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My local group is doing an escalation, and I'm going to be focusing on Nurgle mortals. While making something competitive isn't my main goal, I would like things to at least be somewhat competent. Anyway, this is the roadmap that I have in mind, I'm just wondering what peoples' thoughts on it might be. The rotbringers don't really excel at either unit variety or model count, so my goal would be to put as much as I can into supporting the relatively elite units to make them more resiliant.

500 points:
Gutrot Spume (G)

Blightkings (5)
Blightkings (5)

1000 points:
Harbringer of Decay (G) (Lord of War) (Favour of the Gods)
Gutrot Spume
Rotbringers Sorcerer
Great Unclean One (SUMMONED)

Blightkings (5)
Blightkings (5)


1500 points:
Harbringer of Decay (G) (Lord of War) (Favour of the Gods)
Chaos Sorcerer Lord (Nurgle)
Bloab Rotspawned
Great Unclean One (SUMMONED)
Gutrot Spume

Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)
Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)
Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)

(60 points remaining)

On the other hand, I wouldn't mind fitting the Glottkin in there, but he becomes a bit harder:

1500 points:
Glottkin (G)
Bloab Rotspawned
Gutrot Spume

Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)
Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)
Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)

(100 points remaining)

The spare points in either force could probably just be spent on Daemons, I guess. Not sure which one to go with then.

I wouldn't mind trying to fit some Varanguard somewhere, but they're already fairly expensive in an army that is already struggling for bodies, and break my Blightking battle line. I'm not a huge fan of most of the Nurgle daemon models, so I'd like to avoid those if at all possible.

The great unclean one is not a mortal. So if you want to use blightkings as battleline he is a no go.
With harbringer giving everything 5+ ward save (wich is realy good) you could/should think of adding a warshrine aswell to give everything another 6+ save.

On another note. Try to get bloab in the list. He has awsome magic, and okey shooting (for being nurgle) and auras that can give enemys -1to hit and -1 to cast spells and combine that with the formation blightguard or plaguetuched warband for another -1to hit. This will make your army realy hard to kill

Just my 2 cents

snogens wrote:
The great unclean one is not a mortal. So if you want to use blightkings as battleline he is a no go.

Can't I maintain my allegiance if I summon the Daemons instead of deploying with them? I had thought (hoped?) that was a thing.

That is correct, if you summon the guo you can still use blightkings as battleline

Yes summoning demons means you keep your allegiance. But the blightguard formation requires 4 units of blight kings. I only see three listed. Not sure if typo or mistake. I would honestly drop the GUO for the room needed for the 4th unit of blight kings. It looks like you added in the blightguard battalion warscroll cost (100) so if you removed GUO and added in the 4th unit blightkings you would still have 80 points to fill which blows. Beast of nurgle to summon?

Alternatively, you could drop the blightguard formation and the lord of plagues (he is awful and I count him as an additional tax for the blightguard formation) and change the rotbringer sorcerer to a chaos sorcerer with the Mark of nurgle and do a plague touched warband. Chaos sorcerer demonic power spell is AWESOME on blightkings. The plague touched warband is 140 points and you basically cant ever use grandfathers gift (when your enemy rolls a 6 to wound they take a mortal wound, leaders of units have 4+ chance to deal a mortal wound when they attack - only for units that start as a multiple of 7) but everyone would get the -1 to hit (as opposed to just blightkings).. but its only in combat phase not shooting (as blightguard is both phases).

but if you did:

Plague touched warband
Harbinger of decay
Blightkings x4
Bloab
Chaos sorcerer with Mark of Nurgle

That is 1400 on the nose. could save 10 plaguebeaers in reserve to summon..

Just an idea. The blightguard formation is awesome though! I use it all the time.

Oh, turns out I meant Torglug's Foulblessed, which doesn't actually show up on the scrollbuilder because it doesn't actually seem to have a point value. I'm guessing that means it's not actually valid for matched play. Looks like I'll have to redo things regardless.

Here's my revised list, coming in at 1440:

1500 points:
Harbringer of Decay (G) (Lord of War) (Favour of the Gods)
Chaos Sorcerer Lord (Nurgle)
Bloab Rotspawned
Great Unclean One (SUMMONED)
Gutrot Spume

Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)
Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)
Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)

(60 points remaining)

On the other hand, I wouldn't mind fitting the Glottkin in there, but he becomes a bit harder:

1500 points:
Glottkin (G)
Bloab Rotspawned
Gutrot Spume

Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)
Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)
Blightkings (5) (Blightguard)

(100 points remaining)

The spare points in either force could probably just be spent on Daemons, I guess. Not sure which one to go with then.

Unfortunatley that first list isnt legal. You dont have any battleline units. Blightkings are battleline if you have the mortal nurgle allegiance, but the GUO breaks that allegiance.

The second list is fine, just not the most optimal list IMO. I would MUCH rather have the harbinger of decay as my general. That extra 5+ save is so good at keeping the blightkings alive. Also helps Bloab. Plus fleshy abundance isnt that great for blightkings. Also you need some way to buff the blightkings. Whether its festus that dishes out -save to units and softens them up, or chaos sorcerer lord to re roll 1 to hit (this is awesome) and wounds and saves, or the blightguard formation that allows rerolls of wounds and -1 to hit.

Also summon plagebeaerers is awesome. I drop them on objectives, use as tarpits or to throw them at a unit in the backfield. They can be very useful tools.

 Sal4m4nd3r wrote:
Unfortunatley that first list isnt legal. You dont have any battleline units. Blightkings are battleline if you have the mortal nurgle allegiance, but the GUO breaks that allegiance.

Blightkings are still battleline if you summon the GUO.

Whoops didn't see the summoned in there.

I just added it. Seemed like it was causing some confusion, better to clarify for the sake of getting clearer advice.

I think glotkin is just to much at 1500 points. Thats just ME though. Unless I was using marauders or plague monks.. he just doesnt add enough to the blightkings to justify being 1/3 of my army. Almost auto include at 2000 though. I think bloab is great at 1500. but with only 15 models on the board other then a few heros.. I think your going to wish you had more.. bodies. Let me know what you decide!!

Also.. the great thing about escalation leagues is you can see what you like, what performs well etc.. so you can move in a direction that you like and dont have to worry about buying and building and thinking out a playstyle for larger games all at once.