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Our new codex will be arrive very soon. There is a ton of things in the index which really need a full rework, and we will get a bunch of new detachments. On top of that, there is a chance of units outright disappearing again.

Assuming things roughly stay the same, I'm not too worried about EC. Everything they do is up and personal (read: in contagion range), and they struggle with durable units. Disgustingly Resilient outright neuters most of their melee units.

I have no idea how to stop Fulgrim though, but then again, he hasn't been released yet. Maybe Mortarion is done with moping in the backlines and act like a proper daemon primarch again soon.

 Jidmah wrote:

I have no idea how to stop Fulgrim though, but then again, he hasn't been released yet. Maybe Mortarion is done with moping in the backlines and act like a proper daemon primarch again soon.

I suspect that my age old strategy of "Shoot the {poo} out of it" will suffice.

●Shoot him some at range if possible.
●Let him charge something, overwatch him. Laugh as he kills target & finds out he's (just) out of range to consolidate into anything else.
●If his target somehow survived? Fall back out of the way
●Shoot the poo out of him. Chuck in some grenades.
●Then charge him. Ideally with multiple units & at least 1 vehicle. Tank shock him.
●Stab him to death.

If he doesn't engage in melee? Great. Shoot him some more at range as opportunity presents.

This is how I kill Angron & other big melee beasties, so should work on this one.

Finally got my DG collection up to a playable level. Been playing 1K Virulent Vectorium:

Lord of Poxes
Foul Blightspawn
10 Plague Marines - Fistol, Spewer, Spewer, 4 Axe, 3 Bubotics

Tallyman
5 Plague Marines - 2 Plasma gun, Spewer, Launcher, Bolter

Blight-hauler

Blight-hauler

Bloat-drone with Launcher

Lord of Contagion - Daemon Weapon
3 Deathshroud

It’s not bad, but the central board control feels a bit meh, the deep strikers seem to be either overkill for the scale of the holding force that’s usually in the enemy DZ, or unable to bully a tank, and the melee marines struggle if they get hit by Oath of Moment. I’m working on the minis to try this:

Lord of Poxes
Foul Blightspawn
10 Plague Marines - Fistol, Spewer, Spewer, 4 Axe, 3 Bubotics
Rhino

10 Poxwalkers

Tallyman
5 Plague Marines - 2 Plasma gun, Spewer, Launcher

Blight-hauler

Blight-hauler

Bloat-drone with Launcher

Lord of Contagion OR 3 Blightlords

I’m going to see how the Poxwalkers and Rhino do with centre board dominance and how the reduced Terminator contingent do with planting homers and bullying gunners.