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Death Guard Battalion Detachment ( 3CP - 1896PT )
SUB-FACTION: Mortarion’s Chosen Sons

Lord of Contagion (120)
TRAITS: Hulking Physique
STRATAGEMS: Plague-Chosen

WARLORD: Malignant Plaguecaster (95)
TRAITS: Revoltingly Resilient
PSYCHIC POWERS: Miasma of Pestilence, Plague Wind
RELICS: Suppurating Plate

TROOPS
Plague Marines x7
1x Plague Champion: Daemonic plague blade, Plasma gun, Power fist
6x Plague Marines: Blight Launcher, Plasma Gun
Plague Marines x7
1x Plague Champion: Daemonic plague blade, Plasma pistol
6x Plague Marines: Blight launcher, Plasma gun
Plague Marines x7
1x Plague Champion: Daemonic plague blade, Plasma gun, Power fist
6x Plague Marines: Flail of corruption, Meltagun, Plague spewer
Poxwalkers x12

ELITES
Biologus Putrifier
Foul Blightspawn
RELICS: Vomitryx
STRATAGEMS: Gifts of Decay

FAST ATTACK
Foetid Bloat-drone: 2x Plaguespitter
Foetid Bloat-drone: 2x Plaguespitter
Myphitic Blight-Haulers x3

HEAVY SUPPORT
Plagueburst Crawler: 2x Plaguespitter, Rothail volley gun

DEDICATED TRANSPORT
Chaos Rhino

STRATAGEMS
Plague-Chosen (1CP)
Gifts of Decay (1-3CP)

Total Command Points: 5/15
Reinforcement Points: 4
Total Points: 1996/2000


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My general plan with this list is to have 3-4 durable or at least annoying ObSec units Seccing Obs, while the rest of the army harasses my opponent's biggest threats. Thoughts on how to improve it? A lot of why I chose the models I did is for fluff (3x7 PMs) or because that's what I happen to have on-hand.

no termies? they are the best elite we have....

 blackmage wrote:
no termies? they are the best elite we have....

Not sure where I'd put them, to be honest. I have five Blightlord Termies and three Deathshroud Termies, so I CAN put them in, but how would you arm them? What would you cut?

cut MBH, just bolters and 1 flail, upgrade deathshroud champion to champion of disease and give him reaper of glorious entropy.

 blackmage wrote:
cut MBH, just bolters and 1 flail, upgrade deathshroud champion to champion of disease and give him reaper of glorious entropy.

I'll play around with that. Thanks!

i found MBH really too expensive, 3 of them cost almost like Mortarion itself

I swapped the MBH trio for terminators. Should I worry about not having any anti-tank weaponry?

This is literally the opposite of every single unit or weapon option I would choose. Most of the good units and weapons the DG have are missing.

-PMs in units of 7x are fluffy but not optimal. Take 5 or 10
-no tallyman?
-entropy cannons on PBC
-spitters are the worst option on FBD
-terminators are very strong and missing
-Mortarian’s sons is maybe the 4th best option of 7

I don't know if you have a fluffy reason to take Chosen sons but you have only a single weapon in the entire army to benefit from Plague Brewers. Also there's no reason to equip Plague caster with relic armor. If he can be targeted in the frst place you've done something wrong and that armor won't save him.

broxus wrote:
This is literally the opposite of every single unit or weapon option I would choose. Most of the good units and weapons the DG have are missing.

-PMs in units of 7x are fluffy but not optimal. Take 5 or 10
-no tallyman?
-entropy cannons on PBC
-spitters are the worst option on FBD
-terminators are very strong and missing
-Mortarian’s sons is maybe the 4th best option of 7

-I'll take fluffy over optimal for my PMs but I appreciate the input!
-In my latest list I've added the Tallyman. I've been convinced of his usefulness.
-I didn't magnetize, and sprayers were good when I got the PBC, so...
-Only weapon loadouts I own for the FBD. Which one is best?
-Latest iteration has both Deathshroud and Blightlords
-Mortarion's Sons lets me take the relic for the Foul Blightspawn


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Myytti666 wrote:
I don't know if you have a fluffy reason to take Chosen sons but you have only a single weapon in the entire army to benefit from Plague Brewers. Also there's no reason to equip Plague caster with relic armor. If he can be targeted in the frst place you've done something wrong and that armor won't save him.

Fair points. The reason I picked Chosen Sons is so I can get the relic sprayer on my Foul Blightspawn. I can save a CP and not put the relic armor on my Plaguecaster.


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UPDATED LIST:

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Death Guard - Strikeforce - Eternal War

Death Guard Battalion Detachment
SUB-FACTION: Mortarion’s Chosen Sons

Lord of Contagion
TRAITS: Hulking Physique
STRATAGEMS: Plague-Chosen

WARLORD: Malignant Plaguecaster
TRAITS: Revoltingly Resilient
PSYCHIC POWERS: Miasma of Pestilence, Plague Wind

TROOPS
Plague Marines
1x Plague Champion: Daemonic plague blade, Plasma gun, Power fist
6x Plague Marines: Blight launcher, plasma gun
Plague Marines
1x Plague Champion: Daemonic plague blade, Plasma pistol
6x Plague Marines: Blight launcher, plasma gun
Plague Marines
1x Plague Champion: Daemonic plague blade, Plasma gun, Power fist
6x Plague Marines: Flail of corruption, meltagun, plague spewer
Poxwalkers x12

ELITES
Biologus Putrifier
Blightlord Terminators
1x Blightlord Champion
4x Blightlord Terminator: Flail of corruption
Deathshroud Terminators
1x Deathshroud Champion: Plaguespurt gauntlet, Chimes of contagion
2x Deathshroud Terminator
RELICS: Reaper of Glorious Entropy
STRATAGEMS: Champion of Disease
Foul Blightspawn
RELICS: Vomitryx
Tallyman

FAST ATTACK
Foetid Bloat-drone (130)
MARK OF CHAOS: Nurgle 2x Plaguespitter
Foetid Bloat-drone (130)
MARK OF CHAOS: Nurgle 2x Plaguespitter

HEAVY SUPPORT
Plagueburst Crawler: 2x Plaguespitter, Rothail volley gun

DEDICATED TRANSPORT
Chaos Rhino (80)

STRATAGEMS
Champion of Disease (1CP)
Plague-Chosen (1CP)

Total Command Points: 5/15
Reinforcement Points: 24
Total Points: 1976/2000

I was considering adding some kind of special disease to the LoC for the remaining points, but I could also fill up more Poxwalkers. Thoughts? Also, what do I do about tanks?

If you refused to bring Entropy cannons, then no need to bring PBCs at all.

Same to Vat and Blightspawn.

 tokugawa wrote:
If you refused to bring Entropy cannons, then no need to bring PBCs at all.

Same to Vat and Blightspawn.

That's... certainly one way to look at it.

 Octopoid wrote:

 tokugawa wrote:
If you refused to bring Entropy cannons, then no need to bring PBCs at all.

Same to Vat and Blightspawn.

That's... certainly one way to look at it.

If Tokugawa mentioned the reasoning behind the advice it would make a lot more sense. Likely you will want to select optimal secondary's such as While we stand, if you do that you'll want your PBC as far from the opponent as possible, and use things like pox walkers to screen out deepstrikers. If you do that successfully, you'll never be in range to ever use the spitters, so the cannons are the only weapon that might be used. Ideally you are hiding these guys behind a building and keep out of line of sight or behind a wall or in a forest.

The Deamonic Blade is somewhat redundant on your Plague Marine Champion’s. You’ll likely be using the power fist, and the blade doesn’t add much of anything giving +1S when you’re already giving -1T. Just keep the plague knife, at least if you use the Trench Fighter strategum your champion will benefit from an extra attack.

I thought you could only take one flail per 5 guys on the terminators? Am I wrong?

 tokugawa wrote:
If you refused to bring Entropy cannons, then no need to bring PBCs at all.

Same to Vat and Blightspawn.

I agree with this. Vats it the right relic for Blightspawn. If you want to upgrade his damage you can buy Viscous Death for his plague sprayer. No need to choose Chosen sons(pun intended) for the relic sprayer.

 LynxSarnage wrote:
I thought you could only take one flail per 5 guys on the terminators? Am I wrong?

I believe this to be correct, and I only have one. My formatting makes it look weird, though. That's meant to represent one Flail of Corruption per four Blightlord Terminators (plus the Champion).

 tokugawa wrote:
If you refused to bring Entropy cannons, then no need to bring PBCs at all.

Same to Vat and Blightspawn.

Agreed. I would do some conversions.

 Octopoid wrote:

broxus wrote:
This is literally the opposite of every single unit or weapon option I would choose. Most of the good units and weapons the DG have are missing.

-PMs in units of 7x are fluffy but not optimal. Take 5 or 10
-no tallyman?
-entropy cannons on PBC
-spitters are the worst option on FBD
-terminators are very strong and missing
-Mortarian’s sons is maybe the 4th best option of 7

-I'll take fluffy over optimal for my PMs but I appreciate the input!
-In my latest list I've added the Tallyman. I've been convinced of his usefulness.
-I didn't magnetize, and sprayers were good when I got the PBC, so...
-Only weapon loadouts I own for the FBD. Which one is best?
-Latest iteration has both Deathshroud and Blightlords
-Mortarion's Sons lets me take the relic for the Foul Blightspawn

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I don't magnetize either. I simply just tell my opponents I didn't magnetize and that all my PBCs are armed with entropy cannons. The two cannons looks so similar only die hard warhammer fans or deathguard fans would probably know the difference. a PBC is still a PBC. At worst, throw some goop on the sprayers, paint it, and you can call them whatever you want in further because they are now nurgle conversions. lol Trust me, entropy cannons are the way to go in this edition.