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Hi guys! I'm dusting off my Death Guard army after 3 years, and I'm trying to expand and improve my army. But I'm not into all the latest Codicies and metas. Can you come with some suggestions what to buy next? I would like a competitive("enough") army to be able to win a few games at my local club and maybe do well in tournements. I think the new Death Guard from the Traitor Legion codex is the moment i've been waiting for, but i have no idea what to get, please help!

This is what I've collected so far:
Plague Marines 32
Plague Marines w/bolter - 23
Plague Marines w/plasma - 6
Plague Marines w/melta - 2
Plague Marines w/flamer - 1

Plague Marine Champions/Chosen 12
Chosen w/ 2x lighting claw - 1
Chosen w/ plasma - 1
Chosen w/power fist - 3
Chosen w/power maul- 2

Cultists 40x
Cultists champions - 4
Cultists Flamers - 3
Cultists Heavy stubber - 1
Cultists Autoguns - 16
Cultists cc and bolt pistol - 16

Nurgle Bikes x9
Bikes w/plasma - 4
Bikes w/cc and pistol - 5

Nurgle spawn x6

Helldrake x2/[color=green]

[color=green]Rhino x2

Typhus

Obliterators x4

Chaos lord on bike

Chaos sorcerer on bike

Chaos sorcerer/lord on juggernaut

*edit: forgot a few units

You have the makings of a solid army there. You're right in saying that Traitor Legions is a good point to jump back in. And frankly Death Guard are probably one of the best marine armies in the game right now. Relentless toughness 5 FNP models across the board is evil.
With that in mind there aren't really any "bad" selections for a DG army. Even terminators get some mileage when they have the essence of Mortarion floating around them.
I'd suggest some rhinos, just to have some options for your plague marines to travel in. Another thing to consider is how big you want your marine squads. If you favour MSU with maximum special weapons then Plague marines are the way to go. If you're not fussed about special weapons or want to run bigger squads, then running them as stock marines with the MoN is a lot more points efficient for the same survivability.
I'd advise against getting any non transport vehicles though, they don't benefit at all from the Death Guard bonuses, and are not very good to begin with

I forgot about my two rhinos, typhus and my 4 obliterators.

I could get 2 more rhinos, that will give me 4 PM squads, 3 with 2xplasmas and one with 2xmeltas. What champion should they get? maybe a PF champ, since he has low initiative anyways. How about using Typhus? I dont have the codex yet, but i hear he's expensive.

Daemon Prince(s), and more Rhinos.

Then work on doubling down on things like Oblits and Spawn, or if you want new units look into Autocannon Havocs, or Melta Raptors