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And hopefully they'll do something similar to what they did with Blades of Khorne and fix things in the codex itself (including adjusting points, re-writing Abilities to be more clear, giving weaker units smaller buffs, etc).

   
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So thinking about death guard, my tentative plan is grab the dark imperium box, sell off the primaris marines to basically get the death guard for free (since I was planning on getting the main book anyway). Just have a few questions:

How good are the deathguard, I have a soft spot for grotesque, but if they blow I'll end never playing them.

What start collecting box would go best with them, I was thinking daemons of nurgle to go along with a chaos models I have from 7th ed (a few hell brutes, a chaos land raider, Typhus, a gaggle of cultist, chaos terminators, and a defiler in need of some love).

Constantly being negative doesn't make you seem erudite, it just makes you look like a curmudgeon.  
   
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 Grimgold wrote:
So thinking about death guard, my tentative plan is grab the dark imperium box, sell off the primaris marines to basically get the death guard for free (since I was planning on getting the main book anyway). Just have a few questions:

How good are the deathguard, I have a soft spot for grotesque, but if they blow I'll end never playing them.

What start collecting box would go best with them, I was thinking daemons of nurgle to go along with a chaos models I have from 7th ed (a few hell brutes, a chaos land raider, Typhus, a gaggle of cultist, chaos terminators, and a defiler in need of some love).


We don't currently know yet if Death Guard are good, as our whole roster hasn't been anounced and we've been allowed only a small selection from the Chaos Index. Currently we're the weakest army on the table, according to one of the play testers, but we're supposedly going to be made competitive with the coming codex and units after the Dark Imperium launch set

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My basic plan is to get two Death Guard halves of the starter, a Rhino and Predator and call it a day until the new stuff hits. Not even gonna bother with an Index as I have no plans for any other Chaos army, and the DG codex will probably change what was in the index anyways.

Here's hoping we get those new units and codex soon. I'm crossing my fingers for a late July release, as not releasing them on the 7th month of the year would be a wasted opportunity, thematically.
   
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CaptainSomas wrote:
My basic plan is to get two Death Guard halves of the starter, a Rhino and Predator and call it a day until the new stuff hits. Not even gonna bother with an Index as I have no plans for any other Chaos army, and the DG codex will probably change what was in the index anyways.

Here's hoping we get those new units and codex soon. I'm crossing my fingers for a late July release, as not releasing them on the 7th month of the year would be a wasted opportunity, thematically.


I would love for them to at least announce some units we'll be getting, like they did for Primaris players. I want to know! *flails arms*

A July release would be perfect, as it's both the 7th month and the month of my bday Also end of financial year so a big sum of money to chuck at them will come in around the same time

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'Straya... Mate.

Less than 5 hours until I have the new DG from starter set in my hands SQUEEE!

 
   
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 Rippy wrote:
Less than 5 hours until I have the new DG from starter set in my hands SQUEEE!

Lucky enough to be getting a midnight launch? I still gotta wait until 11am *weeps*
   
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 Tiberius501 wrote:
 Rippy wrote:
Less than 5 hours until I have the new DG from starter set in my hands SQUEEE!

Lucky enough to be getting a midnight launch? I still gotta wait until 11am *weeps*

Yes, super lucky
The dude I am buying the DG half off invited me to come and collect tonight as he purchases it.

 
   
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 Rippy wrote:
 Tiberius501 wrote:
 Rippy wrote:
Less than 5 hours until I have the new DG from starter set in my hands SQUEEE!

Lucky enough to be getting a midnight launch? I still gotta wait until 11am *weeps*

Yes, super lucky
The dude I am buying the DG half off invited me to come and collect tonight as he purchases it.


I'm super jelly haha
   
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Surfing the Tervigon Wave...on a baby.

Welp, 24 hours and I have my initial purchase lot - Index Chaos, the rulebook and DG half of DI and some undercoat.

No need for the FW Index just yet as I realised I actually don't field any of the units listed in it (haha!).


Now only a CSM player. 
   
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My boxset is already here.

Read through the DG "book". It mentions 3 other kinds of Nurgle sorcerers, as well as a whole load of different DG warbands - but those have been leaked before. Interestingly, the apostles of contagion are the only ones that have been mentioned in the fluff before (if I recall correctly). Wonder what happened to Lords of Decay, the the purge, the cleaved and so on.
I could imagine those three other sorcerer types as an upgrade in the future - simply because they didn't translate their names, just like with other actual unit names. Death shroud has been translated though, so probably no models for those then :(.

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I've got it lads and ladies!
They are beautiful.

 
   
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Indiana

 Rippy wrote:
I've got it lads and ladies!
They are beautiful.


SHARE SHARE!!! I have to wait two more days before I can get mine.....

People who stopped buying GW but wont stop bitching about it are the vegans of warhammer

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I'm waiting until Saturday morning, cause that is when I'm meeting the guy who I'm getting his DG half. Bleh. At least I have FF14 and f13 the game to keep me busy. XD
   
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 Leth wrote:
 Rippy wrote:
I've got it lads and ladies!
They are beautiful.


SHARE SHARE!!! I have to wait two more days before I can get mine.....


Less scrupulous store owners have had had the sprues up for sale on ebay for a while, if you want to see them you could just search for deathguard.

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Can anyone put the new DG next to the FW DG to see how they look next to each other?

People who stopped buying GW but wont stop bitching about it are the vegans of warhammer

My Deathwatch army project thread  
   
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 Leth wrote:
Can anyone put the new DG next to the FW DG to see how they look next to each other?


There was a picture of this somewhere in that 500+ page rumor thread i think. Or maybe in this one already. I'm not positive tbh.
   
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 Leth wrote:
Can anyone put the new DG next to the FW DG to see how they look next to each other?

I will be building some later on once my daughter is in bed for her bap

If there isn't already one up, I will post some side by sides with PMs and Typhus with Lord.


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 Leth wrote:
 Rippy wrote:
I've got it lads and ladies!
They are beautiful.


SHARE SHARE!!! I have to wait two more days before I can get mine.....

Sorry, I fell asleep :(


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Plague Hulk of Nurgle has no <Legion> key word :(
Looks like he will be a -1 CP formation take once the DG codex is out.


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Also Chaos Spartan is looking solid.

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Necrosius the Undying has THE TAINTED keyword, which is odd since he actually belongs to the Apostles of Contagion.

Also, he can't buff pure DEATH GUARD units, but instead only Poxwalkers and THE TAINTED units.

Hmmmmmm....


   
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 Mister Feral wrote:
Necrosius the Undying has THE TAINTED keyword, which is odd since he actually belongs to the Apostles of Contagion.

Also, he can't buff pure DEATH GUARD units, but instead only Poxwalkers and THE TAINTED units.

Hmmmmmm....



Interesting, seeing as the flagship Death Guard dudes are called the Tainted Sons
   
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Made all the more bizarre by the fact that Necrosius was not the leader of the Tainted, he was the leader of the Apostles of Contagion. I think whoever did the rules forgot to read the books in which Necrosius actually appeared. Strange times, FW.

Hopefully an FAQ appears at some point letting us take some of the units from this book in the actual DG list, once our codex hits. I'd like to take Greater Blight Drones.

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It'd be interesting to see a Typhus/Necrosius tagteam army where there are massive unstoppable poxwalker hordes buffed by both

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 Tiberius501 wrote:
 Mister Feral wrote:
Necrosius the Undying has THE TAINTED keyword, which is odd since he actually belongs to the Apostles of Contagion.

Also, he can't buff pure DEATH GUARD units, but instead only Poxwalkers and THE TAINTED units.

Hmmmmmm....



Interesting, seeing as the flagship Death Guard dudes are called the Tainted Sons


Do you have a source for that by any chance?

Judging by me squinting at the Dark Imperium pictures on the GW store, I can see the Apostles of Contagion have their colour scheme shown, so it doesn't make sense!

   
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Charax wrote:
It'd be interesting to see a Typhus/Necrosius tagteam army where there are massive unstoppable poxwalker hordes buffed by both


Which is super funny, because in the fluff, they hate each other

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"If it makes these Poxwalkers even better, than dammit we'll have to work together!"

   
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But.. necrosius still uses contagion powers , which effect Death Guard. Sigh..


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And the alpha legion guy gets to be both his legion and warband, but the khorne and Nurgle ones dont. Pfah

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Necrosius buffs Poxwalker and THE TAINTED within 6", but can only buff DEATH GUARD through one of the Contagion powers?

Hmmmmmmmmm.

FW has made some strange choices with how they've done these characters for war bands that have split off from their original Legion.

Necrosius has THE TAINTED and DEATH GUARD, yet Arkos the Faithless is forced to choose between THE FAITHLESS and ALPHA LEGION. Slightly off-topic, but whyyy?

edit - Zhufor has SKULLTAKERS but doesn't have WORLD EATERS.

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 Mister Feral wrote:
 Tiberius501 wrote:
 Mister Feral wrote:
Necrosius the Undying has THE TAINTED keyword, which is odd since he actually belongs to the Apostles of Contagion.

Also, he can't buff pure DEATH GUARD units, but instead only Poxwalkers and THE TAINTED units.

Hmmmmmm....



Interesting, seeing as the flagship Death Guard dudes are called the Tainted Sons


Do you have a source for that by any chance?

Judging by me squinting at the Dark Imperium pictures on the GW store, I can see the Apostles of Contagion have their colour scheme shown, so it doesn't make sense!


They're in the Death Guard mini-codex, and are the olive coloured ones who're in all their art with a named Lord of Contagion, Lord Gulgoth the Aflictor
   
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 Rippy wrote:
 Leth wrote:
Can anyone put the new DG next to the FW DG to see how they look next to each other?

I will be building some later on once my daughter is in bed for her bap

If there isn't already one up, I will post some side by sides with PMs and Typhus with Lord.


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 Leth wrote:
 Rippy wrote:
I've got it lads and ladies!
They are beautiful.


SHARE SHARE!!! I have to wait two more days before I can get mine.....

Sorry, I fell asleep :(


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Plague Hulk of Nurgle has no <Legion> key word :(
Looks like he will be a -1 CP formation take once the DG codex is out.


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Also Chaos Spartan is looking solid.


Can you not just have them all "connect" via the Nurgle keyword?


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Does anyone have t he rules for the greater Bloat drone? I have 5 and I 'm getting antsy to see how they will fair.

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 Rippy wrote:
Plague Hulk of Nurgle has no <Legion> key word :(
Looks like he will be a -1 CP formation take once the DG codex is out..


Is it not a LoW choice? You don't take a cp penalty for those.
   
 
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