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Sloppity Bilepiper and Gavriel Sureheart.
Definitely a new low from the GW naming department. Woeful nonsense.

Quite possibly.

In the Spear of Shadows, they touch on Nagash worshippers.

It's not 'Oh Big Scary Lord Of Bones Please Do Not Fricasee Or Broil Us'. At least, not all the time.

Any aspect of Death you care to consider, that's Nagash to someone. He Who Takes Warriors Into His Halls. He Who Shepherds The Little Children. He Who Brings Relief To The Sick.

He's not a default big scary dude. He's Death. He Comes To Us All.

Wayniac wrote:

 silverstu wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:
What's with the triangles fam.
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Pyramid drawings maybe?

That would be my guess. Some Death love is almost certain, in the Nurgle video too the Glottkin mention their enemy isn't Order, it's Death.

Three is also a number associated with Nurgle (as well as 7) His symbol is the tripartite fly - often rendered as three spheres arranged in a triangle

 silverstu wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:
What's with the triangles fam.
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Pyramid drawings maybe?

Oh ffs why did this make me hope for TK again. What is dead may never die!!!

How amazing would that be though.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Quite possibly.

In the Spear of Shadows, they touch on Nagash worshippers.

It's not 'Oh Big Scary Lord Of Bones Please Do Not Fricasee Or Broil Us'. At least, not all the time.

Any aspect of Death you care to consider, that's Nagash to someone. He Who Takes Warriors Into His Halls. He Who Shepherds The Little Children. He Who Brings Relief To The Sick.

He's not a default big scary dude. He's Death. He Comes To Us All.

Man, now I want to have Nagash modeled as Peter Pan and his summoned spirits being Tinkerbelle.

That lord of blights ability that they "showcased" seems woefully underwhelming. There has to be more to it. One shot with no rend that hits and wounds 17% of the time for one damage? How does that "add ranged capabilities" other than the fact that yes technically it is a shooting attack

Well when the alternative is nothing...

 Sal4m4nd3r wrote:
That lord of blights ability that they "showcased" seems woefully underwhelming. There has to be more to it. One shot with no rend that hits and wounds 17% of the time for one damage? How does that "add ranged capabilities" other than the fact that yes technically it is a shooting attack

One shot per Blightking in a unit that he grants it to, yeah.

I mean, there are ranged centric units that have worse/similar stats to this thing. Wanderer Glade Guard are 20" range 1 attack, 4+/4+ with no Rend and 1 damage.
Once per game they can use Arcane Bodkins granting them -3 Rend and if they number in units of 20 or more and there are no enemy models within 3" then they're given +1 to their Hit Rolls during the Shooting Phase.

They also make a mention that the new "Putrescent Blades" spell makes it so that a unit which rolls 6s to hit(no caveat as to if in CC or at range!) gets to add a Mortal Wound in addition to their normal damage.

So a unit of 10 Blightkings can theoretically cause 20 points of damage if they roll all 6s and have Putrescent Blades on; with half of that damage being Mortal Wounds.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Sal4m4nd3r wrote:
That lord of blights ability that they "showcased" seems woefully underwhelming. There has to be more to it. One shot with no rend that hits and wounds 17% of the time for one damage? How does that "add ranged capabilities" other than the fact that yes technically it is a shooting attack

One shot per Blightking in a unit that he grants it to, yeah.

I mean, there are ranged centric units that have worse/similar stats to this thing. Wanderer Glade Guard are 20" range 1 attack, 4+/4+ with no Rend and 1 damage.
Once per game they can use Arcane Bodkins granting them -3 Rend and if they number in units of 20 or more and there are no enemy models within 3" then they're given +1 to their Hit Rolls during the Shooting Phase.

Also, did you see that nurgle spell that makes you do mortal wounds on 6s? Blightkings are going to be scary enough as is thank you very much.

I literally just was writing up a comment on that.

Characterful, not overly crowded, I like it.

And everyone is on about the 2 hero's in that crudely done pic.
Is it not gutrot spume with this new one?

Maggoty Belly looks oddly flat?

Might just be the pic, paintjob or angle though. Other than that, I likes it.

Glad I was wrong about the Harbinger of Decay, this new model is really cool.

The ranged attacks aren't busted, so I can see how they may seem underwhelming... but he gives the ability to a unit and each model can make a ranged attack.

Coupled with the spell that causes mortal wounds on a 6 and you have the ability to throw a lot of nasty dice out at your opponent with decent, but not game wrecking, potential.

Looks way too much like the Lord of plagues.... And why do the maggots look so flat? They would have been an insert under the skin and fat with a few falling out, it would have been much more convincing and gross if there was any kind of depth to them... This model feels like it should have been alt part options for the previous....

Really characterful model. Definitely going to pick it up for my Nurgle army.

Gotta agree on the flat maggots. Just seems out of place with the rest of the model looking so crisp.

You know, the more I look at it, the more I think the Maggots are a photoshop job?

There's no depth when there really should be. Again, could just be the angle/paintjob. But it's really quite jarring to mein eyes.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
You know, the more I look at it, the more I think the Maggots are a photoshop job?

There's no depth when there really should be. Again, could just be the angle/paintjob. But it's really quite jarring to mein eyes.

Aren't a lot of these preview models we see prototypes? Maye the final production model won't look so flat when we see the sprues when the model goes up for preorder.

I know the shield is supposed to resemble a fly, but all I see is smiley face.

A smiley face works with nurgle too.

3 days left : blightkings on drones, beast of nurgle and the tree.. so no pestigors or other surprises

I like the renovation but it is a little disappointing that there is not a new infantry unit :(

zamerion wrote:
3 days left : blightkings on drones, beast of nurgle and the tree.. so no pestigors or other surprises

I like the renovation but it is a little disappointing that there is not a new infantry unit :(

Well, we get 2 new units, a whole bunch of new characters and an update of two really outdated models (including a huge new greater daemon model). That is already quite a lot. I too would have loved to see a new infantry unit, but can't have everything unfortunately.

I would not rule out Pestigors yet

Blightkings really don't have a small, cheaper unit at the moment aside from daemon friends.

Warhams-77 wrote:
I would not rule out Pestigors yet

Do you think?

Lady Atia spoke about them long time ago, but for the moment there is no evidence of them :(

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:
Blightkings really don't have a small, cheaper unit at the moment aside from daemon friends.

mark of nurgle marauders work perfectly! and they are great in a plagetouched warband battalion! 35 (to take advantage of the grandfathers gift rule) for only 200 points!!

Worst case scenario, if the Lord of Blights' rules suck, I'll just take the trophy rack off his back and call him a Blightking. He looks too good not to see use, and god knows that the Blightkings need more variety in their sculpts.

As for lacking chaff units, on the positive side, at least they've mentioned Blightkings getting a cost reduction.

 Fafnir wrote:
Worst case scenario, if the Lord of Blights' rules suck, I'll just take the trophy rack off his back and call him a Blightking. He looks too good not to see use, and god knows that the Blightkings need more variety in their sculpts.

As for lacking chaff units, on the positive side, at least they've mentioned Blightkings getting a cost reduction.

I think at 150 for 5.. they would costed PERFECTLY. 30 points each just FEELS right.