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As known to all, both the Death Guard and the Night Lords are very antisocial Legions for reasons of insanity, moral grounds, and general heresy. However, the NL are 1 of the 2 sworn brothers of the Death Guard, and the DG the only sworn brothers of the NL, so naturally I had to start thinking of where this idea could go. The DG would be my main detachment and could provide a sort of moving gun line that eliminates vehicles and holds objectives, while the NL involve deep striking or fast moving infantry who attack VIPs and infantry blobs, giving the army a mobile element. I want people's advice on the best way to carry this list out. The NL would have either Raptors or Tartaros termies with Lightning Claws who deep strike into your face and mash up some infantry, or have a Centurion with them and try to kill some enemy HQ's. The DG would involve using the Creeping Death RoW and Grave Wardens who slowly blob onto objectives and never let go. Any suggestions on the idea of a list like this would be greatly appreciated!

Speaking as a DG player who's planning either SoH or NL for my buddy legion, here's my 2 cents:

1) NEITHER of them are super amazing as friends for DG BARRING in shattered legions (in which DG just stuff rad grenades everywhere). Reavers are 'Meh" and justaerin are (IMO) worse that deathshroud. NL terror squads are entertaining, as are raptors, but that's more for volkite spam and deep strike buddies.

2) You can't use creeping death with allies, HOWEVER the reaping would be a passable one. DG bringing HS squads as their core, and terminators w/ rad grenades backed up by DSing NLs.

3) We're you to go through with DG+NL, Use the NL almost exclusivley as deep striking units, while the DG are your core with the reaping.

I too have been eyeing an ally night lord force to use as a deep striking hammer to the reaping's anvil. The modelling and painting alone would make it worth while IMO.

I've considered sons of horus as well, if only because they are BFFs with everybody.