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How is this for an army?

HQ-
Great Unclean One- Mastery Level Three, Lesser Rewards-250

Troops-
10 Plaguebearers of Nurgle-90
10 Plaguebearers of Nurgle- 90
10 Daemonettes of Slannesh- Alluress- 95
3 Nurgling Swarms- 45
3 Nurgling Swarms- 45

Elites-
2 Beasts of Nurgle- 104

Fast Attack-
3 Plague Drones of Nurgle- 126

Heavy Support-
Seeker Cavalcade- Seeker Chariot, Seeker Chariot, Exalted Seeker Chariot-155



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Tactics wise.
Great Unclean one deepstrikes and causes havoc with the sheer difficulty to kill he presents himself as. Then combat units as much as possible to reduce shooting threat even more.
Plaguebearers split, one set holding a backfield objective, one set moving forward.
Daemonettes move to combat MC's or tough units, maybe HQ's.
Nurglings either hide out of LOS near an objective or move up slowly to draw some fire.
Beasts draw fire and tarpit a shooting unit
Plague Drones to tarpit a shooting unit
Seeker Cavalcade to charge up and hit the biggest unit on the field to kill as much as possible, or hit a MC or tough unit.

Drop the nurglings and take a third squad of PBs. Nurglins are swarms and can't hold objectives... And that small of a units do not even work as tarpits.

Thus list lacks any sort of punch

I don’t have the codex in front of me right now (at work) so won’t be able to recommend specifics, but here are some comments on your list:

1. For assaulty armies (I play Deathwing as well), it is generally a bad idea to just “walk” up the field, you will generally get shot to pieces before making it to combat. Specially nurgle units, which are slow and purposeful (i.e. no running).

2. For getting your assault units up field I would recommend deep striking them, make sure you give an Icon to your Plague Drones to help prevent scattering. If you are deepstriking 10 man units, the footprint may be large enough that you may end up with a mishap. Also you may want to give Instruments to other units you may want to deepstrike to make sure that you have more than 1 unit arriving from reserves (you want to avoid just having one unit show up from reserve per turn).

3. I see nurglings as potentially good distraction unit. Since you can’t charge from deep strike, you can use your nurglings to infiltrate out of LOS and then when your units arrive from deepstrike you charge the enemy with your nurglings so that they can’t fire at your assault units that just came into the game. The nurgling will probably die, but that’s ok.

4. Also for your offensive troop choice, I would not use the PBs, instead look at either Daemonettes or Bloodletters, they are way more killy than the PBs. PBs are great at holding objectives… unless you are up against Tau and their ignore cover shenanigans.

I have not explored using the GUO or the Cavalcade, so can’t really comment on either. Hope this helps man!