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I have Mortarion, Typhus, Myphitic Blight-Hauler, and 2 x Dark Imperium Death Guard half.

Now, while I can put togeher 2000 points fairly easily with all these models, I'm wondering if anyone has tried spending the 312 points on six Deathshroud Terminators as plague infested shields for Mortarion? If so, have they worked out well? Are they worth the money ($120USD for six) and the points?

Thanks

SG

This might be better in the army lists section, but anyway...
I find Mortarion better served by line of sight blocking terrain, Deathshroud are too expensive for what ultimately become ablative wounds for old Morty. If this isn't an option then I'd ally in a standard chaos detachment and use warptime to get him up the field asap.

 Huron black heart wrote:
This might be better in the army lists section

I understand where you are coming from, but this is more a question of synergy between two specific units over an entire army built around these two specific units. But again, I understand where you're coming from.

SG

6 is too much. Reason being they cannot keep up with Mortarion. If T1 deepstriking was still a thing you could get value out of warping in 2 squads of 3 alongside him up the field so there's a chance they'd get to do something. With the current lethality of 40k however I feel that deepstriking them in T2 is too late. The only reason for taking Deathshroud along Mortarion at the moment is to simply deploy 3 of them besides him to serve as a 156 point insurance that he won't get shot off the board should you not get first turn. If you want further use out of them deploy a Land Raider besides them (it could do well thanks to Mortarion getting the attention of every AT gun on the board), embark them on your turn 1 and drive them up the field to hopefully rendez-vous with Mortarion at some later point or cause some havoc themselves later in the game. This'll probably only work in casual games though.

 Huron black heart wrote:
This might be better in the army lists section, but anyway...
I find Mortarion better served by line of sight blocking terrain, Deathshroud are too expensive for what ultimately become ablative wounds for old Morty. If this isn't an option then I'd ally in a standard chaos detachment and use warptime to get him up the field asap.

You'd have to have pretty damn big and dense terrain to hide a target the size of Mortarion though. I've never been able to for as far as I can recall.

You could do 2 units of 3.

First unit deploys on the board to act as ablative wounds for Morty.

Morty moves up the board first turn and leaves the first unit behind.

Second turn the next 3 drop in next to Morty for another turn of ablative wound protection.

Yes is amazing to have because you keep the squad in deep strike and drop them in to moveortarian where he needs to be and has a shield that just drops down on him

Pandabeer wrote:
6 is too much. Reason being they cannot keep up with Mortarion. If T1 deepstriking was still a thing you could get value out of warping in 2 squads of 3 alongside him up the field so there's a chance they'd get to do something. With the current lethality of 40k however I feel that deepstriking them in T2 is too late. The only reason for taking Deathshroud along Mortarion at the moment is to simply deploy 3 of them besides him to serve as a 156 point insurance that he won't get shot off the board should you not get first turn. If you want further use out of them deploy a Land Raider besides them (it could do well thanks to Mortarion getting the attention of every AT gun on the board), embark them on your turn 1 and drive them up the field to hopefully rendez-vous with Mortarion at some later point or cause some havoc themselves later in the game. This'll probably only work in casual games though.

 Huron black heart wrote:
This might be better in the army lists section, but anyway...
I find Mortarion better served by line of sight blocking terrain, Deathshroud are too expensive for what ultimately become ablative wounds for old Morty. If this isn't an option then I'd ally in a standard chaos detachment and use warptime to get him up the field asap.

You'd have to have pretty damn big and dense terrain to hide a target the size of Mortarion though. I've never been able to for as far as I can recall.

I played against Thousand Sons with both of us using our respective daemon primarchs, we had an Imperial fortress in the centre of the board which just about gave cover as long as either of them were side on to it.
As an aside Mortarion was Death hexed and one rounded by Magnus, ironically a few Deathshroud would have come in handy

I want to throw this topic back up to the top since it's been nearly two months since this topic has been discussed... and, we all know that the meta changes dramatically from month to month.

SG