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Just wondered if yall thought this would be a good pairing. Not super competitive but still able to hold its own in most games.

Primary .

Hearld of Nurgle - lesser gift, 5+ FNP (dont have the codex right here)

10 Plague bearer -Champion with lesser gift
10 plague bearer -Champion with lesser gift

Nurgle soul grinder Phlem
Nurgle soul grinder Phlem
Nurgle soul grinder Phlem

Chaos Lord with Black mace, 4+ invuln.

9 plague marines , Flamer, melta, Champion with Ax, melta bomb

Land Raider with Dirge caster


I believe that this leaves me with 24 points available. Not sure where to spend it. My goal is to just try to play for keeps with objective possession. The soulgrinders provide long range fire support and the landraider is there because, well we live in a tau world and tau are maybe not super stoked on a land raider.

i was thinking about dropping one of the Soul Griders for 5 nurgle chaos spawn. More maneuverability and some pretty good counter charge or assault fodder.

 sennacherib wrote:
Just wondered if yall thought this would be a good pairing. Not super competitive but still able to hold its own in most games.

Primary .

Hearld of Nurgle - lesser gift, 5+ FNP (dont have the codex right here)

10 Plague bearer -Champion with lesser gift
10 plague bearer -Champion with lesser gift

Nurgle soul grinder Phlem
Nurgle soul grinder Phlem
Nurgle soul grinder Phlem

Chaos Lord with Black mace, 4+ invuln.

9 plague marines , Flamer, melta, Champion with Ax, melta bomb

Land Raider with Dirge caster


I believe that this leaves me with 24 points available. Not sure where to spend it. My goal is to just try to play for keeps with objective possession. The soulgrinders provide long range fire support and the landraider is there because, well we live in a tau world and tau are maybe not super stoked on a land raider.

Lord makes plagues troops in primary only. Black mace seems pretty meh if it is not on a prince. AP 4 is not great. Anything that has a 4+ tends to just collapse in cc with or without the mace.

You could dump plagues for cultists and termies or something. LR is pretty bad on its own so you need a decent cc unit inside to make it useful.

Thanks for the advice. the Plague marines are my mandatory troop choice for the CSM part ot the list. They are not so bad in melee, being almost as good as khorn berzerkers in sustained combat (not figuring on the brutal initial hit that zerkers deliver). I might drop the black mace for a fist and a claw. Same approx cost but does way less damage in the long run.

I was also thinking of droppiing two plague marines to give the lord a palenquin. extra wounds and attacks FTW.