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What's the best forgeworld units that synergize well with the death guard army?

Specifically Scabeiathrax the great unclean one model is something I wanted my hands on for so long.

I asked the same question regarding Scabby in the Tactics thread and Gwarsh41 gave a solid answer. Here it is:

"Mortarion is a force multiplier like nobodies business.
Scabriethrax is a hammer/anvil all in one.

Scabbie doesn't have the fancy offensive auras, but he is a tier above morty in 1v1 damage output, as well as toughness. The big downside is how slow he is, and summoning him will leave a huge gap in your army. I've had 2 games where I walked him up the middle of the field. Turn 3 charge in both games. Both times charging a unit that was held down by another one of my units. His vomit attack makes people uneasy about charging him, and provides some much needed additional support in CC if someone tries to bog him down. The general consensus at my LGS (as scabbie pops up pretty frequently, never knew so many people had one!) is "It's not worth trying to kill him". He will either soak up so much of your opponents firepower that the rest of your army makes it in, or they will ignore him and try to run and play objectives.

While scabbie has the damage to down a knight with ease (dude doesn't need Dttfe) I feel like for DG, morty is the better LoW. His mortal wound aura is insanely powerful, and there is a lot more support available with stratagems and deathshrouds. Running scabbie +30PB is a solid tactic. Always keep the PB chained back to scabbie so they are -2 to be hit in CC and spread the unit out to grab as much as you can in CC. If they hit CC, they wont budge. So the opponent now has 2 units they will need to deal with. "

I believe Scabby would do great near a couple of PBC's holding the center of the board and creating a large zone of control. In a more defensive list I think he'd be fantastic. As to the rest of Forgeworld: The hellbrutes and flyers are amazing, Cor'Bax is great for summoning lists (only), Necrosius is our best plaguecaster as long as you call your Vectorium 'The Tainted", and Mamon sucks. I myself really like Leviathan and Doredeo Dreads with Butcher Cannons to play well with Chaos' easy access to -Leadership