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**judgedoug**

Elbows wrote:
Are we expecting reboxing/repackaging of Nurgly daemons to support this release? Any thoughts?

Plague Hulk was discontinued by Forge World right?
Plastic kit perhaps?

**Robin5t**

Ascalam wrote:
Theophony wrote:
nagash42 wrote:
They'll sneak in and steal whatever artifact off the planet which will cause Morty to chase after them and accelerate his plans.

Is it Morty or Papa Nurgle who has one of the Elven godess prisoner and feeds them really potent plagues to test them on her? Could she be the prize?

Papa Nurgle has the Eldar goddess of healing Isha as his personal disease-taster in his Garden. You have to be pretty ballsy to try and walk in there, not that it hasn't been tried by Eldar before. It didn't end well...

Well...

Spoiler:

**H.B.M.C.**

Elbows wrote:
Are we expecting reboxing/repackaging of Nurgly daemons to support this release? Any thoughts?

Along with a Tzeentch-style price increase? I hope not...

**Ascalam**

Robin5t wrote:
Ascalam wrote:
Theophony wrote:
nagash42 wrote:
They'll sneak in and steal whatever artifact off the planet which will cause Morty to chase after them and accelerate his plans.

Is it Morty or Papa Nurgle who has one of the Elven godess prisoner and feeds them really potent plagues to test them on her? Could she be the prize?

Papa Nurgle has the Eldar goddess of healing Isha as his personal disease-taster in his Garden. You have to be pretty ballsy to try and walk in there, not that it hasn't been tried by Eldar before. It didn't end well...
Well...

Spoiler:

Yvraine and the Ynnari sneak into the Plague Planet to steal Mortarion's magic thingy by going through the Garden of Nurgle.

Balls of solid necrodermis.

No Morty appearance, though. Just some giant sentinel thing he left standing guard over the hand which went down like a chump to the Visarch and Yvraine.

Spoiler:

**Enginseer Kalashnikov**

Robin5t wrote:
Ascalam wrote:
Theophony wrote:
nagash42 wrote:
They'll sneak in and steal whatever artifact off the planet which will cause Morty to chase after them and accelerate his plans.

Is it Morty or Papa Nurgle who has one of the Elven godess prisoner and feeds them really potent plagues to test them on her? Could she be the prize?

Papa Nurgle has the Eldar goddess of healing Isha as his personal disease-taster

Spoiler:

Yvraine and the Ynnari sneak into the Plague Planet to steal Mortarion's magic thingy by going through the Garden of Nurgle.

Balls of solid necrodermis.

No Morty appearance, though. Just some giant sentinel thing he left standing guard over the hand which went down like a chump to the Visarch and Yvraine.

Was there anything in the audio book that seemed to reference something that might be coming up in the death guard release? Any new weapons, units, vehicles, that sort of thing

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Pretty sure I messed up that post lol. That last part was me asking the question.

**Charax**

is there a Black Library product where Death Guard/Nurgle don't get beaten like a redheaded stepchild? because it's really hard to get hyped for my super-tough legion of semi-unkillable veterans of a ten thousand year war when I can't point to a single story where they actually win

**SirDigby**

Charax wrote:
is there a Black Library product where Death Guard/Nurgle don't get beaten like a redheaded stepchild? because it's really hard to get hyped for my super-tough legion of semi-unkillable veterans of a ten thousand year war when I can't point to a single story where they actually win

I think we're all still sore about the 'Draigo' incident, and forever will be.

They didn't come off that badly in this book though. They were still presented as a threat impossible to tackle with physical or military strength.

Spoiler:

**Rippy**

Charax wrote:
is there a Black Library product where Death Guard/Nurgle don't get beaten like a redheaded stepchild? because it's really hard to get hyped for my super-tough legion of semi-unkillable veterans of a ten thousand year war when I can't point to a single story where they actually win

The key is, pretend that the Draigo incident never happened, and head canon that the Garden of Nurgle was never infiltrated by mortals, they were somewhere else and thought they were in the Garden. That is what I do, often ignore the fluff where the "professional" writer decides to write fan fics of their favourite faction rather than writing it properly.

**NivlacSupreme**

Where's the picture of the laughing terminator?

He could make an ok Grave Warden.

I'm on a real Death Guard painting roll right now.

**SirDigby**

They just officially announced incoming 8th Edition, with Death Guard in their teaser. Cheers all!

https://www.facebook.com/1575682476085719/videos/1816147022039262/

**Binabik15**

Death Guard? Given some spotlight? What's going ooon.

I wish they were already out, though.

**Not-not-kenny**

Also, on the 40K site Death Guard are listed as one of four Chaos factions along CSM, Daemons and Thousand Sons: https://warhammer40000.com/setting/explore-the-factions/

**redleger**

So then I am guessing we won't see the rules or DG until Juneish?

**SirDigby**

I can't see them wanting to wait too long. They've just announced that all the current codexes will be invalidated and rules replaced. I'm guessing sales will be low until the new edition hits.

**Not-not-kenny**

Yeah, they might still release the models since they already have rules for DG in CSM: Traitor Legions.

**Kanluwen**

Is this new art?

There's a bit of new and old stuff around the site, but I haven't kept up as much as I used to art-wise.

**redleger**

If you go here you will see that the choose your faction is divided into the main factions, then under Chaos DG and 1k Sons are listed as separate factions within chaos. This could lead to the conclusion that all the legions at some point, in a similar way to AOS will have their own book, and be either allied with Chaos where you can field anything within Chaos together, or possibly DG only for other bonuses. The more I read the AOS book, the more I liked this idea so this would not be terrible IMO.

**Rippy**

New Death Guard intro:
The Death Guard trudge inexorably into battle amidst the drone of endless swarms of flies. Bloated, rotten and riddled with disease, these revolting traitors are virtually immune to pain. Each Heretic Astartes is utterly dedicated to spreading the feculent blessings of the Plague God Nurgle. Pain and suffering are notions that apply only to their victims; fear is a laughable concept to such ghastly beings.
Warriors of the Death Guard can sustain the most monstrous wounds and continue to fight, battling on with arms torn off, torsos blown open and necrotic flesh crisped black by fire. Many foes employ volleys of plasma fire or salvoes of tank-busting weaponry to lay the lumbering Plague Marines low, and even this is no guarantee of success. Making the most of their horrific resilience, the Death Guard favour grinding, attritional warfare, scything their enemies down in punishing, close-ranged firefights.

**Elbows**

What I find amusing is that the 8th ed. "art piece" does show a half-and-half MkIV armoured marine. One half grey "Imperial", the other half is a plague marine of sorts. I wonder if Nurgle will indeed be in the starter box or play a much larger narrative role than it has in the past.

I'm collecting Nurgle stuff for a 2nd ed. army but I'm not complaining at all if Nurgle gets a very healthy wave of releases.

**angelofvengeance**

Elbows wrote:
What I find amusing is that the 8th ed. "art piece" does show a half-and-half MkIV armoured marine. One half grey "Imperial", the other half is a plague marine of sorts. I wonder if Nurgle will indeed be in the starter box or play a much larger narrative role than it has in the past.

I'm collecting Nurgle stuff for a 2nd ed. army but I'm not complaining at all if Nurgle gets a very healthy wave of releases.

I had been thinking that myself. Imperium vs Nurgle for 8th ed starter seems likely. Or, gak starts going south with Typhus leading an assault on mankind.

**Elbows**

With the supposed Mortarion sculpt etc., I suspect he'll be leading it...not that poor substitute Typhus

**Manchu**

redleger wrote:
So then I am guessing we won't see the rules or DG until Juneish?

I'm sticking with the Seventh Month. Eighth in June, DG in July.

**Binabik15**

Nurgle in the starterAND Nurgle kits would be beyon awesome.

The sometimes rumored AoS boardgame with Nurgle (vs Elves?) being real would be a bloated cherry on top of this midden heap of joy

**Elbows**

The small "how to" picture posted in the other thread sure does hint a bit at DG being in the starter box. On one hand that'd be nice (meaning picking up cheap second hand ones on eBay) but you may also get more snap-fit single poses --- not a huge deal.

**Hive City Dweller**

Binabik15 wrote:
Nurgle in the starterAND Nurgle kits would be beyon awesome.

The sometimes rumored AoS boardgame with Nurgle (vs Elves?) being real would be a bloated cherry on top of this midden heap of joy

I sure hope so!

My fear is that the models previewed so far were all starter set mono-fit models, and that is the only love DG will get. Let's keep our fingers crossed in the hope that's not true!

**ImAGeek**

Well one of them is Mortarion and there's almost no chance of him being in the starter so... there's definitely other kits coming.

**rollawaythestone**

Might as well cross-post this here (credit goes to Omega-soul in the 8th Ed. thread). What is undoubtedly new Death Guard stuff promo'd in the 8th Ed. release teaser stuff:

**Rippy**

rollawaythestone wrote:

Spoiler:

Might as well cross-post this here (credit goes to Omega-soul in the 8th Ed. thread). What is undoubtedly new Death Guard stuff promo'd in the 8th Ed. release teaser stuff:

DG vs. UM starter pack? That is something I can handle very well

**rollawaythestone**

Definitely could put some money down on it being the contents of the starter.

**Nightlord1987**

Wow. Would fit with the trend for starters... Some chosen type guys, some cultists, and a terminator lord?

I smell alot more Nurgle armies coming....

*vomits*