Death Guard + Nurgle Daemons [News: Dec 30 - Jan 2018 WD with the new models]

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**Galas**

Ok, after that video, I love Mortarion. The pose is not like Celestine, floating like "Woaaaah!". He is moving forward, like a hooded Nazgul looking for his next prey.
Plus: I just love the little cherubin nurglings with cloth in their heads and the one with the daemonic symbol

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**MeanGreenStompa**

With a clean up from the video. I'm liking this a lot.

**Bottle**

The model looks fantastic with the 'Eavy Metal paint job. The colour scheme is much better than the first one previewed.

**Tiberius501**

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
With a clean up from the video. I'm liking this a lot.

I love how he's leaning forwards, slowly strafing the field. Really menacing. Love the cowled nurglings too

**Brotherjanus**

Finally! A picture that looks imposing and appropriate to the character. They still ruined him for me with the Tinkerbell first pic.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Teeny tiny Nurglings look ace!

**Galas**

About the Terminator of the video

**matphat**

Anyone who's hating on this new model line just can't be pleased. God GW, you're KILLING me here.

**ERJAK**

Malika2 wrote:
Hmm....40k has been reduced to a Saturday morning cartoon. I demand a new race to be designed, a race of robots that can transform themselves into Imperial vehicles!

Get over yourself, 40k has been an overblown, cartoony, heavy metal album cover since it's inception.

**Kanluwen**

Galas wrote:
About the Terminator of the video

Then someone else has access to the Destroyer Hive, because that's on the back of the Terminator.

**matphat**

ERJAK wrote:
Malika2 wrote:
Hmm....40k has been reduced to a Saturday morning cartoon. I demand a new race to be designed, a race of robots that can transform themselves into Imperial vehicles!

Get over yourself, 40k has been an overblown, cartoony, heavy metal album cover since it's inception.

I'm pretty sure ERJAK was being funny?

**Malika2**

ERJAK wrote:
Malika2 wrote:
Hmm....40k has been reduced to a Saturday morning cartoon. I demand a new race to be designed, a race of robots that can transform themselves into Imperial vehicles!

Get over yourself, 40k has been an overblown, cartoony, heavy metal album cover since it's inception.

There's a difference between 2000AD and Hasbro.

But back on topic, I kinda wonder what that Tallyman will be, I mean...is he like a commander, or just some sort of logistics daemonology officer?

**MechaEmperor7000**

The video was hilarious. Although I thought Typhus would sound a little deeper and less like a muppet choking on a fishbone, but everything came so far out of left field that it works.

Model kinda disappoints me though. Dunno why but the current Typhus Model feels like he has more detail, and the Indominus Armor looks better on him.

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Also goddamnit, Mortarion and Typhus are probably gonna be expensive, but I must have those models.

**Tiberius501**

Kanluwen wrote:
Galas wrote:
About the Terminator of the video

Then someone else has access to the Destroyer Hive, because that's on the back of the Terminator.

It might just be more based on the FW Grave Warden kit. These dudes have the chimney stacks. Also, I'm going to assume that you can make them as Grave Wardens, and maybe arm each with a Blight Launcher? If so, I'm going to be spending a lot of money on this kit haha

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Malika2 wrote:

But back on topic, I kinda wonder what that Tallyman will be, I mean...is he like a commander, or just some sort of logistics daemonology officer?

I saw someone say on another forum that they reckon it could be like that old Daemon character who gave out stacking aura buffs to Nurgle Daemons the more enemy units the army killed. I'd say that's a pretty strong possibility, and could be pretty cool if true

**MechaEmperor7000**

He has the iconic Manreaper and those Destroyer Hive stacks, so 85% chance that's Typhus.

HOWEVER he also has tentacles coming out of his armor. While par for the course for the latest nurgle models, Wasn't typhus suppose to be fused to his armor big-daddy style? That would make the tentacles kinda wrong.

EDIT: Ignore what I said. Took a closer look at the video and another terminator shows up with the "Destroyer hive" in the background. That could just be a lord with the Manreaper.

**Brian888**

Mortarion's pose in the video is 200% better than what it looks like in the picture. Very menacing.

**SilverAlien**

Yeah it appears the destroyer hive or something similar is now par for the course.

It also seems clear we are getting deathshroud terminators which is good and bad. Good in that we get some terminators, which I wasn't taking as a given. Bad in that we likely won't have access to our old loadouts and the two ranged weapons we can see (destroyer hive or something similar and hand flamer strapped to the terminators arm or a new plague version) aren't going to be very useful for deep striking. Unless we can deepstrike close than normal or something.

**deathstreak2000**

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
With a clean up from the video. I'm liking this a lot.

Can't wait for more leaks start to come through! Like the look of the termies too.

**Sim-Life**

His scythe still looks dumb.

I dunno, I'm tempted by Death Guard because I really like Nurgle and have a lot of fun painting Nurgle stuff but I feel like Morty would be low on my list of priorities.

**Crimson**

Okay, that video. Bloody amazing! I was certainly not expecting that.

**Desubot**

Oh wow Morty looks way better in a more muted color scheme

i think the shiny wd picture doesnt help him

still not down with purple over green.

also dont even play nurgle but i want that tiny bearer.

**Ruin**

NivlacSupreme wrote:
I hope Typhus comes with a bare head.

Well as long as it comes with his killer facial hair...

Always thought that pic of Typhus looks like Tommaso Ciampa...

**SilverAlien**

So, something else in the video, in the last shots you can see a normal plague marine (presumably part of ten man kit) with a special weapon. It looks similar to the released blight launcher, but could also be one of the new plague weapon in the recent CSM codex.

**NoggintheNog**

Bottle wrote:
The model looks fantastic with the 'Eavy Metal paint job. The colour scheme is much better than the first one previewed.

I think its the exact same model, the colours are all in the same places, the wings especially are identical. Its just the WD one has had some monumental colour and level alteration in photoshop to brighten it all up.

**FudgeDumper**

Mortarions pose is not menacing. Its a childish effort to create something that seems menacing.

From a strictly technical standpoint he actually looks worse in the new pictures due to severe flaws in the sculptors perception of anatomy and the golden cut.

**matphat**

FudgeDumper wrote:
Mortarions pose is not menacing. Its a childish effort to create something that seems menacing.

From a strictly technical standpoint he actually looks worse in the new pictures due to severe flaws in the sculptors perception of anatomy and the golden cut.

What is your basis for comparison? Could you please show me a sculpt that represents your personal vision of menacing that has proper anatomy? I'm not calling you out, I genuinely want to see better because I love this model.

**Galas**

In the internet of today you don't need to make comparisons or give a reasonable argument. Just call something "childish" or "cartoony" without giving reasons for that and instantly desacredits the thing as inferior.

**Cryonicleech**

Praise be to the Plague God!

While I know we're all focused on Mortarion, how does everyone feel about the new Typhus? I'm a bit surprised to see him be a bit of a departure from the old model, especially with the hood.

Either way, quite happy with this lot. Not looking forward to the pricing, but I've been waiting quite a while for the new DG stuff.

**SilverAlien**

It seems that isn't typhus. Apparently the thing that looks like a destroyer hive is common to a few models now, you can see it on the other death shroud terminator.

**Elbows**

I can see a bit more potential in the updated picture from the video.

I'd still

-Swap the wings
-Change out the scythe
-Lose the plaguefly-censers
-Find a better way to mount it to a normal base

But with a good paintjob and those fixes I'd find it acceptable for sure. Basically take the whole thing from 11 to a nice 9.5 in the styling department and it'd be a winner.