into the combat, break the unit, it flees, panics more units, they break and flee, and panic the rest.
"This one time..." contests are pointless. Anything can happen in any game.

I wasn't saying a "This one time". The scenario that I listed is a fairly reasonable one. And a situation that will never arise with lore of nurgle.

 thedarkavenger wrote:

Warpsolution wrote:
Okay: I charge his unit, hex/augment into the combat, break the unit, it flees, panics more units, they break and flee, and panic the rest.
"This one time..." contests are pointless. Anything can happen in any game.

I wasn't saying a "This one time". The scenario that I listed is a fairly reasonable one. And a situation that will never arise with lore of nurgle.

I'd never seen lore of death wipe an army. Even against my init 2 saurus warriors, 1/3rd of them survive.

And, I'd rather have a really unkillable prince, and the scouting lore of death. Or, the scouting flying lore of death.

 HawaiiMatt wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

Warpsolution wrote:
Okay: I charge his unit, hex/augment into the combat, break the unit, it flees, panics more units, they break and flee, and panic the rest.
"This one time..." contests are pointless. Anything can happen in any game.

I wasn't saying a "This one time". The scenario that I listed is a fairly reasonable one. And a situation that will never arise with lore of nurgle.

I'd never seen lore of death wipe an army. Even against my init 2 saurus warriors, 1/3rd of them survive.

And, I'd rather have a really unkillable prince, and the scouting lore of death. Or, the scouting flying lore of death.

You obviously haven't used lore of death enough. I've purple sun'd off a dwarf gunline before. And I will do again.

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 HawaiiMatt wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

Warpsolution wrote:
Okay: I charge his unit, hex/augment into the combat, break the unit, it flees, panics more units, they break and flee, and panic the rest.
"This one time..." contests are pointless. Anything can happen in any game.

I wasn't saying a "This one time". The scenario that I listed is a fairly reasonable one. And a situation that will never arise with lore of nurgle.

I'd never seen lore of death wipe an army. Even against my init 2 saurus warriors, 1/3rd of them survive.

And, I'd rather have a really unkillable prince, and the scouting lore of death. Or, the scouting flying lore of death.

You obviously haven't used lore of death enough. I've purple sun'd off a dwarf gunline before. And I will do again.

Or, I know you're full of it. You have less than a 2% chance to wipe out a single unit of 10 dwarfs with purple sun; (that's 10 initiative 2 checks that all have to fail). Odds of killing 40 dwarfs (small gunline) is less than 1 in 100 million.

Purple sun is going to do a lot of damage to a tightly packed army, but it isn't going to wipe them.

 thedarkavenger wrote:
I wasn't saying a "This one time".

You said "Once". That is exactly the same thing.

 thedarkavenger wrote:
The scenario that I listed is a fairly reasonable one. And a situation that will never arise with lore of nurgle.

Purple Sun does lots of damage. And can also Misfire and results in more miscasts than multiple, smaller spells.

Pretty sure they're both good Lores for the Prince. Mostly because that guy is redodadiculous.

 HawaiiMatt wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

Warpsolution wrote:
Okay: I charge his unit, hex/augment into the combat, break the unit, it flees, panics more units, they break and flee, and panic the rest.
"This one time..." contests are pointless. Anything can happen in any game.

I wasn't saying a "This one time". The scenario that I listed is a fairly reasonable one. And a situation that will never arise with lore of nurgle.

I'd never seen lore of death wipe an army. Even against my init 2 saurus warriors, 1/3rd of them survive.

And, I'd rather have a really unkillable prince, and the scouting lore of death. Or, the scouting flying lore of death.

saurus are I1


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 HawaiiMatt wrote:
I may be the only one, but I like the lore of nurgle.
Regaining wounds and gaining wounds and toughness makes him much harder to kill.

Besides, I get all the death I need in my scouting great bray shaman.

-Matt

i fully agree, especially with the synergy in a festus or troll list, nurgle is more useful.

phoenixrisin wrote:

saurus are I1

Mine are always near a Bastiladon, for init 2, init 1 is far to crippling.

-Matt