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Ok so im fairly new to 40k and never did a competition before. Here is my 1000 point list for a tournament on Sunday that will be played on 4X4. Be honest and let me know what you think. My list is for death guard.

Battalon detachment consist of Typhus and Necrosis the undying for my hq choices. Will be running two squads of pox walkers of 20 each so total 40 of them for troops. Defiler with reaper auto cannon, havoc launcher and defiler claws. I'll be running a helldrake with a bale flamer for an auxiliary type which will cost me one command point. In the tournament we can't have more than two detachments. My total is 984 points. I have 16 points left over and debating on running another option with the pox walkers but really like the idea of running 20 of them. So my option is running two squads of 15 pox walkers and the third unit with 12 to keep for protection for defiler? So be honest, what do you guys think?

Helldrake is a flyer, so can be taken as part of a battalion, no need for an auxiliary.

Heldrake isn't on the army list and cannon share the keyword death guard. Please don't turn this argument forum. Just want to know about my build in a competive scene and what option I should run the poxwalkers.

I'd drop the heldrake and add two bloat drones if you can. they're surprisingly hard to kill, can be buffed by typhus for a -1 to hit, and are pretty quick. Fly ahead, shoot something with dual flamers, then assault something to tie them up in combat forcing them to fallback and forego their shooting.

The drones also have FLY keyword, so you wont get stuck in combat with them. That way you can just tie something up, then on your turn fly away and shoot something else, or the same unit that you tied up originally.

chaoticjones wrote:
Heldrake isn't on the army list and cannon share the keyword death guard. Please don't turn this argument forum. Just want to know about my build in a competive scene and what option I should run the poxwalkers.

You can take a Heldrake - your units share the faction keyword 'chaos'.

He won't get any buffs for being DG though.

I won't have enough points to take out the heldrake and run two drones. I'm going to do the option of two swauds of 15 pox walkers and a sqaud of 12 of them.


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I won't have enough points to take out the heldrake and run two drones. I'm going to do the option of two swauds of 15 pox walkers and a sqaud of 12 of them.