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Hello Dakka,

I going to LVO and would like to propose my list for DG. I've taken what I have read on here and what I have experienced and made this list. Could you please spot check if anything is invalid or where my weakness lies? My previous list lacked tank killing abilities and I love everything about foul blightspawn so I picked up two more today. I figured with four I can deny any fly vehicles that get in my area since the flamer will go through the minus hit. They also will help protect my chaos lord bubble wrap on the entropy cannon's and PM. The main punch of my armor is the 3 foetid-bloat drone, daemon prince, and the chaos sorc terminator lord. Essentially fly up the field and deepstrike the chaos sorc lord. Sorc then buff up the DP with diabolic strength, miasma, and the DP hits him self with blades. So DP is STR 8 with 8 attacks from talons. Wounding infantry/elite on 2+, and tanks on 3+ with 6's auto do mortal wounds. I took the sorc in term armor because I can drop him whenever I feel like my DP needs the -1 or is ready to assault. Most importantly since the drones and DP have fly the chaos sorc will get left in the dust. The 2+/5++ should allow him to survive more often than not. I have 10 points to spend what should I add or drop to maximize the 200. Let me know what you think.

IF YOU REVIEW THANK YOU TAKING YOUR TIME TO REPLY


++ Battalion Detachment +3CP (Chaos - Death Guard) [76 PL, 1398pts] ++

+ Heavy Support +

Plagueburst Crawler [8 PL, 146pts]: 2x Entropy cannon, Heavy Slugger

Plagueburst Crawler [8 PL, 146pts]: 2x Entropy cannon, Heavy Slugger

+ HQ +

Daemon Prince of Nurgle [9 PL, 180pts]: Blades of Putrefaction, Hellforged sword, The Suppurating Plate, Wings

Sorcerer [6 PL, 98pts]: Bolt pistol, Force stave, Miasma of Pestilence, Putrescent Vitality

+ Fast Attack +

Foetid Bloat-drone [8 PL, 158pts]: 2x Plaguespitters, Plague probe

Foetid Bloat-drone [8 PL, 158pts]: 2x Plaguespitters, Plague probe

Foetid Bloat-drone [8 PL, 158pts]: 2x Plaguespitters, Plague probe

+ Troops +

Plague Marines [7 PL, 118pts]
. Plague Champion: Plague knife, Plasma gun
. 2x Plague Marine w/ boltgun
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon: Blight launcher
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon: Blight launcher

Plague Marines [7 PL, 118pts]
. Plague Champion: Plague knife, Plasma gun
. 2x Plague Marine w/ boltgun
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon: Blight launcher
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon: Blight launcher

Plague Marines [7 PL, 118pts]
. Plague Champion: Plague knife, Plasma gun
. 2x Plague Marine w/ boltgun
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon: Blight launcher
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon: Blight launcher

++ Vanguard Detachment +1CP (Chaos - Death Guard) [21 PL, 382pts] ++

+ HQ +

Chaos Lord [5 PL, 74pts]: 6. Arch-Contaminator, Bolt pistol, Chainsword, Fugaris' Helm, Warlord

+ Elites +

Foul Blightspawn [4 PL, 77pts]

Foul Blightspawn [4 PL, 77pts]

Foul Blightspawn [4 PL, 77pts]

Foul Blightspawn [4 PL, 77pts]

++ Patrol Detachment (Chaos - Chaos Space Marines) [14 PL, 210pts] ++

+ No Force Org Slot +

Legion: Alpha Legion

+ HQ +

Sorcerer in Terminator Armour [8 PL, 130pts]: Combi-bolter, Diabolic Strength, Force stave, Mark of Nurgle, Miasma of Pestilence

+ Troops +

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 40pts]: 9x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun, Mark of Nurgle
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

Chaos Cultists [3 PL, 40pts]: 9x Chaos Cultist w/ Autogun, Mark of Nurgle
. Cultist Champion: Autogun

++ Total: [111 PL, 1990pts] ++

If your gonna do the "gunline" strat with PM squads walking and blasting, I would recommend fitting some Hellbrutes (2 or 3). They're cheap and work exceptionally well paired with a lord. I like the DP combo to turn him into a blender, however, thats all your eggs in one basket and the DP will die if the enemy focuses a bulk of his forces on him; meaning the termi lord is wasted. You would be better served with Warptime on a jump sorcerer, and swapping out the nurgle sorcerer for a malignant blightcaller (hes really good, basically a souped up sorc)

Small suggestion from experience. Drop the plasma guns from the champs. Small MSU plague marine units, while effective, are also focused down easily. You'll want the sarge as an extra bullet catcher rather than another model to worry about removing.

With the freed up points you can take another cultist squad and upgrade your non terminator sorc to the much better malignant plaguecastwr.

In competitive enviroment i would always go with poxwalkers, cheap, strong enough, Great tarpit, hit hard with rigth support. Probably i Will play one less blightspawn For a bigger blob of Alpha legion cultists, they are Great with forward operative, 30 marked slaanesh For 120 shots and if needed charge

@zid The hellbrute idea sounds fantastic I'll have to look into future since I don't have any models.I definitely want to fit in the malignant plague caster; however from memory I believe I was over points by 2 with him. Probably could drop the plasma gun from Buddha recommendation. So if I took a jump sorc with warptime I'm assuming I'm trying to get my DP in combat turn 1 with double moving him?

@buddha That's how I had it originally, but I wanted more punch from plasma. Thinking back the RTT I played last week in Dallas my PM weren't really ever shooting at big high T stuff. Definitely wanted to take the malignant plague caster I love his profile. Previously my plague caster took on a tau commander and absorbed all his shots and struck back damage hah!

@blackmage I have a TON of poxwalkers model, how would you play them in the ITC missions. Do they camp on objectives, assault, or do you screen by congo lining and keeping at least 1 in 3" of the obj? Dropping a blob of cultists definitely sounds fun, but I've taken mine so they can hold objectives. Problem in the past with my 3-4 squads of plague marines is that they sat on obj, and pretty much didn't contribute a whole lot since they were out of range. I would rather them be in range hitting with rapid fire, and blight launchers

Thanks for the feedback guys! Definitely going to take the malignant, and look at dropping 1 blightspawn.

@blackmage I have a TON of poxwalkers model, how would you play them in the ITC missions. Do they camp on objectives, assault, or do you screen by congo lining and keeping at least 1 in 3" of the obj?

well of course depend by match and mission, they are great holding obj, i understand plagues can fire at least but they are lot vulnerable, i played with average 60 poxes and thypus they can handle anything.

 blackmage wrote:

@blackmage I have a TON of poxwalkers model, how would you play them in the ITC missions. Do they camp on objectives, assault, or do you screen by congo lining and keeping at least 1 in 3" of the obj?

well of course depend by match and mission, they are great holding obj, i understand plagues can fire at least but they are lot vulnerable, i played with average 60 poxes and thypus they can handle anything.

On reflection I think a pox walker screen would definitely be awesome with my blightspawn as they can provide a screen if I happen to play against assaulting or if I want to get in my opponents face. I also found 10 more cultists at my local store so I'll try a play test with that alpha legion deep strike.

Put wings on your Sorcerer. At least this way he can keep up with the drones and prince once he drops in. Oops beat me do it. Love the jump Sorcerer with Warp Time and Diabolic Strength. Turns the prince into a bad man. Makes him strength 9 and then with blades makes him wound everything on 2s. Even better screen for everything is Plague Drones. You could drop a Blight Drone and a Foul Blight Spawn to add six and have some change left over. They soak up a lot of damage. Plus they have five attacks apiece rerolling wounds. If you get a miasma off inn them it makes them very hardy.

plague drones dont have death guard keyword so they cant be targeted by death guard miasma psy power,


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 Crastok wrote:

 blackmage wrote:

@blackmage I have a TON of poxwalkers model, how would you play them in the ITC missions. Do they camp on objectives, assault, or do you screen by congo lining and keeping at least 1 in 3" of the obj?

well of course depend by match and mission, they are great holding obj, i understand plagues can fire at least but they are lot vulnerable, i played with average 60 poxes and thypus they can handle anything.

On reflection I think a pox walker screen would definitely be awesome with my blightspawn as they can provide a screen if I happen to play against assaulting or if I want to get in my opponents face. I also found 10 more cultists at my local store so I'll try a play test with that alpha legion deep strike.

blightspawn+poxwalkers works great, tried a couple of times.

Okay so I revised my list two ways

Revision 1 - Idea of this revison is have cultists have objectives, use pox walkers to just screen, let DP,drones,plague crawler, and blight launchers do heavy lifting
Dropped Term Chaos Sorc, 1 Foul blightspawn, normal sorc
Added Jump sorc, 10 cultist, 14 poxwalkers, malignant plague caster

Revision 2 - idea of this revision is cultists hold objectives, typhus, pox, foulblight spawn always advancing forward, while my hammer of DP, dronesx2 hits T1, plague marines help assist hold obj
Dropped Term Chaos Sorc, 1 foetid-bloat drone, 5 pm (2 w/ bl), normal sorc
Added Jump sorc, 40 pox walkers, tyhpus